#ONE (A dance after a dance after another dance - 2023)
This dance performance evening is the first of the series “A dance after a dance after another dance – 2023” that will unfold during this fall. In this series, we offer a programme of shorter dances and performances, old or brand new, which together constitute a full evening programme. They are excerpts of longer works from our repertoire, remixes, works-in progress or short pieces created for the occasion. We present them in a stripped down way and intimate setting, doing away with the whole theater apparatus, in order to make the dance appear in the most direct and lively way. It also puts the dancers and their artistry at the center of the programme.
For #ONE, Dance is ancient invites collaborator Andreas Haglund to present his own work in the shape of a work in progress of his up-coming solo. Declan Whitaker and Frédéric Gies will also dance bold, relentless and voluptuous dances extracted from the Chiron in Aries cycle by Frédéric Gies, to the exhilarating beats by Fiedel. The performances will be followed by a discussion with the artists.
PROGRAMME
Many Wild Times by Andreas Haglund
Many Wild Times. Original Photography: Benedicte Ramfjord
Many Wild Times’ is a choreographic project by Andreas Haglund. In it they investigates the overlaps between hetereocis-normative sociability and climate collapse. Through staging methods that propose queer access to time and how dance can distort the binary of nature and culture. The work consists of dances that stretch and songs that loop and Andreas uses ‘Many Wild Times’ to investigate methods to rewild dance & choreography.
Inspired by Queer theorist Jack Halberstam and Climate theorist Andreas Malm (amongst others), he learned the ways in which Queer lives are determined as degenerate and ‘against nature’. Andreas investigates how this pequeerliar social position can be an (ad)vantage point for reformulating human relations to nature. What is regenerative about the degenerates? How can dance tease regenerative practices from the body?
Dance & choreography: Andreas Haglund
Excerpts and remixes from Chiron in Aries’ cycle by Frédéric Gies
Photo: Thomas Zamolo
Since 2020, Frédéric Gies has been working on the 7-piece cycle Chiron in Aries. To that day, 4 pieces have already been created. Chiron in Aries takes for framework the astrology and mythology around the figure of the centaur Chiron, the wounded healer, who can also be seen as a queer mythological figure.
Selected duos and solos from the pieces are be presented on the original music by Fiedel, but also uniquely revisited with group dances danced as solos and/or solos as duos. The Spring edition revisited Brittanie Brown and Elisa Brewer’s solos. It is now time to rediscover the cycle through the prism of dancers Declan Whitaker and Frédéric Gies.
Choreography: Frédéric Gies
Dance: Frédéric Gies & Declan Whitaker
Music: Fiedel
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
PRACTICAL INFO
Language: none
Note: the show contains loud music
Price: free
Dates & Times
Fri. 10 November 2023 - 19.00
Sat. 11 November 2023 - 19.00
Program
18.30: Doors open
19.00: Show
20.00: Discussion with the artists (in English)
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
About Andreas Haglund
Andreas works as a freelance dancer and performer and choreographer. He has a BA in Dance and choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts. He is a member of Dance Cooperative; a new platform, dance studio and place for intersectional practice and performances in Copenhagen. Andreas has, among other things, worked with choreographers such as Jules Fischer, Andros Zins-Browne, Ágnes Grélinger, Thjerza Balaj, Paolo Gile, Stina Ehn, Antonia Harke and Denise Lim. Andreas performed in several Chiron in Aries’ pieces: Hope, Barricades and Legacies, Constellations and Alliances. He will also collaborate on the future opus of the cycle.
About Declan Whitaker
Declan is a dancer and choreographer based in Switzerland. His artistic interest lies with aesthetic conventions and the border between fantasy and reality. As a performer he has worked with Meg Stuart, Isabel Lewis, Simone Aughterlony and Martin Forsberg amongst others. Declan is a part of The Field, the associated collective at Tanzhaus Zürich. He holds a Master’s degree from London Contemporary Dance School and in 2019 received the danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz. In 2023, Declan was part of Springback Academy in the frame of Aerowaves.