With roots in score music and a strong connection to performing arts and dramaturgy, Scenatet often operates within an interdisciplinary field where staging and realities across time intersect and merge in innovative and performative formats. Scenatet was established in 2008 and is recognized as one of the most innovative, sound-driven, and scenic ensembles in Europe.

At the helm of this cross-disciplinary performance ensemble is founder Anna Berit Asp Christensen, who, with Scenatet, strives to surprise and break as many habits and traditions as possible, creating artistic experiences and insights that confront and include audiences in new ways. With a genre-breaking approach and a dramaturgical mindset, she and Scenatet eagerly and exploratively focus on the creative artistic process.

Scenatet’s works can be both original productions and co-productions, often in the form of commissioned works for Scenatet. As a fundamental part of the ensemble’s work, symbioses, and collaborations across fields of expertise are emphasized. Based on an interdisciplinary foundation, Scenatet thus shapes the future of scenic music, ensuring epoch-making works that are unique, often conceptual, and site-specific.

Scenatet has achieved deep artistic insight and works with great integrity and dedication in its artistic strategies. Since its launch, Scenatet has developed an artistic original and international profile and an extensive touring activity, resulting in collaborations with some of the most talented and relevant composers, directors, choreographers, dancers, and musicians from home and abroad.

Anna Berit Asp Christensen is a creative artist, stage director and curator with strong roots in both classical and new music. Her work is partly grounded in a past as a performing, classically trained musician, partly in extensive art and music theory as well as art mediating and facilitating work. Her artistic practice is characterized by a constant investigation of experimental art music’s potential, range and location on the contemporary art scene and in relation to the audience.

Christensen’s work has shown a considerable breadth of repertoire knowledge – this within several art forms, from art music and sound art to performance art, modern dance and conceptual art. This is also expressed in her work, which primarily seeks a connection with other art forms to put music into new perspectives. Characteristic is her ability to put meetings together, partly between musical genres and partly to make the music fit together as a unified genre compared to the other art genres.

Since 2007, she has been artistic director of the SPOR festival in Aarhus, and initiated in 2008 the interdisciplinary ensemble Scenatet, which is her most important artistic platform, where she has, among other things, created the works ConcertWalk and Backyard Opera as well as develop and staged several works, including Aspern Suite by S. Sciarrino, the performance opera Eating a Man by Christian Winther Christensen and the critically acclaimed performance Memoriam by Tim Matiakis and Niels Rønsholdt.