Gazing from the edge of bed by Charlie Laban Trier

"I want to explore the possibilities of what a sexualized or aroused performance could do to space and all those who inhabit it" - Charlie Laban Trier

“Gazing from the edge of bed” is a dance piece that is based on a desire to learn and unold practices of pornography through studying the performativity produced by performers working in porn and the craft of translating a body to image and the idea of the image as a body. The piece holds the perspective that this performativity can give access to a certain non-exposed intimacy, which can create a performance that can affect and be served, whilst sustaining one’s own space of arousal and enjoyment. A doing of performance that is unapologetically vulnerable but not compromising, and where exposure is something else than being exposed.

Choreography & Concept: Charlie Laban Trier. Performer: Charlie Laban Trier. Music Mix: Isadora Tomasi. 50-60 min.

Charlie Laban Trier was born in 1987 in Copenhagen/Denmark, based now primarily in Amsterdam. He graduated (2018) from SNDO - Bachelor in Choreography. He has a background in styles such as House, Hip-Hop and Vogue. Having been in different queer scenes and categorizing himself as a transgender person, has surely influenced his thinking and approach to work. He is generally working towards creating methods inspired by different performance practices that play with and up against how things are currently constructed, that turns the gaze inside out and enhances space that is usually corrupting bodies.