Andreas Haglund: Residency
Andreas Haglund is artist in residence at Warehouse9 from April 13th – May 3rd, working on their upcoming group piece REALLY (working title).
In this residency Andreas will be exploring social dances that originate in the club and result in identity formation. Through an insistence of both groove and abstraction, we’re studying the performative nature of relational dynamics. When does conflict arise? How does desire between bodies flow?
All the dance material is inspired by the choreographer and the individual dancers embodied archives of club dances. Memories of being wrapped up in a dance floor for hours become the foundation for a choreographic exploration of the social. Transformation takes place both aesthetically and somatically as we explore the construction of characters through costume, make up and dance. It’s a light-hearted yet sincere celebration of the culture of queer nightlife, its performances, its dances, its music and most of all, its people.
The residency at Warehouse9 is the first one, so during their time here it’s all about opening boxes. Trying out a set of ideas for how to emphasise this relationality that they are intrigued by. So we will be dancing, chatting, reading and dancing some more.
The premiere of this piece is at Dansehallerne in Hallen in May 2027.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Andreas Haglund (b. 1996 in Stockholm, Sweden, Pronouns: They/He) works as a freelance dancer, performer and choreographer in and around Stockholm, Copenhagen and Malmö.
Their artistic practice centers explorations of the somatic, material and aesthetic coherences between queer lived experience and the cultural conception of nature. On stage, in dance practice and in text.
He is an active member of Dance Cooperative; a platform, dance studio and venue for leftist dance practice and performance organised by 12 professional artists in Copenhagen. Through this framework he has facilitated several performance events, presenting both his own works and collaborations as well as hosting other artists and their works.
CREDITS
Choreography: Andreas Haglund
Dance, Performance and co-creators: Pierre Piton, Bee Brown and Emilie Gregersen
Costume and Styling: Alectra Rothschild
Sound Design: Vee Espasandín
Dramaturgy: Lydia Östberg Diakité
Light Design and Space: Sofia Stål and Will Zawistowski
Warehouse9 is supported by Statens Kunstfond and Københavns Kommune.
Andreas Haglund & FASCIA: Residency
Andreas Haglund & FASCIA will undetake a 1-month residency at Warehouse9 to further develop their work ‘surbending’.
Activities whilst in residence:
- 18th september (time TBA): work-in-progress sharing
SURBENDING by Andreas Haglund & FASCIA
Hormones, pills, white coats, demeaning looks, clear liquids and sterile walls in stiff waiting rooms. Bodies keep turning into what is hard enough to swallow, what is outside their control. Just one more shot, one more pill, one more interview, one more show. Semblances of control dissolve into surrendering, into bending. Who’s in charge when the walls are already built?
‘surbending’ is a collaborative performance project between choreographer Andreas Haglund and electronic music composer and programmer FASCIA. The piece explores how surrendering can contain strategies of subversion and survival. Inspired by their shared experience as queer people navigating healthcare, surbending teases out tensions of medical power. Hospitals make queer and trans lives possible while simultaneously robbing patients of self-determination and agency. Surrendering as the walls keep turning into ceilings, turning into floors, bending the waiting room into a mirror for self-realisation.
‘surbending’ will premiere at SCOOP FESTIVAL on September 27th. Tickets here: https://shorturl.at/nzXBh
Bios
FASCIA is an electronic composer, instrument designer and digital artist based in Malmö. Her work often entails using technology as prosthesis to enhance or transform human capabilities. For surbending, she has programmed webcams to track movement, using these to suspend the dancer in shifting power relations to the digital surveillance.
Andreas Haglund works as a dance artist and choreographer between Sweden and Denmark. They are a member of the artist-driven studio Dance Cooperative, a platform for 13 freelancing dance artists. In his own work he focuses on the somatic, material and aesthetic coherences between queer lived experience and the cultural conception of nature. On stage, in dance practice and in text.
