Upon this invitation from Praxis, I’ve been trying to locate some of the more informal daily elements that somehow appear vital for my practice - those things that happen outside of the linearity of rehearsal schedules, etc. Throughout these days, we will therefore venture into different states of embodiment, such as shorter HIT (high intensity) workouts with my interval app, reading, probably practice some dances from the late Renaissance because they are fun, and discuss the messed-up foundations of European dance history. We will move in circles around the idea of the body as a domain of fiction and try to navigate some sort of blurry landscape between theory and practice.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Louis Schou-Hansen (b. 1992 - Alling, Denmark) is an interdisciplinary artist and performer employing performance, text, installation, and curation to situate the body as a domain of fiction, largely narrated by myths from the early modern…