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SPRING Academy: Physicality and Embodiment hosted by Harald Beharie

Please note: there is space for 20 participants per trajectory.

Everything that happens around us has an impact on our bodies, producing physiological effects to which we cannot remain immune. The body as a site of resistance and endurance, but also as a space of hope and radical vitality against fatigue and exhaustion. Closely connected to this year’s overarching theme, Extended Bodies, Expanded Minds, this trajectory explores the body in constant relation to its context, and as a force that thinks, transforms, and generates meaning through dance, movement, and practice.

Host

Harald Beharie (he/they) is a Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. Beharie’s practice and choreographies often emerge in the tension between the everyday and the extreme, the banal and the sacred, playing with transformation as a continuous principle,for both the body and the spaces they move through. At the core lies a desire to challenge how we sense, understand, and organize reality. Their works explore how queerness and the body can act as a medium and a site for revolt, ecstasy, and dissolution.

Dates & times

  • Thu May 14: 20.00-21.40
  • Fri May 15: 9.00-22.00 (incl. breaks)
  • Sat May 16: 15.30-22.15 (incl. breaks)
  • Sun May 17: 11.00-17.30 (incl. breaks)

Costs

€167 incl. tickets for all performances in this package (excluding optional performances), €145 if you wish to buy a passe-partout (with special Academy discount).

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Included

Performances:

  • Double bill: Everything falls dramatic & TiNTiY – Sung Im Her
  • SWEAT (Anthem) – Milla Koistinen
  • The Meeting – Maarten Heijnens
  • Radio Vinci Park – Francois Chaignaud
  • Sweet Spot – Harald Beharie
  • RIDDEN – Leu Wijee & Mio Ishida

Masterclass:

  • Sung Im Her

Talks:

  • Topic Talk: Resisting Bodies, Performing Spaces
  • Opening and Reflection session with Harald Beharie
  • After talk with Milla Koistinen, Harald Beharie, Leu Wijee & Mio Ishida
  • Bar talk

Lunch: Provided on 15th and 17th of May

Optional events (sign up required):

  • Opening night After Party
  • Wait to be Seated – She She Pop & Sandbox Collective + After Talk
  • Engeki Quest
  • Club Night in EKKO
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