This performance is free to attend, no RSVP needed.

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Digging a Glittery Grave is a 3-hr open-door performance installation, where mourning rituals are enacted by continuously (re)building the stage with materials and objects connoted with an aesthetic of cuteness.

The performers want to invite the audience for an honest and sensitive encounter: a space that allows people to enter an intimate world where both grief and laughter have space. To give cuteness depth and make heavy topics manageable by putting them in a cute context.

Digging a Glittery Grave started as a desire to contextualize the performer’s friendship by creating a space for memory, intimacy, and shared life. They carry many similar life stories living as transmasculine people. In the few existing portraits in pop culture, trans people are still often reduced to something comical, cute, tragic, almost inhumane, already dead, where there is little to no agency in the storytelling. Instead, the performers want to create a space where trans people exist as multifaceted individuals with all the strengths, weaknesses, sorrows, and joy it entails.

Digging a Glittery Grave is free to enter, and part of the performance is immersive, where the audience, using face-filters on Instagram and a custom-designed website, is invited to live-transmit cute pictures/videos of the performers and their cute universe. To watch the videos visit: diggingaglitterygrave.com, or follow @diggingaglitterygrave on Instagram.

With this performance, we mourn what never was or did not have room to be.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

The performance installation is created by Beck Heiberg & Charlie Laban Trier

Beck Heiberg is a choreographer and performer with a BA in Theater and Performance Studies from the University of Copenhagen. He holds diplomas from Juste Debout School and Hotstepper’s Education. He works in a broad field of theater and performance, but his own original work derives from building concepts up around movement and is often related to personal experiences. He is currently investigating queer- and trans-political aesthetics in his praxis. Beck is a member of Dance Cooperative – a platform and workspace for intersectional feminist and artistic choreographic practices in Copenhagen.

Charlie Laban Trier is a performer and choreographer. He graduated in 2018 with an SNDO bachelors in choreography. He has been and is working with various artists internationally – both as a performer and in collaborations. He’s a member of Jacuzzi – an artist-run space in Amsterdam where dance/performance and other time-based media swim together. Charlie thinks of dance as a slippery matter and a joker that can instantaneously inhabit many images, seducing its viewers while cheekily sliding out of shape. He’s interested in spaces where we all have to work through the complications of participation and that calls for everybody’s responsibility for disrupting fixed structures/ideas.

CREDITS:

Graphic and webdesign + creation of instagram face-filter: Alix Smed Dawids
Supported by:
Dansk Skuespillerforbund – produktionsstøtte pulje
Statens kunstfond – puljen for ”Scenekunst for børn, unge og voksne”

Instagram: @diggingaglitterygrave, @beckheiberg, @charlie_laban & @alix.smed

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LANGUAGE: Non-verbal

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Digging A Glittery Grave is part of IPAF: an international festival for contemporary performance presenting artists whose work engages identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations, curated and produced by Warehouse9.

The festival is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and the City of Copenhagen.

Visit www.warehouse9.dk for more info