The Rites of Wreckage and Waste is a site-responsive performance parade by Brazilian artist Rodrigo Andreolli and Sydhavn Teater. Set in Sydhavnstippen—a landscape born of land reclamation between 1945–1973—the piece explores entanglements of ecology, memory, and urban development through the wreckage and waste of our past.

The parade is created in collaboration with opera singer and composer Lucie Cure, together with local musicians from Sydhavn. Together they shape a collective journey that moves not only across, but also beneath, Sydhavn’s shifting environment. Through ceremonial acts of gathering and speculating with discarded materials, the parade unfolds into music, songs and choreographic acts of erosion. Bringing forth flashes of memory from past landscapes—the beach that once lay here—alongside imagery of the slowly weathering coastline of Sydhavnstippen.

Like a myth-building exercise, ruins are gathered and reassembled piece by piece. Inviting audience to connect with the ancestral knowledge of Sydhavn, re-compose the narratives rooted in our past and imagine our futures yet to come. 

Note: After the performance on 24th there will be conversation and exchange based on the piece about ecology, ruins, landscapes and art, in collaboration with Nana-Francisca Schottländer & Lukas Lund.