As a way to discuss/converse with image-making, but also slipping out of the image, we will in this workshop enter a practice with outfits/costumes as our Dance-partners. Outfits as a shaper/shapeshifter of our performativity, outfits as extra limbs, outfits as a surface or a shield. But also outfits as an agency – the Wearer. It’s a practice where “I-object and you-object” search for the intimate ways we impact each other’s movements through spaces.

We will first spend some time encountering the item and then ourselves. We will get into their sounds, textures, weight, and begin to feel how they dance. We will then start practicing duetting with this fabric-body – firstly through entering a more stereotypical relationship, where we as fleshy bodies wear the outfit, and consider them as our attributes/accessories in the dance. But slowly we will attempt to morph/shift and try to follow them – let them wear us instead, and take us on a ride.

We will also dance for each other’s outfits, and we maybe, if we feel like it, change dress. We’ll interlude the movement practices by adding some connected writing practices into the mix.

Elements of this workshop draw from practices from Charlie’s current performance project shown here under IPAF – Surfacing HypoKrisia.

Participants should bring a pen, notebook, or whichever tools you prefer for writing, clothes you wanna dance in, plus a clothing-item you have an affinity with.

When and where is the workshop held?
The workshop is held at 22 March 2026, 12.30 – 16.00 at Dansehallerne, Franciska Clausens Plads 27, DK-1799 Copenhagen V.

We kindly ask you to arrive 15 minutes prior to class in time for check-in with the QR code on your ticket.

Who can attend?
This workshop welcomes everybody who wants to play and be danced – no prior specific training or experience is required to participate. We’ll try to learn together and work with attention to each other.

Accessibility:
Dansehallerne has an elevator with step-free access to all floors. Accessible and gender-neutral toilets and wardrobes are available on the ground floor.

About the artist:
Charlie Laban Trier (b. 1987, dk) is a performing artist who chooses to situate his practice deep within the realm of dance, though the dances often appear through other forms such as; bottom-barrel yells turned into songs, text-sampling, endlessly becoming costume, carrying/caring for screens, extreme sculptural headbanging and more. He sees dance as inherently messy, slippery and emergent – a form of knowledge that resists legibility. Living as a transperson, is a big teacher in his thinking/approach to work. Charlie thinks of transness, like dance, as a technology that helps him complicate material. It allows for embodying multiple images, seducing viewers, and shifting fluidly between forms. He is currently investigating practices of collective myth-making, wanting to foster conversations that resist fixed meaning and invite a dis-positioning of the hero/center-stage.

Credits:
The workshop is arranged in collaboration with IPAF by Warehouse9 and Dansehallerne.

IPAF is made possible with support from:
Dansehallerne, Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune and Vesterbro Lokaludvalg.