
Photo: Cecilie Penney
PLEASE HOLD er en undersøgelse af det formelles æstetik og dets intime relation til det private gennem koreografi. Værket udfordrer den falske dikotomi mellem det offentlige og det private, idet formelle interaktioner ofte er forbundet med intense følelser og tabuer.
Inspireret af Franz Kafka’s Processen viser værket, hvordan autoritetens formelle æstetik – gennem påklædning, rummets indretning eller et brevs grafik – kan være så intimiderende, at dens signalværdi alene er nok til at fremkalde lydighed. Kroppene på scenen veksler mellem at blive opfattet som menneske, “borger”, figur, objekt, subjekt, ligesom de veksler mellem at blive opfattet som autoritet og underordnet.

Photo: Cecilie Penney

Photo: Cecilie Penney

Photo: Cecilie Penney

Photo: Cecilie Penney

Photo: Cecilie Penney

Photo: Cecilie Penney
Det kunstneriske hold:
Kunstnerisk leder, koreograf, scenograf: Karoline Clasen Holland (DK)
Performers: Denise Lim (SG/DE), Laura Spottag Fog (DK), Karoline Clasen Holland (DK)
Medskabere: Denise Lim (SG/DE), Armin Hokmi (IR/DE), Laura Spottag (DK), Anne Elmholt (DK)
Musiker, lyddesigner: Jakob Einar la Cour (zack christ) (DK)
Scenograf / dramaturg: Anne Elmholt (DK)
Initial artistic research co-produced by: HAUT Scene and Megaland
Supported by Wilhelm Hansen Fonden and William Demant Fonden
Photographer at Aveny-T, 2025: Cecilie Penney
Photographer of work sharing, 2023: Louise Herrche Serup

Photo: Cecilie Penney
Essay on Please Hold written by Tova Gerge on Bastard blog:

Please Hold was initiated at a residency at HAUT with a public in-process work sharing at Teaterøen in Copenhagen in nov. 2023.
Work sharing at HAUT in 2023
Please Hold is the first project of Megaland and was developed at an initial artistic research residency produced by HAUT at Teaterøen in 2023, leading up to a public work sharing at HAUT's YC festival 2023.
dancer/choreographer Denise Lim (SG), dancer/choreographer/actor Armin Hokmi (IR) and Karoline C. Holland (DK).
Their first residency took place at Teaterøen produced and curated by HAUT in november 2023 leading up to a public work sharing at HAUT's YC festival 2023.

Artwork by Karoline C Holland
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Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup. Worksharing at HAUT's YC Festival 2023
Photos from public work sharing and feedback conversation at HAUT's YC Festival 2023 at Teaterøen.
Photos by: Louise Herrche Serup
Credits for work sharing at YC festival 2023:
Performers and co-creators: Armin Hokmi, Denise Lim, Karoline C. Holland
Artistic director and scenographer: Karoline C. Holland
Music track: zack christ
Scenography from Sydhavn Genbrugscenter and Vermlandsgade Genbrugscenter

Co-produced by HAUT scene

The further artistic research is supported by Wilhelm Hansen Fonden

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup

Foto: Louise Herrche Serup
