HELENE KVINT

HELENE KVINT

Performing personal and visual stories for human beings
THUNDER
We need a heroine. Someone who protects the earth, saves human lives and makes a difference – as we all dream of doing. Someone who does not need validation, and is not afraid of taking...
SLAG – NÅR HJERNEN BLØDER
Livet med en hjerneskade bliver nærværende på Bådteatret. Med et slag var der ingenting…. Jeg svævede i ingenmandsland. “SLAG” fortæller om tragedien efter en blodprop og viser hjernens associationer i frit fald og kærligheden, der...
BLINDED BY WORDS
Helene Kvint didn’t realize that her classmates were not tutored at home after school as she was. She didn’t think of herself as “unusual” or “different” from the others until the day her tutor told...
TÆNDT
– En forestilling om at være slukket To kvinder leder efter kontakten, der tænder. Den anmelderroste Queen of Beat, Dj & komponist, Rosa Lux leverer det musikalske univers til denne kollage af fysisk teater, tekst...

My Story

My story

Through magical, visual universes, I tell personal, earthbound stories. My work is visually based  – always aiming at making the abstract concrete in a poetic and humorous way. Often as comments on society with biographical inspiration from my own life.

Over the years I had the privilege to work with various artists from cross the world on the topics that matters the most to me. Whatever I do, my heart is always in it, and I use my own life – from dreams and passions to tragedies and fears – as a source of inspiration. I have made performances about living with dyslexia, wanting to save the world, being a woman, being a mother, female sensuality, my grandfather’s dementia and the death of my father. I use my personal experiences and commitment to create high-intensity performances about things that matters.

I share my practice working with personal stories, in different setting, like the Danish actor union or the Danish acting school.

Since 2003 I have my Prague-based theatre cabinet Secondhand Women, we had our 20 years anniversary i 2023. Secondhand Women.

From 2006  to 2021 I had my Danish group CoreAct

I offen work as an actress for various theatre companies. The last years I played all from traditional stage theatre, to one by one interactive theatre or children theatre. Among others I am currently an actress in Pernille Garde, Teater Freeze Productions, Åben Dans, Kassandra Production. 

A childhood calling

I grew up knowing that I wanted to be an actress – I wanted to perform. This wish became even stronger when I as a child experienced theatre where play and fantasy completed my view on the world. My point of view was also marked by dyslexia which meant that I had to rely even more on my ability to express myself physically and visually.

I since attended different theatre schools worked as crew on different theatres and I keep educating myself. I ended up worked many years in the international performing arts scene with a base in Germany and Prague before returning to Copenhagen where I am located today.

Selected collaborators and festivals  

My collaborators through the years include the musicians Eivør, Rosa Lux and Jan Burian, the fine artists Tom Fruin, Astrid Randrup, Katrina Neiburga and Anna Schuleit Haber, and the directors Rebekka ingimundardottir, Rolf Heim, Nina Kareis, Annika Lewis, Hanne Trap Friis, and Adelaide Bentzon.

 And I have co- created with performers like Line Svendsen, Anika Barkan, Petr Kruselnisky, Halka Tresnakova and rest of the Secondhand women crew.

I have co- produced with theatres like Carte Blanche, Aaben Dans, Teater Grob, Husets Teater, Helsingnør Teater, Teater Momentum, Warehouse 9, Alfred ve Dvore and 4daysinmotion (both in Prague).

I have performed my shows at festivals like CPHstage, Passage Festival, Det Frie Felts Festival, Unidram, Winter Lights Festival Reykjavik, Fiesta del Teatro San Martin Venezuela, Dumbo Arts Festival NY, Pilsen and Kolin Theatre Festivals.

 

Visuals

The Performance TÆNDT

The performance Stroke

The performance THUNDER 

The performance BLINDED BY WORDS