Marie Topp / Visible Effects
"The Labyrinth" (2022), "Maze" (2023), and "True Random" (2025) form a trilogy of performances created by Danish choreographer Marie Topp in the context of Visible Effects, exploring our personal, inner sense of time across different phases of life. The experience of the passage of time is embodied through diverse formats, spaces, and temporalities. Following the architecture of the labyrinth, the logic of the maze, and ultimately moving toward the concept of “True Random,” these choreographies invite the audience to reflect on life and existence in relation to the most fundamental movement there is: the passing of time.
Based on this trilogy, Marie Topp will give a general introduction to her artistic practice.
About the ARTIST: Marie Topp
“To experience a billion years in one hour”, a reviewer wrote in 2021 describing a performance by Marie Topp. Her performances are characterized by their meditative and hypnotic effects on the viewer. By using slowness as a way to create hyper awareness and by building landscape-like scenarios on stage through the movements of dancers, sound and light, Topp is creating performances that hold potential for intense emotional journeys.
Visible Effects is an artistic association based in Copenhagen and led by artistic director Marie Topp and producer Carlos Calvo.
PRODUCTION
All three performances are produced by Visible Effects
CO-PRODUCTION
Dansehallerne, Inkonst, Milvus Artistic Research Center
SUPPORTED BY
Statens Kunstfond, Beckett-Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, William Demant Fonden, Augustinus Fonden, Københavns Kommune, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme/Nordic Culture Point
DURATION
"The Labyrinth": 57 min.
"Maze": 120 min.
"True Random": 50 min.
PREMIERE
"The Labyrinth": April 20th, 2022 at Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Maz": October 14th, 2023 at Milvus Artistic Research Center, Sweden
"True Random": May 24th, 2025 at Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, Denmark
TOURING PERSONNEL
"The Labyrinth": 5
"Maze": 3
"True Random": 7
DATES AVAILABLE FOR TOURING
Season 26/27, 27/28 28/29
CONTACT PERSON
Carlos Calvo, producer at Visible Effects
info.visibleeffects@gmail.com
CREDITS
THE LABYRINTH
MARIE TOPP
(CHOREOGRAPHER)
JULIA GIERTZ
(MUSIC)
MÅRTEN K. AXELSSON
(LIGHTING DESIGNER)
JOHANNA CHEMNITZ
(DANCER & DEVELOPMENT)
EMILIE GREGERSEN
(DANCER & DEVELOPMENT)
ALEN NSAMBU
(DANCER & DEVELOPMENT)
IGOR DOBRIČIĆ
(DRAMATURGY)
MARIA IPSEN
(COSTUME DESIGNER)
ZOSIA HOLUBOWSKA
(SONG)
MAZE
JULIA GIERTZ
(MUSIC, ELECTRONICS & STRING INSTRUMENTS)
MARIE TOPP
(CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE)
IGOR DOBRIČIĆ
(DRAMATURGY)
JOHN CHANTLER
(PROGRAMMER PD & BELA)
WILLIAM RICKMAN
(PROGRAMMER ARDUINO)
SAMUEL NORUP
(METAL RESONATORS)
FELIX AHLBERG ERICSSON
(STRING INSTRUMENTS)
MARIA IPSEN
(COSTUME DESIGNER)
TRUE RANDOM
MARIE TOPP
(CHOREOGRAPHY)
JULIE GIERTZ
(MUSIC)
MÅRTEN K. AXELSSON
(LIGHTING DESIGN)
EMILIE GREGERSEN
(DANCE & DEVELOPMENT)
KARIS ZIDORE
(DANCE & DEVELOPMENT)
ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY-ANDERSEN
(DANCE & DEVELOPMENT)
SNORRE ELVIN
(DANCE & DEVELOPMENT)
IGOR DOBRIČIĆ
(DRAMATURGY)
MARIA IPSEN
(COSTUME DESIGNER)