IN PROCESS: YOUR IMAGINATION
Who is allowed to be opaque?
5.10.26
18.10.26
October 5, 2026
The Artistic Research
Inspired by Édouard Glissant and cultural theorist Stuart Hall’s reflections on representation, identity, and cultural legibility, the work investigates how ideas of monoculture and legibility are formed and maintained.
“Does visual language reflect a truth about the world which is already there, or does it produce meanings about the world through representing it?”
If certain bodies are permitted to be perceived as transparent, objective, or universal, is that a condition available to everyone? And how is this transmitted in everyday life? and on stage? Can the experience of constantly being read in a particular way be used to create other ways of appearing, disappearing, or escaping fixation? Who is allowed to be vulnerable? Who is allowed to be mortal?
Artists
The group consists of dancers, a sound artist, a dramaturg, and a scenographer. Together, the group will develop a shared vocabulary that resists fixed forms. Through slow processes – improvisation, score-based structures, and collaborative image-making, a space is created where presence can remain complex, unreadable, and untranslatable. The aim is not to produce quick results, but to commit to the messy and to study, experiment, fail, and negotiate with care.
Lydia Ö Diakité
Lydia Östberg Diakité is a swedish-Ivorian artist and choreographer based in Copenhagen. Working across choreography, performance, video, text and installation, her multidisciplinary practice explores storytelling through performative gestures, choreographic structures and embodied forms of knowledge.
Her work investigates how images and narratives can be rearranged to create new ways of seeing, relating and imagining. Diakité graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2017 and Maumaus 26. Her work has been presented in a range of institutional and independent contexts in Denmark and internationally.
In 2019, she co-founded Dance Cooperative, an artist-run studio and platform for dance and choreography in Copenhagen, which is now maintained and organised collectively by a group of 15 members.
Tati Daniel
Tati au Miel is the alias of Tania Daniel, a Montréal born and raised artist. Their practice draws from improvisation and collaboration as crucial entry points into their worlds of sound, performance, and installation.
Their work unfolds as an ever-evolving proposition of relationality and encounter, considering space, time, and presence as active collaborators in the shaping of intimate, embodied experiences that engage with quantum thinking, musique concrète, and Haitian Spiralism. They are currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Music/Sound at Bard College, NY.
Léana Licius
Léana Licius (she/her) is a danser/performer based in Copenhagen.
After enjoying dancing hip hop in her childhood, Léana went to the Conservatoire à rayon régional of Toulouse. In 2021. She moves to Copenhagen in order to study her bachelor in dance and choreography at the Danish school of performing arts. Post graduating, Léana has been an apprentice at the Swedish dance company Norrdans.
Now freelancing between Denmark and Sweden, she focuses on joining different processes and practice costume design as an amateur.
Louis Paolo de Venecia Gile
LouisPaolo de Venecia Gile is a Filipino–Swedish dancer, performer, andchoreographer based in Copenhagen.
She is an alumnus of the Danish NationalSchool of Performing Arts, with a background in nursing studies, as well as amember of Dance Cooperative, an artist-run platform and studio in Copenhagen.
Ànitá Beikpour
Ánítá Beikpour er en dansk-iransk filminstruktør og kunstner, der arbejder i krydsfeltet mellem dokumentar, fiktion, performance, video og installation.
Hendes praksis er præget af kollektive og tværdisciplinære samarbejder, hvor personlige fortællinger forbindes med politiske og sociale spørgsmål om frihed, identitet, migration og tilhørsforhold.
Hun har arbejdet i forskellige kollektive konstellationer og samarbejder, blandt andet som del af kunstkollektivet FCNN (Feminist Collective With No Name), der har udstillet internationalt, herunder på Berlin Biennalen.Med afsæt i aktivisme, performance, video og kollektive praksisser har deres arbejde været med til at udfordre repræsentationen på den danske kunstscene og skabe rum for nye kollektive og minoriserede stemmer i kunsten.
Format
The work engages with images of illusion, constructing historical and fictional scenarios within a fragmented flow of bodies in motion. Images that emerge and dissolve simultaneously.
Through a dreamlike and associative dramaturgy, the piece explores the constant movement between the construction and collapse of worlds. Scenes, rhythms, and bodies slide into one another, transforming intuitively rather than linearly, like fragments of memory or sensations not yet fixed in place.
The performance invites the audience into a state of perceptual instability: to leave uncertain of what they actually saw. Perception continually shifts; images linger even as they disappear. The work searches for a methodical approach to something emotionally driven and unstable, by flow guided by association, intuition, and dance.
This residency is co-curated by Madhumita Nandi and HAUT's artistic leader Lili Blum.