Name: Us Us / Us Else / Else Us / Else Else // Rachel Tess & Tim Matiakis
Start: 2025-10-08T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-08T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen, Denmark

$Us Us \/ Us Else \/ Else Us \/ Else Else \/\/ Rachel Tess & Tim Matiakis$

📸 Thomas Zamolo
Get immersed in a work at the intersection between dance performance, installation, and a live concert – and maybe something completely different. All at once.
Us Us / Us Else / Else Us / Else Else, is an engaging contemporary dance performance that extends over four hours, where the audience can freely interact with the work on their own terms – choose to stay as long as they want, take breaks and come back to a new experience.
Two dancers, a musician and a rotating stage, a light sculpture of fifteen meters in diameter and twelve speakers form the framework for Us Us / Us Else / Else Us / Else Else. A single repetitive bodily pulse is the starting point of the work and drives a continuous transformation. Empathetic relationships arise between viewer and performer, through the tireless propulsion and synchronization of the three performers.
Us Us / Us Else / Else Us / Else Else is a total experience where dance, sound and space merge – from the almost imperceptible to the ecstatic – and where movement creates connections between people in a fragmented, polarized and chaotic time.
The performance is created by an international artistic team, consisting of choreographers and dancers Tim Matiakis and Rachel Tess, in collaboration with musician and composer Ulrich Ruchlinski, and lighting designer Thomas Zamolo.
Us Us / Us Else / Else Us / Else Else has been developed through residencies at MARC (Milvus Artistic Research Center), Forsøgsstationen and Dansstationen. The premiere was at ARoS Kunstmuseum (Aarhus) in 2023 and the work has since been presented at Dansens Hus (Stockholm), Dansstationen (Malmö) and Teater Momentum (Odense).
Us Us / Us Else / Else Us / Else Else, is co-produced by Dansehallerne.