Exploration through the body

We invite you to take part in the participatory concept Exploration through the body (Med kroppen på opdagelse) where the artists will share their thoughts and methods behind the choreographic game Monday 20 May at 7pm.

Mette Overgaard, Marlene Bonnesen and Lars Dahl Pedersen are the creators behind Running Sculptures’ participatory performance Exploration through the body. The performance is a choreographic game where children, young people, and the dance artists are exploring creative tasks, observation, and reflection.

What happens when you insist on cultivating a process, the unpredictability and the change within a finished performance?
The artists have created a concept where they are able to develop and understand their own artistic practice, with each other and at the same time with the children and the young, through layers of choreographic rules, dance scores, and sound landscapes in wireless headphones.

In this version of Choreography in Action we will try out parts of the concept followed by a dialogue around the aspects of working with exploration and participation from a workshop format to a participatory performance format.

Mette Overgaard, Marlene Bonnesen and Lars Dahl Pedersen
The three artists are working together on supporting and developing their individual choreographic practices. They focus on involvement, development, and sharing of practices. They produce and have presented work through the company Running Sculptures since 2017. Since 2018 the company has toured at schools in Denmark with Exploration through the body through the Dance for Children Programmein Dansehallerne.

Lars Dahl Pedersen has recently graduated with an MA in Philosophy from University of Copenhagen (2016). He finished his training as a dancer and choreographer in 1999 from The Danish National School of Performing Arts.

Marlene Bonnesen holds a BA Diploma in dance and choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts (2015).

Mette Møller Overgaard has a diploma from Iwanson School of Contemporary Dance in Munich (2009). In 2014 she graduated from the Dance Partnership programme at The Danish National School of Performning Arts.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION  takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg ia a close collaborator of Dansehallerne. It is in English and admission is free.