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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.
Jasmin has a master’s degree in English and cultural communications from the University of Copenhagen and has worked with several fields within the cultural sphere. She has worked with executing and communicating films, festivals, art fairs, and literature, and has now embarked upon queer performance art at Warehouse9.
Emma (they/she) has been a core member since 2012 and a leading effort in driving organisational development. They have helped shape WH9’s artistic profile, initiated national and international collaborations and consolidated WH9 through fundraising strategies, and insisting on production methods centering care and accessiblility.
In addition, Emma works as an independent curator, e.g. through the curatorial duo osborn&møller, where they have acted as guest curator at the Wellcome Collection (UK) and curated part of City of Women’s 25 year anniversary festival in 2019 (SL). Emma has experience as a freelance producer in the UK, where they worked with artists such as Poppy Jackson, Manuel Vason and SPILL Festival. Emma holds a MA in Theater and Performance from Queen Mary, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre & Education from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Jørgen Callesen (They/He) is co-founder and co-director of Warehouse9.
For the past 17 years, they have been an integral part of developing Warehouse9 to become a leading organisation for cross-aesthetic queer art, including international festivals and socially engaged projects. He holds a Ph.D. in information & media science from Aarhus University (2005) and has an artistic practice with the performance figure “miss fish”. They have presented solo work in Denmark and internationally since 2002 and work in collaboration with numerous queer artists as well as in lager scale productions.
