Amygdala

Welcome to Amygdala – a performance and an (im)possible experiment
For children aged 3–24 months and their caregivers

Let us begin a journey together
back to a time and a place that have already passed.
To do so, we must imagine the unimaginable.

We travel through flesh, through thought, through memory.
Back to our very first capacity to sense.
Before words.
Before meaning.

Feel the walls around you.
The water.
The sounds.
The light.

Travel backwards through time.
Through flesh.
Through memory.
Through sensation.
Back to where sensation began.

In Amygdala, the very youngest children, aged 3–24 months, and their adults are invited into a sensory, fleshy universe where light, sound, and movement unfold as a journey back to our earliest experiences. Here, heartbeats become rhythms, breath becomes music, and the dance opens an immersive space where beginnings are not merely told, but felt. The audience moves freely through the space and comes into close contact with what emerges between bodies, sound, and light. *Amygdala* invites us to step into our shared beginning—and to listen to what exists before language: what we may not remember with the mind, but with the body.

Concept & Choreography: SPINE FICTION / Julie Rasmussen & My Marie Nilsson / Dancers: Julie Rasmussen, My Marie Nilsson, Mette Hersvik & Frida Billeskov / Sound: 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)