Edinburgh Fringe Chats (#96): Copenhagen Collective, THE GENESIS

As anticipation builds for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, we’re catching up with a range of exciting creatives preparing to bring their work to the world’s largest arts festival this August. In this series, we delve into the stories behind the shows, the inspiration driving the artists, and what audiences can expect.  Today, we’re joined by the Copenhagen Collective to chat about their show, The Genesis.

1. Can you begin by telling us about your show and what inspired it?

Our show is a dreamlike journey through the human experience, focused on the process of connecting with others and on collective work as the driving force behind meaningful achievements. It’s not about the isolated individual, but about how we grow stronger when we walk alongside a companion. Throughout this scenic journey, we move through different stages where our frustrations, conflicts, and accomplishments are revealed. It’s an emotional mirror that touches sensitive chords—especially in a chaotic and individualistic world. In that context, the simple act of holding another human’s hand becomes a revolutionary gesture that helps us rediscover humanity and the value of community.

2. What made you want to bring this work to the Fringe this year?
Our show is called The Génesis, and that’s exactly what it represents: our first steps as a company. That’s why we chose to present it at this important festival—because we feel the need to show ourselves just as we are, with the conviction that this act of openness empowers us. This is our first production, and by sharing it, we want to open an honest dialogue with the audience, introduce our artistic identity, and begin a path that is only just starting.

3. How would you describe your show in three words?
Surrender, detachment, and enjoyment.

4. What do you hope audiences take away from watching your performance?
We aim to awaken a mix of emotions that takes the audience through a deep experience. We want them to live, with us, a journey that connects with the most primal emotions of the human being—and to carry that experience with them afterward.

5. What’s your top tip for surviving the Fringe?

We are a collective, and through this process, we’ve learned to support and care for one another. In a stage as intense and demanding as this, the greatest support in the face of any challenge is the group. You might make it alone, but it will be much harder. Together, it becomes more possible… and more human.

6. Where and when can people see your show?

We will be performing the full duration of the Fringe at 12:30 at Assembly Main Hall ! 

See you there! 

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