Surfacing HypoKrisia is a series of performative efforts and spells. It’s a research in resilience through the guidance of a speculative, trans-mythic figure. Her name is HypoKrisia. She’s a figment of Charlie’s fantasy – imagined as the forgotten little sister of Tiresias. The wish is to summon her from the depths, because she has been held down beneath the surface for far too long. 

But in this act, friction is inevitable; it’s not smooth sailing to bring forth what has been forgotten or perhaps never existed. It’s like reaching through a portal to a time we cannot reach—and what emerges may be unknown and difficult to face.

The performance takes the audience into a mythological spin, where we no longer know who are speaking through whom. We’ll meet a lonesome character, but there’s another presence hiding deep under. The boy attempts to invoke her, he speaks in/with multiple tongues. The pursuit is to dance with her; a dance-duet leading perhaps to a momentary take-over of his body.

OBS! Possibility of close proximity to performer. Sometimes loud music. Lots of smoke in the performance. Language: English 

Charlie Laban Trier (b. 1987, dk) is a performing artist who chooses to situate his practice deep within the realm of dance, though the dances often appear through other forms such as; bottom-barrel yells turned into songs, text-sampling, endlessly becoming costume, carrying/caring for screens, extreme sculptural headbanging and more. He sees dance as inherently messy, slippery and emergent – a form of knowledge that resists legibility. 

Living as a transperson, is a big teacher in his thinking/approach to work. Charlie thinks of transness, like dance, as a technology that helps him complicate material. It allows for embodying multiple images, seducing viewers, and shifting fluidly between forms. 

He is currently investigating practices of collective myth-making, wanting to foster conversations that resist fixed meaning and invite a dis-positioning of the hero/center-stage.