guts spilled edges

– a feeling-based and feeling-generating way of working. 

 

Format: WORKSHARING
Genre: Choreography and dramaturgy

Date: 26th June 2025
Time: 16:00-18:00
Place: workspacebrussels, Brussels 

Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve your spot as seats are limited – send an email to riet@workspacebrussels.be to book your seat.

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The artistic research

This residency is building on strategies for creating choreographic material and ruthless dramaturgy in close correspondence with the concreteness of a room and its imaginary layers. Through cycles of accumulation and collaging Joana Öhlschläger and Lotta Beckers will research the emergence of scenes, characters and support acts as a feeling-based and feeling-generating way of working.

About the artists

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Joana Öhlschläger is a German choreographer and dancer based in Copenhagen. 

Through transdisciplinary collaborations she constructs sensorial universes that employ humor, surprise and abstracted cliché to invite an audience into places of imaginative recognition and emotional permission. Her most recent works are ALL GOOD IN (2024), piece off (2023) and ETERNAL SUPPORT ACT (2023).

Joana holds an MfA in Choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts. She is co-founder of KOMMA Performance Productions, an association supporting freelance performing artists to realize their work.

Website: https://joanaoehlschlaeger.com/

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Photographer Eliana Kirkcaldy

Lotta Paula Mathilda Beckers (she/they) lives in Berlin and works as a dramaturge and artist. She studied Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Gießen, Choreography and Dance at DDSKS in Copenhagen, and European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam. Starting in April, Lotta will be part of the Performative Arts class led by Isabel Lewis at HGB Leipzig.

As a dramaturge and co-author, she is involved in a long-term collaboration with theatre director Noam Brusilovsky and scenographer Magdalena Emmerig. Together, they develop documentary theatre pieces that question power structures and explore the impossible in theatre. In 2022, their project „Nicht Sehen“ won the Nestroy Special Prize. Moreover, Lotta collaborates regularly with choreographer Deva Schubert, both as a dramaturge and performer. The performance “Glitch Choir” was invited to renowned festivals such as Tanztage Berlin and the ImpulsTanz Festival in Vienna, where it won the Young Choreographer’s Award in 2024.

Lotta’s own artistic research revolves around the entanglements of desire and power, and the transformative potential of performativity. She is interested in the oscillation between the documentary and the poetic, the intimate and the public, and the historical within the personal. Using writing, movement, and video, Lotta experiments with essayistic forms across various media. In her practice, Lotta moves fluently between the fields of theatre, performance, dance, and media arts.

About IN CONNECTION

IN CONNECTION is HAUT’s residency that gives international performing artists the opportunity of a residency at HAUT and Danish performing artists the opportunity of a residency with one of HAUT’s international partners. The format is shaped in response to the artist’s and the project’s needs. 

Copenhagen-based Joana öhlschläger was invited into a two weeks IN CONNECTION residency at workspacebrussels in Brussels with the artistic project "guts spilled edges". This opportunity blossomed out of HAUT's long term collaboration with workspacebrussels – laboratory for research, experiment & creation in the performing arts.

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