Tearing Up is an evocative exploration including scattered slide-shows of MOVEMENTS and strained breath. The practice contains suppressed emotions, the sensation of tearing up into eternity, as well as the desire for a release.
The practice stems from the draining and exhausting experience of containing the need to CRY
It manifests itself into the limbs and MOVES through distorted images of someone tearing up. We look at tearing, as a way of breaking apart and slowly dissolving. It’s the potential of withholding, as a resistance to shedding, to whom or what might not serve. An impossible quest, standing on the verge of overwhelm while the flood of tears approaches. The world of Tearing Up contains friction and self-regulation, where we look to the moments in-between our breaths, sighs and empty sobs.
We move between the number 1 and number 2, and the non-what, the almost, and the IMPOSSIBLE.
I tried to see if the tears would ever appear, but they didn’t. “Where did the tears go?” - Filip Vest for Bastard Blog, 2025
Hanna A. Lokøy (she/her) is a Norwegian dance artist and choreographer based in Copenhagen. As a recent graduate of the Danish School of Performing Arts, Lokøy is currently busy with her existing work on crochet. Her debut “Å hekle ved” premiered at Tou Scene in September 2023 and has later performed the forerunner “HÆKLET” in 2024 at Huset KBH and at Aaben Dans. Alongside this, Lokøy actively works with choreographic scoring in her processes. From her undergraduate project, she began researching Crying and Cunting, from a feminist interest in emotion that lets both dramaturgy and somatic experiences bleed into one another.
Aikaterini Dimitrelli is a Greek dance artist and performer based in Copenhagen/Denmark. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in dance and choreography from The National School of Performing Arts in 2024. Her artistic practice revolves around live composition between music and dance as a living, frequent wave of constant listening. She is curious about the relationship between body, thought and sound. She experiments from a place that unfolds fictional narratives in space to create a poetic landscape. Improvisational scores, embodied words and metaphors are some of the elements she uses to explore the boundaries between realism and dream.
Hanna A. Lokøy (she/her) is a choreographer and performer from Norway based in Copenhagen. After graduating from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2024, Lokøy has been invested in her dual choreographic projects HÆKLET and Tearing Up. Her artistic practice deviates from choreographic scoring and she works actively with bodily distortion and emotional streams in the different works. Her choreographic debut to crochet by premiered at Tou Scene in 2023 in collaboration with Lasse Lokøy. In 2024 she developed the solo-version HÆKLET which was presented at Huset KBH and at Aaben Dans in 2024. Together with Aikaterini Dimitrelli she is now in process with Tearing Up that was first shared during a residency at Haut in 2025.
Aikaterini Dimitrelli (she / her) is an interdisciplinary dance artist and performer from Greece, based in Copenhagen. She graduated from dance and choreography department of the Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2024. She has collaborated internationally with artists including Ottavia Catenacci, Rodrigo Andreolli, Maria Hassabi, Parini Secondo, Alma Söderberg, Cristian Duarte, Snorre Elvin, and Alice Martucci. In 2025, she was an artist in residency at Nordisk Teater Laboratorium together with CuntsCollective as part of the iCoDaco residency. Her artistic practice waves between performance and writing. Often unfolding through the notions of texts and embodied research. She is currently engaged in close collaboration with Hanna A. Lokøy on the ongoing project Tearing Up, which has been part on HAUT residency in 2025.
Carl-Noë Struck plays cello and electronic instruments, exploring acoustic and electronic spaces from various angles. He has collaborated in many interdisciplinary works with choreographers and other artists/musicians that shaped his work and influences.
IN CONNECTIONis a 2-week residency that connects Danish performing artists with an international scene and invites international artists to take part in the Copenhagen scene.