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About HIMHERANDIT
HIMHERANDIT is an award-winning performance company based in Aarhus, Denmark, led by the artistic vision of Andreas Constantinou. For more than 20 years the company has created bold interdisciplinary works that move between theatre, performance art, dance, and immersive visual environments.
Based in Aarhus for the past 17 years, HIMHERANDIT has played a significant role in shaping the city’s queer arts landscape. Through an extensive body of performances, community engagement projects, and the creation of The Gender House Queer Arts Festival — the city’s largest queer arts festival — the company has helped cultivate new artistic platforms and conversations around identity, society, and human experience. Between 2012 and 2026 the company was an in-house company at Bora Bora – Dans og Visuelt Teater, one of Denmark’s leading venues for contemporary dance and visual theatre, and from 2026 to 2029 serves as an in-house company at Åbne Scene at Godsbanen, Aarhus’ largest cultural production centre. Over the years, HIMHERANDIT has also developed lasting collaborations with many of the city’s leading theatres, museums, and cultural institutions.
The company’s work is inherently queer, emotionally charged, and driven by a desire to explore the complexity of human experience. Rather than belonging to a single genre, HIMHERANDIT’s performances move fluidly between artistic forms, blending physical theatre, performance worlds, and intimate storytelling into bold and uncompromising live encounters.
The company’s productions have received numerous awards, nominations, and international recognition.
Mission Statement
HIMHERANDIT creates daring interdisciplinary performances that explore complex human experiences and socially sensitive subjects. Through emotionally charged and visually striking works, the company seeks to open spaces for dialogue, reflection, and connection between audiences, artists, and communities.
Rooted in queer perspectives, the company’s work challenges normative narratives around identity, body, and belonging.
HIMHERANDIT develops projects that invite audiences to engage with themes that are often difficult to approach: transforming performance into a space where vulnerability, confrontation, and empathy can coexist.
Alongside its artistic productions, the company is committed to nurturing queer artistic voices and nurturing meaningful collaboration with cultural institutions, LGBTQIA+ organisations and communities.
Artistic Vision
The artistic vision of HIMHERANDIT is driven by the work of artistic director Andreas Constantinou, whose practice explores taboo subjects and deeply human experiences through interdisciplinary performance.
The company’s work is highly physical, visually immersive, and emotionally intense. It moves fluidly between theatre, dance, performance art, installation, and live testimony, creating performances where intimate human stories unfold within large-scale visual worlds. This approach allows vulnerability and honesty to exist alongside spectacle, aesthetic precision, and strong scenographic presence.
A central element of the company’s practice is long-term, research-based creation. Projects often develop over several years, allowing themes to be explored from multiple perspectives and through collaborations with artists, scholars, and communities. This approach has led to large-scale artistic series such as The Grief Work Series (2020-2025), The Gender House Projects (2013-2018) and Home Queer Home Projects (2020-2024), each examining different aspects of identity, loss, memory, and belonging.
Across all its work, HIMHERANDIT seeks to create performances that are daring, authentic, and deeply human — works that resist fixed categories and instead emerge from the raw complexity of lived experience.
Artistic Approach
HIMHERANDIT works through an interdisciplinary and research-driven process where performance, visual art, movement, sound, and live testimony intersect. Each project begins with an in-depth exploration of a theme, often developed through long-term research, collaboration, and dialogue with communities and experts.
The company’s performances place intimate human stories within powerful visual environments, creating encounters that are both deeply personal and visually expansive. Through this approach, HIMHERANDIT aims to create experiences that challenge audiences, provoke thought, and open space for empathy and reflection.
OUR TEAM
Andreas Constantinou
Artistic Director
Andreas Constantinou is a performance artist, director, and the founder and artistic director of HIMHERANDIT.
Pernille Olesen
Producer
Pernille (she/her) is the Creative Producer for Himherandit Productions.
Luke Pell
International Relations, Associate Producer & Dramaturg
Luke Pell joined Himherandit Productions in 2026 as International Relations Lead, Associate Producer, and Dramaturg.
Jeppe Cohrt
Technical Manager & Scenographer
Jeppe Cohrt has been Technical Manager at Himherandit Productions since 2014, overseeing the technical execution and scenography of the company’s productions.
Kathrine Kihm
Financial Manager
Kathrine Kihm oversees finance, administration, contracts, and payments at Himherandit Productions.
Tone Haldrup Lorenzen
Community Engagement Leader
Tone Haldrup Lorenzen has been working with Himherandit Productions since 2020 in a variety of roles, evolving from participant to collaborator and now Community Engagement Leader.
Partners
Åbne Scene – Godsbanen
From 2026 to 2029, HIMHERANDIT begins a new partnership as an in-house artist at Åbne Scene at Godsbanen in Aarhus, the city’s largest cultural production centre. Åbne Scene is a residency platform dedicated to artistic research, experimentation, and collaboration, offering professional artists space and support to develop new ideas and practices.
During this residency, HIMHERANDIT will further expand its interdisciplinary approach, creating performances that integrate theatre, dance, visual art, and immersive experiences. A central focus of this phase will be community engagement, inviting local citizens to participate as collaborators and performers in the development of new works. This participatory practice aligns closely with Åbne Scene’s values of openness, collaboration, and nurturing connections between artists and the wider community.
Through this partnership, HIMHERANDIT aims to explore new forms of performance-making that blur boundaries between artist and audience, professional and community, while continuing to develop research-driven, socially engaged projects that resonate locally and beyond.
Åbne Scene website:
https://godsbanen.dk/hhaixaabnescene/
Bora Bora – Dans og Visuelt Teater
Between 2012 and 2026, HIMHERANDIT was an in-house company at Bora Bora – Dans og Visuelt Teater in Aarhus, one of Denmark’s leading venues for contemporary dance and visual theatre. This long-term partnership was central to the development of the company’s artistic practice, providing a supportive environment for experimentation, research, and the creation of numerous performances.
Over fourteen years, Bora Bora served as a platform where HIMHERANDIT developed ambitious interdisciplinary works, expanded its artistic language, and built a body of performances that toured across Europe. As the company moves into its next phase, it leaves Bora Bora as an in-house artist while maintaining the potential to continue collaborating in the future as an associated artist, preserving a lasting connection with the venue and its artistic community.
Bora Bora web site:
https://bora-bora.dk
