Hazem Header: Egyptian-izing your movement
In this workshop, Egyptian choreographer Hazem Header will introduce a range of contemporary dance and physical theater improvisation frameworks. Participants will leave with a robust set of exercises, games, and scores to support the creation of their own choreography and performances.
The workshop explores multiple choreographic approaches and creative methods for contemporary dance and physical theater, while also focusing on “Egyptian-izing” creative impulses—drawing from cultural memory, rhythm, and embodied storytelling.
Participants should bring paper, pens, and comfortable clothing.
When and where is the workshop held?
The workshop is held at 20 March 2026, 12.30 – 16.30 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 all-levels workshop is open to professional dancers and movers from all artistic backgrounds, as well as dance and theater enthusiasts who are curious to explore contemporary dance and physical theater for the first time.
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:
Hazem Header is an Egyptian contemporary dancer and choreographer. Hazem decided to focus on contemporary dance in 2009 after earning a BA in physical education, studying personal training, biomechanics, kinesiology, and having worked as a personal trainer and volleyball coach. Hazem studied the governmental centre “Cairo Contemporary Dance Centre (CCDC)” at the Cairo Opera House.
Hazem started his own dance company, “NÜT Dance Company-NDC” in 2013, which is a Cairo-based and legally recognised entity that produces dance performances and cultural events.
Hazem launched the “Breaking Walls Festival” in 2017, which was the first international festival for site-specific performances in Cairo.
Hazem established the “Breaking Walls Dance Film Festival” in 2021 as Egypt’s and the region’s first dance film festival.
He was also chosen in 2021 to be a member of the IETM/International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts’ global connectors. In 2024, he was elected to the IETM Advisory Committee for a three-year term.
Credits:
Image by Ashlel Smith and Wide Eyed Studios
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.
Closing Party
IPAF presents: Closing Party
Join us for our festival closing party at Dansehallerne!
DJ – Gavnlig
Ever since stepping on stage Andrea Hildursdóttir aka Gavnlig has proven herself floorworthy time and again all across Copenhagen. With an ever-curious and playful approach to music, she’s sure to start the party with a blend of soulful, vocal-driven house music.
This event is free and open to all.
IPAF:
IPAF is Warehouse9’s international performance festival. The festival is a vital extension of the organisation’s dedicated work to support and present LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners. IPAF is a dynamic meeting place that creates opportunities for artistic development, live performances, and facilitates spaces for dialogue and community.
This year, the festival is co-produced with Dansehallerne and presents genre-bending work in Copenhagen that actively engages with identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations. IPAF is founded on the strong belief that dance and performance can offer new perspectives and understandings of reality, inspire collective imagination, and advocate for better and more just futures.
IPAF is made possible with support from Dansehallerne, Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune, and Vesterbro Lokaludvalg.
Tickets for the IPAF performances:
Tickets are purchased via Dansehallernes website: https://dansehallerne.dk/en/public-program/
Note that there is a sliding scale option. This means that we have introduced a “pay what you can” ticket system for the performances. You can apply this by choosing the “IPAF community ticket level 1-4”.
Accessibility:
Dansehallerne has step-free access via an elevator to all floors. Accessible and gender-neutral restrooms are on the ground floor.
Brunch & Reflection
IPAF presents: Brunch & Reflection
What happened during the festival?
As IPAF enters its final day, we invite you to our last social gathering.
Grab a coffee and some food, and join artists, curators, and fellow audience members for an informal moment of connection and reflection.
Good to know:
Language: English & Danish
IPAF:
IPAF is Warehouse9’s international performance festival. The festival is a vital extension of the organisation’s dedicated work to support and present LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners. IPAF is a dynamic meeting place that creates opportunities for artistic development, live performances, and facilitates spaces for dialogue and community.
This year, the festival is co-produced with Dansehallerne and presents genre-bending work in Copenhagen that actively engages with identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations. IPAF is founded on the strong belief that dance and performance can offer new perspectives and understandings of reality, inspire collective imagination, and advocate for better and more just futures.
IPAF is made possible with support from the Danish Arts Foundations, the City of Copenhagen and Dansehallerne.
Tickets:
tickets are purchased via Dansehallernes website: https://dansehallerne.dk/en/public-program/
Note that there is a sliding scale option. This means that we have introduced a “pay what you can” ticket system for the performances. You can apply this by choosing the “IPAF community ticket level 1-4”.
Accessibility:
Dansehallerne in Copenhagen offers good accessibility with step-free access via an elevator to all floors. Accessible and gender-neutral restrooms on the ground floor.
Festival Opening
IPAF presents: Festival Opening
Join us when Warehouse9’s IPAF Festival officially opens at Dansehallerne!
There will be bubbles, speeches by Warehouse9 co-directors Jørgen Callesen and Emma Castro Møller, and a spoken word performance by Rei Mansa.
Rei Mansa has been part of Warehouse9 since the beginning and has been performing at several different events such as the Xmas cabarets and other fun stuff.
He has played around with gender expressions, odd costumes and words.
Today he mostly focuses on spoken word, but still with focus on gender & sexuality with a dash of healthy loathing of capitalism and norms.
He tries to be funny but mostly he’s just an elder-queer who’s tired of the stressful world and would like to be allowed to live in peace and quiet with his partner and cats.
When and where: Thursday 19.03.2026, 5pm – 6pm at Dansehallerne.
Tickets: Free, with sign up.
Good to know:
Language: English & Danish
IPAF:
IPAF is Warehouse9’s international performance festival. The festival is a vital extension of the organisation’s dedicated work to support and present LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners. IPAF is a dynamic meeting place that creates opportunities for artistic development, live performances, and facilitates spaces for dialogue and community.
This year, the festival is co-produced with Dansehallerne and presents genre-bending work in Copenhagen that actively engages with identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations. IPAF is founded on the strong belief that dance and performance can offer new perspectives and understandings of reality, inspire collective imagination, and advocate for better and more just futures.
IPAF is made possible with support from the Dansehallerne, Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune and Vesterbro Lokaludvalg.
IPAF Tickets:
Tickets for the performances showing at IPAF are purchased via Dansehallernes website: https://dansehallerne.dk/en/public-program/
Note that there is a sliding scale option available for everyone. This means that we have a “pay what you can” ticket system for the performances. You can apply this by choosing the “IPAF community ticket level 1-4”.
Accessibility:
Dansehallerne in Copenhagen has step-free access via an elevator to all floors. Accessible and gender-neutral restrooms on the ground floor.
Eve Stainton: The Joystick and The Reins
IPAF presents: Eve Stainton: The Joystick and The Reins
Artist and choreographer Eve Stainton presents their new choreographic performance, The Joystick and The Reins, accompanied by Ennio Morricone’s haunting score for The Thing (1982).
The Joystick and The Reins explores who is deemed to be, and those who decide what constitutes a ‘threat’ within society, exploring how marginalised groups have been instrumentalised through systems of oppression and authoritarianism.
Cycling through hyper-emotional states of intensity that never arrive at a fixed point, the solo figure and the scene itself become a site for the audience’s own projections. Referencing ideas of power, dominance, perpetrator, victim, threat and interpretation.
Influences for The Joystick and The Reins include historical reenactments, police and riot arrest imagery, and 1980s ‘Crime Watch’ episodes, examining what it means to reconstruct a theatrical scene that draws on truth, and how societal constructs keep people ‘at risk’ of incarceration in a place of vulnerability.
Morricone’s powerful music finds resonance with Stainton’s mutual exploration of societal suspicion, psychological horror, and the devastating potential of individual isolation.
About the Artist:
Eve Stainton is an artist and choreographer born in Manchester and living in London, UK. They create multi-disciplinary performances that involve movement practices, welded steel/live welding, digital collage, and other invisible forces like drama and suspense. Their research is rooted in community, interested in how differently marginalised people experience and come into relationship with power structures and societal conventions. Often working with codes or tropes of gender, class and threat, revealing ‘behind the scenes’ mechanisms of working together to show a kind of reality that isn’t seamless.
Notable presentations include: ICA (UK), Tramway (UK), Venice Biennale performance programme in collaboration with Florence Peake (IT), Dansehallerne (DK), Block Universe (UK), Dampfzentrale (CH), Donaufestival (AT), My Wild Flag (SE), Le Guess Who? (NL), Bergen Kunsthall (NO), Bozar (BE), Nottingham Contemporary (UK), Crac Occitanie (FR), LCMF (UK), CCA Glasgow (UK), Tangente (CA), Audra Festival (LT), Rouyn-Noranda Biennale (CA), The Mount Without (UK).
Credits:
Choreography and performance: Eve Stainton
Producer: Michael Kitchin
Creative Producer: Sara Sassanelli
Lighting Designer: Edward Saunders
Rehearsal Director and Steward: Temitope Ajose
Rehearsal Director: Maëva Berthelot
Dramaturg: Florence Peake
Shield design and creation: Eve Stainton
Co-commissioned by Bold Tendencies, Dansehallerne (DK), Transform, The Place and performance, possession + automation (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council). Supported by Queen Mary University of London, Old Diorama Arts Centre, Den Frie Udstilling (DK), SLUG (DE), L’Ecart Biennial (CA) and Mind Eater (NO). With thanks to The Morricone Estate, Wise Music Classical, Martin O’Brien and Jim Tuck.
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Good to know:
Audience members will be invited to participate in simple tasks during the performance; any invitation can be declined.
IPAF:
IPAF is Warehouse9’s international performance festival. The festival is a vital extension of the organisation’s dedicated work to support and present LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners. IPAF is a dynamic meeting place that creates opportunities for artistic development, live performances, and facilitates spaces for dialogue and community.
This year, the festival is co-produced with Dansehallerne and presents genre-bending work in Copenhagen that actively engages with identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations. IPAF is founded on the strong belief that dance and performance can offer new perspectives and understandings of reality, inspire collective imagination, and advocate for better and more just futures.
IPAF is made possible with support from the Danish Arts Foundations, the City of Copenhagen and Dansehallerne.
Tickets:
tickets are purchased via Dansehallernes website: https://dansehallerne.dk/en/public-program/
Note that there is a sliding scale option.
Accessibility:
Dansehallerne in Copenhagen offers good accessibility with step-free access via an elevator to all floors, accessible and gender-neutral restrooms on the ground floor.
Hazem Header: MANEATER
IPAF presents: Hazem Header: MANEATER
Performing to the evocative old songs of Egyptian Singers and composed tracks of Egyptian Politicians’ speeches; A Solo dancer exposes the fractured and toxic relationship of Egypt and its rulers, politicians and Egyptian people as he delves into the complexity of his love for Egypt in an attempt to reconcile patriotism with disillusionment, and light of hope with darkness of oppression.
It shines a light on his deep rooted connection to his memory of The Egyptian revolution and suggests the power of what hope may do. Poetic and passionate, MANEATER… has an intricate physicality, Egyptian folk dance and is unashamedly romantic in its celebration of loving Egypt.
Egypt is reuniting on stage with some of her most infamous former lovers. Together, they relive past romances, replay tender moments, and whisper the sweet nothings they once shared – before it all, inevitably, turned toxic and fell apart.
Artist talk:
Following the performance on Sunday 22 March, Hazem Header will have a dialogue with Warehouse9 board member, Niels Bjørn, about queer performance in Egypt.
About the Artist:
Hazem Header is an Egyptian contemporary dancer and choreographer. In 2021, he founded the Breaking Walls Dance Film Festival, Egypt’s and the region’s first dance film festival. Prior to that in 2017, Hazem launched the Breaking Walls Festival, Cairo’s first international festival for site-specific performances. Previously, he combined his passion for movement and artistry to create NÜT Dance Company-NDC in 2013, a legally recognized entity in Cairo that produces dance performances and cultural events.
Hazem has gained international recognition for his contributions to contemporary performing arts. He was selected in 2021 as a member of the IETM/International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts’ Global Connectors program and, in 2024, was elected to the IETM Advisory Committee for a three-year term. Hazem earned a Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education, with a focus on personal training, biomechanics, and kinesiology. He also studied at the governmental center, Cairo Contemporary Dance Centre (CCDC) at the Cairo Opera House.
Credits:
Creation and Choreography: Hazem Header
Music Designer and Composers: Anna-Maria Rammou (AMR)
Dramaturge: Dimitra Mitropoulou
Costume Designer: Domagoj Štimac
Text Video: Nima Dehghani
Speeches Archives and Research: Mary Nabil
Poster: Farah Khalaf
Co-Production: NÜT Dance Company and Breaking Walls Festival – Egypt, This is a Domino Project – Croatia and Warehouse9
Good to know:
Smoke in performance.
Strobe light.
Content of video projection may be graphic for some.
Possibility of close proximity to performer.
+18
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
IPAF:
IPAF is Warehouse9’s international performance festival. The festival is a vital extension of the organisation’s dedicated work to support and present LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners. IPAF is a dynamic meeting place that creates opportunities for artistic development, live performances, and facilitates spaces for dialogue and community.
This year, the festival is co-produced with Dansehallerne and presents genre-bending work in Copenhagen that actively engages with identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations. IPAF is founded on the strong belief that dance and performance can offer new perspectives and understandings of reality, inspire collective imagination, and advocate for better and more just futures.
IPAF is made possible with support from the Danish Arts Foundations, the City of Copenhagen and Dansehallerne.
Tickets:
tickets are purchased via Dansehallernes website: https://dansehallerne.dk/en/public-program/
Note that there is a sliding scale option. This means that we have introduced a “pay what you can” ticket system for the performances. You can apply this by choosing the “IPAF community ticket level 1-4”.
Accessibility:
Dansehallerne in Copenhagen offers good accessibility with step-free access via an elevator to all floors, accessible and gender-neutral restrooms on the ground floor.
Alex Franz Zehetbauer: bonappétitsixsixsix
IPAF presents: Alex Franz Zehetbauer: bonappétitsixsixsix
In bonappétitsixsixsix, performance artist and singer songwriter, Alex Franz Zehetbauer slips into the jester’s skin—a figure with the ancient privilege to say and do anything without punishment: a.k.a. speak the truth a.k.a follow every impulse. A jester is never bound to a stage but to the social body itself. He digests the world and spits it back out (from one end or the other). This excrement is then presented to the audience as art. With a hint of something diabolical, the fool has arrived to entertain.
Spit roasted by hydrophones and accompanied by the soothing strumming of his lyre, he turns his entire body into a leaking instrument for his heartfelt songs.
bonappétitsixsixsix embraces the jester’s capacity to create friction rather than consensus, to transform social tension into performance. No one is safe: corrupt rulers, slimy curators, or daydreaming spectators may all find themselves ankle-deep on his shit list. But don’t run away. When the shit hits the fan you’ll be gagging for more.
And most importantly, you wouldn’t want to miss dinner…or become it.
About the Artist:
Alex Franz Zehetbauer (b. 1990, Brooklyn) is an artist and singer songwriter working at the intersection of performance, music, visual arts and choreography. In his performances, he beguiles with sophisticated melodies, strange vocal escapades and unexpected twists. He studied vocal performance, choreography, and composition at NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. Alex has collaborated with artists such as Phillip Gehmacher, Jen Rosenblit, Taylor Mac, Anne Juren, Richard Foreman, Marta Navaridas and Alix Eynaudi. He currently lives in Vienna. Alex’s work has been presented internationally, examples include: Gwangju Bienniale, (KR); Sophiensaele (DE); BUZZCUT / CCA Glasgow (UK); Tanzquartier Wien (AT); Gessneralle Zurich (CH); Mint (SE); steirischerherbst (AT); brut Wien (AT); C-Mine (BE); The Brick Theater (NYC/US); among others.
Credits:
Concept, Songs, Performance / Alex Franz Zehetbauer
Dramaturgy / Joshua Wicke
Performance Doula / Claire Lefevre
Costume Closet / Alessandro Santi, Alex Franz Zehetbauer
Sonic trinkets, outside ears / Christian Schröder & Manuel Riegler
Outside eyes / Andreas Haglund & Jen Rosenblit
Shoes / Schuhatelier A. Kudweis
Production Management / Mollusca Productions
Residencies Blickleraum / Ursula Blickle Stiftung [AT], Warehouse9 [DK], Tanzhaus Zürich [CH]
A co-production of Verein Wilhelmina, IPAF and Tanzquartier Wien
Supported by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs (MA7), DOTA – Dance on Tour and BMWKMS – Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
Good to know:
Limited audience capacity
Language: English
IPAF:
IPAF is Warehouse9’s international performance festival. The festival is a vital extension of the organisation’s dedicated work to support and present LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners. IPAF is a dynamic meeting place that creates opportunities for artistic development, live performances, and facilitates spaces for dialogue and community.
This year, the festival is co-produced with Dansehallerne and presents genre-bending work in Copenhagen that actively engages with identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations. IPAF is founded on the strong belief that dance and performance can offer new perspectives and understandings of reality, inspire collective imagination, and advocate for better and more just futures.
IPAF is made possible with support from the Danish Arts Foundations, the City of Copenhagen, Vesterbro Lokaludvalg and Dansehallerne.
Tickets:
tickets are purchased via Dansehallernes website: https://dansehallerne.dk/en/public-program/
Note that there is a sliding scale option. This means that we have introduced a “pay what you can” ticket system for the performances. You can apply this by choosing the “IPAF community ticket level 1-4”.
Accessibility:
Dansehallerne in Copenhagen offers good accessibility with step-free access via an elevator to all floors, accessible and gender-neutral restrooms on the ground floor.
Charlie Laban Trier: Surfacing HypoKrisia
IPAF presents: Charlie Laban Trier: Surfacing HypoKrisia
Surfacing HypoKrisia is a series of performative efforts and spells to invoke manifestations of a speculative, trans-mythic figure. Her name is HypoKrisia. She’s a figment of Charlie’s fantasy – imagined as the forgotten little sister of Tiresias, the blind prophet from Greek mythology. The performance embarks on a journey researching resilience through the guidance of her.
According to the myth, Tiresias sees two snakes in a mating spiral. He is disgusted by the sight of something he does not understand and strikes the female snake. Because of this action, Hera, Zeus’ wife, transforms him into a woman.
Both Tiresias and HypoKrisia could be read as trans figures, but HypoKrisia resists a full becoming. She insists on the liminal space and chooses to live in a performative state of “half un-done.”
In this imaginary myth she is deemed unworthy and dangerous by society and therefore erased from the stories. She’s the embodiment of the snake: smooth, elusive, and constantly on the verge of shedding skin.
The wish is to summon her from the depths, because she has been held down beneath the surface for far too long. But in this act, friction is inevitable; it’s not smooth sailing to bring forth what has been forgotten or perhaps never existed. It is like reaching through a portal to a time we cannot reach—and what emerges may be unknown and difficult to face.
In this dance-piece the audience is taken into a mythological spin, where we no longer know who are speaking through whom. We’ll meet a lonesome character, but there’s another presence hiding deep under. The boy attempts to invoke her, he speaks in/with multiple tongues.
The pursuit is to dance with her; a dance-duet leading perhaps to a momentary take-over of his body. In this complicated partnership, he tries to follow the laws of the trickster and together they embrace total pretense. Their tool-box is filled with contradictory disagreement, faking and mimicry.
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:
Choreography & performer: Charlie Laban Trier
Dramaturgical partner: Noha Ramadan
Light designer: Angela X
RC-vehicle builder: Anders Toft Pedersen
Outside eye and RC-performer: Kai Merke
Music remix: Isadora Tomasi
Special thanks: Angelica Stathopoulos
Developed with support from:
HIMHERANDIT, Warehouse9 and Åbne Scene/Godsbanen – Queer Practice Residence 2025/26, HAUT – IN PROCESS residency, EHKÄ Contemporary Art Space Kutomo residency, Performance space & PACT Sydney – Queer Development Program 2024, Museion Bolzano – Opening the pill symposium 2022, Arts Centre BUDA residency, Jakoozi Amsterdam.
Music in piece: Aamourocean, Britney Spears, Cascada & Maurice West, Chicane & Moya Brennan – The Thrillseekers remix, Hole, ORM.
Good to know:
Possibility of close proximity to performer.
Smoke in performance.
Loud music at times.
Language: English
IPAF:
IPAF is Warehouse9’s international performance festival. The festival is a vital extension of the organisation’s dedicated work to support and present LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners. IPAF is a dynamic meeting place that creates opportunities for artistic development, live performances, and facilitates spaces for dialogue and community.
This year, the festival is co-produced with Dansehallerne and presents genre-bending work in Copenhagen that actively engages with identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations. IPAF is founded on the strong belief that dance and performance can offer new perspectives and understandings of reality, inspire collective imagination, and advocate for better and more just futures.
IPAF is made possible with support from the Danish Arts Foundations, the City of Copenhagen and Dansehallerne.
Tickets:
tickets are purchased via Dansehallernes website: https://dansehallerne.dk/en/public-program/
Note that there is a sliding scale option. This means that we have introduced a “pay what you can” ticket system for the performances. You can apply this by choosing the “IPAF community ticket level 1-4”.
Accessibility:
Dansehallerne in Copenhagen offers good accessibility with step-free access via an elevator to all floors. Accessible and gender-neutral restrooms on the ground floor.
Lucy McCormick: Lucy & Friends
IPAF presents: Lucy McCormick: Lucy & Friends
Lucy McCormick is back with her most ambitious medium-concept queer cabaret spectacular. In a despairing world, Lucy attempts to create community and connection the only way she knows how- through a chaotic mix of pole dancing, cat impersonation, a clairvoyant and some quick re-working of social policy.
A master of theatrical manipulation and crushing personal vulnerability, Lucy leaves her audiences needing a hug, a cry and an immediate shower.
About The Artist:
Lucy McCormick makes nightclub interruptions, cabaret interventions and extravaganza theatre shows, marrying interests in absurdity, ego and the grotesque. Her practice is cross-genre, taking inspiration from theatre, performance art, comedy and dance. Her breakout show, Triple Threat, reimagines the New Testament as a dance-pop spectacle, which has toured globally to over 30 venues. Her later works Post Popular, Life: LIVE! and Lucy & Friends, explore feminism, identity and vulnerability through excess, intimacy and irreverence. A Research Fellow at Queen Mary University and Associate Artist at Soho Theatre, Lucy also works as an an actor and has performed at the National Theatre, Royal Court, Globe and RSC.
https://www.lucymccormick.com
Credits:
Creator and Performer | Lucy McCormick
Director | Ursula Martinez
Producer | Michael Kitchin
Production Manager | Herbe Walmsley
Lighting Designer | Sorcha Mae Stott-Strzala
Stage Manager | Stef Felton
Creative Associates | Daniel Oliver & Claudia Palazzo
Image Design | Sorcha Mae Stott-Strzala & Jo Schneider
Commissioned by The Yard Theatre. Supported by Cambridge Junction, Colchester Arts Centre and Norwich Arts Centre. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Good to know:
This performance contains haze, strobe lighting, loud noise, strong language, scenes of a sexual nature and nudity.
Strictly no filming or photography.
Language: English
18+
IPAF:
IPAF is Warehouse9’s international performance festival. The festival is a vital extension of the organisation’s dedicated work to support and present LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners. IPAF is a dynamic meeting place that creates opportunities for artistic development, live performances, and facilitates spaces for dialogue and community.
This year, the festival is co-produced with Dansehallerne and presents genre-bending work in Copenhagen that actively engages with identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations. IPAF is founded on the strong belief that dance and performance can offer new perspectives and understandings of reality, inspire collective imagination, and advocate for better and more just futures.
IPAF is made possible with support from the Danish Arts Foundations, the City of Copenhagen and Dansehallerne.
Tickets:
tickets are purchased via Dansehallernes website: https://dansehallerne.dk/en/public-program/
Note that there is a sliding scale option. This means that we have introduced a “pay what you can” ticket system for the performances. You can apply this by choosing the “IPAF community ticket level 1-4”.
Accessibility:
Dansehallerne in Copenhagen offers good accessibility with step-free access via an elevator to all floors, accessible and gender-neutral restrooms on the ground floor,
IPAF Festival
IPAF is back with its 2024 edition taking place 14th – 17th March 2024.
IPAF is a biannual international performance festival. The festival is an extension of Warehouse9’s focus to support LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners practice. The festival supports development opportunities, live performance encounters, and creates spaces for dialogue and gatherings.
The Festival unfolds across the city of Copenhagen and presents genre-blurring work that engages with identity politics, sexual expressions and body representations. The Festival is based on the belief that performance can provide different perspectives and ways to understand reality, inspire collective imagining and advocate for better and more just futures.
IPAF creates spaces for gathering around live work made by queer artists. Spaces that celebrate learning, risk taking and embrace failure. Spaces for artists and audiences to meet. Spaces that hold artist-, audience-, and collective-care at the heart of the festival.
Artists & Performances
Krishna Istha: First Trimester
Louis Schou-Hansen: Afterlife
Martin O’Brien: An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance)
Sall Lam Toro: obsidiana, estranha, erótica e ultravioleta
Teo Ala-Ruona: Enter Exude
Artist-in-Residence: Alba&Linn: Out of The Coffin
Artist-in-Residence: Filip Pawlak: Sewing Pride
Tickets:
Book your tickets here: https://billetto.dk/users/warehouse9
&
Here: https://teaterbilletter.dk/forestillinger/obsidiana-an-ambulance-to-the-future-117928
Programme overview
14 March
Managing Discomfort – DOUBLE BILL (@ Husets Teater)
Sall Lam Toro: obsidiana, estranha, erótica e ultravioleta
Martin O’Brien: An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance)
15 March
Alba&Linn: Out of The Coffin (@ Dansekapellet)
Teo Ala-Ruona: Enter Exude (@ Warehouse9)
Managing Discomfort – DOUBLE BILL (@ Husets Teater)
Sall Lam Toro: obsidiana, estranha, erótica e ultravioleta
Martin O’Brien: An Ambulance to the Future (The Second Chance)
+post show Festival Bar Night
16 March
Krishna Istha: First Trimester (@ Dansekapellet)
Louis Schou-Hansen: Afterlife (@ Dansekapellet)
Filip Pawlak: Sewing Pride (@ Dansekapellet)
Teo Ala-Ruona: Enter Exude (@ Warehouse9)
+post show celebration
17 March
Breakfast Club
Krishna Istha: First Trimester (@ Dansekapellet)
PROGRAMME
FESTIVAL TEAM
Co-Director: Emma Castro Møller
Co-Director: Jørgen Callesen
Production Manager: Zep Andersen
Lead Producer: Anne Mai Slot Vilmann
Producer: Caroline Blomqvist
Assistant Producer: Elias Ståhl
Assistant Producer: Jasmin Ingemansen
PR & Marketing Manager: Carla Rafaella Denalie Gianetti
SoMe Manager: Sarah Wegeberg
Graphic Designer: Alix Smed Dawids
Photographer: Søren Meisner
PARTNERS
Dansehallerne (co-presenting Afterlife)
TOASTER (co-presenting Martin O’Brien and Sall Lam Toro)
Live Art DK (co-presenting Martin O’Brien and Sall Lam Toro)
The Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark (co-presenting Enter Exude)
HIMHERANDIT Productions (co-producing Out of The Coffin / Residency)
The Genderhouse Festival (co-producing Out of The Coffin / Residency)
Malmö Theatre Academy (Residency)
Dansekapellet (venue)
SUPPORTED BY
Danish Arts Foundation / Statens Kunstfond
City of Copenhagen / Københavns Kommune
Bispebjerg Lokaludvalg
Arts Council England
