AIR BODY SAD // Norrdans & Malik Nashad Sharpe

Name: AIR BODY SAD // Norrdans & Malik Nashad Sharpe
Start: 2025-10-20T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-20T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen, Denmark

Schedule

Mon Oct 20 2025 at 08:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen, Denmark | Frederiksberg, SF

The body is in flight even when it sinks in the darkest hour.
In AIR BODY SAD, British-American choreographer Malik Nashad Sharpe and the Swedish company Norrdans invite the audience into a world of dark fantasy and horror. Here, every movement is a struggle between despair and hope. Through rhythmic and intense choreography, the work explores the boundaries of the body and what happens when it moves at the intersection of haunted margins and shiny popular culture.
For youth from age 13 and adults.
Coloured by the intense fragility of coming of age films, AIR BODY SAD reflects the time in life when everything is uncertain, too much, too close. A time when the body is fumbling for belonging and harbours an inner rebellion that cannot be tamed.
Norrdans meets Malik Nashad Sharpe in a collaboration that challenges both traditions and senses. Together with an artistic team that moves effortlessly between art and popular culture, an experience is created in which melancholy and despair are not just goals, but starting points for finding light in the darkness.
AIR BODY SAD is part of the celebration of Norrdans’ 30th anniversary – three decades of exploring the power of movement, challenging norms and inviting unexpected encounters between body, heart and mind.
About the company:
Norrdans is one of Sweden’s largest dance companies based in northern Sweden. An epicentre for contemporary dance and choreography in all its magnificent forms. From the company’s home in northern Sweden, they create and perform for the whole of Västernorrland and regularly go on national and international tours. You can meet Norrdans on stage, on the street, at school, at work – well, anywhere and now for the first time in Dansehallerne.
About the choreographer:
Malik Nashad Sharpe is a British-American choreographer and performance artist known for his experimental and politically thought-provoking work. With an ability to move seamlessly between genres such as music videos, fashion campaigns and contemporary dance, Sharpe challenges traditional notions of dance and choreography. Sharpe’s work often focuses on identity and power structures, exploring the body’s relationship to politics and society and has been recognised for its deep and reflective approach to contemporary issues of power, sexuality and identity.
Credits:
Dancers: Viktoria Andersson, Gorik Bellemans, Ruben Brown, Silas da Silva Roller, Alvilda Faber Striim, Kaelin Isserlin, Kevin Julianto, Sierra Kellman, Sofia Larriera, Ellie Vermunt. Choreography and lighting design: Malik Nashad Sharpe. Music direction: Tabitha Thorlu Bangura. Set design: Felix Villiers. Costume design: Erik Annerborn. Composer: Luke Blair. Produced by Norrdans.