The Show for Young Men

A dance performance about caring masculinity and cohesion

Ole, 55, and Hans, 8, meet on a stage that is a cross between a construction site, a scrapyard, and a hillside. Together they dance, play, fight, and sing to find out what it means to be a man. That there are many ways to be brave and kind – as a boy or a man.

a performance with quiet intelligence and enormous tenderness” – The Stage

The Show for Young Men is a fun and moving dance performance created for children from 8 years/2nd grade and up.

This visually well-composed transgenerational physical performance work, using elements from dance and circus, often made the audience laugh out loud, but also moved some to tears.” Fringereview.co.uk

The performance was first shown at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland in 2024. Now it is presented to Danish children in a version created with a Danish cast.

Come and experience a performance where dance, play and imagination create a world where caring and community are more important than anything else!

If you are a teacher at a primary school in Roskilde please read at the bottom of the page about the municipality’s special ticket subsidy.

The Team behind:

Koreographer and director Eoin McKenzie

Dancers Ole Birger Hansen and Hans Humble Lichetenberg

Scenography Rachel O’Neill

Sound design Greg Sinclair

Lyight design Katharine Williams

Production Manager (pre -production) Craig Fleming

Producer Isy Sharman

Plays

2025

Mar.05
Wednesday, / 10:00
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Mar.06
Thursday, / 10:00
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Mar.07
Friday, / 10:00
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Info

45
Min.
8+
Age

Aaben Dans

Rabalderstræde 10
Musicon, Roskilde.

Additional information

Ticket subsidies for schools in Roskilde

If you are a teacher at a primary school in Roskilde, you can first purchase the tickets for the group/youth price of 40 DKK incl. VAT here on this page. After your theatre visit, Roskilde Municipality will automatically transfer your subsidy to the school, so the price ends up at 20 DKK per ticket excl. VAT.

The Show for Young Men is created with support from

Creative Scotland, Imaginate, Creative Europe’s PUSH+ Programme and residencies with The Ark, Dublin; Aaben Dans, Roskilde; and developed with support from Imaginate’s Accelerator program.

First performance during SWOP 2022

The first performance of The Show for Young Men in Denmark happened during the SWOP Festival in 2022. Eoin McKenzie worked in his recidency with dancer Jon Hoff and the boy John C. S. Pace Bjørnsen. They showed their work as part of the SWOP seminar ”About Caring”.