Habitat / Kopenhagen

Premiere 2023, Metropolis, Copenhagen

Habitat is a celebration of all bodies, all ages, all genders. 40 bodies create a shared ritual in motion where everyone is welcome. The 40 bodies take you on a walk around Refshaleøen between wild and vulnerable tableaux - from the industrial past to the future we can glimpse in the distance with the construction of a new island. A new habitat.

Habitat is a utopia. A shameless but also a free-of-shame hymn to a naked body beyond cultural inscriptions and conventional ideals of beauty. The body is not devalued to the level of a fetish, an object; and carnality is neither metaphorically nor poetically ideologized but understood in a material sense and is therefore presented in all its mass and weight yet also in its fragility.

Credits

Concept, Choreography Doris Uhlich

Performance Amélie Dieudonné, Ann Muller, Astrid Sten Andersen, Benedicte Rea Kragskov, Christine Sollie, Doris Haidvogl, Emilie Beske, Enzo Hacquin, Fabio Liberti, Felix Rotter, Felix Urbina, Friederike Paul, Gabriele Albani, Jeanne-Marie Bertram, Johanne Antonina Storm, Karin Mari Vincentz, Karis Amata Zecchi, Katinka Wissing, Klaus Lengefeld, Lisanna Lajal, Lissie Vejtorp, Louis Labadens, Magali Camps, Maria Tepper, Marianna Minasova, Marina Dubia, Miaenaya Ravn, Mim Schneider, Mogens Vejtorp, Nadja Mattioli, Onur Agbaba, Ottavia Catenacci, Paulina Aleksandra Rewucka, Pernille Koch, Roosa Törmä, Rosa Oikonomou, Rosa Reinprecht, Signe Buhl, Theo Emil Krausz, Tone Haldrup Lorenzen, Tryggvi Sæberg Björnsson, Unni Ova Tolfsen

Rehearsal directors Hugo Le Brigand, Mim Schneider, Ann Muller

DJ Boris Kopeinig

Production Helen Parkes

Company Management Margot Wehinger

Social Media Esther Brandl

International Distribution Something Great

Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna.

Project partners of the Habitat-series are donaufestival / Krems, ImPulsTanz / Vienna in cooperation with Wiener Secession, Tanzquartier Wien, Münchner Kammerspiele, Tanzfestival Rhein-Main (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm / Frankfurt a. M. and Hessisches Staatsballett in the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main), Frascati / Amsterdam, Perform Europe (Plexus Rouge / Marseille, Rosendal Teater / Trondheim, Mayfest / Bristol), DOMENIG STEINHAUS / Carinthia, BRITNEY X Festival / Cologne, Metropolis / Copenhagen