We will work with an imitation practice which sits at the base of a project I am working on called “P&P”. In P&P, me and dancer Panisara Wanlopbanhan, are looking into what it means to imitate someone and who you become when you do it – it is research into themes of the doubleganger, the lookalike and the other. In the workshop we will mirror each other; switching between who is “leading” and not knowing who is “leading”; switching between being oneself, being someone else, and being other. We will laugh and cry and hold space for the confusions this all might entail.

Putli Jasmine Baldin Hellesen (b.1996) is a Norwegian-Filipino choreographer and dance artist. She holds a master’s degree in dance from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and has performed with choreographers such as Eivind Seljeseth, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Elle Sofe Sara, De Naive & Roza Moshtaghi, Anna & Co, Lisa Colette Bysheim, Jonas Øren, Ida Haugen, Carl Aquilizan, Brendan Fernandes and Bianca Hisse. Her most recent work was the solo «Yellow» (2025), her first project confronting her Asian identity. www.putlihellesen.com