In the zone: relying on erotics to exercise patience by Marga Alfeirao
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.
Afterlife: Louis Schou-Hansen
IPAF presents: Afterlife by Louis Schou-Hansen
Afterlife is a messed-up playground. It is a site for speculative futurities and derailed interpretations of a renaissance that never really happened. While diving into hauntologies of Western dance history, questioning whether the Sun King actually ever died, the performance moves through a series of twisted dances from the late Italian Renaissance and early French Baroque. Only to disperse into weird referential landscapes containing subtle traces of Britney’s banger dance from Hit Me Baby One More Time, Andrzej Zulawski’s subway scene from Possession and distorted yoga-gone-wrong inspired materials.
Carried out by three performers, Afterlife tries to unfold muted histories of subaltern bodies. Bodies that, through Western colonial and anti-queer epistemic regimes, were deemed disposable and unfit to partake in any further historical development.
Notes for audience
The performance includes loud sounds. Earplugs are provided at the entrance door for those who wish to use them.
Language: Non-verbal
Access: Dansekapellet is wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are located on site. Kuppelsalen is accessible via stairlift.
Working group & credits
CHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION Louis Schou-Hansen / COSTUMES AND SCULPTURAL WORK Karoline Bakken Lund / CO-MAKING PERFORMERS Amie Mbye, Elise Nohr Nystad, Georgiana Dobre / MUSIC Peachlyfe, Petra Skibsted / ARTISTIC ADVISOR Sebastian De Line / RECONSTRUCTION OF RENAISSANCE DANCE Elizabeth Svarstad / HAIR Anna Lübeck / PHOTOS Chai Saeidi / CO. PRODUCTION Black Box Teater Oslo, Mimosa Studio & Palmera Bergen SUPPORTED BY: Arts Council Norway, FFUK, Oslo Municipality, Fond For Lyd og Bilde
About the artists:
Louis Schou-Hansen (it/they) is a dancer and choreographer whose work is situated at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Its practice encompasses various formats such as performances, making dances, performing, writing, and sometimes curating. Louis’ work dives into speculative fiction as a tool to investigate, dissect, and denaturalize how bodies have been molded through violent Western fairytales, utilizing queer and trans-feminist epistemologies. Louis has studied dance at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Royal Danish Ballet School, as well as fine arts at The Dutch Art Institute.
In 2023, Louis was shortlisted for the Sandefjord Kunstforenings Art Prize with Harald Beharie, and was in 2020 nominated for the Norwegian Critics Association Prize for the piece Shine Utopians.
In 2016, it started collaborating with Norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal, working as a performer in several of her works. Louis has also performed in the works of Runa Borch Skolseg, Pedro Gomez Egana, Edhem Jesenkovic, Goro Tronsmo, Andrew Amorim, Janne Camilla Lyster, & Ingun Bjørnsgaard, to name some. Between 2020-2022 it co-founded and curated the discursive, platform Brakkesnakk together with Ines Belli.
Louis has presented works at Copenhagen Contemporary, the Munch Museum Oslo, Untitled Tbilisi, Black Box Teater Oslo, Suprainfinit Bucharest, Dansens Hus Oslo, My Wild Flag Stockholm, The Norwegian National Museum, and RAS Sandnes, among others. Since 2019 it has been active as a guest teacher at various academies and venues such as CONDTIONS STUDIO PROGRAMME London, Palais De Tokyo Paris, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts London, The Place London, and BRUT Vienna.
http://www.louisschouhansen.net/
Afterlife is presented in close collaboration with Dansehallerne.
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.
Afterlife is part of IPAF: an international festival for contemporary performance presenting artists from different cultural contexts, whose work engages identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations, facilitated by Warehouse9.
The festival is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the City of Copenhagen and Bispebjerg Lokaludvalg.
Enter Exude: Teo Ala-Ruona
IPAF presents: Enter Exude by Teo Ala-Ruona
Enter Exude is a cinematic auto-fantasy for three performers and a Chevrolet Camaro.
Born from the anal canal of an automobile, the three techno-brothers derive pleasure from inhaling the spirit of the car – both a symbol of familial and trans narratives. Enter Exude takes the audience on an ominously erotic ride, unfolding on various time scales, blurring the boundaries between life and slow death.
Enter Exude delves into contemporary notions of gender, technology, and ecology while crafting simultaneously a hypnotic and haunting experience of unfulfilled desires. The performance is simultaneously exaggerative and intimate, breaking the boundaries of the stage and creating a continuous interplay between reality and the imagined.
Enter Exude continues Ala-Ruona’s series of performances exploring the intertwining of environmental toxicities and trans-corporeality, with bodily transformations and complex sexuality forming an intense, mutually accelerating cycle.
Notes for audience
Enter Exude includes talk about sex and death. The performance also includes close proximity audience contact, from which audience members can opt out if they wish. The performance includes loud sounds and blinking lights.Earplugs are provided at the entrance door for those who wish to use them.
Language: English
Access: Warehouse9 is Wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are accessed via stairlift. Accessible parking is available on site.
Post-show: on the 16th March there will be a post-show celebration. We hope you will join us.
Working group & credits
Summoning, concept and directing: Teo Ala-Ruona
Choreography:Raoni Muzho Saleh, Charlie Laban Trier and Teo Ala-Ruona
Performers: Raoni Muzho Saleh, Charlie Laban Trier and Teo Ala-Ruona
Dramaturg: Even Minn
Set and costume design: Teo Paaer
Sound dramaturg: Kaino Wennerstrand
Sound design: Miša Skalskis
Lighting design: Heikki Paasonen
Producer: Sanna Ritvanen
Pre-production: Jonni Korhonen
Artistic dialogue: Remi Vesala
Production: Kiasma-teatteri, Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, Viernulvier, Warehouse9
Supported by: Niilo Helander Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre, Wihuri Foundation, Oskar Öflund Foundation, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Finnish Cultural Institute of Denmark
Residencies: FABRIKKEN, Zodiak-laboratory, BUDA
Read the text ‘Car and I’ that frames the themes of the Enter Exude:
“”This text, too, arises from the car. I see it in my mind as a knot of interchanges composed of highway ramps, an accelerating landscape with multiple directions and lanes. I stand in the midst of that landscape, amidst the noise of highways, and I write.””
Written by: Teo Ala Ruona and Remi Vesala
PDF Download: Teo Ala Ruona and Remi Vesala
About the artists:
Teo Ala-Ruona is a Helsinki-based performance artist, whose works delve into somatospeculative fiction, exploring themes such as techno-trans-masculinity, sexuality, ecology, and toxicity. He employs a blend of theoretical discourse, autobiographical text, and psychophysical performance scores to redefine language and narratives that address pleasure and intimacy in the context of a toxic Earth.
He approaches trans corporeality as an arena, where various normative processes of naturalization become infeasible, and address queer ecological topics from explicitly sexual perspective to revoke the heteronormative biases that influence the research done on biology and ecology, gender and sexuality.
Through the use of the performing body as a canvas for speculative storytelling, he experiments how fiction can transform the ways bodies are understood. Ala-Ruona is committed to the transgressive potential of performance art to push the boundaries of our perception of normality and conventionality.
Ala-Ruona’s work has recently been shown in Performa Biennial (New York), The Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art (Vilnius), The Finnish National Gallery Kiasma (Helsinki), The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (London), Sequences festival (Reykjavik) and Centrale Fies (Dro) among others.
Enter Exude is co-presented with the The Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark
Enter Exude is part of IPAF: an international festival for contemporary performance presenting artists from different cultural contexts, whose work engages identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations, facilitated by Warehouse9.
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
