Váli Theatre Lab

21/04/2026

Sold out in Riga for “Qullaq” — the theatre concert with our dramaturgy and stage direction ✨

An intense and beautiful night. Thank you to everyone who was there and shared it with us.

28/03/2026

🌍✨ QULLAQ arrives in Riga! ✨🌍

After unforgettable stops in Glasgow, Copenhagen, and Nuuk, our theatre concert QULLAQ continues its journey as part of Baltic Music Days 2026 — and this time we land in Riga 🇱🇻

This special project brings together an extraordinary group of artists: Greenlandic musicians and performers (Nive Nielsen, Hans-Henrik Suersaq Poulsen, Miké Fencer Thomsen), Scottish composer and violinist (Aidan O’Rourke), and Italian theatre directors based in Denmark (Valerio Peroni & Alice Occhiali).

What makes each performance unique is the collaboration with local musicians: in each performative place, the core ensemble opens up to collaboration with local string ensembles that enriches the soundscape and makes each presentation an unrepeatable event.

In Riga, we are thrilled to be joined by Ensemble for New Music Tallinn and a string quartet from the Latvian Music Academy.

We truly can’t wait to create together! 🎻🔥

The Baltic collaboration on QULLAQ has been made possible with support from Creative Scotland; Statens Kunstfond; Nordisk kulturkontakt; Dansk Komponistforening and the Nordic Council of Ministers.

One of the most distinctive performances in the Nordic programme explores Arctic cultural traditions through contemporary collaboration.

Qullaq brings together musicians from Greenland, Scotland and the Baltic region in a theatrical performance that combines ancient Inuit drum-dance traditions with new music and storytelling.

The title Qullaq means “to rise” or “to climb upward”, a fitting reflection of the festival theme We Live in Different Times.

The work brings together voices, instruments and histories from different northern communities, creating a performance that moves between ritual, folk tradition and contemporary composition.

The Baltic collaboration on Qullaq has been made possible with support from Creative Scotland Statens Kunstfond Nordisk Kulturfond Dansk Komponistforening and the Nordic Council of Ministers

With Latvijas Komponistu savienība / Latvijas Jaunās mūzikas dienas Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

24/03/2026

🔥FREMTIDENS PULS banker på Sygehusgrunden🔥

22/03/2026

🪩FREMTIDENS PULS 2026🪩

If you’re curious to know more about our multidisciplinary pedagogical and performative project FREMTIDENS PULS at Sygehusgrunden in Holstebro, give a look to the beautiful article on Færchfonden’s website 💫

We are almost at the end of the first session of LAB and we are working with so many talented and inspiring students from Balletskolen Holstebro, Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Dansk Talentakademi, and MGK Midtvest. Their curiosity, creativity, and engagement is giving us a lot of inspiration and joy.

We’re incredibly excited for what lies ahead in the coming months, leading up to our final site-specific interactive performance this June at Sygehusgrunden, as part of Holstebro Byfestival 2026 🎭

A heartfelt thank you to all the students and schools involved for their energy, openness, and dedication.

A special thanks to our collaborator Tomek Wróblewski, for shaping and giving life to this vision with us, and for bringing on board such inspiring artists like Johannes Søgaard (Visual artist) and Hubert Świerad (Photographer and Videomaker).

Last but not least, our sincere gratitude to our supporters for their trust and continuous support:
– Færchfonden
– Sygehusgrunden
– Holstebro Kommune

The journey has just begun!
Stay tuned for more updates!

Som en del af en større transformation af Sygehusgrunden til en levende bydel er Váli Theatre Lab i fuld gang med et ambitiøst kunstpædagogisk projekt. Projektet hedder Fremtidens Puls og er en videreudvikling af sidste års performance på Sygehusgrunden i forbindelse med Holstebro Byfestival. ...

15/03/2026

♦️Fællesskabs-Teaterworkshop with Váli Theatre Lab at Sygehusgrunden♦️

✨ Moments of connection, creativity, and fun✨

Here are some beautiful memories from last Tuesday.
It was truly inspiring to share the space with people of different ages, backgrounds, and cultures, all playing, creating, and exploring together.
Thank you from the heart to everyone who joined us for your openness, trust, and presence.

These moments of community are what make this project so special 💛

Thanks to Tommy Bay for capturing these wonderful moments 📸

🌿 Next workshop
📅 Tuesday, 17 March
📅 Tuesday, 24 March
📅 Tuesday, 31 March
⏰ 16:15 – 17:45
📍 Holstebro Sygehusgrunden – MadLab

Come and join us!
The workshop is open to everyone and free of charge.
No experience needed — just curiosity and the desire to play together.

We look forward to meeting you ✨

04/03/2026

FREMTIDENS PULS LAB
First Session - From 1 to 31 March
Led by Váli Theatre Lab
In collaboration with Tomek Wróblewski
and with Johannes Søgaard
In the spaces of Sygehusgrunden
With the students of : Dansk Talentakademi Balletskolen Holstebro Holstebro Musikskole Den Danske Scenekunstskole Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium
Supported by : Færchfonden , Sygehusgrunden, Holstebro Kommune,

24/02/2026

Led By .theatre.lab
In collaboration with .picker.t.picker
and
In the spaces of

Students of: .midtvest

Supported by and

07/02/2026

THE PATH OF ACTIONS is back

We’re happy to share the new edition of THE PATH OF ACTIONS, our residential theatre workshop led by Alice Occhiali & Valerio Peroni.

Pedagogy has always been at the heart of Váli Theatre Lab: training as a space for research, transmission, and encounter. This workshop is part of that ongoing journey — a place where practice, creation, and human experience meet.

🗓 22 June – 3 July 2026
📍 Brogården Kulturvæksthus and Teatret OM, Ringkøbing (Denmark)

We’ll work between indoor training and outdoor site-specific creation, exploring the theme ELSEWHERE as a poetic space between memory and imagination.

👉 All details & applications' info: https://fb.me/e/6zbvwjlLz

28/11/2025

We are happy to share with all of you this fantastic news:

✨ Færchfonden will support a new edition of 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐭𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐮𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔! ✨

After the incredible success of 2025, we are proud to continue the journey next year with an expanded, deeper, and even more inspiring version of the project.

From February to May 2026, a new creative journey begins with 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙩𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙋𝙪𝙡𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙗, culminating in June 2026 with 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙩𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙋𝙪𝙡𝙨 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨.

Students from Holstebro’s performing arts schools —
Dansk Talentakademi, Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Balletskolen Holstebro, Den Danske Scenekunstskole, MGK Midtvest, and Holstebro Musikskole —will be guided by Váli Theatre Lab and Tomek Wróblewski, in professional workshops and masterclasses through a cross-disciplinary process.

With 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙩𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙋𝙪𝙡𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙗, we are creating a shared space where young artists can meet, create, explore, and learn together — and in the final phase, the collaboration with international professional artists will enrich the creative process even further.

Over four months, theatre, dance, music, and visual arts will merge and transform, becoming 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 in the unique spaces of Sygehusgrunden during 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗼 𝗕𝘆𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.

Our heartfelt thanks go to :
🙏 our collaborator and friend Tomek Wróblewski (Follow Concept) with whom we have created this project full of hope for the future;
🙏 Sygehusgrunden for the availability of its incredible spaces and the nourishing collaboration;
🙏 Holstebro Kommune for the opportunity to be part of Byfestival 2026;
🙏 all Holstebro’s performing arts schools and their students for their enthusiasm and trust;
🙏 and above all, Færchfonden, whose support allows this project to truly fly high.

A new journey is starting —
and we cannot wait to step into it ✨

Enjoy this amazing teaser realised by Hubert Świerad/Underside Agency during Holstebro Byfestival 2025 and follow us on our SoMe for updates during the process.

09/11/2025

QULLAQ
a theatrical concert born from the encounter between the ancestral sounds, rituals and culture of Greenland, the tradition and innovation of Scottish music, and the Italo-Danish approach to theatrical research.

We are happy to share the beautiful photos of the perfomance presented at
Suialaa Arts Festival in Nuuk (Greenland) on the 25th October 2025.

With
Performers/Musicians/Singers/Composers:
Aidan O’Rourke(Scotland)
Nive Nielsen (Greenland)
Hans-Henrik Suersaq Poulsen (Greenland)
Miké Fencer Thomsen (Greenland)

Musicians:
Madis Jürgens (Estland)
Sofia Carolina Hernandez Mejia (Venezuela/Greenland)
Teemu Mastovaara (Finland)
Hanne Saandvig Immanuelsen (Greenland)
Najannguaq Qvist (Greenland)
Nuuk String Ensemble (Greenland)

Dramaturgy, Stage Directions and Scenic Actions:
Valerio Peroni (Italy/Denmark)
Alice Occhiali (Italy/Denmark)

Organisation and Coordination:
Sine Tofte Hannibal (Denmark)

Project supported by
Suialaa Arts Festival
Nordic Music Days
Dansk Komponistforening
NAPA - Nordens Institut i Grønland
Nordisk kulturkontakt
Creative Scotland
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

Ph: Dida Heilmann
Naja Amanda Lynge Møretrø

29/10/2025

Happy Birthday to our Master Eugenio Barba, director of Odin Teatret✨️ All our gratitude to you, for all these years of work and research in theatre. You were there when Váli Theatre Lab took its first steps, helping and supporting us. We have chosen together the name and to celebrate we had a "Skål" with a very good vodka in your office with Julia Varley. We will never forget that moment, and we will never forget all your precious teachings. Thank you for your care and your love. It is from you that we learnt the real meaning of the word "Resilience". This world needs you and we wish you many more years of theatre!!! Tanti Auguri Maestro💐