Copenhagen Dance Arts
With a strong vision of touching and engaging a diverse audience with passion, innovation and unique collaboration of artists Copenhagen Dance Arts is constantly searching for new perspectives on topical themes. Copenhagen Dance Arts produces performances, films and events on Danish and international grounds – Often in a vivid universe uniting dance and new technologies.
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Copenhagen International Dance Festival celebrates dance in all its versatility every Spring. The festival presents an extensive programme and invites choreographers of different cultural backgrounds to rethink their masterpieces or create new work specifically for the diverse and unique locations and pockets of the city.
Copenhagen Dance Arts produces performances, films and events on Danish and international grounds – Often in a vivid universe uniting dance and new technologies.
Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School facilitates development of the dancers into skilled and aware artists taking full charge of their own professional careers.
MEET OUR artistic directors
Based on their diverse backgrounds as professional dancers, choreographers, and artistic directors Morten Innstrand and Lotte Sigh have developed a unique partnership. The core of their artistic collaboration is built on mutual inspiration and sky high ambitions.
Lotte Sigh
Artistic Director
Since 2005 Lotte Sigh has, alongside her career as choreographer, been the artistic director of Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School and been affiliated with The Royal Danish Ballet as a teacher, censor and choreographer.
Lotte Sigh has been commissioned to choreograph for numerous international artistic collaborations and has choreographed for companies, theaters, festivals, museums, films, TV and operas. She has created works for amongst others the Royal Danish Ballet, Pantera Chamber Ballet in Russia, National Gallery of Denmark, The Dance Company of the Regional Theatre West in Sweden, Intradance in Russia, D-CAF in Cairo and Dies De Dansa in Barcelona, Campnorr in Copenhagen, KHIO in Oslo and has been commissioned to choreographed for the opera Aria composed by Paul Schwartz.
Morten Innstrand
Artistic Director
Prior to his career as a choreographer and director Morten has worked as a dancer for 22 years with choreographers such as Mats Ek, Christina Caprioli, Per Jonsson, Philip Blanchard, Jiri Killian, Vlado Juras, Sabina Dahrendorf , Alfonso Ordónez and danced at the Dance Theatre Thalia and Østgøta Baletten, New Danish Dance Theatre, Granhøj Dance, Dance Kreutzmann, Lix, Living Creatures and Micado Dance Company with choreographer such as Tim Rusthon and Gudio Toveri. He danced Gurn in “La Sylphide” by Alexander Kølpin and one leading role in “Triumph of Death” by Flemming Flindt and Vivi Flindt. He has also worked at the Royal Danish Theatre in the opera “Turandot” and danced in music videos and movies.
Morten Innstrand has choreographed a number of success performances amongst others Verdens Historien og Elsk Mig i Nat at Østre Gasværk Theatre in Copenhagen.