Walking Lecture on Ants

Get in touch with your inner insect and take a walk with your nose close to the ground…

Walking Lecture on Ants

Performing arts meets brain- and ants science: An artistic ant experience with talks, walks, sensory input, taste experiences and soundscapes. Created and performed by Secret Hotel.

In a world that changes rapidly - and perhaps more radically than we can comprehend - it can be interesting to look to how other societies operate. When we dive into the animal world and e.g. experience how it feels to act as a working ant, we meet different ways of constructing societies, and we learn more about ourselves and our own world along the way.

How are ants' social structures shaped - compared to ours? How does their world sound and how does it taste and smell? These are some of the questions that we will ask through a unique combination of performing arts, walks and elements of lectures. With ant researcher Hans Joachim Offenberg and brain researcher and anthropologist Andreas Roepstorff , Secret Hotel invites you on a unique adventure about one of the Earth's tiniest and oldest creates, the Ant.

The child friendly version of this performance is called Ant Business.
Ant Business (Myrepostyr) can be booked for children aged 8-12 years.

”Fantastic presentation in a different way – also interesting for a professional biologist.”

Preben Clause – Department of Ecoscience – Guest book

"SO MUCH ANT. POSSIBLY VERY DELICIOUS - PS. More of this type of performance!"

MIKKEL B. - GUEST BOOK

Director, concept & performer Christine Fentz
Performer Jeppe Lajer
Co-creator Betina Birkjær
Researcher Hans Joachim Offenberg og Andreas Roepstorff
Sound artists and chemist Meiken Vibe Bauer
Technician and dramaturg John Tinning

Duration 90 min.
Participants 40 people
Booking Tel 5055 6263 – coordinator@secrethotel.dk

Walking Lecture on Ants has also been shown at:
Alive Festival/Thy (2022), Momentum (2021), CPH Stage (2018), Aarhus i Botanisk Have and others.