Blending dance, science fiction and visual world-building, The Warmth of Other Suns imagines the body and human existence on a cosmic scale. Sophia Mage transforms Dansehallerne’s expansive stage space into a sensory universe of striking tableaux, light and sound – moving between the intimate and the infinite.
The Warmth of Other Suns follows three galactic wanderers as they move through atmosphere, gas, and bone. Thousands of years old and charged by photons from a dying sun, they grapple with their bodies in a state of constant transmutation. The urge to alchemize from dense matter to light rises from within and extends into greater cosmic bodies. Ancient yet tragically naïve, they bounce between events of surrender and defiance, from star to star, memory to moment—repeating, reducing, winding and unwinding.
Through the framework of science fiction, the performance imagines the coexistence of a species long after collapse and the eventual transference of sentient intelligence to stardust under The Warmth of Other Suns.
Sophia Mage (DK/US) is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Copenhagen. Sophia approaches performance with a world-building mindset. She often works with a fictional sense of being and place in order to gently tilt the atmosphere towards the uncanny. Themes of rage, transcendence, abjection, euphoria, femme sensuality, and dualism permeate her work. By embracing many apparent contradictions, she oversaturates, dissolves, and re-dreams the human experience. Transformation is central to her practice and aesthetic. Her process is influenced by the meeting of intuition, improvisation, and coincidences arising from the mediums she works with. All this with an eye to immediate, broad appeal, so that the finished work appears inviting in itself, with a rich underlying intention.
After receiving a BA in political science and working for an NGO in Oakland, California, she relocated to Europe and graduated from the Danish National School for Performing Arts. Over the years, she has collaborated with choreographers, musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, and academics on projects of varying scale and ambition. She gives workshops and teaches for institutions and companies such as The Danish National School for Performing Arts, P.A.R.T.S., Danish Dance Theatre, Ballet De Lorraine, and Cullberg. Additionally, she has produced and created several works, including Vibrant Matter 2020 and Atmosphere of Decay 2023, and is currently developing The Warmth of Other Suns 2026 and Sea Swine 2027 with Sofia Stål and
Mia Milovic. In 2025, she received Wilhelm Hansen’s honorary award. She is a member of the Copenhagen-based collective Dance Cooperative.
