The Laughing Game is a celebration and choreographic study of laughter. The highly minimalist performance takes place in close relation to its audience on Teaterøen and moves somewhere in the cross-section between dance, concert and installation. The Laughing Game sheds light on a sea of emotions that laughter represents. The movements of laughter ripple through a woman, so that it becomes unclear whether she only feels openness, joy and sensuality or if waves of discomfort and pain also carry her. Thus, the performance’s space becomes both absurd, comical and existentially serious, and the laughter becomes somewhat alien. The Laughing Game suggests new perspectives on laughter. Antoinette Helbing is a German dancer and choreographer based in Copenhagen. In her choreographic practice, she is interested in physically decoding social forms and communication. She has also worked with films as well as with Aaben Dans Production in Roskilde.