Andie Flores: BAD DANCING (workshop)
BAD DANCING is an open group ecstatic dance session that encourages participants to lean all the way into cringe.
In an exploration of embarrassment as process, CopenhAustin/Unlisted Projects artist-in-residence Andie Flores leads BAD DANCING, two hours of dancing for cringe, dancing for social disaster, dancing for sweet clown freedom, all set to a diverse music selection. Join us as we dance alone together in an open space. All welcome, no experience required.
How to attend: The workshop is free and you can RSVP HERE
ACCESS NOTES
Language: English.
Sessions: Feel free to come to all or just one session. Attendance both days is not a necessity, but we of course hope you can.
Who can participate: All are welcome! (Some music selections may not be suitable for children.) Participants should bring an open mind and at least semi-energetic spirit.
Range og movement: Suitable to everyone. Range of physical movement and intensity 100% up to each attendee. You know your body best. Taking breaks encouraged. Comfy clothes and footwear suggested. Water and light snacks provided.
Accessibility details of space: Warehouse9’s workspace has level free entrance to the space and an accessible toilet that can be accessed via a stairlift.
All events at Warehouse9 are considered “relaxed”. We operate with a safer space policy and ask that you orientate yourself with it upon entry to the space.
ABOUT
ANDIE FLORES (b. 1990) (she/her) is a performance artist based in Austin, Texas, who uses embarrassment as a medium for investigating hyper, almost obsessive, visibility in a racialized body across barriers of border, history, and capital. Her practice works to unsettle categorical, site-specific expectations of genres of performance (femininity, Latinidad, drag, citizenry) and aims to recontextualize the mechanisms required to do the work of the absurd. Flores creates experimental live performances that pair identity and comedic culture moments with over-exaggerated, often grotesque shapes and sounds. She is fascinated by the urgent task of world-building at the edge of the limits of art-making.
www.andieflores.com
Queer Community Singing Group
Experience singing together without being limited by gender or voice type. Queer Community Singing Group welcomes all singing, all genders, all identities, without judgement. QCSG embrace the joy of singing in harmony together, and build community by showing each other respect and kindness.
Queer Community Singing Group is a queer, non-traditional singing group who sings pop songs.
QCSG do not divide into the classic voice-groups to be inclusive of non-binary and trans friends.
QCSG is free to join and no former choir experience is needed. No audition, just book a free ticket and show up.
Access
Kulturstationen Vanløse is wheelchair accessible. Access to all levels are possible via elevator. Accessible toilets are available on site.
Support
Queer Community Singing Group is supported in close collaboration by Warehouse9 and made possible with support of Vanløse Lokaludvalg and the City of Copenhagen.
Where does a clown fit in the revolution?
Where does a clown fit in the revolution? Experience US artist Andie Flores, self coined “embarrassment artist”, as she shares her practice of embarrassment and failure as a means to revolution. Andie Flores is artist-in-residence as part of Warehouse9, Museum of Human Achievement and Unlisted Projects international residency exchange initiative called CopenhAustin.
Format: Workshop
Place: Roskilde Festival, Flokkr, Container #1
Accessibility: https://faq.roskilde-festival.dk/hc/en-gb/sections/11297582362781-Accessibility
NOTE: this workshop takes place at Roskilde Festival and therefore requires a Roskilde Festival ticket to attend.
Andie Flores
ANDIE FLORES (b. 1990) (she/her) is a performance artist in Austin, Texas, who uses embarrassment as a medium for investigating hyper, almost obsessive, visibility in a racialized body across barriers of border, history, and capital. Her practice works to unsettle categorical, site-specific expectations of genres of performance (femininity, Latinidad, drag, citizenry) and aims to recontextualize the mechanisms required to do the work of the absurd. Flores creates experimental live performances that pair identity and comedic culture moments with over-exaggerated, often grotesque shapes and sounds. She is fascinated by the urgent task of world-building at the edge of the limits of art-making.
Her work has been shown at Bushwig, Presa House Gallery, The Museum of Human Achievement, Ivester Contemporary, MASS Gallery, Future Front Film Fest, Contrast Film Festival, Fusebox Festival, and The Dallas Latino Cultural Center; and her writing has appeared in fields, Precog, Jezebel, and Remezcla. She was named one of Remezcla’s ‘40 Emerging, Texas-based Artists to Know’ in 2020, and made Glasstire’s ‘Best of 2021’ list. She debuted her first solo stage show, To Get There… You Must Undergo… A Radical Transformation at OUTsider Festival in February 2023 and produced a sold-out 6-show run at Crashbox in November 2023. She was voted best performance artist and among the top three art writers in Concept Animals’ Community Favorites poll of December 2023.
Queer Community Singing Group
Experience singing together without being limited by gender or voice type. Queer Community Singing Group welcomes all singing, all genders, all identities, without judgement. QCSG embrace the joy of singing in harmony together, and build community by showing each other respect and kindness.
Queer Community Singing Group is a queer, non-traditional singing group who sings pop songs.
QCSG do not divide into the classic voice-groups to be inclusive of non-binary and trans friends.
QCSG is free to join and no former choir experience is needed. No audition, just book a free ticket and show up.
Access
Warehouse9 is Wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are accessed via stairlift. Accessible parking is available on site.
Support
Queer Community Singing Group is supported in close collaboration by Warehouse9 and made possible with support of Vanløse Lokaludvalg and the City of Copenhagen.
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.
