The written body. Inspired by the dance plague, choreographer and performer Beck Heiberg explores how written and performed language can be developed from a choreographic perspective.

Through an in-depth process, he approaches the written word based on choreographic principles. Based on the historical event “The Dance Plague,” he first invites himself to write himself into a state of ecstasy and later into exhaustion. He invites his colleagues to write with him in a shared dance, where misunderstandings, self-will, or shared aesthetic choices shape a text to be performed. The question of how to perform a text will be explored and investigated in this research through various formats, where the text informs the performing body, hangs like a backdrop, is spoken in fragments, or as a voice-over.

Beck consults with philosopher and writer Angelica Stathopoulos throughout the process and receives advice from Luka Holmegaard. During his residency, Beck continues to write on material he has created together with choreographer Sigrid Stigsdatter during EVES#8, produced by Dance Cooperative.

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Flamenco & Fugitivity. Spiritual traveling through physical repetition.

Phyllis Akinyi is revisiting G.R.I.E.F., a work from 2021 exploring rhythm, trance and flamenco as interwoven entities. In this revisit she is applying ideas of ‘fugitivity’, exploring how the flamenco compass (rhythm structure) can be used as a technology for a fugitive practice.

Phyllis find resonance with Fred Moten’s articulation(s) of fugitivity as “complicated temporal and spatial anomalies; both before and after, and not confined to the limits of one’s own body ... [Fugitivity is] something that is shared, a communal force, a process of self accomplishment and also of self-disruption, interruption.”1  So she will end the year by performing G.R.I.E.F.  in the studio at Thoravej 29, 3 days of 3 hours each - working with magic numbers, to close out the year of 9 in numerology and the year of the Snake in Chinese cosmology. Shedding and transformation is at the core of both cosmologies, as well as in her artistic practice, and she find it organic to be facilitating a space of research-by-doing, alone and in gatherings with others, letting go while being held.

1 Moten, Fred. "Poetic Narratives of Black Fugitivity." Boston Ujima Project, Youtube [Video]. 25 April 2024. https://youtu.be/_noVUt3g68Y?si=1yPQbxpuwoB0MMlt

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HUMUS: Tilling the Soil for Cooperative Futures; An Investigation into Biomimetic Scaffolding for Artistic and Cultural Work

During their IN DEPTH residency, Abdul Dube will open a space to test and consolidate the last years. With a desire to create parallel learning scenarios and radical pedagogies, Abdul will study how trans and queer people have kept themselves alive by learning and unlearning.

How do we keep a continuous learning culture around us, so that we don’t stop caring during times of genocide? During four weeks, Abdul will filter out what they have gathered over the years and work within cooperative principles to imagine infrastructures that surpasses institutions that deal with big funding bodies. By fusing in performing methodologies and weaving in local intelligence, Abdul will work towards a series of teachings that help us not to forgot, to hold onto and keep memory, and to develop a culture of continuous learning.