Music Theatre of the Future
VISION
Sort/Hvid wants to create music theatre that confronts our world.
We will not let ourselves be limited by conventions; we will unite the diversity of artists from different disciplines in creating the future of music theatre. We want to create new expressions, make new genres, and dissolve them again. The audience can expect everything from activistic opera to political pop, from death metal puppet theatre to cacophonous chamber music.
As a hub for music theatre Sort/Hvid will be producing ambitious performances and facilitating experiments, residencies, workshops, and knowledge exchange. We want to create a professional, development orientated meeting place for those who want to take music theatre in new directions, both musically and performatively. We are going to collaborate with music and stage art producers both locally and internationally – artists, orchestras, festivals, organizations, and networks.
Sort/Hvid music theatre is classical and rhythmic. Domestic and international. Innovative and old fashioned. Activistic and apathetic. Radical and mainstream. Fearless and terrifying. Uncompromising and compromising. (Black/white).
Organisation
Sort/Hvid is a “small metropolitan theatre” and thus part of a scheme where the state and the municipality together make a total annual contribution to the daily operation of a number of Copenhagen theatres.
In addition, Sort/Hvid gains revenue from ticket sales for performances and other artistic projects. From private and public foundations, the theater receives project support for specific artistic projects.
Management
Christian Lollike
Artistic Director
Christian is recognized in Denmark and internationally for his work as a playwright and director. He works with text theatre, sculpture, concerts, opera, ballet, action art – often based on specific political events. His works are well known in Denmark as well as in Europe, where he has caused debate and engagement with his entertaining and often controversial performances. Many of them are translated into English, German and French. In particular, he met attention with the performance MANIFEST 2083 about the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik from both the Danish and international press as well as curators of international theatre festivals.
Mette Bryndum
Managing Director
Mette has produced theatre for ten years before taking up the position as Managing Director for Sort/Hvid in 2018. She comes from a position as producer at the Opera of The Royal Danish Theatre (2014-2018). Previously she worked with strategy, business development and project management in Tryg Insurance, DFDS A/S and Maersk Tankers, A. P. Møller-Maersk. Mette holds a MSc in Economics and Business Administration (IBS) from Copenhagen Business School.
Mette has worked as a producer for independent groups for several years, including productions for Teater Får302 in Copenhagen and was one of the founding members in HAUTscene.dk, where she was chairman of the board until 2018.
Mette is currently a member of the board of Danish National Opera.
Board
Michael Christiansen
Chairman of the Board
Charlotte Sahl-Madsen
Vice Chairman of the Board
Managing Director / The Capital of Children
Helle Haagen
Member of the Board
Manager / C:NTACT
Sys Rovsing
Member of the Board
Partner / Rovsing & Gammeljord
Christian Have
Member of the Board
Owner and Creative Director / Have Kommunikation