Spine Fiction
Amygdala


In Amygdala, the very youngest from 3–24 months and their adults are invited into a sensual, fleshy universe, where light, sound and movement unfold as a journey back to our first experiences. We travel through flesh, through thought, through memory.

Back to our very first ability to sense.

Before words.

Before meaning.

Feel the walls around you.

The water.

The sounds.

The light.

Travel backward in time.

Through flesh.

Through memory.

Through sensation.

Back to where sensation began.

In Amygdala the heartbeats become rhythms, breath becomes music, and dance opens an enveloping space, where the beginning is not only told, but felt. The audience moves freely through the space and gets very close to what arises between bodies, sound and light. Amygdala invites us to step into our common beginnings – and to listen to what lies before language: what we may not remember with our minds, but with our bodies.

Amygdala is a poetic dance performance offering a glimpse of the time we all share before we were born.

SPINE FICTION is a Copenhagen dance company with a strong Nordic profile, led by choreographers and dancers Julie Rasmussen (Norway/Denmark) and My Marie Nilsson (Sweden/Denmark). Together they have over 15 years of experience with performing arts for children, young people and adults. The company creates sensual, curious and experimental performances with a focus on movement, body and visual expression. The audience is actively involved, and children and young people in particular meet at eye level – always with artistic integrity and ambition.

my-marie-nilsson.com & julie-rasmussen.com

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Artist

Spine Fiction

Title

Amygdala

Type

Children & Family, Performance

Date

  • 13.6.2026, 11:00
  • 13.6.2026, 13:00
  • 15.6.2026, 09:30
  • 15.6.2026, 11:30
  • 16.6.2026, 09:30
  • 16.6.2026, 11:30
  • 17.6.2026, 09:30
  • 17.6.2026, 11:30
  • 18.6.2026, 09:30
  • 18.6.2026, 11:30
  • 19.6.2026, 09:30
  • 19.6.2026, 11:30
  • 20.6.2026, 09:30
  • 20.6.2026, 11:30

Duration

40 minutes

Venue

Dansehallerne, Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen V

Credits

Concept & Choreography: SPINE FICTION / Julie Rasmussen & My Marie Nilsson / Dancers: Julie Rasmussen, My Marie Nilsson & Mette Hersvik / Sound: Anja Tietze Lahrmann & Emil Vodder Kristensen / Scenography & Costume Design: Simone Bartholin / Lighting Design: Rosa Birkedal / Research: Lars Geer Hammershøj / Stage Management: Emil Vodder Kristensen / Produced by SPINE FICTION / Co-producer: Dansehallerne / Supported by: Nordic Council of Ministers and Nordic Council, Knud Højgaards Fond, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, Københavns Scenekunstudvalg, Michael Hermann Nielsens Mindelegat, Dansk Skuespillerforbunds Produktionsstøttemidler. Thanks to: Elefantteateret (NO) og Regionteater Väst (SE)

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