Aabent Lab – On Tour

Mémoires Perdues questions the notions of collective memory and progress: Do we really learn from the lessons of the past? The piece is an emotional response to this seemingly endless repetition of pain. It is a cry for the urgency of memory for our future. The piece establishes a dialogue between past and future, movement and spoken word.

About the artist
Julienne Doko is a French dance performer, teacher and choreographer with roots in the Central African Republic who is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has trained in many styles in France, the US, Canada, Brazil, Denmark and Senegal. Her graduate studies took her to various places where she discovered and explored different traditional and contemporary dance styles (samba, Traditional West African dances, African-contemporary, Afro-Brazilian and modern dance) in addition to ballet, jazz and Hip Hop. Since 2002 Julienne has performed with a number of companies, in festivals, TV shows and in musicals. She has taught dance styles like traditional West African, Hip Hop, samba and contemporary dance since 2006.
In her dance practice, Julienne explores connections between different dance styles and uses contemporary dance as a space of hybridization, a vehicle for synergy between dance techniques and expressions. Her movement and dramaturgical line take inspiration from her homelands and the journeys she has taken in between.
Julienne also explores the video medium and has produced and choreographed various dance videos. Both her stage and video work has been shown internationally.

Starting indecisively with the concept of indecisiveness, ’A story of oppositions’ is a 15-20 minutes dance solo created and performed by Keren-or Ben Shachar. The solo portrays a female character constantly shifting between two poles of decisions, between the doubts fueled by fears and the desires and dreams to move on. Indecisiveness is a strange feeling, it is staying in between possibilities, in a limbo of oppositions. The inspiration to create this solo came from an interest in how people make decisions, what drives us to make a decision and what prevents us from moving on.

About the artist
Keren-or Ben Shachar (IL) is a contemporary dancer, performer, choreographer and teacher. Combining physical and theatrical exploration, often in a surrealistic yet personal atmosphere, Keren aims to create performances which are communicative, layered and triggering the imagination. Her creations have performed at theatres and festivals in Belgium, Portugal, and The Netherlands. Supported by Norma Fund, her most recent creation ‘A story of opposition’ was adapted into a short film in collaboration with the interdisciplinary artist John Rolph.
Following her education at ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL) she has worked with a variety of choreographers and artists, including Alexandra Pirici, Daniel Barkan, Ian Ancheta, Idan Sharabi, Caroline Finn and more. In 2019 she co-founded Lazy Susan & co., dance company (NL). Within this group Keren actively works as dancer and choreographer and involved in its management, production, and artistic direction. Besides dancing, Keren is currently studying B.SC. Biology through the Open University (UK) part-time, which she is set to graduate with in 2026.

Credits
Choreographer: Keren-or Ben Shachar
Performer: Keren-or Ben Shachar
Music credits: Alex Lentini & STOMP BOXX — Natural Desire / Sebastian Pickering Pedersen
Production: Lazy Susan & Co

“X Gone Wild” is a tribute to those who lose themselves to dance and find themselves in the wild. Again and again and again. It looks for wilderness on the dancefloor, on stage and right in bodies that dance to let go. The work explores a relationship between queerness, wilderness and the politics of nightlife dancing. What does it mean to let go together? How are queer bodies, communities and their possibilities created through literally losing it?

About the artist
In their practice Andreas is interested in the way nature is understood, practiced and performed. Through different mediums they explore how to up-end and complexify western ideas of nature. Dance and its capacity to transform bodies and ideas takes center stage in ‘X Gone Wild’. Through following leads from Jack Halberstam’s work on the queer desire towards wilderness, the piece explores what this wilderness can look like in a dancing body. When does dancing become wild? What emerges after the dust of a wild night settles?

On stage a hybrid maiden chooses to marry herself in a “sologamist” wedding ritual. Accompanied by a ghost character and a scooter. The figure on stage morphs from act to act, through singing, dancing and sounding, appearing and disappearing in a sonic choreography of evoking and becoming. The work wishes to reclaim the figure of the bride in a queer and humorous ritual of self love.

About the artist
Peter Scherrebeck, also known as Misty Superdeluxe, is a choreographer based in Denmark and the Netherlands. Working from a queer feminist perspective Peter has studied sonic somatics, clairvoyant practices and dance that happens in between the contours of things. Peter holds a BA in choreography from SNDO, Amsterdam University of the Arts.

Credits
Concept / Choreography / Performance: Peter Scherrebeck / Misty Superdeluxe
Ghost: Ida Hørlyck
Costume elements: Oline Bronée
Song writing: Peter Scherrebeck / Misty Superdeluxe
Music production: Ari Merten