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    • Sat 24.1 19:00 – 19:30

    CC10: Aske Thiberg – Shutting Out The Sun

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    Free after paid admission to CC

    Hall 6

    Performance

    The performance is part of CC10 – a three-day festival of performance, talks, and concerts at Copenhagen Contemporary, taking place from 23–25 January. The festival brings together artists, performers, and musicians in an intensive programme where performance unfolds across a wide range of forms and formats.

    Over the course of all three days, audiences can experience a rich and varied programme of performances, talks, and concerts that activate the entire space of CC and create encounters between body, sound, movement, and storytelling.

    At CC10 we present Shutting Out the Sun – a solo performance by artist and dancer Aske Thiberg, in which the body becomes a mirror of our digital present. On a small platform the performer executes mechanical, high-tension movements with an almost expressionless face. The body moves while short texts are read aloud in a monotone voice: absurd stories of everyday relations that gradually shift into something more displaced and strange. All of it unfolds against a minimalist, repetitive synthesizer theme and the rhythmic sounds of the dancer’s movements – like a melancholy pop song looping through the room.

    Thiberg works with locking, a street-dance form arising from the 1970s funk scene, which he has practiced since his early teens. Locking is built on pauses and freeze-like gestures – ‘locks’ – that give the body a near-mechanical expression. Between sharply defined movements, from claps to held poses, the monotone narratives are woven in. What begins as seemingly ordinary tales of family figures and familiar roles slowly dissolves into the surreal.

    Drawing on Thiberg’s work with digital animation, the stories feel modeled like choreographies inside a detached digital space – with all its potential for suspended gravity, distorted logic, and playful violence.

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