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On my first morning here at Performers House I woke up a bit more than an hour before breakfast. I couldn't sleep anymore, was too energetic, and also, I wanted to take a shower so that I could be completely fit for fight and ready for breakfast at 8.00 am. The day after I allowed myself to sleep a little bit longer and spent fewer minutes on making myself ready. On the 3rd day I awoke ten minutes before breakfast ended. It didn't take a long time for the “tension” to go away and the relaxed -and slightly more lazy - atmosphere to enter and stay for good.
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 I arrived at Performers House 22 August, just about three weeks ago, and was quite unsure of what to expect. I hadn't had a chance to see the school before and it was a weird and in a way unbelievable moment when I finally stood in front of the building. Having lived in Luxembourg since I was 6 years old, I was very excited about returning to Denmark, so both that and arriving at the hojskole was extraordinary. I don't remember being that nervous, mostly I just felt a thrill of finally being here and trying out something new.
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The first week at Performers House was exhausting. I have never gotten as much information as in those weeks, it was quite overwhelming. We had to learn the names of 50 fellow students, adjust to the life on the hojskole, hear about 'kitchen duty', rules (though there are surprisingly few) and we were introduced to how the alarm system worked – Performers House has a security system so complicated that I have only ever read about it in books, if even there. We all have this little magic chip with which we can open and close all the doors, gives us access to the whole world. Technology's combined with art, PH's got it all!
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Meeting all the new people, you're yourself, but in a different way. In the beginning you just ask and get a lot of 'what's your name, where are you from and which line are you on?' -questions, but after a day or two of that, conversation started to flow more naturally. Of course it helped that we had one night in the café where there a few beers and some of Denmark's finest red wine. We've had many cosy evenings, with lots of tea and coffee drinking, a bit of singing, and you have this feeling of being tired, but never wanting to go to bed.
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 We went on an orienteering race to Silkeborg, went to a concert in Kedelbygningen, and on a trip to the forest around the højskole with Mr and Mrs Performers House. Most importantly we got to meet the teachers on our main subject lines and had theatre/dance/music/new circus lessons for the first time, which I, before I came, had been looking very much forward to.
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There were so many new impressions. After two weeks here I went to visit some friends in Copenhagen and wanting to explain everything but ending up saying only very little because I just didn't know where to start. So many things had already happened, and we were only a couple of weeks in.
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Story: Kirstine Hyttel Petersen
Photo: Kåre C
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