"When Forests Dream” & “Assembly” 2026

Premiere 06-13 September 2026, 
at Metropolis Cph summer program


This new work explores Animism—the belief that all things possess soul, a principle central to many Indigenous cosmologies. We call upon the souls of all that exists to gather in a collective act of grieving and dreaming the other, to heal Nature. 

Through shared grief and dreaming in public, we engaged politically. Empowering ourselves collectively to act on our intrinsic relationality and interconnectivity with all that exists, restoring, rebuilding, and healing our relationship with the natural world and with each other.

When Forests Dream is an immersive journey into a forest and its ghosts, where one encounters the spirits of a forest that has disappeared due to deforestation. A luminous procession, guided by five performers, moves through the landscape- sounding, singing, and dancing with the audience and all surrounding Beings.

When Forests Dream is the fourth chapter of an eight-year project working with the theater as a fictional courtroom, inviting the audience as jury in defense of Nature. The project aims to explore new ways of representing both humans and the-more-than-human world, addressing environmental injustice as global political systems appear unwilling to act. Through the yearly ASSEMBLY, theatre becomes a site of collective imagination and speculative justice.


Assembly 2026

From 2026, the ASSEMBLY unfolds as a full- or half day performative gathering, separate from yet interconnected with the yearly performance. This year, it takes place at the end of the performance week, on the 13th of September 2026, from 14:00 to 18.00 at Teatersale.

The Assembly is built as a progression from the performance-a continuation, a deepening. It weaves discursive and performative practices. Special guests are invited to share their knowledge and practices when relevant: artists, environmental experts (including lawyers and scientists), Indigenous participants, and activists. Discussions will take place in both large and small groups, combined with performative rituals, sound, and our bodies engaged together-thinking, sensing, and acting together.


Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, Københavns Kommune Scenekunst, Knud Hjøgaards Fond.
Co-produced by: Metropolis Cph & Anex Metropolis.



Images of ideas in progress: use of net textiles for Things and Beings to move through; luminous Beings at night; holographic reflections communicating with us.