AN HOUR WITH: Antoinette Helbing
On RESIDUAL MATERIALS, choreographic composting that condenses remnants of laughter and crying into dance.
18.9.25
18.9.25
10:00 - 11:00
Thoravej 29, 2400 København NV
19:30 Surbending_Black box
Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve a ticket as space is limited. You can book your ticket here:
The artistic practice and research
At this AN HOUR WITH dance artist, choreographer and Feldenkrais practitioner Antoinette Helbing invites you into her artistic practice and current curiosity towards RESIDUAL MATERIALS.
With RESIDUAL MATERIALS Helbing explores choreographic composting as a method to transform emotional residues of laughter and crying into autonomous movement, uncovering new layers of embodied knowledge. What new expressions emerge from what was once discarded? What resonates when the residual materials of previous emotion-expression-driven works are distilled into intimate dancing?
With this process Helbing redirects her artistic practice toward a deeper anchoring of dance as an autonomous artistic form. While earlier works that revolved around laughter and crying allowed the emotional expression to dominate the movement, RESIDUAL MATERIALS aims to renegotiate this relationship. Breathing new life into movement material that was previously discarded as too much dance and exploring excess material as meaningful and generative elements in a new performative form.
The artist
Antoinette Helbing
Antoinette Helbing (DE) works as dance artist, choreographer and Feldenkrais practitioner. She’s member of the artist-run platform Dance CooperativE driven by 12 freelance dance artists in Copenhagen. Her works unfold between stage, installation, on site work and film - combining the somatic with the expressive and the melting of movement into voice and vice versa. Basic human expressions such as laughing and crying are the base for her to expose human emotions and to activate our empathetic and connective features. During this in-depth residency, she’s investigating how to close the circle between emotion-driven choreogra-phy and its distillation into the form of more abstract dance.
The residency
Antoinette Helbing has been invited to participate in a four-week IN DEPTH residency at HAUT. During the residency, she will work side by side in the same studio with artists Alica Minar and Kirstine Lindemann. Focusing on their individual research, they will also allow their work to cross-pollinate and inspire each other.
IN DEPTH is HAUT's 4-week residency that gives experienced performing artists time to immerse themselves in their own artistic practice.