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The ANART project represents the next step for Denmark-based creatives united by their passion for the intersection of movement, dance, and sound within Teater A. Originating in Copenhagen, Teater A’s foundation evolved from the production “Flowers also cry” by Anastasia Krasnoshchoka. This documentary dance piece sheds light on the lived experiences of Ukrainian women amidst conflict, amplifying their voices and advocating for justice. Teater A is dedicated to promoting human rights and democratic values through their work, using the universal language of dance to advocate for equality, freedom, and justice. Their performances serve as a call to action, encouraging audiences to uphold and protect these fundamental principles. 

Michi Maxi Schulz, Luana Àsiba Madikera and Virginnia Ogechi Krämer form a unique triple since collaborating for „#yodo -you only die once“ residency at Heizhaus Berlin in fall 2023. Coming from different backgrounds and interests such as traditional and urban african dance, acting, political organising, end-of-life care, dance education and poetic research, the three aim to further develop immersive artistic formats that invite people to get in touch with (their own) death, dying, grief and understanding of care work. They curiously curate containers to open up, exchange and learn together on these topics which are otherwise culturally marginalized in western contexts. Part of their emerging research is visiting dying people at local hospices, inviting death and grief experts for exchange and developing various artistic practices and scores around questions like: Would I regret anything if I would die today? Where can I feel grief in my body? What do I want to wear at my own funeral? 

DRIVER is a choreographic project developed by Lara Vejrup Ostan (SLO/DK) in collaboration with Yeong Ran Suh (KOR).

DRIVER materializes and discusses speed as a sensuous, individual, but also common and socio-political experience. It questions who has the agency and ability to influence speed and who has to abide by the speed of others, or alternatively, fall behind. In DRIVER we delve into a universe of truck drivers; escapist wanderlust, tenacious asphalt-romance and idealized loneliness. We speculate about truck drivers – as solitary heroes, perhaps shaped by external forces, as well as a place for us to imagine a different world. The project will (amongst other things) become a choreographic performance, created with and by dancers Johanna Eva Forsehag (SE), Ruth Rebekka Hansen (DK), sound designer Moritz Nahold (AT), light designer Thora Eriksen, scenographer Max Schwidlinski (DE), dramaturg / truck driver Bush Hartshorn (SCT) and co-produced by Dansehallerne (DK).

STICKY Productions (Edginton/Lothe/Olsen/Parsons) is a collective of queer, female, dance artists based in Norway. Their practice delves into the bodily and the sensitive, the playful and the peculiar. Using the receptive and expressive body to investigate their subject matter, their performances play between literal and abstract to offer audiences proximity to imagination and opportunity to kinesthetically absorb stories. The artists share a drive to create environmentally conscious work that centres new or untold narratives. Between 2020-22, STICKY created their first work, Økohelter, a performance for children played at Dansens Hus, Sentralen, Bærum Kulturhus amongst others, and selected for the touring network Dansenett Norge Spring 2024. STICKY is in development of their new dance work OOZE, approaching nature from a Queer Perspective. Through an imaginary, sensory, and somatic journey into the world of slugs, we invite sexuality, sex, fluidity and transformation into the room.

We are a group of people with different trajectories that coincide in spaces of activism and non-hegemonic art from the corporal and gender dissidences. We are part of a beautiful affective -political- anti-ableist, queer and anti-racist network in Barcelona. We have been working from artivism as a tool for transformation and a response to violences. We find it difficult for our art to move in artistic circuits, since it is only considered worthy of showing in “special circuits”. And that distinction of “special” perpetuates the discrimination of artists with diversity. We investigate the disease, the look of society towards people with functional diversity, vulnerability, sexuality and pleasure. We are Nodual, Elena, Xavi, Izaskun and Àrid: a caravan of centàurides wishing for new horizons.

(previously known as C A L L S)

We are Caroline, Amelie, Lisa, Laura, and Steph, a loose crew of performers, dancers, artists, strippers, musicians, stage and costume designers, media artists, and researchers. We don’t all embody all of these categories, but we all sail through several of them. As individuals we are seasoned practitioners with our own practices but together we form a formidable crew that is as interested in chartering the unknown as we are in keeping the ship clean, i.e. holding space for each other and following the spiral all the way down. The enmeshment and collaboration between us is complex and sticky, and this group is not so much of a fixed collective as a container for chaotic growth. We are interested in alternative narratives as antidotes to neoliberal hegemony, gender as a vehicle against the state, representations of femme anger, decolonising the gaze, and the poetics of the cosmos found in the synecdoche of the human body.