Dance is ancient gives carte blanche to Dance Cooperative to present their new works, practices and fresh ideas.
Dance Cooperative is an artist-run platform and association with a physical workspace in Valby, organized by 12 Copenhagen-based choreographers, dancers and performing artists. Dance Cooperative and its members organize around both collegial support and a shared interest in artistic practice that explores queer, anti-racist, eco-sensitive and intersectional feminist themes. The cooperative organizes performance events, workshops and network events for and by practicing performing artists and other curious beings. Dance Cooperative creates sustainable frames for producing, working, and experimenting with performing arts, dance, and choreography.
The 12 members are: Lydia Östberg Diakité, Emilie Gregersen, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Oriane Paras, Andreas Haglund, Camilla Lind, Mikka Mallow, Antoinette Helbing, Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen, Ar Utke Ács, Beck Heiberg and Klara Lopez. The members artistic practices consists of a tapestry of different aesthetics and methodologies. From choreographies for stage to long-durational performances for public spaces and dances for night clubs. Throughout these differences the members of the cooperative share an ambition to explore immanent politics of contemporary existence, to twist and turn ideas, preconceptions and approaches to other humans, ecology and our societal systems.
Price: Completely free of charge thanks to the support of Malmö stad, Region Skåne and Kulturrådet
Info: come for the whole day and evening, or at the beginning of each programme point
Booking will be made available on our booking page as the program unfolds.
PROGRAMME
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DANCE COOPERATIVE’s LINEUP
Portaits (from left to right and up and down): Andreas Haglund, Antoinette Helbing, Sigrid Stigsdatter, Camilla Lind, Klara Lopez
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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.
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Antoinette Helbing (she/her) is a German dance artist and member of the artist-run platform Dance CooperativE in Copenhagen (DK). She divides her time between creating, performing, teaching and practising within the Feldenkrais method.
Her choreographic work is driven by her wish to create art that evokes the viewer’s sense of belonging, of togetherness and empathy – seeing those attributes as patches for the holes in the world’s community. Our endlessly self-centred way of life is threatening both ecosystems and humanity. Societies are increasingly categorising and exclusive while our physical closeness with each other reduces. And yet we are bodies – ripe, receptive, vulnerable and demanding. Despite the influence of the digital world that reduces our ability to sense ourselves and others. What does it mean to exist as a body in our modern world?
As a reminder that we, beyond our instagram handles, are actual living and breathing beings, Antoinette creates experiences within and across bodies. Working towards connection, she addresses the empathic through multi-sensory experiences. Confronting with the sensual force of the moment, she makes the audience aware of themselves by their own sensual experience of themselves as spectators. She’s researching methods to transfer the performers’ sensations directly into the audience’s body. This bodily translation carries the potential to fantasise, to sense and to think from another body’s perspective. -
Camilla Lind is an inter-disciplinary and-performance artist. In her work she is occupied with interlacing the public with the private space and draws references to mythology, pop culture and subculture. She explores the notion of the body as a socialised, political and psychodramatic collective entity. She figurates in the notions of failure, sexuality and performativity as places to unveil new potentials of knowledge, where humour is an inevitable tool in her work. She is part of the artist driven space Dance Cooperative in CPH and educated in Dance and Choreography from the The Danish National school of performing arts.
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Klara Lopez is a multidisciplinary visual artist. With a dance background, she is currently a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Featuring a variety of media, her works explore intimacy, distance, desire and disgust.
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Lydia Östberg Diakité is an artist who works across performance, video, text and choreography - often combined in installation and performative formats. With her practice, Diakité conveys complex speculative narratives on themes such as identity, power, heritage, popular cultural references and performative gestures.
Diakité graduated from The Danish National School of Performing Arts’ dance and choreography studies in 2017 and has since worked and toured with several works internationally: immortal summit (2021) and A Choreographic Conversation (2021) created together with BamBam Frost; CRY BABY (2020) and FIEBRE (2018), co-signed by Tamara Alegre and Marie Ursin and winner of The ImPulsTanz – Young Choreogra phers’ Award – [8:tension] series 2021.
Diakité is co-founder of Dance Cooperative (2019), an artist-run studio in Copenhagen, and serves on the board of The Union (2018), a cultural workers’ association that aims to create critical anti-racist discourse within the art and culture scene in Denmark. -
Sigrid Stigsdatter is a choreographer, performer and vocalist based between Copenhagen and Amsterdam. Through body and voice, text and sound her practice interrogates the addictive, the emotional, the intuitive, and the wild. She explores how the resonance created between performer and audience can leave us forever changed. By saying yes and yes and yes and and and instead of or or or she creates a dramaturgy that insist on the multiple, the layers, the complicated, the punk and magic.
Sigrid completed her BA of choreography at School for New Dance Development, SNDO in 2017 and is currently pursuing her MA in Choreography at The Danish National School of Performing Arts.
In addition to her own projects, Sigrid works with various other artists such as Alex Baczyński Jenkins, Andreas Hannes, Tino Sehgal, Oneka Von Schrader, Miriam Kongstad and Emilie Gregersen. She is an active member of Jacuzzi in Amsterdam and Dance Cooperative in Copenhagen two artist-run spaces working for and with the community around the dance and performance scene. Her involvement in these collectives and political spaces continues to be a crucial part of her artistic function.
Sigrid was selected Aerowaves artist 2022, Icehot artist 2022, Danceweb 2018 and received the moving forward award 2017. She has shown her work or been in residency at Tanzhaus Zürich, MTD Stockholm, Dansateliers Rotterdam, HAUT Copenhagen, Veem House For Performance, Azkuna Zentora Bilbao, Dansbrabant Tilburg, New Fears Berlin and many more.