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In-process sharing: MANEATER by Hazem Header

In-process performance sharing: MANEATER by Hazem Header

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

Post sharing talk about the work with Hazem Header


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

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.

 

Anna-Maria Rammou (AMR) is a sound artist and composer of electronic music. She creates in situ compositions for live performances. Her work has been released on cassette by various labels, including the Paris-based Vice de Forme and she has performed live at various venues in Europe. Her music is characterized by noisy and electroacoustic elements. She uses analog hardware and programming languages to produce sound and processes live sounds from semi-modular synthesizers, acoustic instruments and field recordings. She is part of Triangle Error, an improvisation group with electronics and clarinet. She hosts a fortnightly radio show, “Under The Seams”, at Stegi Radio. She composes music for dancing performances and films including the award-winning animated short film Pulsión (2019) by Pedro Casavecchia.

 

DIMITRA MITROPOULOU grew up between Athens and Longos, Achaia. She studied theatre at EMPROS Drama School and Philosophy & History of Science at the University of Athens. She works as an actress, dance dramaturg and assistant director.

As an actress and assistant director, she has collaborated with the directors Natasha Triantafylli, Georgia Mavragani, George Sachinis, Irini Fanarioti, Anna Tzakou, Kostas Papakonstantinou, Aris Balis, Lefteris Yovanidis, Christos Stergioglou, Konstantin Bogomolov, Dimitris Xanthopoulos, Thanos Papakonstantinou, etc. She has participated in performances at National Theatre, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Greek National Opera, Onassis Cultural Centre, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, and in many theatres and festivals abroad. 

As a dramaturg, she collaborates with the choreographers Ioanna Portolou (Griffon Dance Company), Chara Kotsali, Margarita Trikka (Prolet OCD), Ilias Chatzigeorgiou and Christiana Kosiari. Since 2009, she has been a regular member of Aerites Dance Company as a choreographer’s assistant to Patricia Apergi and as a stage manager of the company’s tour.

 

With support from The Danish Arts Foundation and The City of Copenhagen 

Co-Production: NÜT Dance Company and Breaking Walls Festival – Egypt, This is a Domino Project – Croatia and Warehouse9 – Denmark

Hazem Header: Residency

During his residency at Warehouse9, Hazem Header will continue to develop his new cabaret and solo-performance “MANEATER”, in collaboration with Anna-Maria Rammou and Dimitra Mitropoulou. 

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 lovin Egypt.

There will be a work sharing as part of the residency period. More information coming soon. 


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

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.

Anna-Maria Rammou (AMR) is a sound artist and composer of electronic music. She creates in situ compositions for live performances. Her work has been released on cassette by various labels, including the Paris-based Vice de Forme and she has performed live at various venues in Europe. Her music is characterized by noisy and electroacoustic elements. She uses analog hardware and programming languages to produce sound and processes live sounds from semi-modular synthesizers, acoustic instruments and field recordings. She is part of Triangle Error, an improvisation group with electronics and clarinet. She hosts a fortnightly radio show, “Under The Seams”, at Stegi Radio. She composes music for dancing performances and films including the award-winning animated short film Pulsión (2019) by Pedro Casavecchia.

DIMITRA MITROPOULOU grew up between Athens and Longos, Achaia. She studied theatre at EMPROS Drama School and Philosophy & History of Science at the University of Athens. She works as an actress, dance dramaturg and assistant director.

As an actress and assistant director, she has collaborated with the directors Natasha Triantafylli, Georgia Mavragani, George Sachinis, Irini Fanarioti, Anna Tzakou, Kostas Papakonstantinou, Aris Balis, Lefteris Yovanidis, Christos Stergioglou, Konstantin Bogomolov, Dimitris Xanthopoulos, Thanos Papakonstantinou, etc. She has participated in performances at National Theatre, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Greek National Opera, Onassis Cultural Centre, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, and in many theatres and festivals abroad. 

As a dramaturg, she collaborates with the choreographers Ioanna Portolou (Griffon Dance Company), Chara Kotsali, Margarita Trikka (Prolet OCD), Ilias Chatzigeorgiou and Christiana Kosiari. Since 2009, she has been a regular member of Aerites Dance Company as a choreographer’s assistant to Patricia Apergi and as a stage manager of the company’s tour.

With support from The Danish Arts Foundation and The City of Copenhagen 

Open Studio: Martin O’Brien

Open Studio with Martin O’Brien

You are invited to enter the lair of the beast. An open studio in hell. Somewhere between a hospital, a morgue, and a BDSM dungeon where headless gimps serve drinks whilst being deep throated by ghosts, serpents emerging from cracks in the floor, and the dead dance on their own graves. Welcome to the strange world of Martin O’Brien. Martin will be displaying elements of his process, including fragments of performance, scores, videos, images, objects, and detritus.

Martin O’Brien is currently in residence developing his new performance, What the Serpent Told Me in the Misty Gloom. The piece will premiere on 15 November at Tate Britain.

This is a unique opportunity to meet Martin, hear more about his artistic practice, and gain insight into his creative process.

Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Artist Talk with Martin O’Brien: 2:00 PM
Entrance:Free – no need to book, just drop in! Your welcome to drop in any time during the Open Studio hours.
Refreshments: Snacks and drinks will be available.

Martin O’Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing and video art. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts and critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected. He has shown work throughout the UK; Europe; USA; and Canada, and is well known for his solo performances and collaborations with the legendary LA artist and dominatrix Sheree Rose. His most recent works were at Tate Britain in 2020, the ICA (London) in 2021, and as Writer in Residence at Whitechapel Gallery in 2023. He is winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts 2022. Martin has cystic fibrosis and all of his work and writing draws upon this experience. In 2018, the book ‘Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O’Brien’ was published by Live Art Development Agency. His work has been featured on BBC radio and Sky Arts television, and as a double page spread in The Guardian. He is currently senior lecturer in Live Art, and head of department of Performance, at Queen Mary University of London.

During his residency at Warehouse9, Martin will be working on a new performance What the Serpent Told Me in the Misty Gloom. The performance will premiere at Tate Britain 15 November 2025. Martin will continue his exploration of death, dying, the undead, and ghostly returns through foggy death-scapes, where images are half seen or miss seen. Fog filled grave yards or woods are classic horror film settings. The fog has the potential to hide danger, but also to make the innocent feel dangerous. In the fog, nothing looks or feels the same. The air feels thick, almost suffocating, if you fall asleep in the fog, would you drown?

Click here for Tate Britain premiere tickets

Access Information
Warehouse9 is wheelchair accessible via a level entrance. An accessible toilet is available and can be reached using a certified stairlift.

All events are held in a relaxed environment and follow a safer space policy. We kindly ask visitors to familiarise themselves with the space and the policy upon arrival.

Monday Salon with Martin O’Brien

Join Martin O’Brien as he shares his practice at the Monday Salon at Det Lilla Rum on Monday 18th August.
Martin will share some thoughts emerging out of his art work. He will, particularly, focus on the politics of death in relation to queerness.

Since 2022, the literary collective Det Lilla Rum and the coworking community Kontor Nr. 25 have collaborated to create morning salons for people working in the arts and culture sector. The idea is to provide a space for independents, freelancers, and small cultural institutions where we can support each other, share experiences, and be inspired by one another. Often, one or more individuals are invited to present their work. The intention is for these presentations to serve as a starting point for inspiration and conversation among attendees in an informal and community-oriented setting.

Martin O’Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing and video art. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts and critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected. He has shown work throughout the UK; Europe; USA; and Canada, and is well known for his solo performances and collaborations with the legendary LA artist and dominatrix Sheree Rose. His most recent works were at Tate Britain in 2020, the ICA (London) in 2021, and as Writer in Residence at Whitechapel Gallery in 2023. He is winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts 2022. Martin has cystic fibrosis and all of his work and writing draws upon this experience. In 2018, the book ‘Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O’Brien’ was published by Live Art Development Agency. His work has been featured on BBC radio and Sky Arts television, and as a double page spread in The Guardian. He is currently senior lecturer in Live Art, and head of department of Performance, at Queen Mary University of London.
During his residency at Warehouse9, Martin will be working on a new performance. The performance will premiere at Tate Britain in November 2025. The working title of the project is ‘Into the Fog…’. Martin will continue his exploration of death, dying, the undead, and ghostly returns through foggy death-scapes, where images are half seen or miss seen. Fog filled grave yards or woods are classic horror film settings. The fog has the potential to hide danger, but also to make the innocent feel dangerous. In the fog, nothing looks or feels the same. The air feels thick, almost suffocating, if you fall asleep in the fog, would you drown? 
Practical Info:
Language: English
Entrance: Free, just turn up!
Breakfast: vegetarian & vegan breakfast available for those who like with a symbolic charge.
Access Information:
Det Lilla Rum is located on the ground floor of a housing association in a old block of flats. There are 3 steps to enter the building.
This Salon is co-hosted by Det Lilla Rum, Kontor 25 and Warehouse9.

Martin O’Brien: Artist-in-Residence

Martin O’Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing and video art. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts and critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected. He has shown work throughout the UK; Europe; USA; and Canada, and is well known for his solo performances and collaborations with the legendary LA artist and dominatrix Sheree Rose. His most recent works were at Tate Britain in 2020, the ICA (London) in 2021, and as Writer in Residence at Whitechapel Gallery in 2023. He is winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts 2022. Martin has cystic fibrosis and all of his work and writing draws upon this experience. In 2018, the book ‘Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O’Brien’ was published by Live Art Development Agency. His work has been featured on BBC radio and Sky Arts television, and as a double page spread in The Guardian. He is currently senior lecturer in Live Art, and head of department of Performance, at Queen Mary University of London.
During his residency at Warehouse9, Martin will be working on a new performance. The performance will premiere at Tate Britain in November 2025. The working title of the project is ‘Into the Fog…’. Martin will continue his exploration of death, dying, the undead, and ghostly returns through foggy death-scapes, where images are half seen or miss seen. Fog filled grave yards or woods are classic horror film settings. The fog has the potential to hide danger, but also to make the innocent feel dangerous. In the fog, nothing looks or feels the same. The air feels thick, almost suffocating, if you fall asleep in the fog, would you drown?
Martin O’Brien will be sharing his practice whilst in residency. Details and dates to come. 

Victoria: Happy Unbirthday

What if today was your birthday? And everyone else’s too?

Happy Unbirthday! is a joyful celebration where we all join the party – wearing birthday hats, singing Happy Birthday, sharing our wishes, and taking turns smashing a giant piñata. No one’s the center of attention – and somehow, everyone is.

At the heart of this playful performance by American artist Victoria is a handmade piñata, created from recycled materials and filled with messages from previous wNorkshops: memories, dreams, and notes waiting to be passed on. Crack it open and take a message with you – a birthday gift from a stranger.

Victoria created Happy Unbirthday! in the wake of personal grief and rising anxiety around aging and mortality. Birthdays mark time – moments to pause, reflect, wish, and gather. In Mexican culture, the piñata is central to these rituals, fostering communal participation and emotional release. By bridging Mexican, American, and Danish traditions, the work becomes a space for cultural exchange, celebration, and (queer) joy.

Victoria is an identity-based artist working across video, performance, sound, sculpture, and installation. Through ​video and ​​     ​ performance, Victoria explores their Queer, non-binary identity by experimenting with makeup, costumes, and wigs to reimagine the self and invent new ways of being.

Victoria is an artist-in-residence as part of Warehouse9, ​The ​Museum of Human Achievement and

Unlisted Projects international residency exchange initiative called CopenhAustin.

Residency: You can make me hole again

Residency
Project: You can make me hole again
Artistic Team: Anna Näsström, Beck Heiberg, Anders Toft Pedersen

You can make me hole again is an investigation of the physicality of holes and of the
relationship between holes and the spatial body by using our
b o d i e s i n h o l e s , by embodying holes, and by being a
hole. We spend our time exploring the meeting of holes
and the whole, and look into our inherent obsession with filling
h o l e s both physically, emotionally and sexually. We are
asking why there is a need to feel complete. Does wholeness
only come from the hole being full? Can the hole and
whole co-exist without erasing one another and can we
be in that w/hole?

 

About The Artists

Beck Heiberg is a choreographer and performer based between Copenhagen and Berlin. He has a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from Copenhagen University and is furthermore educated at Juste Debout School in Paris, France and Hotstepper Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Beck is investigating queer- and transpolitical aesthetics as both an explicit and implicit part of his praxis. He works in a broad field of theatre and performance, but his own original work derives from building concepts up around movement and is often related to personal experiences.

Beck is a member of Dance Cooperative – a platform and workspace for intersectional feminist and artistic choreographic practices in Copenhagen.

Anna Näsström is a choreographer and danceartist based in Malmö. Her artistic practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, technology, and ethnography – navigating different contexts, movement languages and multimedia or sensory projects. She has a foundation in dance and performance from the University of the Arts in Stockholm and Peridance and BDC in New York.

Her choreographic work is informed by a range of influences including social dance, club culture, street dance, ballroom, and contemporary dance. This shapes her creative processes, which often take on a multidisciplinary character with a norm-critical lens. Anna also holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University, with a keen interest in futures thinking and world-building.

Residency: Charlie Laban Trier – Surfacing HypoKrisia

Queer Practice Residency
Artist in residence: Charlie Laban Trier
Project: Surfacing HypoKrisia

For the residencies I’m bringing along my performance-project: Surfacing Hypokrisia. I’m researching ways to invoke HypoKrisia through performative efforts, and asks what we might learn from her presence?
HypoKrisia is a speculative mythological figure of my own fabulation, imagined as the forgotten little-sister of Tiresias, the mythical Greek blind prophet. Both HypoKrisia and Tiresias could be described as trans-figures. But while Tiresias’ transitions are seen as “complete”, HypoKrisia resists the process of full becoming, choosing a performative state of “half un-done.” I suggest that HypoKrisia was intentionally written out of “his”tory because her qualities and teachings were deemed unworthy or dangerous.

I’m developing a practice that brings together HypoKrisia and myself in a complicated partnership. I’m attempting to create cracks in “the surface”, so that she can push her way through, parts of her almost appearing. I’m envisioning a dance-duet between us, or a momentarily total take-over of my body.

The research takes a curious look at the epistemological trajectory from hypokrite (ancient Greek word for actor) to hypocritical. Together we set out to embrace “hypocrisy” and follow the laws of the trickster. Our tool-box is filled with pretending, contradictory, disagreement, mimicry and faking.

Get your ticket for the free open worksharing here

About 

Charlie Laban Trier (he, him), born 1987 in Copenhagen, is a performing artist who operates in a cross-polination between disciplines, but chooses to situate his practice deep within the realm of dance. Dance is the primary lens – it’s the mode/mood and how he thinks and navigates materiality. The materiality appears as bottom-barrel yells turned into songs, text-sampling, endlessly becoming costume, carrying/caring for screens, extreme sculptural headbanging and more. He considers research materials as teachers, striving to listen to what they want to reveal. He sees dance as inherently messy, slippery and emergent – a form of knowledge that resists legibility.

Living as a transperson, is further 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 graduated with a BA in choreography from SNDO (AHK, amsterdam) in 2018.

He’s a member of Jacuzzi – an artist-run space in Amsterdam where dance/performance and other time-based medias swim together – collectively organizing public events and workshops.

 

Partners

A new residency collaboration connects artists between Aarhus and Copenhagen, fostering creative growth, collaboration, and safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ creatives.

HIMHERANDIT, Warehouse9, Åbne Scene, IPAF, and The Genderhouse Queer Arts Festival have launched a collaborative residency program connecting performing artists between Aarhus and Copenhagen. This initiative fosters innovative approaches to artist growth, strengthens inter-city connections, and creates safe environments for LGBTQIA+ artists.

The 2025 residency will support an artist with extended research opportunities across both cities.

Get your ticket for the free open worksharing here

 

Photo: Samira Mosca

Made possible with support form Statens Kunstfond

COPENHAUSTIN: INFO SESSION

Join us to learn more about the COPENHAUSTIN open call.

CopenhAustin is an annual arts residency exchange program of one queer performance artist/organizer based in Texas and one queer performance artist/organizer based in Denmark. The purpose of this residency program is to support artistic development, facilitate cultural exchange, and encourage environmental sustainability practices in the larger arts community. A unique dimension of the call is a commitment to the intersection of LGBTQIA+ issues and environmental sustainability practices.

There will be time to ask questions related to the application. We’ll break down what the residency opportunity is, who it’s for, and how to submit an application. This info session will take place online.

Sign up by writing to: [email protected]

You will receive a meeting link after you have signed up.

All curious about the call are welcome. You do not have to stay for the entire time slot, if you wish only to attend the information part of the session, that is also ok!

You can read the full application call here: https://shorturl.at/cmxzm 

 

Where? online

 

Language: English. We are able to answer questions that are asked in Danish.

INFO SESSION: QUEER PRACTICE OPEN CALL

Join us to learn about the open call and application process for Queer Practice: Open Call – an opportunity which primary focus is on supporting artistic practice through a research & development framework created by Warehouse9 and HIMHERANDIT Productions, and their festivals, which includes a residency period in Aarhus in collaboration with Åbne Scene Godsbanen.

There will be time to ask questions related to the application. We’ll break down what the residency opportunity is, who it’s for, and how to submit an application. This info session will take place online.

Register by writing to: [email protected]

All curious about the call are welcome. Following your email we will send you a link to the meeting. 

You can read the full application call here: https://shorturl.at/YmFnJ 


Access Info:

Where? Online

Language: We will mainly be conducting the info session in English. We are able to answer questions that are asked in Danish.

Duration: 1 hour