At this WORKSHARING you are invited into the process of the creation of the work "Spine Of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit" that will premiere in 2025 in Brussels, Belgium.
In the research for this work the artist Stanley Ollivier and his collaborator Mamadou Wague reflect on the interrelations between the intimate, the body, and on the creation of a guarded, safe space. They take the community building power of POC belonging spaces as a starting point in order to reformulate traditional choreographic approaches. It is a research that explore everyday reality and social changes through a danced language that starts from the human instinct, and the need to express oneself through a concrete bodily experience.
It was Stanley's personal experience in the underground cultural scene and other POC belonging spaces that made him realize how central community and care are. Being a dancer of color in Belgium-France, he had to find alliances in a 'mined landscape' in order to feel safe and supported to pursue his artistic work. However, affects associated with POC in cultural production often refer to struggle, suffering, discrimination. Stanley want to counter that white gaze into POC communities by focusing on other, often disregarded emotions such as joy, calmness, rest, contemplative or eclectic energy.
Following the sharing of physical material, HAUT will facilitate a moderated feedback conversation where you as an audience have the opportunity to contribute to and enrich the artists' further work.
ABOUT THE ARTISTSFor this new project, Stanley is working with close collaborators with whom he already share similar work and human values, which already offers a feeling of security to deeply explore these intimate thematics. Together they seek to find various approaches that revolve around respect, invitation to dialogue, decolonization of dance and care practices.
For more information about the artists visit our website www.hautscene.dk
TICKETSParticipation is free, but please book your ticket as seats are limited.
ABOUT THE RESIDENCYLeading up to the sharing, the artists have been in a 2 weeks IN CONNECTION residency at HAUT. IN CONNECTION is HAUT's residency format that gives 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. The residency is aimed at Denmark-based artists interested in working internationally and for international artists interested in working in Denmark.
Stanley Ollivier and his collaborator Mamadou Wague were invited into a two week IN CONNECTION residency at HAUT in Denmark with the artistic project "Spine of Desire: Wounds without tears out of one skin in diamonds and shit". This opportunity blossomed out of HAUT's long term collaboration with workspacebrussels - laboratory for research, experiment & creation in the performing arts. The two organisations also provide the danish-based artists Sall Lam Toro, suziethecockroach and Keiria Hissabu two weeks of residency at workspacebrussels this spring to work on their artistic project "BODY TONGUES: TECHNO_RAGE".
This residency is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, The Bikuben Foundation and the Municipality of Copenhagen.
Photographer: Matias Rocha Moura.
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In the research for this work the artist Stanley Ollivier and his collaborator Mamadou Wague reflect on the interrelations between the intimate, the body, and on the creation of a guarded, safe space. They take the community building power of POC belonging spaces as a starting point in order to reformulate traditional choreographic approaches. It is a research that explore everyday reality and social changes through a danced language that starts from the human instinct, and the need to express oneself through a concrete bodily experience.
It was Stanley's personal experience in the underground cultural scene and other POC belonging spaces that made him realize how central community and care are. Being a dancer of color in Belgium-France, he had to find alliances in a 'mined landscape' in order to feel safe and supported to pursue his artistic work. However, affects associated with POC in cultural production often refer to struggle, suffering, discrimination. Stanley want to counter that white gaze into POC communities by focusing on other, often disregarded emotions such as joy, calmness, rest, contemplative or eclectic energy.
Following the sharing of physical material, HAUT will facilitate a moderated feedback conversation where you as an audience have the opportunity to contribute to and enrich the artists' further work.
ABOUT THE ARTISTSFor this new project, Stanley is working with close collaborators with whom he already share similar work and human values, which already offers a feeling of security to deeply explore these intimate thematics. Together they seek to find various approaches that revolve around respect, invitation to dialogue, decolonization of dance and care practices.
For more information about the artists visit our website www.hautscene.dk
TICKETSParticipation is free, but please book your ticket as seats are limited.
ABOUT THE RESIDENCYLeading up to the sharing, the artists have been in a 2 weeks IN CONNECTION residency at HAUT. IN CONNECTION is HAUT's residency format that gives 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. The residency is aimed at Denmark-based artists interested in working internationally and for international artists interested in working in Denmark.
Stanley Ollivier and his collaborator Mamadou Wague were invited into a two week IN CONNECTION residency at HAUT in Denmark with the artistic project "Spine of Desire: Wounds without tears out of one skin in diamonds and shit". This opportunity blossomed out of HAUT's long term collaboration with workspacebrussels - laboratory for research, experiment & creation in the performing arts. The two organisations also provide the danish-based artists Sall Lam Toro, suziethecockroach and Keiria Hissabu two weeks of residency at workspacebrussels this spring to work on their artistic project "BODY TONGUES: TECHNO_RAGE".
This residency is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, The Bikuben Foundation and the Municipality of Copenhagen.
Photographer: Matias Rocha Moura.
