H A U T

Feral Fantasies 

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Format: WORKSHARING
Genre: Dance, choreography and voice

Date: 25th June 2025
Time: 15:00-17.00
Place: Black Box
Thoravej 29, 
2400 Copenhagen NW

Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve your spot as seats are limited – you can book a ticket right here:

Photographer Clara Silva 

The artistic research

Feral Fantasies is a choreographic solo by Andreas Haglund. It’s a project that explores the desire to become feral, to embody queer monstrosities and to dance in the face of alienation. The project takes cues from subcultural eco-sexual expressions of assuming animal positions through costume and comportment, such as within the Furry community or in different BDSM-practices. Inspired by the wild desires that create these communities, the project uses dance, song, costume and stage magic to conjure the Feral Fantasies that re-articulate the role of humans in nature. 

During this IN PRODUCTION residency choreographer and dance artist Andreas Haglund will be working with a stellar team. Will Zawistowski on lights, Camilla Lind on costume, Lydia Östberg Diakité on dramaturgy, Asta Norborg on music/sound and Ella Östlund as an outside eye. The weeks at HAUT will take place quite early in the production of the piece and will therefore center on exploration and trials. The team will deep-dive into staging explorations based on questions like these: How can nature be understood as something performative? How can a distinct separation between human and the more-than-human be blurred, distorted and undone? How can staged dance be used as a tool to undermine conservative and extractive comprehensions of nature? How can the cultural alienation produced by the metabolic rift be mended by dance and song? How badly does the desire to become feral turn into something wild itself? 

1,5 weeks into the residency you are invited for a WORKSHARING. Here you join the artists in the work space to get an insight into the material they are working on, take part in a conversation about the work in this exploratory stage and thereby contribute the artists further process.

Feral Fantasies is a co-production with Dansehallerne and will premiere in their black box on the 29th of October. The piece is supported by Statens Kunstfond.

About the artist

Andreas Haglund (SE/DK) works as a freelance dancer, performer and choreographer in and around Stockholm and Copenhagen.

Their artistic practice centers explorations of the somatic, material and aesthetic coherences between queer lived experience and the cultural conception of nature. On stage, in dance practice and in text.

They are educated in Dance & Choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts where they trained mostly western dance techniques with an emphasis on contemporary dance practices. Their education also included an exchange semester at The Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. 

Andreas has worked in various constellations with choreographers, visual artists and institutions such as: Frédéric Gies, Jules Fischer, Weld Company, Zheng Bo, Tårnby Park Studio, Nordlys, Stina Ehn, Antonia Harke & Denise Lim. 

About IN PRODUCTION

IN PRODUCTION is HAUT's 2-4 weeks residency for Denmark-based performing artists of all ages, who have received support from The Danish Arts Foundation or other foundations. It gives artists the opportunity to work on productions in a studio or a black box as well as receive sparring from HAUT.

The residency is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, The Bikuben Foundation and The Municipality of Copenhagen.