Program / New Sh*t Vol. 5

Photo: Emilie Gregersen

Dansehallerne and guest curator Andreas

Haglund are super happy to welcome you to New Sh*t

Vol. 5.

This evening choreographer, dancer and curator Andreas Haglund have put together a program with three performances - a wide tapestry of sensations. We are thrilled to present works by Beck Heiberg, Thjerza Balaj, Adam Seid Tahir & Amina Seid Tahir. All three performances are solos, and you will as audiences’ journey through a search for homeness, an investigation of the space between sexy and sadness and encounter the Mythical Slavic Mermaid that dwells in bodies of water and enjoys enticing and entangling men. DJ NAH CARE will wrap the evening in a smooth atmosphere.

Guest Curator Andreas Haglunds about the program: ‘Let’s speculate, learn and creatively conspire! New Sh*t Vol. 5 offers a wide tapestry of sensations: wet, rough, sensual, ecstatic, melancholic and sincere. The four brilliant artists blends fiction and lived experience to produce generously potent aesthetic worlds. Worlds where spectators are directed towards speculative perception. Meaning, letting the art re-formulate what is possible to experience, think and learn from. Getting under the skin and onto the tongue.’

several attempts at braiding my way home by Adam Seid Tahir & Amina Seid Tahir /

Photo: Amina Seid Tahir, Visible dancer: Adam Seid Tahir

About the performance

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Shifting between labor and speculative proposals ”several attempts at braiding my way home” insists on fiction as a tool for quaking potential and finding opportunities for recovery and belonging. The performance swims with the Clymene dolphins who defy understandings of heritage. It listens to the walruses who trust their hair for navigation. ”several attempts at braiding my way home” is a collection of strategies for creating home in an afro-nordic landscape. Braiding hair, fusing bones, growing fins. It is a heatwave and a longing for home.

Amina Seid Tahir (She/Her) / A Swedish-Eritrean artist based in Stockholm who is currently doing a BA in fine arts at Konstfack. She works multidisciplinary with mediums such as video, sound, performance, installation, and music. Currently, her work focuses on collective rest and healing through sound, vibration, braiding, pillow making, performance and separatistic resting groups for BIPOCs. Manifesting spaces where dreams can work like seeds to grow futures. She is also interested in Eritrean mythology and plant medicine, creating bedtime stories inspired by histories and myths.

Adam Seid Tahir (They/Them) / A choreographer and dancer based in Stockholm. Their work encompasses dancing, performing, choreographing, writing, coding and creating work for physical platforms and cyberspace. Adam is interested in the meeting of blackness, sensor based technology, braiding, 3D animation and somatic work and use those to manifest alternate realities. They guide their process of creating work through intersecting digital and physical rituals for divination. Recently, they have become interested in creating affective and emotional machines while they also continue to be interested in modes of facial expression and have been working with the stank face through their latest work.

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Adam Seid Tahir & Amina Seid Tahir

Blue Swallowings by Beck Heiberg / photo Lærke Hagemann

About the performance

Cry for me. Care for me so much that you fuck me. Use my tears as lube. Let the swallow scream. Subdued swallowing. Swallow my feelings. Blue Swallowings is Beck Heiberg’s new solo work suggesting a space where sexy is sad and sadness is sensual, a place where the sorrow is a turn-on. Moving with the pain and letting the heat rise and melt in a pool of sultry sadness, the body holds a space for this new meeting. In the cry we hold you. One on each arm. In the cry we meet you. With our own tears.

Beck Heiberg (He/Him) / A choreographer and performer based in Copenhagen. His work derives from building concepts up around movement and is often related to personal experiences. He is investigating queer- and transpolitical aesthetics as both an explicit and implicit part of his praxis. He is a member of Dance Cooperative and the performance duo Cocktail. www.beckheiberg.com/

Blue Swallowings by Beck Heiberg

Ruzalka revival by Thjerza Balaj / Photo: Emilie Gregersen

About the performance

Ruzalka revival by Thjerza Balaj

Her main purpose is the depths of waterways where she would entangle their feet with her long red hair and submerge them.

Thjerza Balaj (She/Her) / Norwegian / Kosovo-Albanian multi-hyphenate artist, working with performance, fashion design, and film. Immediacy and intimacy are important elements in her works. Her choreographic practice deals with the female gaze, power dynamics and the uncanny. Playing with shifting intensities is a consistent approach in her seemingly hard-core yet ephemeral practice. Thjerza lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Guest Curator: Andreas Haglund / Photo: Benedicte Ram Fjord

About the guest curator

Andreas Haglund (He/They) / A freelance dancer, performer, and choreographer in and around Stockholm and Copenhagen. Sustainability is a red thread throughout his artistic practices. Focusing on the planet and it’s beings Andreas Haglund’s work investigates the cultural undercurrents of the climate crisis in all their complexities. Informed by social and environmental justice movements, Andreas Haglund creates dance, choreography, and text and now curates to direct aesthetics, discourse, and practice toward care, joy, and interdependence.

About New Sh*t

With the recurring format New Sh*t, Dansehallerne checks in with what’s new in the choreographic landscape. For each edition, a younger guest curator is invited to present a progressive program of choreographers whom the curator believes to be the artists of tomorrow!

Since New Sh*t was launched in 2020 the popular platform has been happening twice each year.

Save the date for next New Sh*t March 24th 2023.

Andreas Haglund