Mikkel Alexander Tøttrup
Born 28.10.1994, Denmark
Choreographer and dance artist
Mikkel Alexander (he/him) is a choreographer and movement artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. His professional experience spans a dynamic range of roles, including performing with Johannes Härtl, dancing with Cia. Nadine Gerspacher in Barcelona, serving as a full-time company member with Holstebro Dance Company, and collaborating with Pernille Garde Stage Art and Bobbi Lo Production.
At the age of 18, Mikkel founded a youth-driven theatre association in Denmark, sparking his journey as a creator. As a conceptual artist, Mikkel consistently integrates his multidisciplinary background in music and theatre into his work. In summer 2023, he showcased his talent as a choreographer at CPH-MADE, collaborating with dancers from the Royal Ballet, Tivoli Ballet, and Danish Dance Theatre in a production hosted at the Royal Playhouse in Copenhagen.
In autumn 2023, Mikkel received the Margarita Arnaudova Award for his choreographic work Oblivious Days, performed by Ballet Arabesque at the National Musical Theatre in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2024, he premiered Grey Zone at TeaterFÅR302 in Copenhagen, which was nominated for Best Dance Performance by CPH-CULTURE.
Reviews
Living in Capslock
“With Living in Capslock, Mikkel Alexander Tøttrup delivers simply a convincing, entertaining, light-footed piece that is certainly prize-worthy.”
Grey Zone
“Mikkel Alexander, who himself dances in the performance, has drawn on his personal experiences with an Alzheimer’s-affected person to create the choreography for Grey Zone. The result is a very beautiful and relevant, but also a bleak performance.”
— CPH-CULTURE
https://www.cphculture.dk/
“The technically mastered bodies radiate vitality and lightness. They offer us bright, composed moments that reveal their control. The interplay is marked by exploratory curiosity. They create a place to belong – a place to occupy – and their relationship feels like a game that affirms existence.”
— Teateravisen
https://www.teateravisen.dk/
“The technically mastered bodies radiate vitality and lightness. They offer us bright, composed moments that reveal their control. The interplay is marked by exploratory curiosity. They create a place to belong – a place to occupy – and their relationship feels like a game that affirms existence.”
— Clara Marie Tange, Peripeti (June 17 2024)
https://www.peripeti.dk/2024/06/17/anmeldelse-af-grey-zone-paa-teater-faar302/
Dancing with the Dead (By Bobbi Lo Production)
“There is something at once graceful and relaxed about the movements of the tallest dancer, Mikkel Alexander Tøttrup. Precision, naturalness, and integrity.”
— Kirsten Dahl, Teateravisen
https://www.teateravisen.dk/
Oblivious Days
“Oblivious Days (with Ballet Arabesque, National Musical Theatre Sofia) challenges societal norms and prompts introspection through a multilayered experience exploring themes of disharmony, resilience, and the quest for humanity. This performance blends intense physicality, multimedia projections, and symbolic costumes… transported to a captivating world that challenges perception in the middle of an apocalypse.”
— Margarita Arnaudova Foundation Jury Statement
https://arabesque.bg/
Sandmanden (By Holstebro Dansekompagni)
“Mikkel Alexander Tøttrup is among the six dancers who ‘fit into the narrative’ in Christian Lollike’s staging of Sandmanden – a mark of his versatile ability to adapt to complex theatrical universes.”
— Information
https://www.information.dk/
Elverhøj (By Aarhus Theatre)
“A fully realized highlight is also Mikkel Alexander Tøttrup (from Holstebro Dansekompagni) as the ballet-dancing, speechless Elf King. How captivating, how eerie.”
— Asker Hedegaard Boye, Weekendavisen
“If I had to highlight only one reason to see Elverhøj, it would be Mikkel Alexander Tøttrup – dancer and choreographer – in the role of the Elf King. Dressed in white, he enchants us with a physical presence carried entirely by dance. Without words, he manages to create a powerful character who dominates the stage and slowly builds an underlying tension. Oliver and I were both captivated by his movements, which were at once beautiful and unsettling.”
— Michael Frederiksen, Børnenes Aarhus
https://www.boernenesaarhus.dk/
“On stage we see the Elf King himself, choreographed and danced superbly by Mikkel Alexander Tøttrup, who throughout the performance moves across the layers of reality in the play, with references to both Bournonville and Tolkien, and with a seriousness, control, and eeriness in his command of space that the ironic playfulness of the festivity cannot penetrate. At first, one might think that the dancing Elf King is merely a decorative ornament around the dramatic plot, but it quickly becomes clear that the Elf King is the maelstrom around which the entire story revolves.”
— Thomas Rosendal Nielsen, Peripeti
https://tidsskriftetperipeti.dk/
“Last but not least, one must bow down to dancer Mikkel Alexander Tøttrup from Holstebro Dansekompagni, who in his performance as the white-clad and white-painted Elf King merges Gollum from The Lord of the Rings with the most graceful Bournonville dancer. He is delicately poetic, sensually captivating, and terrifyingly eerie. His talent shines through.”
— Sceneblog
https://www.sceneblog.dk/
“Dancer Mikkel Alexander Tøttrup plays the silent Elf King, and his presence is, almost literally, breathtaking. In my opinion, elements of dance and music can often seem somewhat tacked-on in ‘pure’ theatre plays, but here they feel exceptionally well-placed.”
— Iscene.dk
https://www.iscene.dk/