AN HOUR WITH: Beck Heiberg, Phyllis Akinyi and Abdul Dube
Schedule
Tue Jan 13 2026 at 10:00 am to 11:00 am
UTC+01:00Location
Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark | Frederiksberg, SF
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At this AN HOUR WITH, we invite you to meet artists Beck Heiberg, Phyllis Akinyi and Abdul Dube, who will share insights about their artistic practices. For four weeks, artists Beck Heiberg, Phyllis Akinyi, and Abdul Dube will be working side by side in the same studio. While focusing on their individual research, they will also allow their work to cross-pollinate and be inspired by their colleagues.
THE ARTISTIC RESEARCHES
THE WRITTEN BODY. Inspired by the dance plague, choreographer and performer Beck Heiberg explores how written and performed language can be developed from a choreographic perspective.
Through an in-depth process, he approaches the written word based on choreographic principles. Based on the historical event “The Dance Plague,” he first invites himself to write himself into a state of ecstasy and later into exhaustion. He invites his colleagues to write with him in a shared dance, where misunderstandings, self-will, or shared aesthetic choices shape a text to be performed. The question of how to perform a text will be explored and investigated in this research through various formats, where the text informs the performing body, hangs like a backdrop, is spoken in fragments, or as a voice-over.
FLAMENCO & FUGITIVITY. Spiritual traveling through physical repetition.
Phyllis Akinyi is revisiting G.R.I.E.F., a work from 2021 exploring rhythm, trance and flamenco as interwoven entities. In this revisit she is applying ideas of ‘fugitivity’, exploring how the flamenco compass (rhythm structure) can be used as a technology for a fugitive practice.
HUMUS: TILLING THE SOIL FOR COOPERATIVE FUTURES AN INVESTIGATION INTO BIOMIMETIC SCAFOLDING FOR ARTISTIC & CULTURAL WORK
During their IN DEPTH residency, Abdul Dube will open a space to test and consolidate the last years. With a desire to create parallel learning scenarios and radical pedagogies, Abdul will study how trans and queer people have kept themselves alive by learning and unlearning.
THE ARTISTS
Abdul Dube, Phyllis Akinyi, and Beck Heiberg met with Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt at the invitation of HAUT's management to reflect together on the organization's structural design, potential, and challenges. Through a couple of years of long conversations about how to create good working conditions and for whom to create them, a language and a way of being together has quietly developed, which now needs to be tested, concluded, or expanded through more space, time, and peace to develop ideas together that are not only about structures but also what the structure protects: artistic work.
Find more information about the artists and their researches at www.hautscene.dk
TICKETS
Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve a ticket as seats are limited.
THE TALK
AN HOUR WITH provides space for a brief and focused immersion in the work of an artist or group of artists.
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Where is it happening?
Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark, Thoravej 29, 2400 København NV, Danmark, Frederiksberg, DenmarkEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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