Welcome to New Sh*t Vol. 9
Curator Sigrid Stigsdatter and Dansehallerne welcome you to an emotional and raw evening with three artists on stage. Sigrid Stigsdatter introduces the evening with these words:
“I have focused on the emotional journey I want the audience to experience. I’ve sought out works that speak to each other, yet also serve as counterpoints. Additionally, I’ve taken the New Sh*t concept quite literally, selecting pieces that are raw and have never been shown on a major stage before. They are largely self-produced.
We will see Elisa Zuppinis’ work, which is deeply nerdy in movement practice - Elisa delves into the body as both an instrument and architecture. Ingeborg Meier Andersen works more theatrically with performance, incorporating voice and text. And then there’s Sako Dersahakian, or Evita Kedavra, who will present revolutionary lip-sync.
As an artist and curator, I deeply believe that art can create change in the world. Especially now when the world is shifting to the right, we need spaces where we can experience alternatives—where we dare to stay with the abstract, the intuitive, and the emotional.”
Program
Welcome by curator Sigrid Stigsdatter
Sako Dersahakian / Evita Kedavra
Ayya Se3al 3arabeh? (Act 1.)
Ingrid Meier Andersen SHOW&TELL
Intermission with djG0thzillah
Elisa Zuppini The Knot
Sako Dersahakian / Evita Kedavra
Ayya Se3al 3arabeh? (Act 2.)
DJ & drinks: djG0thzillah
About the performances & artists
Ayya Se3al 3arabeh?
Ayya Se3al 3arabeh? is a catchphrase popularized by renowned Lebanese drag performer Bassem Fghali. It refers to the one hour of Arabic music that plays in a DJ set in the only gay club in Beirut. The queers wait all night for that one hour to queen out.
The work is to make clear that queerness and Arabness have always coexisted, and Sako adamant assertion of both identities coexisting together rather than being seen as separate from one another. The work is shown in two small acts (with a duration of 5 and 10 minutes).
Sako Dersahakian / Evita Kedavra
Sako Dersahakian / Evita Kedavra is the drag brainchild of Sako Dersahakian, born and raised in Beirut Lebanon, and now based in Copenhagen. Evita Kedavra and Sako Dersahakian are a fashion designer, a drag performer and an artist working at the intersection of Arabness, Queerness, and the Revolution.
@evitakedavra
Credit lyrics by Nizar Al Qabbani, sung by Majida El Roumi
Translation of the song O Beirut from the last performance Ayya Se3al 3arabeh?
O Beirut, O Mistress of the World
O Beirut,
O Mistress of the World
We confess before the One God
That we were envious of you
That your beauty hurt us
We confess now
That we gave you no justice, no mercy
That we misunderstood you and were not sorry
That we offered you a dagger in place of flowers
We confess before the just God
That we hurt you and exhausted you
That we burned you and made you cry
That we weighed you down with our sins
O Beirut
Without you, the world is not enough
We know now that your roots run deep within us
We know now just what was done by our hands
Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise from beneath the rubble
Like the almond flower in April
Rise from under your grief
Rise
The revolution is born in the womb of sorrows
Rise from beneath the rubble
Rise in honour of the forests
Rise in honour of the rivers
Rise in honour of the rivers and the valleys
And of humanity
Rise in honour of humanity
Rise O Beirut
Rise
The revolution is born in the womb of sorrows
O Beirut
O Beirut
Credit Choreography and Performance: Ingeborg Meier Andersen Music: The Caretaker, Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 2)
Photo: Mia Linnea Johansson
SHOW&TELL
SHOW&TELL is a solo performance dissecting the concept of being/showing/ staging a feminine body. Through movement and voice Ingeborg invites the audience inside as she confronts the complexities and chameleonistic tendencies of a staged work life. Or perhaps a reflection upon how multiple postures cohabit one body.
SHOW&TELL deals with the absurdity of the solo format while embracing the sincerity of wanting to show. Lighting a candle for showgirls with second thoughts, given the state of the world.
Ingeborg Meier Andersen
Ingeborg Meier Andersen is a choreographer, artist and showgirl. In her work, she urges to uphold a hybrid and immediate body seeking to emancipate systems of rigidity and invite humour and rhythm as a source of approachability towards an audience. Ingeborg uses her foundation as a dancer to challenge her restrictions and embrace the unknown.
@ingigram
Credits
Choreography and
Performance: Elisa Zuppini.
Dramaturgy: Bruno Listopad.
Sound: Fabian Reichle.
Supported by: FLAM festival, Jacuzzi.
Photo: Thiemi Higashi
The Knot
In The Knot, the body transforms through a tangled series of sculptures, where choreographic knots appear at once formal, visceral, and evocative. Through their dynamic tension, these intricate bindings generate a choreographic motion that embraces spaces external to its writing. Continually redefining its boundaries, the work evokes an erotic dispersal of what resides within or beyond the choreography, ultimately seeking to reorient thought and inspire a reinvention of the continuous affection for the body.
Elisa Zuppini
Elisa Zuppini is an Italian-born choreographer and performer based in Amsterdam, who graduated from the SNDO School for New Dance Development in 2018. Her practice explores the intersection of movement, systems thinking, and contemporary philosophy. She views choreography as a form of relational and affective architecture, a system where spatial and temporal elements interact dynamically to generate meaning. Since 2019, Elisa has been a member of Jacuzzi, a collective of Amsterdam-based choreographers, and has closely collaborated with dramaturg Bruno Listoad. Her new ensemble work, Disambiguation, will have its official premiere at Frascati Theater in Amsterdam, in May 2025.
www.elisazuppini.com
About the curator
Sigrid Stigsdatter
Sigrid Stigsdatter is a choreographer, performer and vocalist based in Copenhagen after many years in Amsterdam.
Her practice as a maker and a curator for the coming platform at Dansehallerne interrogates dancing as an addictive matter, the emotional, the intuitive, the punk and magic.
She explores how resonance created between the performer and the audience can leave us forever changed and how the abstract and poetic can be a guide to create meaning in a world that falls apart.
Sigrid holds a BA in choreography from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Amsterdam and an MA in choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts (DDSKS), Cph.
About New Sh*t
With the New Sh*t format, Dansehallerne checks in on what is new in the choreographic landscape in Denmark. Since New Sh*t was launched in 2020, the platform has taken place twice a year.
New Sh*t is a recurring popular platform where new guest curators get the opportunity to put together a progressive program with one or more works by choreographers that the curator believes are the artists of tomorrow!
New Sh*t Vol. 10 will take place in August 2025. It’s an anniversary edition and is therefore taking place in Hallen.
Practical info
Date and time
21.3.2025, 20:00
Duration and stage
2 hours 30 minutes / Blackboxen
Dansehallerne’s address Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen V
Accessibility
The venue can be accessed by wheelchair
About Dansehallerne
Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography. Our focus lies in presenting and co-producing Danish and international productions for all ages. We are a gathering point for passionate dance audiences and professionals. From our center, we communicate professional knowledge of the art of dance, and we drive discussions about all aspects of the art of dance, at an intermediate level and in-depth.
Being a national center, as well as a gathering point for the local and international communities, we continuously work to ensure the best possible settings for artistic production and for the audience’s encounter with the art of dance. Every year, people from all around the country can experience the best that dance has to offer. And for several hundred artists, Dansehallerne is the yearround base and interface for professional activities within the field of dance.
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