THE ABANDONED HOUSE
A new production by Sew Flunk Fury Wit in co-production with The Regional Theatre in Vordingborg.
A stairwell. An empty apartment. A secret, old attic as captivating spaces.
In this immersive, site-specific performance our animation shifts from puppets and figures, to belive the architecture itself, as an animated character.
What is present inside the empty or abandoned buildings we pass by?
The audience enters a realm that is coming into being, as they step across the threshold. A realm between what was, what still is and what is becoming. Moving through rooms, materials, sound art, installations and sculptures.
In THE ABANDONED HOUSE Sew Flunk Fury Wit stages a highly aesthetic and sensory experience with humor and beauty. Working with performing and visual art as a states of being rather than fixed narratives, using time, presence, and heightened awareness as its artistic medium.
Premiere: October 1st 2026
Dates: 1 – 2 – 3 & 6 – 7 of October at 19.00
Time: 19.00
Location: Vordingborg Station (train connections right to the doorstep)
Tickets: https://egnsteatret.dk/events/the-abandoned-house/
CREW
Svend E. Kristensen: artistic director, performer & puppetdesigner
Louise Bonde: performer
Esben Wormslev: performer
Jesper Pedersen: director
Laura Rathschau: costume designer & scenographer
Andro Mazoni: composition & sounddesign
Martin Danielsen: lightdesigner
Anna Gohr: production manager
Katrine Karlsen: puppetbuilder
Kristian Knudsen: visual artist, acid etchings
Klara Svejgaard: intern
Kristine Kohlmetz: creative producer
SUPPORTED BY
The Danish Arts Foundation (Projektstøtteudvalg for Scenekunst), William Demant Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Dansk Skuespillerforbund, Vordingborg Kommune and Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond.
Thank you to DSB for opening the station and special building for our production.
CALENDAR
November 13, 14 2026
STØV / DUST / HOKORI / POLVO
Venue: UKUARU Arvo Pärt Concert Hall Rakvere
Get your tickets here: UKUARU Arvo Pärt Concert Hall Rakvere Estonia
31 March – 2 April 2027
STØV / DUST / HOKORI / POLVO
Venue: Aveny-T in Copenhagen
Get your ticket here https://www.aveny-t.dk/forestillinger/stv
PERFORMANCES AVAILABLE FOR TOURING
DUST (STØV)
THE ABANDONED HOUSE (from October 2026)
RITUAL – Rejsekammeraten (H.C. Andersen)
INSTANT COMPOSITION: live wonders with vocalist Randi Pontoppidan, mucisian Thomas Agergaard and animation performer Svend E Kristensen
DEVELOPMENTS
Puppet replacements and AI- genrated content as a tool for puppet development and relocation abandoned 2025
CONTACT
For performance-bookings, collaboration requests or PR please contact
Creative producer Kristine Kohlmetz / info@kristinekohlmetz.dk / +45 20986956
Sew Flunk Fury Wit performed the acclaimed performance DUST (STØV/POLVO/HOKORI)
at the great FIAV Bogota international Theater Festival 5-7 Oct. 2024
Sew Flunk Fury Wit
Sew Flunk Fury Wit creates enigmatic musicdramatic signature performances in a hard to categorize hybridgenre of hyper-surreal human sized neo-puppetry, poetic dramatic worlds and seductive soundscapes of new composed opera with a broad and exploring sense of music and instruments.
The company most often work in a collectively effort with different artist throughout the processes of creating.
The company was founded by artistic director – Svend E. Kristensen (DK) – in 2013. He began his artistic career at the experimental music scene in Denmark in the early 80’s. Through the years he has elaborated, developed and designed various life-sized puppets from materials such as carbon fibers, silicones and other composites. Read more about artistic director Svend E. Kristensen.
RECENT SHOWS
RITUAL-Rejsekammeraten
Vordingborg Egnsteater 22.08.24
H.C. Andersen Festival 24.08.24
RITUAL – Rejsekammeraten 30.05-04.06 2023
(RITUAL-The travelling Companion)
Om liv og død, H.C. Andersen, japansk bondage og længslen efter at transcendere.
Sew Flunk Fury Wit flår H. C. Andersens fortælling Rejsekammeraten fra hinanden
i en collage af performance, biografi, unikke dukker, musik og myter.
Det gode og det onde vendes på vrangen, lys og skygge mødes.
Det Kongelige Teater, Skuespilhuset, Lille Scene
Forestillingen er kurateret som en del af K:Selekt og indgår i CPH. Stage 2023.
K:Selekt er et samarbejde mellem Det kongelige Teater og Statens Kunstfond om at styrke udviklingen på tværs af strukturer, genrer og til gensidig inspiration i det danske scenekunstmiljø.
METAMORPHOSEN
A mesmerizing, experimental and relevant musicdramatic catastrophe-historical interpretation of Richard Strauss composition. With the remarcable instrument ondes martenot, soprano and an enchanting human-sized puppet.
CORPO SURREAL
An ecstatic tribute to the courageous attempt of the corposurreal transformation. An enigmatic, innovative and intensely mesmerizing, music-dramatic experience that releases the eyes and imagination of both creator and audience. Co-produced with Antibodies Collective (JP) and Folk Opera Iceland.
STØV (DUST)
Telling the tale of a world gone horribly wrong in the shape of five fascinating human-sized puppets, a luminescent opera soprano and a shadowy figure.
CRASH
A story about a couple who dies in a car crash, the story is told through music & song, Opera & Ambient rock, accompanied by neo puppets, in a New Music Dramatics-framing.
The performance FEINSCHMECKER (2014) was the first collectively produced work by Sew Flunk Fury Wit, staging a relational drama of 3 life- sized hypernaturalistic female puppets and 3 male puppeteers. Created by Thomas Hejlesen (Von Heiduck) and Svend E. Kristensen.
DUST, CRASH, RITUAL-Rejsekammeraten, Corpo Surreal and The Foxcave are developed collectively with director Jesper Pedersen.