Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin
Pleasure body

Pleasure Body is a space of theoretical/perceptive/somatic exploration on pleasure.

It offers itself as a facilitation space for practices and conversations connected to pleasure and rest, looking at the questions and multiple meanings that these words hold.

Pleasure Body questions the language around labours of care situating itself as a critical space towards words like wellness, health, healing.

The question that moves Pleasure Body is:

how would you move if you had everything you needed?

Some of the topics that are addressed in Pleasure Body are:

  • what are the ways in which the body assimilates/internalizes sistemic oppression?
  • how, subsequently, do these structures become ways of being in the body? and in relationships? and in community?
  • from this standpoint, what do we mean when we talk about care?
  • what have we internalized? and how do we free ourselves from what we have internalized non-consensually?
  • how would our lives, societies, worlds be if they were based on pleasure instead of profit?

To participate;

  • as an artist connected to Warehouse9, please send an e-mail to info@warehouse9.dk to register
  • as a member of Dansehallerne; book your spot as usual via Dansehallernes webpage.

For all participants;

  • please send an email to info@giorgiaohanesianardin.com briefly stating why you wish to join this space;
  • Please notify if you cannot be present for the entirety of the scheduled time;
  • Please let us know if you have any specific needs that we should be aware of;

Please send all information by 04.03.2025.

Pleasure Body has a maximum capacity of 15 people, and doesn’t require any professional training or experience in dance to participate. The workshop will be in English. We recommend participating all four days in this workshop.

The workshop is curated and produced in close collaboration with Warehouse9,
a queer-led arts organisation based in Copenhagen supporting the development and presentation of work and ideas by queer artists and cultural practitioners.

Pleasure body is held at Dansehallerne, Franciska Clausens Plads 27 DK-1799 Copenhagen V in Studio 3.  

Getting there
Studio 3 is located on the ground floor with step-free access from the main entrance.
Continue straight on towards the changing rooms next to the Foyer. Studio 3 is located at the bottom right corner.

Dansehallerne has an elevator with step-free access to all floors. Accessible and gender-neutral toilets and wardrobes are available on the ground floor.

We kindly ask you to arrive 15 minutes prior to class in time for check-in with the QR code on your ticket.

All members can participate in Dansehallerne’s training activities – a year-round program with approximately 5 days of training per week and now also workshops every other week. This is for all professional members regardless of background in dance training, and it is also possible to participate in a drop-in class.

International guests can participate in training for free for up to 1 month. If you have comments or good tips for the training program, you can always send an email to the curators.

Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin is an Italian artist of Armenian descent working in the contexts of dance and live performance. Trained in dance, their work exists in the shape of movement video text choreography sound gatherings and deals with the relationship between dancing, divination and writing; with geography and the opposite of belonging; with a fetish for language, its politics and its many frictions. They began making work in 2010 in collaboration with artists Marco D’Agostin and Francesca Foscarini, with whom they founded Associazione Culturale VAN (2014). Since 2018, Giorgia periodically holds Pleasure Body, a space for facilitating practices and conversations associated with pleasure and rest, questioning the narrations around labors of care and hosting critical thinking around words like well-being, health, healing, recovery. Pleasure Body is currently touring extensively, being held in a variety of situations, from cultural institutions to queer occupied spaces. Giorgia was invited to hold Pleasure Body at, amongst others: Harvard University in the context of Chiasmi – Queering Italian Studies, Siobhan Davies Studios, Saison Foundation Tokyo, Short Theatre Roma, Gropius Bau, Sophiensaele.

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Artist

Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin

Title

Pleasure body

Type

Workshop

Date

11.–14.3.2025, 12:30

Duration

3 hours

Venue

Dansehallerne, Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 København V

Credits

credits G. Ohanesian Nardin, Brian Hartley

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