Ssassin’s Creed (Lady Says Stop) looks at what happens when someone’s sense of power or place in society is shaken—or entirely removed. Some collapse into victimhood and lose themselves in loops of self-referential thought. Others rise up, claiming a kind of messianic purpose, convinced they must fix or change the world. From these ruptures, new figures emerge: cult leaders, lone actors, people on missions that no one asked for.

Who do we become when we feel humiliated or unseen? What kinds of violence do we justify under the banner of change?

Info

Type : Performance 40 min. 

Choreography, Performance: Liina Magnea
Costume: Anna Philippa Müller 
Light: Nick Heedemann
Sound: Cesar Balleyguier

Wakey Wakey Sleeping Beauty explores the strange, tense atmosphere of our time—where power is shifting, and not everyone is ready to let go. The performance moves between brutality and humor, following characters who unravel when their authority is questioned. Some turn inward, circling the drain of their own narratives. Others step into the spotlight, casting themselves as heroes or martyrs of a world in crisis.

It’s a piece about psychological tipping points, false awakenings, and the fine line between protest and performance.

Info

Type : Solo performance 35 min. 

Logline
A soldier is forced into a therapy session by two rival soldiers to heal daddy issues.

Plot
Blue, a soldier, who left his post unarmed to find fish in the lake, gets caught in the act by a rival soldier and his Major.

With the rifle pointed at him, Rex and Major force him into their family constellation therapy in the water. Blue is unaware of this, since he doesn’t speak their language and Major only shares the bare minimum with him in English. In the end he gets it, they need him to help Rex’ unresolved family trauma. After one failed escape attempt, Blue starts to act along in their therapy. He performs Rex’ son, then his wife, while Rex cries, gets mad and is ultimately relieved. As the session comes to an end, Blue fears for his life.  The Major and Rex start putting on their uniforms again when Blue takes his only chance to run away and never look back.

Info

Type : Film 15 min. work in progress

Directed by Liina Magnea
DOP: Kristin Freia
Actors: Magnus Mariuson, Skjold Rambow, Liina Magnea
Sound: Elias Hamman
tbc

A production funded by the JoinAdventures NPN Stepping Out Grant.

As part of the Sophiensæle residency program NEW TECHNIQUES, ‘Pseudo-Virtue: Morse sounds from the Vault’ is a working process on how to be a good person.

Info

Type : Live performance | Dance | Concert
Duration : 50 min.
Premiere : Trauma Bar Berlin

Full documentation available upon request

Styling: Anna Müller

Supported By

A production by Liina Magnea in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the friendly support of Trauma Bar Berlin

The performance is based on a surreal doomsday scenario: Thunder and lightning crash on a burning ground where a soldier is searching for water. Shortly before dying of thirst, he realizes that the last resort must be to ask for forgiveness. Bursting into song and dance, he shouts "Lock me up, handcuff me! I'm the villain of global warming!". Nothing happens. The only response is the echo of these pleas. The next day, the spy radio plays a light melody and reminds its listeners that terrible plans always come with surprising twists and turns.

A fantasy in the extreme, a dance and song play that moves between tragedy and comedy, lightness and heaviness, close to the man-made catastrophes of our time.

Info

Type : Live performance | Dance | Concert
Duration : 50 min.
Premiere : Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2023


Full documentation available upon request
Booking available at liinamagnea@gmail.com

Concept and Music composition by Liina Magnea and Gabriel Pedrosa
Performers / Singers: Liina Magnea and Gabriel Pedrisa
Styling: Shade Théret

Supported By

A production by Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 

In She’s Constructing the Exit Signs (Hope & Delusion) Liina Magnea addresses the emotional function of the musical and how it can offer itself as a coping strategy in hopeless times. The musical asylum penetrates reality, creating a delusional construction of a fairytale world, while the actual surrounding is sad and gloomy.

The artificially produced reality helps the greedy and bleak protagonist to imagine herself as a character of a fictional narrative where everything is possible – the ultimate escape.

Info

Type : Live performance | Dance | Concert
Duration : 50 min.
Premiere : Tanztage Berlin, Sophiensäle 2023

Previous dates: Rencontres Choreographiques Internationales Saint-Denis 2023

Full documentation available upon request
Booking available at liinamagnea@gmail.com

Concept and Music composition by Liina Magnea and Hjörtur Hjörleifsson
Performers / Singers: Liina Magnea and Hjörtur Hjörleifsson
Lights: Hanna Kritten
Styling: Taylor Thoroski

Supported By

A production by Liina Magnea in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. The 32nd edition of Tanztage Berlin is a production of the SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the friendly support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e. V., Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte and HZT Berlin.

RED EYE 1 & RED EYE 2
Performance KW Institute for Contemporary Arts Berlin 2019

red eye 1 & red eye 2 is a two-part performance by Liina Magnea that was commissioned by KW Institute for Contemporary Arts in connection with the exhibition To Catch a Fish with a Song: 1964 – Today by Hreinn Friðfinnsson.

Inspired by a water source in Iceland, which is a large round hole with a blood-red coloured rock bottom and called "the red eye", Liina Magnea choreographed and composed a dance solo with a concert for a quartet of singers.

Liina Magnea dances the body that begins the journey through the hole in the ground. Through the phase of separation (trance), into the phase of death (dissolution) followed by the pain of rebirth, to the arrival at the end / beginning of the cycle.

The singers represent a choir, as it was used in the theater of antiquity as a mouthpiece for the events.

Info

Type : Live performance | Dance | Concert
Duration : 25 min.
Premiere : KW Institute for Contemporary Arts 

Full documentation available upon request

Credits

Concept and Music composition for four voices by Liina Magnea
Performers / Singers: Sara Björg Bjarnadóttir, Maria Solrun, Haraldur Thrastarson, Leifur Eiriksson and Liina Magnea

Produced by

KW Institute for Contemporary Arts Berlin and the Icelandic Art Center

A confined, self-actualisation community searches for hope in dark times. Threatened with an invisible outer force they construct strategies and rituals, take turns leading and blindly following any kind of meaning which comes their way. Through songs and ever-changing dynamics, they take on the roles of the artist, the leader, the genius and the saviour trying to transform the stagnant and deceased into an Active Culture.But can a false god deliver real miracles? And is the goal ever to change?
On their spiralling journey, they compulsively stumble upon something else….. love.

Info

Type : Live performance | Dance | Duration : 25 min.

Full documentation available upon request

Concept by Liina Magnea and Hrefna Hörn
Performers: Liina Magnea and Hrefna Hörn
Music and Choreography: Liina Magnea

Supported By

Dansatelierrr Copenhagen, Au Jus Bruxelles, Tanzpraxis Berlin Senat Department of Culture  

Logline
A soldier is forced into a therapy session by two rival soldiers to heal daddy issues.

Plot
Blue, a soldier, who left his post unarmed to find fish in the lake, gets caught in the act by a rival soldier and his Major.

With the rifle pointed at him, Rex and Major force him into their family constellation therapy in the water. Blue is unaware of this, since he doesn’t speak their language and Major only shares the bare minimum with him in English. In the end he gets it, they need him to help Rex’ unresolved family trauma. After one failed escape attempt, Blue starts to act along in their therapy. He performs Rex’ son, then his wife, while Rex cries, gets mad and is ultimately relieved. As the session comes to an end, Blue fears for his life.  The Major and Rex start putting on their uniforms again when Blue takes his only chance to run away and never look back.

Info

Type : Film 15 min. work in progress

Directed by Liina Magnea
DOP: Kristin Freia
Actors: Magnus Mariuson, Skjold Rambow, Liina Magnea
Sound: Elias Hamman
tbc

A production funded by the JoinAdventures NPN Stepping Out Grant.

As part of the Sophiensæle residency program NEW TECHNIQUES, ‘Pseudo-Virtue: Morse sounds from the Vault’ is a working process on how to be a good person.

Info

Type : Live performance | Dance | Concert
Duration : 50 min.
Premiere : Trauma Bar Berlin

Full documentation available upon request

Styling: Anna Müller

Supported By

A production by Liina Magnea in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the friendly support of Trauma Bar Berlin

The performance is based on a surreal doomsday scenario: Thunder and lightning crash on a burning ground where a soldier is searching for water. Shortly before dying of thirst, he realizes that the last resort must be to ask for forgiveness. Bursting into song and dance, he shouts "Lock me up, handcuff me! I'm the villain of global warming!". Nothing happens. The only response is the echo of these pleas. The next day, the spy radio plays a light melody and reminds its listeners that terrible plans always come with surprising twists and turns.

A fantasy in the extreme, a dance and song play that moves between tragedy and comedy, lightness and heaviness, close to the man-made catastrophes of our time.

Info

Type : Live performance | Dance | Concert
Duration : 50 min.
Premiere : Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2023


Full documentation available upon request
Booking available at liinamagnea@gmail.com

Concept and Music composition by Liina Magnea and Gabriel Pedrosa
Performers / Singers: Liina Magnea and Gabriel Pedrisa
Styling: Shade Théret

Supported By

A production by Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 

In She’s Constructing the Exit Signs (Hope & Delusion) Liina Magnea addresses the emotional function of the musical and how it can offer itself as a coping strategy in hopeless times. The musical asylum penetrates reality, creating a delusional construction of a fairytale world, while the actual surrounding is sad and gloomy.

The artificially produced reality helps the greedy and bleak protagonist to imagine herself as a character of a fictional narrative where everything is possible – the ultimate escape.

Info

Type : Live performance | Dance | Concert
Duration : 50 min.
Premiere : Tanztage Berlin, Sophiensäle 2023

Previous dates: Rencontres Choreographiques Internationales Saint-Denis 2023

Full documentation available upon request
Booking available at liinamagnea@gmail.com

Concept and Music composition by Liina Magnea and Hjörtur Hjörleifsson
Performers / Singers: Liina Magnea and Hjörtur Hjörleifsson
Lights: Hanna Kritten
Styling: Taylor Thoroski

Supported By

A production by Liina Magnea in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. The 32nd edition of Tanztage Berlin is a production of the SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the friendly support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e. V., Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte and HZT Berlin.

RED EYE 1 & RED EYE 2
Performance KW Institute for Contemporary Arts Berlin 2019

red eye 1 & red eye 2 is a two-part performance by Liina Magnea that was commissioned by KW Institute for Contemporary Arts in connection with the exhibition To Catch a Fish with a Song: 1964 – Today by Hreinn Friðfinnsson.

Inspired by a water source in Iceland, which is a large round hole with a blood-red coloured rock bottom and called "the red eye", Liina Magnea choreographed and composed a dance solo with a concert for a quartet of singers.

Liina Magnea dances the body that begins the journey through the hole in the ground. Through the phase of separation (trance), into the phase of death (dissolution) followed by the pain of rebirth, to the arrival at the end / beginning of the cycle.

The singers represent a choir, as it was used in the theater of antiquity as a mouthpiece for the events.

Info

Type : Live performance | Dance | Concert
Duration : 25 min.
Premiere : KW Institute for Contemporary Arts 

Full documentation available upon request

Credits

Concept and Music composition for four voices by Liina Magnea
Performers / Singers: Sara Björg Bjarnadóttir, Maria Solrun, Haraldur Thrastarson, Leifur Eiriksson and Liina Magnea

Produced by

KW Institute for Contemporary Arts Berlin and the Icelandic Art Center

A confined, self-actualisation community searches for hope in dark times. Threatened with an invisible outer force they construct strategies and rituals, take turns leading and blindly following any kind of meaning which comes their way. Through songs and ever-changing dynamics, they take on the roles of the artist, the leader, the genius and the saviour trying to transform the stagnant and deceased into an Active Culture.But can a false god deliver real miracles? And is the goal ever to change?
On their spiralling journey, they compulsively stumble upon something else….. love.

Info

Type : Live performance | Dance | Duration : 25 min.

Full documentation available upon request

Concept by Liina Magnea and Hrefna Hörn
Performers: Liina Magnea and Hrefna Hörn
Music and Choreography: Liina Magnea

Supported By

Dansatelierrr Copenhagen, Au Jus Bruxelles, Tanzpraxis Berlin Senat Department of Culture