  | DANEMARK / DENMARK | |
Population: 5 560 000
Telephone Code: 45
Address:
Noerre Voldgade 12,
DK-1358 Copenhagen K
Tel: (+45) 33 86 12 10
Fax: (+45) 33 86 26 27
Email: mail@dititu.dk
Website: www.dititu.dk
Opening hours-Horaires:
from 10:30 am to 3pm
Board Members:
President: Mr. Heino BYRGESEN (represents the media theatres)
Vice Predident: Ms. Pia ROSENBAUM (represents stage directors)
Director: Mr. Jan GRUBE CHRISTIANSEN
Mr. Henrik PETERSEN (represents the Danish actors' association (which also encompasses singers and dancers)
Mr. Anders AALYKKE(represents the Danish theatre technicians/)
Mr. Geir SVEAAS(represents the major theatres in Denmark, PEARL is their international organisation)
Mr. Stig JARL (Represent The Copenhagen University dept. of Dance and Theatre science)
Ms. Camilla BJORNVAD (represents the Danish scenographers)
Mr. Sverre ROEDAHL (represents the Danish performing arts' schools)
Mr. Henrik KOEHLER (represents the association of theatres for Children in Denmark)
Ms. Nina MALINOVSKI (represents the association of Danish Dramatics)
Mr. Jens Svane BOUTRUP (represent minor theatres in Denmark)
Staff-Personnel:
Mr. Jan GRUBE CHRISTIANSEN, Director.
Ms. Henriette Kusk,Project Manager, News Letter Editor and Communication
Nbr of Members: Organisational -25
Date Centre founded: 1-1-48
ITI Committee and Project Group contact persons:
Communication: Mr. Heino BYRGESEN, Drama: Mr. Jan GRUBE CHRISTIANSEN, Music Theatre: Ms. Pia ROSENBAUM
Role & Services:
Danish ITI & Theatre Union is the umbrella organisation of theatre in Denmark and hereby the key to all Danish stage art. Danish ITI & Theatre Union is subsidised by the Danish Theater Centre, other govermental institutions, members and private funds.
The objective of Danish ITI & Theatre Union is to promote and support its members and Danish theatre in general, both domestic and abroad, to collect material on Danish and foreign theatre for information purposes, to make and publish the annual yearbook: "Theatre in Denmark - ITI Yearbook" and to make or support different kinds of publications on Danish theatre. Danish ITI & Theatre Union promotes international exchange of knowledge and practice in the performing arts and creative co-operation between theatre people in Denmark and other countries.
Danish ITI & Theatre Union also functions as the Danish centre of the Nordic Theatre Union and in 2005-2006, Danish ITI & Theatre Union had the presidency of Nordic Theatre Union. The theatre communities of Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark including Greenland and the Faroe Islands, are represented in Nordic Theatre Union. The purpose of the Nordic Theatre Union is to strengthen the co-operation between the Nordic theatre communities. Every second year, the Union organises a Nordic theatre meeting entitled Nordic Theatre Days and organises a Nordic Award for playwriters.
Visitors from abroad are very welcome to the office of Danish ITI & Theatre Union. Special care is taken of those who have an ITI card or have informed of their arrival in advance with a letter of introduction.
Danish ITI & Theatre Union helps the visitors establish contacts with their colleagues in Denmark, visit theatre schools and other theatre organisations.
Danish ITI & Theatre Union sends information concerning Danish theatres to individual ITI members and theatre institutions upon request.
The centre gives information on foreign theatre events to Danish theatre people by sending newsletters to all professional theatres and theatre organisations.
Danish ITI & Theatre Union supports and helps members to a number of international festivals, meetings and training courses each year and helps the members in guiding them with regard to financial support etc.
Latest have Danish ITI & Theatre Union joined the ENICPA co-operation and supportet the establisment of a pan European ITI network.
Activities & Events:
Celebrating World Theatre Day as well as World Dance Day. In 2006, we organised "Nordic Theatre Days 2006 - Sight 'n' Vision" as a part of our chairmanship of Nordic Theatre Union. Nordic Theatre Days is a week-long celebration of the many forms of expression within the performing arts.
Latesh have Danish ITI & Theatreunion formed a concept for an stage art festival "Copenhagen Theatre Days" that hopefully will take place second time in 2010. First festival as in 2006 in connection with Nordic Theatre Days.
Newsletter title-Titre du bulletin: SCENEKUNSTEN - Nyt fra Dansk ITI & Teaterunion & DANISH STAGE NEWS - News from Danish ITI & Theatre Union
Other Publications:
Danish ITI & Theatre Union publishes the yearbook: "THEATRE IN DENMARK - ITI YEARBOOK".
For Danish and international theatre people, Danish ITI and Theatre Union publishes 10 times a year a newsletter with news, debate, background articles and information on international festivals, training courses, seminars, etc. The newsletters are available in both Danish and English and are published also on the website of Danish ITI & Theatre Union: www.dititu.dk
Danish ITI and Theatre Union also provides the Nordic Theatre Directory as a direct online database: www.teaterkatalog.net, made by the Nordic Theatre Union with support from NordScen. Nordic Theatre Directory contains essential information on Nordic/Baltic theatres and different theatre organisations in the same region.
Other Information:
All theatre people belonging to one of the organisations within the umbrella of Danish ITI & Theatre Union are considered to be members of the ITI Centre and can be provided with an ITI Member Card upon request.
Recent Theatre History DENMARK updated Sat Oct 15 01:48:57 2005 |
The history of Danish theatre: Below we have given the basic information concerning the more recent history of Danish theatre. The 1960s and 1970s The establishment of a Ministry for Cultural Affairs in 1961 brought an end to the situation in which the Royal Theatre was under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and other theatres under the Ministry of Justice. The Theatre Act of 1963 established, among other things, the framework for support for the provincial theatres in Århus, Aalborg and Odense, and through grants it gave the Theatre Council a significant influence on the areas of theatre life outside the fixed institutional framework. In general, the 1960s and 1970s were a time of important cultural initiatives pointing to democratisation and decentralisation both at a political level and among the many experimental or socially critical theatre groups addressing themselves to a different public from the established theatres, including the younger age groups. Children had so far mainly been provided for by the Danish School Theatre. When the School Theatre was disbanded in 1968, the way was clear for an array of itinerant theatre groups treating the problems of children and young people in their own language. In many respects, Denmark became a pioneer in drama for children and young people. Of great significance for experimental drama, also in an international perspective, was Eugenio Barba's Odin Theatre, established in Holstebro in 1966. In training, changes were also made in relation to the established institutions: The Royal Theatre Drama School was disbanded in 1968, and the National School of Dramatic Art opened, first with an eye to training actors, and then subsequently directors, set designers and technicians. From 1971 cultural democracy also asserted itself in the form of a scheme run by the theatre-goers' organisation ARTE, making it possible to take out tickets for a number of performances at a reduced price. Legislation later applied the model to the whole country, the Act coming into force in 1975, with state and county support. This has without any doubt had a positive influence on the sale of tickets, but it has also been criticised, among other things for preventing flexibility in the planning of the theatres. The 1980s and 1990s Provisions for regional theatres from 1979 brought some group theatres under the aegis of the county and local authorities, with the institutionalisation inevitably resulting from that. Social preoccupations were replaced in the 1980s and 1990s by the exploration of aesthetical and artistic effects. A generation of younger producers found more fragmented ways of expressing themselves. A very dynamic and direct tone, appealing particularly to a young audience, came into its own in 1992 when the Dr. Dante group took over the Aveny Theatre. Concurrently, a new generation of dramatists was emerging, often with a blend of ironic realism and linguistic exuberance bordering upon the absurd. Otherwise, as grants became more and more difficult to come by, the picture was one of a return to a repertoire more certain to appeal to a large audience. Placed outside the institutions, performance theatre was especially characteristic of the early 1990s, when Hotel Pro Forma in particular made an international reputation for itself. Performances derived from avant-garde art and happenings, breaking down the boundaries between the forms of expression and cultivating visual and sound effects. At the end of the 1990s the Royal Theatre was in an unsettled state; the feeling that the architectural setting was outdated gave rise to discussion of the siting of a new playhouse elsewhere, and a debate flared up about the traditional housing of the different art forms under one roof. From the 1997-98 season the national theatre began to focus on a new Danish repertoire, younger directors and designers, and thus a younger audience. Radio and Television Theatre Radio drama was originally seen as a means of enlightening the public and a vehicle for culture. From 1925 broadcasts were made of the Danish School Theatre's performances of classics, and within a few years the repertoire consisted of a mixture of adapted stage drama and original plays for radio. Major stage artists like Poul Reumert thus reached a broader public. From the 1950s radio theatre obtained the technical opportunity of going its own way. The 1960s saw the emergence of plays specifically for radio, and Danish authors could here experiment independently of the financial constraints by which the theatres were bound. From the 1950s television drama underwent a similar development, from being tied to the theatre and the idea of "the great classics" to independent artistic expressions. The creation of original Danish television drama was in particular a high priority 1970-85. It had a particularly powerful representative in Leif Panduro's bitter-sweet portrayal of the traumas behind a bourgeois facade. |
National Representatives of Theatre INGOs DENMARK updated Sat Dec 22 10:27:39 2007 |
| AITA c/o Dansk Amatoer Teater Samvirke, Nygade 15, Graasten DK- 6300, Tel: 74651103, Fax: 74652093, Email: dats@dats.dk, Website: http://www.dats.dk |
| ASSITEJ Dansk Assitej, Axel Torv 12 Byg. D, Copenhagen V. DK-1609, Tel: 35344509, Fax: 35304401, Email: info@assitej.dk |
| FIA c/o Dansk Skuespillerforbund, Sankts Knudsvej 26, Frederiksberg C DK-1903, Tel: 33242200, Fax: 33248159, Email: dsf@skuespillerforbundet.dk |
| UNIMA,c/o Thy Teater, Haandvaerker Torv 1, Thisted DK-7700, Tel: 97960100, Email: HansH@unima.dk |
(Ministères, organismes publics, associations professionnelles) Main organisations concerned with theatre (Ministries, organizations, unions, professional associations) DENMARK updated Sat Dec 22 12:05:29 2007 |
| NEW ONLINE SERVICE PROVIDED FROM DANISH ITI ON ALL CATEGORIES. PLEASE USE, Website: http://www.teaterkatalog.net. LATEST UPDATE: MAY 25, 2007 |
| Danish ITI & Theatre Union, Norre Voldgade 12, Copenhagen K DK-1358, Tel: 33861210, Email: mail@dititu.dk, Website: http://www.dititu.dk/, Comments: PLEASE CONTACT THE DANISH ITI OFFICE |
Main Theatres, Operas, Ballets, Danse etc. DENMARK updated Sat Dec 22 12:08:26 2007 |
| NEW ONLINE SERVICE PROVIDED FROM DANISH ITI ON ALL CATEGORIES. PLEASE USE, Website: http://www.teaterkatalog.net. LATEST UPDATE ON MAY 25, 2007. |
Main performing arts festivals DENMARK updated Sat Dec 22 12:08:45 2007 |
| "Nordic Theatre Days 2006 - Sight 'n' Vision", July 30 - August 5, 2007 in Copenhagen, the capitol of Copenhagen. |
(musées,bibliothèques etc.) Main performing arts resource centres (museums, libraries, research & documentation centres,specialist publishers & bookshops etc.) DENMARK updated Sat Dec 22 12:10:09 2007 |
| Danish ITI & Theatre Union, Norre Voldgade 12 ), Copenhagen K DK-1358, Tel: (+45)33 86 12 10, Email: mail@dititu.dk, Website: http://www.dititu.dk |
Main performing arts magazines DENMARK updated Sat Dec 22 12:10:23 2007 |
| Online service from Danish ITI & Theatre Union on all categories - Nordic Theatre Directory available on:, Website: http://www.teaterkatalog.net. LATEST UPDATE ON MAY 25, 2007 |
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