Program Warehouse9 IPAF Festival 19.–22.3.2026
Alex Franz Zehetbauer,
CHARLIE LABAN TRIER, EVE STAINTON, Hazem Header & LUCY MCCORMICK ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
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About the festival IPAF Festival is Warehouse9’s international performance festival. The festival is a vital extension of the organisation’s dedicated work to support and present LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners. IPAF is a dynamic meeting place that creates opportunities for artistic development, live performances, and facilitates spaces for dialogue and community. This year, the festival is co-produced with Dansehallerne and presents genre-bending work in Copenhagen that actively engages with identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations. IPAF is founded on the strong belief that dance and performance can offer new perspectives and understandings of reality, inspire collective imagination, and advocate for better and more just futures. IPAF is made possible with support from the Dansehallerne, the Danish Arts Foundation, the City of Copenhagen and Vesterbro Lokaludvalg.
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Program March 19th
March 20th
March 21st
March 22nd
18:00
Charlie Laban Trier Surfacing HypoKrisia
20:00
Eve Stainton The Joystick and The Reins
17:00
Alex Franz Zehetbauer bonappétitsixsixsix
19:00
Eve Stainton The Joystick and The Reins
21:00
Lucy McCormick Lucy & Friends
15:30
Alex Franz Zehetbauer bonappétitsixsixsix
17:00
Hazem Header MANEATER
19:00
Eve Stainton The Joystick and The Reins
21:00
Lucy McCormick Lucy & Friends
17:00
Hazem Header MANEATER
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Photo Tim Panduro
Photo JMA Photography
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Eve Stainton The Joystick and The Reins About the performance Surfacing HypoKrisia is a series of performative efforts and spells. It’s a research in resilience through the guidance of a speculative, transmythic figure. Her name is HypoKrisia. She’s a figment of Charlie’s fantasy – imagined as the forgotten little sister of Tiresias. The wish is to summon her from the depths, because she has been held down beneath the surface for far too long.
Dates 19.3.2026, 20:00 20.3.2026, 19:00 21.3.2026, 19:00 Duration 1 hour Venue Hallen Credits
Choreography and performance: Eve Stainton Producer: Michael Kitchin Creative Producer: Sara Sassanelli Lighting Designer: Edward Saunders Sound Designer: Gediminas Žygus Rehearsal Director and Steward: Temitope Ajose Rehearsal Director: Maëva Berthelot Dramaturg: Florence Peake Shield design and creation: Eve Stainton Co-commissioned by Bold Tendencies, Dansehallerne (DK), Transform, The Place and performance, possession + automation (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council). Supported by: Lithuanian Cultural Institute Queen Mary University of London, Old Diorama Arts Centre, Den Frie Udstilling (DK), SLUG (DE), L’Ecart Biennial (CA) and Mind Eater (NO). With thanks to The Morricone Estate, Wise Music Classical, Martin O’Brien and Jim Tuck. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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But in this act, friction is inevitable; it’s not smooth sailing to bring forth what has been forgotten or perhaps never existed. It’s like reaching through a portal to a time we cannot reach—and what emerges may be unknown and difficult to face. About Eve Stainton Eve Stainton is an artist and choreographer born in Manchester and living in London, UK. They create multi-disciplinary performances that involve movement practices, welded steel/live welding, digital collage, and other invisible forces like drama and suspense. Their research is rooted in community, interested in how differently marginalised people experience and come into relationship with power structures and societal conventions. Often working with codes or tropes of gender, class and threat, revealing ‘behind the scenes’ mechanisms of working together to show a kind of reality that isn’t seamless.
Photo Amanda Bødker
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Charlie Laban Trier Surfacing HypoKrisia About the performance Surfacing HypoKrisia is a series of performative efforts and spells to invoke manifestations of a speculative, trans-mythic figure. Her name is HypoKrisia. She’s a figment of Charlie’s fantasy – imagined as the forgotten little sister of Tiresias, the blind prophet from Greek mythology. The performance embarks on a journey researching resilience through the guidance of her.
Dates 19.3.2026, 18:00 Duration 1 hour Venue Studio 4 Credits
Choreography & performer: Charlie Laban Trier / Dramaturgical partner: Noha Ramadan / Light designer: Angela X / RC-vehicle builder: Anders Toft Pedersen / RC-driver: Kai Merke / Music remix: Isadora Tomasi / Developed with support from: HIMHERANDIT, Warehouse9 and Åbne Scene/Godsbanen - Queer Practice Residence 2025/26, HAUT - IN PROCESS residency, Performance space & PACT Sydney - Queer Development Program 2024, Museion Bolzano - Opening the pill symposium 2022, Arts Centre BUDA residency, Jakoozi Amsterdam. / Music in piece: Aamourocean, Britney Spears, Cascada & Maurice West, Chicane & Moya Brennan - The Thrillseekers remix, Hole, ORM.
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According to the myth, Tiresias sees two snakes in a mating spiral. He is disgusted by the sight of something he does not understand and strikes the female snake. Because of this action, Hera, Zeus’ wife, transforms him into a woman. Both Tiresias and HypoKrisia could be read as trans figures, but HypoKrisia resists a full becoming. She insists on the liminal space and chooses to live in a performative state of “half un-done.” In this imaginary myth she is deemed unworthy and dangerous by society and therefore erased from the stories. She’s the embodiment of the snake: smooth, elusive, and constantly on the verge of shedding skin. About Charlie Laban Trier Charlie Laban Trier (b. 1987, DK) is a performing artist who chooses to situate his practice deep within the realm of dance, though the dances often appear through other forms such as; bottom-barrel yells turned into songs, text-sampling, endlessly becoming costume, carrying/caring for screens, extreme sculptural headbanging and more. He sees dance as inherently messy, slippery and emergent – a form of knowledge that resists legibility. Living as a transperson, is a big teacher in his thinking/ approach to work. Charlie thinks of transness, like dance, as a technology that helps him complicate material. It allows for embodying multiple images, seducing viewers, and shifting fluidly between forms. He is currently investigating practices of collective myth-making, wanting to foster conversations that resist fixed meaning and invite a dis-positioning of the hero/ center-stage.
Photo Johnny Ruff
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Lucy McCormick Lucy & Friends About the performance Lucy McCormick is back with her most ambitious medium-concept queer cabaret spectacular. In a despairing world, Lucy attempts to create community and connection the only way she knows how- through a chaotic mix of pole dancing, cat impersonation, a clairvoyant and some quick re-working of social policy. A master of theatrical manipulation and crushing personal vulnerability, Lucy leaves her audiences needing a hug, a cry and an immediate shower.
Dates 20.–21.3.2026, 21:00 Duration 1 hour Venue Blackboxen Credits Creator and Performer | Lucy McCormick / Director | Ursula Martinez / Producer | Michael Kitchin / Production Manager | Herbe Walmsley / Lighting Designer | Sorcha Mae Stott-Strzala / Stage Manager | Stef Felton / Creative Associates | Daniel Oliver & Claudia Palazzo / Image Design | Sorcha Mae Stott-Strzala & Jo Schneider / Commissioned by The Yard Theatre. Supported by Cambridge Junction, Colchester Arts Centre and Norwich Arts Centre. / Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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About Lucy McCormick Lucy McCormick makes nightclub interruptions, cabaret interventions and extravaganza theatre shows, marrying interests in absurdity, ego and the grotesque. Her practice is cross-genre, taking inspiration from theatre, performance art, comedy and dance. Her debut show Triple Threat established Lucy’s practice as one of the UK’s most stand out new voices in experimental performance and toured to over 30 venues around the world. It was awarded the Take Me Somewhere Brick Award, Best Performer at Dublin Fringe, nominated for a Total Theatre and Off West End Awards, was in The Guardian’s top 10 comedy shows of 2016, and was included within showcases at In Between Time (Bristol) and PUSH (Vancouver). In this show, Lucy attempts to retell the story of the New Testament, taking on all the lead roles herself with the help of backing dancers, pop ballads and absurdist art.
Photo Jonáš Verešpej
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Alex Franz Zehetbauer Bonappétitsixsixsix About the performance In bonappétitsixsixsix, performance artist and singer songwriter, Alex Franz Zehetbauer slips into the jester’s skin—a figure with the ancient privilege to say and do anything without punishment: a.k.a. speak the truth a.k.a follow every impulse. A jester is never bound to a stage but to the social body itself. He digests the world and spits it back out (from one end or the other). This excrement is then presented to the audience as art.
Dates 20.3.2026, 17:00 21.3.2026, 15:30 Duration 1 hour Venue Loftet Credits
Concept, Songs, Performance / Alex Franz Zehetbauer / Dramaturgy / Joshua Wicke / Performance Doula / Claire Lefevre / Costume Closet / Alessandro Santi, Alex Franz Zehetbauer / Sonic trinkets, outside ears / Christian Schröder & Manuel Riegler / Outside eyes / Andreas Haglund & Jen Rosenblit / Shoes / Schuhatelier A. Kudweis / Production Management / Mollusca Productions / Residencies Blickleraum / Ursula Blickle Stiftung [AT], Warehouse9 [DK], Tanzhaus Zürich [CH] / A co-production of Verein Wilhelmina, IPAF and Tanzquartier Wien / Funded by DOTA - Dance on Tour and BMWKMS - Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
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Spit roasted by hydrophones and accompanied by the soothing strumming of his lyre, he turns his entire body into a leaking instrument for his heartfelt songs. With a hint of something diabolical, the fool has arrived to entertain. About Alex Franz Zehetbauer Alex Franz Zehetbauer (b. 1990, Brooklyn) is an artist and singer songwriter working at the intersection of performance, music, visual arts and choreography. In his performances, he beguiles with sophisticated melodies, strange vocal escapades and unexpected twists. He studied vocal performance, choreography, and composition at NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam.
Photo Queer Zagreb
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Hazem Header MANEATER About the performance Performing to the evocative old songs of Egyptian Singers and composed tracks of Egyptian Politicians’ speeches; A Solo dancer exposes the fractured and toxic relationship of Egypt and its rulers, politicians and Egyptian people as he delves into the complexity of his love for Egypt in an attempt to reconcile patriotism with disillusionment, and light of hope with darkness of oppression.”
Dates 21.–22.3.2026, 17:00 Duration 1 hour 5 minutes Venue Studio 4 Credits Creation and Choreography: Hazem Header, Music Designer and Composers: Anna-Maria Rammou (AMR), Dramaturge: Dimitra Mitropoulou, Costume Designer: Domagoj Štimac, Text Video: Nima Dehghani, Speeches Archives and Research: Mary Nabil, Poster: Farah Khalaf Co-Production: NÜT Dance Company and Breaking Walls Festival – Egypt, This is a Domino Project – Croatia and Warehouse9
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It shines a light on his deep rooted connection to his memory of The Egyptian revolution and suggests the power of what hope may do. Poetic and passionate, MANEATER… has an intricate physicality, Egyptian folk dance and is unashamedly romantic in its celebration of loving Egypt. About Hazem Header Hazem Header is an Egyptian contemporary dancer and choreographer. In 2021, he founded the Breaking Walls Dance Film Festival, Egypt’s and the region’s first dance film festival. Prior to that in 2017, Hazem launched the Breaking Walls Festival, Cairo’s first international festival for site-specific performances. Previously, he combined his passion for movement and artistry to create NÜT Dance Company-NDC in 2013, a legally recognized entity in Cairo that produces dance performances and cultural events.
About IPAF IPAF is Warehouse9’s international performance festival. The festival is a vital extension of the organisation’s dedicated work to support and present LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural practitioners. IPAF is a dynamic meeting place that creates opportunities for artistic development, live performances, and facilitates spaces for dialogue and community. This year, the festival is co-produced with Dansehallerne and presents genre-bending work in Copenhagen that actively engages with identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations. IPAF is founded on the strong belief that dance and performance can offer new perspectives and understandings of reality, inspire collective imagination, and advocate for better and more just futures. IPAF is made possible with support from Dansehallerne, Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune, and Vesterbro Lokaludvalg.
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