Banquet For Bees

Banquet For Bees

An outdoor performance for adults – but children from 8 years and up are welcome in the company of a parent or caretaker. The performance takes place around a banquet table, where guests are offered a menu of elements from the bees’ world – pollen, honey, beeswax, edible flowers, as well as the vegetables and fruits that bees are essential for. Everything is served together with nerdy bee knowledge, sensory experiences, poetry, dance and soundscapes. Guests are introduced to both honeybees and wild bees – two parts of the bee world that are currently described as opposites. But who can tell what’s up and down at flower level? 

"The participants in ‘Banquet for Bees’ are both spectators and participants in a fascinating story that takes place in open air. … A very special nature-immersed atmosphere envelops you when you sit in the grass and listen to Swedish performer Charlotta Grimfjord Cederblad’s story about how, as a child, she watched her father work as a beekeeper from behind the windows of the house."

KIRSTEN Dahl – Teateravisen 2020

"Wearing baggy pants, we ourselves became a kind of worker bees, who, after being tuned in with a buzzing straw beehive over our heads, were assigned various bee jobs and learned something about swarm intelligence. Fun to be sent out as scout bees with huge magnifiers as insect eyes in search of flowers to suck nectar from. Just as the bees dance to signal to the flock where the tempting flowers are, we were to do a tail dance to signal the grand banquet finale around a long table."

MONNA DITHMER – POLITIKEN 2020

The performance in co-produced with Pro Progressione in Hungary, who are also touring with a Hungarian version of Banquet for Bees.

Banquet for Bees has previously been shown at: IETM Aarhus Plenary Meeting (2023), Nordic Street Festival (2022), Momentum (2021), CPH Stage (2021), April Festival (2021), Jord Festival Stevns (2021), Passagefestival Helsingør (2021), Botanisk have Aarhus (2021), m.fl.

Director, concept & performer Christine Fentz
Co-creator & performer Charlotta Grimfjord Cederblad (S)
Co-Creators Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy (AUS), Gergö Lukacs (HU), Viktória Makra (HU), Bodil Buonaventzen
Performer Lotus Lykke Skov
Researcher voice Hortonom Lise Hansted

Composer Birgit Løkke
Dramaturg & Technician John Tinning
Scenographic consultant Sigrid C. Moses-Jacobsen
Tailors Bodil Buonaventzen, Marianne Henez (HU), Helene Jensen/Textilkokken (DK)
Coordinator Maja Ravn Christiansen

Duration 90 min.
Age 15 år+
Refusion Until season 28/29
Language Danish or English
Booking Tel 5055 6263 – coordinator@secrethotel.dk

Banquet for Bees is developed with support from