The Essence
An exploration of the elusive quality at the heart of rhythmic dance and music; hard to describe and even harder to find.
5.5.24
5.5.24
14:00-16:00
Teatret Zeppelin, Valdemarsgade 15, 1665 København V
19:30 Surbending_Black box
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the artistic research
At the core in the research of "The Essence" is a quest to understand what makes dance and music truly resonate with the human spirit and mind.
Is it the pulsating beats of the drums or the fluid movements of the body? Or perhaps it's the symbiotic relationship between rhythm and dance that gives birth to something greater than the sum of its elements. Within the framework of this residency, the artists will use Afro House as a tool to get closer to the core of what "The Essence" might be. Central to the exploration is the process of breaking things down to their soul elements. By stripping away the layers of complexity, they hope to find what or what not lays within.
the artists
While the artists all share a background in professional dance training, their creative interests stretch beyond "just" dance.
Each of the four artists practice a multitude of other skills often complimentary to dance such as DJ'ing, Music Production, Graphic Animation to Videography, MC'ing to Singing. This diverse mix of artistic expressions set the scene for a vibrant journey ahead as they explore the intersections of their chosen art forms. They let each experiment and each fusion offer an opportunity for growth and collaboration, enriching their collective perspective.
Collaborators
Amdy Ngom - Sabar Dance
Workshop Sophia Makrinius - Project Writing
Emina Musti
Har siden 2015 været teatercoach og performer og har udviklet sig til en queer performer og indholdsskaber i det homofobiske landskab i Tunesien. Som medlem af Nawel Skandranis kollektiv siden 2018 har han bidraget til den queer performance-scene og har undervist i fysisk teater siden 2017.
Jolie Gambula
Jolie Gambula is a Copenhagen based artist with a background in electronic music and performing arts – oriented sound design, working within the field of composition, installation, dance, theater and digital art. Sound poses a medium via which moltamole lets herself explore and absorb external environments, as well as sonify inner, emotional landscapes. The intimacy of her sonic meandering is often imbued with field recordings, voice, noise, ASMR or poetry. Preoccupied by sonic tactility, she often weaves textural compositions and abstract soundscapes. A lot of her current work is conceptual, evolving around creating scores for composition and room sound design.Graduated from Den Danske Scenekunstskole (Copenhagen) and Catalyst (Berlin). Some of the projects she has been involved in are: MINOTAUR GRL [Inter Arts Center], GROUNDINGS [O – Overgaden], ENTANGLED [Det Kongelige Teater], TRAGISKE MÅDER AT SLÅ EN KVINDE IHJEL PÅ [Odense Teater] or SCINITLLAE[Basement, Teater MOMENTUM].
Charlie Luccini
Works with video, sculpture, and writing. He holds an MA in Moving Image from RCA, London, 2017. Gross examines how objects are encoded within social practices and technology, exploring their material history and popular narratives.His work has been shown and exhibited in the UK, Germany, Norway, and Denmark, with his most recent exhibitions at Calcio, London; RIBA, London; Salt, Oslo; ICA, London; and St.
the residency
IN PROCESS is HAUT’s one week residency format that makes space for physical brainstorms supporting the investigation and the development of new ideas for the stage.
Jolie Gambula, Charlie Luccini, Emina Musti and Raffael Bender have been invited into this residency through the open call “IN PROCESS – Rhythmic Dance”, whose focus was on the development of methods and choreographic approaches that evenly prioritise improvisation and freestyle as well as choreographic phrases. The open call also emphasized a focus on choreographers and dancers specialized in specific historically-founded dance traditions, with an interest in developing performing art formats that e.g. include steps and movement coordination, choreographic formation work, improvisation, precision, personal style and a strong expression. The open call was curated in collaboration with Marie Kaae Schmidt.