A Gazing Grace
Marcela Lucatelli
28.11.2025 18.30 & 20.00
Teaterøen [annekset, black box] | William Wains Gade 11
Classical sculptures are turned upside down in this newly created full-length performance by award-winning composer and performance artist Marcela Lucatelli,
in collaboration with composer-performer Michael Hope and visual artist Hannah Toticki.
Drawing from iconic Western artworks, A Gazing Grace stages a radical role-reversal: the woman becomes subject, the man becomes object, and the audience
is caught in between. Expect a provocative and sensual encounter where live voices, electronic manipulation, and Toticki’s sculptural costumes fuse into surreal living images — at once humorous, disturbing, and strangely beautiful.
With Lucatelli’s trademark blend of extreme vocal expression, political urgency, and transdisciplinary vision, A Gazing Grace challenges classical ideals
of gender and gaze, inviting the audience into an immersive space where observation itself becomes performance.
Step into a queer, radical opera of images and sound – A Gazing Grace is not just to be watched, it’s watching you.
Program:
Marcela Lucatelli: A Gazing Grace (2025) [premiere]
Marcela Lucatelli
is hailed as one of the most innovative vocalists and composers of her generation. Born in Brazil and based in Denmark, Lucatelli has earned international recognition for her extremely original, sensuous and politically charged performance works. A critic once referred to her works as ‘scores for the limits of body and voice’. Another critic described her inimitable vocal performances as ‘inhuman human noise’. In 2021, Marcela Lucatelli held a seminar at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts on the topic of ‘Decolonizing the Voice of Sublimity’. In simple terms: stripping away the pretense. And, in her work, Lucatelli does exactly that. For Lucatelli, a stage is not merely a place for musical performance, but rather an arena in which the struggle for art, humor, and even life itself takes place.
Michael Hope
is a critically acclaimed UK-born composer, performer and producer based in Denmark, whose output encompasses, among other things, instrumental, orchestral, performative, installation, electronic, video, and site-specific works, often situated within the domains of conceptual art and experimental theatre. His works challenge traditional western art music conceptions of craft, virtuosity, and genius, drawing on the acceleration of waste, cliché, and precariousness endemic to the production and consumption of contemporary society and culture, whilst simultaneously misusing media, technology, and data in an audacious embrace of uncertainty and contradiction.
Hannah Toticki
has a particular and personal visual language, which takes inspiration from fashion, design and theater. Her sculptures and installations often relate directly to the human body, taking shape as furniture, accessories or garments. Invested in potentially dry topics such as working life, economy, debt and agricultural policy, Toticki uses humor and distinct visual expressions to reach out, create conversations and reflections, often combining her physical works with performances and lectures. In recent works she investigates the connections between the global and the personal exhaustion, work life as a potential secular religion and what space is left for sleep, in a society striving for productivity.
Credits: NOTE: Due to limited capacity there will be two performances. Please reserve a spot and be at the venue 10 minutes before the performance. If both performances are full, a small amount of spots will be kept for the door and additional seats will be released if some people don’t show up. Link to reserve seats
Marcela Lucatelli (concept, staging, composition, direction)
Marcela Lucatelli and Michael Hope (soloists)
Hannah Toticki (costumes, scenography)
Gianluca Elia (sound design)
Jari Matsi (light design)
Caroline Bittencourt (photos)
Mariana Maria (graphic design)
A Gazing Grace was commissioned by MINU with support from Statens Kunstfond and KODA Kultur, as well as Dansk Komponistforenings Fair Practice Prize 2024 with support from Koda Kultur. The production is a co-production with Marcela Lucatelli, and has received specific production support from William Demant Fonden, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden and Knud Højgaards Fond. It will premiere in collaboration with MINU Festival and Annekset/Teaterøen.