In the zone: relying on erotics to exercise patience

This workshop offers a site to deconstruct your movement vocabulary, to watch others going through it and to allow being witnessed in the process. Following a typical class format with a warm-up and intense physical movement, the pace slows down and the amplitude gets minimal as we proceed.The participants will understand the basics of wining solo and tarraxo together – what you are invited to watch or offered to see. Building togetherness by dancing for each other. It is a dance workshop and an exercise for the gaze of those who watch and are being watched.

Marga Alfeirao uses media to carve safe-spaces for the exploration of intimacy and sexuality through dance. Heavily influenced by dance-genres and sound textures from the african diaspora disseminated through Lisbon’s social tissue, she attempts an active claim of womanhood, crossing the exercise of gazing and patience in sensuality.
In 2023 she premiered LOUNGE (2023) – a site that stretches the perception of a lapdance through the relation of erotics and rest. It received the Impulstanz, Young Choreographers Award 2023.

Duration: 2.5 hours per session

Sessions: There are 3 sessions in total. We recommend you go to all, but it is not a necessity.

Access: Warehouse9 is wheelchair accessible. Access to toilets is via stairlift. Accessible parking can be made available on site.

These classes are a collaboration between Warehouse9 and Dansehallerne. You can participate through Warehouse9 or as a member of Dansehallerne. This is for all professional members regardless of background in dance training, and we recommend participating all three days.

Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography in Copenhagen.
Co-producing and presenting a diverse spectrum of national and international performances, facilitating professional training and industry events. Dansehallerne has a strong focus on cultivating an efficient and sustainable ecosystem for dance and choreography in Denmark nurtured by, and in dynamic valued exchange with, the organization’s local and global associations.