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One line a day From roots to resistance offering a groove
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Why do we dance? I had so many questions about myself. I was wondering, well questioning why I had selected myself for the project, why now - it was available to me right now, but why me and not give space - I need to be making, exploring, trying, dancing, thinking about dance in the sense of the doing if not the making space for it to happen by others.
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Dance is necessary Dance matters to us, it has for a long time. There is an urgency to what we do and how we do it.
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time a simple score.
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Moving on the same beat We immersed ourselves in a transformative exploration of body politics at the Nordisk Teater Laboratorium. This week was a meeting of hearts, minds, and cultures. We had the honour of welcoming a vibrant group from Vesthimmerland Asylcenter in Holstebro, uniting individuals from diverse corners of the world in a shared creative space. Our starting point was simple, yet profound: whose body, and whose politics? What stories do our bodies carry, and what histories shape their movement?
Through dance, music, and spontaneous improvisation, we began to unravel those questions—not just with our words, but with our breath, rhythm, and shared silence. Despite our different origins, we found ourselves moving to the same beat, standing on common ground. The studio turned into a living, breathing lab—its walls alive with sketches, writings, and reflections that gave shape to our evolving dialogue.
We discovered that body politics isn’t a fixed concept—it’s a living, pulsing space where identity, emotion, and voice collide. It is where mixed heritages become strength, and where being seen and heard becomes a radical act of connection.
In that week, we didn’t just explore—we resonated. We listened deeply, moved with purpose, and created something beyond language: a collective vibration of presence, courage, and unity.
Besides images and videos and texts, we made a special playlist, where you can access the emotions and dynamics we have been processing and including in our own bodies, minds and souls the whole week.
Enjoy: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ra1yoYjuxFUbfGv4W1YV3?si=6b8df2d2606c4b2
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Imaginary a tech rider imagines technology not as support, but as a living body inside the performance. Set in a dark, warehouse-like space, projections, surround sound, scaffolding structures, water, light, and bodies merge to create an immersive environment where the audience moves freely through shifting atmospheres. High-lumen projectors, quadraphonic sound, AI motion-capture suits, and large-scale scenography transform the space into a sensorial landscape, allowing the work to breathe, react, and evolve over six hours of durational experience.
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Picture documentation during the week Printed fragments of inspiration rested in small places, softly guiding our attention.
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Experimentation time in the studio Capturing with a photo what left behind during studio time.
Through movement, sound, and presence, we left small traces behind, marks of curiosity, energy, and shared intuition.
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Personal Free Writing and Pictures On Friday, 25 April 2025, I woke up at the Nordisk Theater Laboratorium residency place and noticed the butterfly stickers on the wall of my room. There, i started free writing as a conclusion for the whole week, reflecting on bodies and politics.
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Letter Archives to Body Politics A collective writing and accumulation of letters as a reflective response to the theme. By addressing the letters to ‘Dear body politics’ ,we sought to personalize the abstract, to bring the distant closer, and to question the systems that shape and claim ownership over our bodies. Through this approach ‘body politics’ became a lived and felt inquiry rather than a concept itself. A written, shared, and archived body held within a community of people
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Transfixation / Body Image An exploration of the body as a site of shadow, history, and resistance. This project reflects on how bodies carry untold stories, hidden symbols, and layers of meaning that cannot always be spoken. By confronting discomfort, destabilizing fixed narratives, and questioning how the body is perceived and constructed, the work opens space for new interpretations, allowing the body to rewrite its own destiny.
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Negative Destinies A poetic refusal of right and wrong, embracing error, shadow, and imperfection as creative forces. This project uses mistakes as spells, disruptions, and acts of empowerment, dismantling order and allowing chaos, magic, and uncertainty to shape new possibilities. By choosing what is messy and unexpected, the work “dirties” the beautiful and liberates imagination.
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Diagram / mapping / process A hand-drawn map created during studio research, tracing questions of identity, community, power, and care. Lines, arrows, and symbols connect the body to ideas of protection, confusion, responsibility, and belonging. The image functions as a thinking tool, a visual score where intuition, uncertainty, and reflection coexist, leaving visible traces of collective and individual inquiry.
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Stuck In Motion. “Time” can become subjectively distorted. During a PTSD episode, the brain may have difficulty distinguishing between past, present, and future experiences. As a result, the individual can become trapped in an emotional state that manifests in visceral, physiological responses.
Yousef Aref Sbieh
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Miss piggy i have visual images in my head.
i start there.
i make the image first.
costume.
make-up.
shape.
then i look at it.
then i move from there.
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Pigs in farm i find orange suit.
big orange.
yes.
u find pig.
not real pig.
yes.
we in farm.
smell funny.
yes.
Take picture
Yes
Talk
Now
Yes
The art of improvisation
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Technologies of the Sky The inspiration comes from the living world. Observing how light behaves as a living presence, shifting, responding, and existing in relation to its environment. Rather than copying natural phenomena, the work allows these qualities to inform timing, atmosphere, and technical decisions.
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Three points of entry Subverting Ritualized Spaces & Traditions
Autofiction, Unstable Narratives & Documentary Methods
Lament and Shout: The Politics of Voice and Vulnerability
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Mapping Something tries to show us where we are and where we might go, drawing lines that feel like guidance and meanings that may or may not be true. Sometimes it looks certain, sometimes it feels like a guess, and often it’s both at once. We follow signs that could be instructions, or maybe just possibilities, and somewhere between clarity and guessing, we keep finding ways
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A poetic meltdown disguised as bravery Disassembled body parts float like confused planets, while words spiral between despair, ego, doubt, rage, hope, and cosmic nonsense.
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Feedback2025 Feedback 2025
Maka Kiladze
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Dance as a shared practice-Back to community With this project, many of us, get back the chance to comunicate sharing ideas, methods, backgrounds, experiences... And that is what we enjoy os being artists.
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Wasting VS saving time We went back into a conversation we had around this props/set up tier. The time you take untieing a knot... Is it a wasted time? Or is just capitalism what has told history that, in order to "advance" and "make progress" is better cut knots and "save" time. What experience leaves esch action into my body. The proposal is to use this action as a wisdom action in the group.
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phantom steps Listen with headphones.
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Witches roar The sound of roars, water and wind blending into one