Shows & Exhibitions
Echo
Salisbury Centre
Norwich, UK
November, 2026
Enter The Flesh (première)
Roskilde Festival
Roskilde, Denmark
July, 2026
Telos I
La Biennale di Venezia 81
Venice International Film Festival
Immersive
Venice, Italy
August, 2024
Telos I (première)
77. Festival de Cannes
Cannes, France
May, 2024
Lethe (première)
Biennale Danza
La Biennale di Venezia Danza College
Upon invitation from Sir Wayne McGregor
Venice, Italy
June, 2024
The Watchers (première)
Copenhagen Summer Dance
Danish Dance Theatre
Copenhagen, Denmark
2023
Relic (première)
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Ballet BC
Vancouver, Canada
2022
She (première)
Fotografiska Museum
New York, US
2022
Echo
Mer Dans Åt Folket
Multiple locations, Sweden
2023
info@d-e.studio
Working across contemporary dance, audiovisual media, and experiential installation, they create visceral, immersive works that dissolve the boundary between audience and performer.
Awards & Acknowledgements
Nordic Award
Lumen Prize
2025
Best of Immersive Experiences
La Biennale di Venezia 81
Venice International Film Festival
2024
Best Immersive Work Award
Festival De Cannes (nomination)
2024
The Rose International Dance Prize
Sadler’s Wells (shortlist)
2024
Emerging Choreographer Award
Emily Molnar
2022
Their practice is rooted in a desire to break free of intellectual frameworks and awaken the audience's instinctive, physical intelligence — not an invitation to observe, but an invitation to feel. At the intersection of choreography, audiovisual media, and experiential installation, they build emotionally immersive worlds that occupy the space between disciplines.
Studio D+E has gained international recognition for their work at amongst others the Lumen Prize, Venice International Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia Danza and Festival de Cannes.
Before their own careers as creators, Dorotea and Emil each worked with prominent figures in their fields.
Teaterforeningen STUDIO
CVR: 46266277
Oehlenschlægersgade 22, kld. 1663 Copenhagen V, Denmark
Board
Marie Nipper
Hanne Svejstrup
Karen Toftegaard
Directors
Dorotea Saykaly and Emil Dam Seidel
Managing Director
Steffen Johansen
Administration
Jens Christian Jensen v. JC Copenhagen
23 min (looping)
Site specific, installation
2024-
Telos I explores a mythical landscape in the digital age. It comes from a fictional starting point — a world where an artificial intelligence created to assist humanity, finds itself in an unknown void after the extinction of humankind.
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A Search for the Waters of Oblivion
23 min
Black box, stage, site specific
2024-
‘Lethe — A Search for the Waters of Oblivion’ is a fusion of contemporary dance, exhibition and ancient myth that confronts the overwhelming crisis of our time — climate change.
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24 min
Black box, stage, site specific
2023-
Utilising the core theme of ‘the edge’ and what comes beyond the point of no return, the The Watchers draws inspiration from the book of Enoch and its fallen angels.
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25 min
Black box, stage
2023-
In a mythical sci-fi universe, ten Beings embark on a quest for light while having to accept comfort in darkness.
Oscillating between togetherness and solitude their odyssey explores our relationship to faith at life’s inevitable end.
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28 min
Stage work
2023-
Relic looks at artificial creation and employs sci-fi renaissance image-making to choreography and storytelling.
Fueled by the contrasts between artificial and organic, isolation and intimacy, human and machine, the work is laced with an omnipresent creator reflecting on what what it means to be human.
Together with ‘She’, ‘Relic’ forms the beginning of the ‘Body Symposium’ series.
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8 min
Video art, installation
2022-
Caught in a room with her mirror interrogator, Clarice confronts shifting visions of her identity. ‘She’ is an experimental short film exploring liminal states — between human and machine, sanity and madness, self and other.
Inspired by the novel, The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector, the work revolves around identity and doubt. Manifested through movement, distortion and an interview with a phantom interrogator, the work proposes looking at a questioning body through a female lens.
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The Mechanics of Our Solitude
3 min (looping)
Video art, installation
2021-
An echo of reality interpreted by an algorithm. A video reinterpretation of isolation and identity in an age of technology.
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