DATES: August 1, 2, 3 at 7:00 PM & August 4 at 2:00 PM
LOCATION: Refshaleøen – meeting point: in front of Refshalevej 163A, Copenhagen  MAP
WHAT: Performance
FREE
OBS Each day, there are 50 unreserved seats available, so you are welcome to show up 10 minutes before the performance begins – sharp. This gives you a good chance of securing a spot, even if the performance is sold out.

Also, please check the ticket link – we continuously release tickets if cancellations occur.

A chroreographed celebration of the body’s landscape

HABITAT, a groundbreaking performance, captivated the audience at Metropolis 2023. The show featured 40 nude bodies exploring Refshaleøen’s wild landscapes. To give more people the opportunity to experience this unique performance, we will now present it again.

HABITAT is a search for a new habitat by 40 bodies, each distinct yet united in their nudity. The encounter is vibrant and human, as they meet, clash, and find shared energy. Both intense and poetically moving, they are free, and their freedom sets us free.

The soundscape pulsates between insistent techno rhythms and meditative frequencies. Where do these bodies belong?HABITAT is a celebration of all bodies, all ages, and all genders. The 40 human bodies create a shared ritual, welcoming everyone. The 40 bodies guide you on a journey around Refshaleøen – from the past of industry to the future where we can glimpse with the construction of a new island. A new habitat.

A habitat is a living space for specific species. Here, Refshaleøen becomes home to the body tired of hiding. Austrian choreographer Doris Uhlich will strip away all layers that separate us from who we are born to be. She will create a utopia where the naked body can live without shame and fear of outside gazes. HABITAT is a nomadic format, inviting a new group of local bodies each time – this time between 20 and 80 years old. Ordinary bodies, some professionally trained to move, others not. The performance is created with these bodies and the location as a crucial co-participant. A nomadic staging of humanity’s basic needs in a time where everything is up for negotiation.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

REVIEWS

“Doris Uhlich investigates whether it is possible to create space for all kinds of bodies without adhering to existing norms and fear of outside gazes. And it is. The audience’s coded perceptions gradually melt away in the presence of unpretentious nudity… The atmosphere shifts from astonishment and polite distance to openness, natural togetherness, and gratitude. Everything that can be seen is laid bare on all sides. There are no more secrets, and no more hiding.”
Iscene.dk

Doris Uhlich’s 40 nude performers occupy the searching Refshaleøen as a swarm of individuals, and triumph as an organism that insists on being one with its surroundings. With its habitat… The entire Doris Uhlich’s choreographic approach to the political, to humanity’s inevitable stance, and to the universal desire to find a habitat for all regardless of the body you now have, is not only sympathetic. The choreographic approach is exciting, developing, and both artistically stringent and boundary-pushing. All Uhlich asks for is two hours of openness from your side.”

Sceneblog

“It is an incredibly beautiful performance. The evening’s light draws sharp shadows on the diverse bodies, while they stand still in a pose or dance wildly around in a circle… It is not beautifully choreographed dance steps, it is more like the type of dance steps you do at home in your apartment when no one else is watching and that is exactly what makes this an enormous liberating experience. It spreads and more of the audience’s bodies are also caught up in the atmosphere and nod, point, or dance for themselves. At the same time, the chosen locations are spot-on… Beautiful nude bodies lie on rough concrete, with dust and cracks, while the sky draws red clouds behind windmills, whose wings turn slowly around.”

Den 4. Væg

CREDITS

Concept & Choreography: Doris Uhlich
Performers: Amélie Dieudonné, Aline Combe, Antonio Buono, Astrid Sten Andersen, Benedicte Rea Kragskov, Doris Haidvogl, Ella Östlund, Emil Bregnsholdt, Emilie Beske, Enzo Hacquin, Felix Rotter, Frederik Jacobsen, Friederike Paul, Gabriele Albani, Garance Plessis-Fraissard, Johanne Antonina Storm, Katinka Wissing, Krister Walfridsson, Laure Fleitz, Louis Labadens, Magali Camps, Marianna Minasova, Miamanda Bovin, Mogens Vejtorp, Nadja Mattioli, Nana Anine Jørgensen, Ottavia Catenacci, Paulina Aleksandra Rewucka, Pauline Michel, Pedra Costa Pernille Koch, Roosa Törmä, Rosa Oikonomou, Rosa Reinprecht, Rossella De Rosa, Thorunn Gudmundsdottir, Tryggvi Sæberg Björnsson

Rehearsal Directors: Hugo Le Brigand, Ann Muller, Mim Schneider
DJ: Boris Kopeinig
Production: Helen Parkes
Company – Management: Margot Wehinger
Company – Social Media: Esther Brandl
Company – International Distribution: Something Great
Supported by: Cultural Department of the City of Vienna and the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria, Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
Project Partners in the Habitat Series include: donaufestival / Krems, ImPulsTanz / Vienna in collaboration with Wiener Secession, Tanzquartier Wien, Münchner Kammerspiele, Tanzfestival Rhein-Main (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm / Frankfurt a. M. and Hessisches Staatsballett under the auspices of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main), Frascati / Amsterdam, Perform Europe (Plexus Rouge / Marseille, Rosendal Teater / Trondheim, Mayfest / Bristol), DOMENIG STEINHAUS / Carinthia, BRITNEY X Festival / Cologne

Photo: Morten Lundrup