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Join the peer to peer event with Dance and vocal artist, Justin F. Kennedy, as an extension of their "Fashion Western" workshop at Dansehallerne. Justin will share their practice of Auto-mythologizing and how the material generated translates into lucid science fiction operas.
Justin will be accompanied by their long-time collaborator: dancer/artist, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen (https://www.instagram.com/workerofthehole/), who will help them to co-facilitate an informal chit-chat amongst (girl)friends about their methodology.
Auto-mythologizing continues a line of research about durational dance and the experience and analysis of altered states of consciousness and its further translatability into live performance.
The Auto comes when the practice is so deeply embodied that it becomes second nature or automatic. The myth-making emerges after physical exercises (prompted by images, tasks and movement qualities), when the participants exchange stories, archetypes, and impressions without judgement nor hierarchy. Lucidity is an essential aspect of the work and only arises once the participants have exhausted their constraints and habits.
These emergent mythologies inform and are folded into pre-existing science fictions and lay the foundation for rock operas, as well as a deeper relation to the materials.
Justin’s work reclaims the value of a-live experience that disrupts notions of individual authorship, in favor of collaboration that expands towards, with, and for others.
Venue: Union (Dynamo/1st floor), Nørre Allé 7, 2200 Copenhagen N.
No entrance fee
BIO
Justin Kennedy (b. 1983, Boston) is a Berlin-based dance/vocal artist, teacher and DJ originally from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. With a playful and collaborative approach, their research evolves from experiences and analysis of trance dance and its further translatability into workshops, science fiction operas, durational dance installations and film. Kennedy’s notable projects of late include: Vorglühen, Out Now, Uferhallen, Berlin (2021), UNFURL the jukebox musical: a shareable cypher, Montag Modus, Radialsystem, Berlin (2021), and UNFURL: a lucid science fiction, 11th Berlin Biennale, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2020)
instagram.com/justintime1983
https://vimeo.com/470165411
Photo: Barbara Antal
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Union KBH, Nørre Alle 7, Copenhagen, Denmark