Photo Salamata Mboup
About the performance
What if the external gaze wouldn’t determine one’s way of existing? How to make space for multiple ways of being? In NEON BEIGE, the performerchoreographer Alen Nsambu braids memories, dreams, and desires into a solo that reimagines visibility, identity, and representation.
The stage becomes a portal: a space where the inner landscapes leak out. By attempting to deconstruct dominant structures, different objects and gestures transform into thresholds that open pathways to alternative ways of being. The work explores the experience of simultaneously being hypervisible and invisible in society from a queer and bipoc perspective. At its core, NEON BEIGE carves out space for multiplicity and agency, where a singular gaze dissolves into infinite possibilities of becoming.
Saturated with diverse performative registers, NEON BEIGE flows through states of transformation—unfolding into something that disrupts, reimagines, and creates space for the yet unknown
Photo Aino Kontinen
Credits
Performer, choreographer Alen Nsambu
Dramaturge Susi Siriya Orenius
Costume design Angel Emmanuel
Sound design Nori Kin
Lighting design Titus Torniainen
Spatial design Aino Kontinen, Titus Torniainen
Participating in the process Ritni Ráste Pieski,
Production Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Alen Nsambu, Ehkä-tuotanto
Residency Ehkä-tuotanto
This performance has been supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Kone Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, Kansan Sivistysrahasto, City of Espoo, Ehkä-tuotanto, and Zodiak - Center for New Dance.
Alen Nsambu is chosen as an Aerowaves artist Twenty25.
Photo Aino Kontinen
About the artist
Alen Nsambu
Alen Nsambu is a Helsinki based choreographer and performer, who has graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts with a BFA in Dance and Choreography. Since graduating Nsambu has collaborated internationally with choreographers and directors such as Sonya Lindfors (FI), Alma Söderberg (SE), Marie Topp (DK), Miles Greenberg (US) and WAUHAUS (FI).
Artistically Nsambu is busy with questions related to identity and optics - how different identities are allowed a different level of opacity, transparency and visibility in society. Through art making he tries to find different ways to reimagine and deconstruct western dominant structures that we are situated in. His work is situated somewhere between choreography and performance, making space for diverse performative registers and references.
In 2024 Nsambu was a summer resident artist at The Watermill Center in New York, under the artistic direction of Robert Wilson. Nsambu was also selected to be one of the GENERATION2023 artists for the triennial exhibition curated for Amos Rex museum in Helsinki.
Nsambu has presented their works in venues such as Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Amos Rex art museum, The Finnish National Theater, The Watermill Center in New York and the International Performing Arts Festival in Copenhagen. NEON BEIGE is Nsambu’s first full length stagework, and it was selected to Aerowaves 2025.
www.alennsambu.com
Photo Maria Baranova
Practical info
Dates and times
5.–6.11.2025, 20:00
Duration and stage 1 hour 10 minutes in Blackboxen
Accessibility
The venue is wheelchair accessible, with an elevator providing access to the stages. All restrooms are genderneutral, and an accessible toilet for wheelchair users is available.
Dansehallerne’s address Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799
Copenhagen V. OBS!
In the performance theatrical haze, strong strobe light effects and loud sound will occur, as well as a slight scent of lavender.
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 year-round base and interface for professional activities within the field of dance.
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