At this AN HOUR WITH dance artist, choreographer and Feldenkrais practitioner Antoinette Helbing invites you into her artistic practice and current curiosity towards RESIDUAL MATERIALS.

With RESIDUAL MATERIALS Helbing explores choreographic composting as a method to transform emotional residues of laughter and crying into autonomous movement, uncovering new layers of embodied knowledge. What new expressions emerge from what was once discarded? What resonates when the residual materials of previous emotion-expression-driven works are distilled into intimate dancing?

With this process Helbing redirects her artistic practice toward a deeper anchoring of dance as an autonomous artistic form. While earlier works that revolved around laughter and crying allowed the emotional expression to dominate the movement, RESIDUAL MATERIALS aims to renegotiate this relationship. Breathing new life into movement material that was previously discarded as too much dance and exploring excess material as meaningful and generative elements in a new performative form.

THE ARTIST
Antoinette Helbing (DE) works as dance artist, choreographer and Feldenkrais practitioner. She’s member of the artist-run platform Dance CooperativE driven by 12 freelance dance artists in Copenhagen. Her works unfold between stage, installation, on site work and film - combining the somatic with the expressive and the melting of movement into voice and vice versa. Basic human expressions such as laughing and crying are the base for her to expose human emotions and to activate our empathetic and connective features. 

During a 4 weeks IN DEPTH residency at HAUT, she investigates how to close the circle between emotion-driven choreography and its distillation into the form of more abstract dance. It is halfway through this residency that you will meet her.

TICKETS
Participation is free, but please book a ticket as seats are limited.

THE CONVERSATION
AN HOUR WITH gives a short and intense immersion in an artistic practice.