Tearing up as we move through

Moving from a place of friction with the stream of tears

 

Format: WORKSHARING
Genre: Performative practise

Date: February 9th 2025
Time: 14:00-16:00
Place: Black Box,

Thoravej 29,
2400 København NV

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Photo credit: Miranda Riviere

 

The artistic research

From a place of crying, an emotional state that embodies both friction and the potential for release, the group will research the somatic experience of tears. They will delve into the duration, intensity, and intention of this vulnerable state.

Digging into the scattered and the moments in-between each movement, they seek to observe every hiccup and tension that emerges in a crying session. Within this, they are curious to engage wording and voicing. By placing words on paper and outloud, they hope to transform the physicality of crying in a poetic and fictional scape. 

Falling into crying is falling into care, in this research the artists want to find ways of holding space for friction to exist and unfold. Creating a nest of references, memories and elements of comfort.

About the artists

The desire to collaborate comes from a place of shared interest in writing and choreography. They draw on shared threads from their educational backgrounds as a starting point for developing their duoship and emerging their distinct artistic approaches. Through this IN PROCESS residency, they wish to explore and engage with new and relevant aspects of crying, building on their previous collaborative work.

HANNA A. LOKØY(she/her) is a Norwegian dance artist and choreographer based in Copenhagen. As a recent graduate of the Danish National School of Performing Arts, Lokøy is currently invested in her existing work with crocheting. Her debut “Å hekle ved” premiered in Tou Scene in September 2023 and has later performed the prequel “HÆKLET” in 2024 at Huset KBH and at Aaben Dans. Alongside this, Lokøy works with choreographic scoring actively in her processes. From her bachelor project, she started the research on Crying and Cunting, from a feminist interest on emotions that allows both dramaturgy and somatic experiences to play in, on one another.

AIKATERINI DIMITRELLI is a dance artist and performer from Greece, based in Copenhagen/Denmark. She graduated with a Bachelor of Dance and Choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2024. Her artistic practice revolves around live composition between music and dance as a vibrant, frequent wave of constant listening. She is curious in the relation between body, thought and sound. Experimenting from a place which unfolds fictional narratives in space in order to create a poetic landscape. Improvisation scores, embodied words and metaphors are some of the elements she uses to investigate the limits between realism and dream.

About IN PROCESS

IN PROCESS is HAUT’s 1-2 week long residency format that makes space for physical brainstorms supporting the investigation and the development of new ideas for the stage.

This group of artists have been invited into residency through the open call "IN PROCESS - FRICTION", whose focus was to give space for an investigation of resistance. The open call was curated in collaboration with Cath Borch.

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