IN DEPENDENCE THINGS RISE UP

The workshop will focus on practices that predominantly ask to listen, actively receive, and host foreign bodies and voices within and onto ourselves.

Blending contact improvisation/partnering and wrestling he is interested in generating situations that encourage practitioners to indiscriminate their weight and in some cases engage genuine strength with an acute awareness of the other. Freddy will invite you to look at our performance practice as sites of resistance to normative discourse and representation, through which we can critically reflect on notions surrounding consent, nonviolence and collective empowerment.

Freddy Houndekindo is an interdisciplinary artist positioned at the intersection of music, spoken word poetry, dance and performance. His work critically reflects subjects such as identity, blackness, masculinity and collectivity. Freddy's artistic journey started with street dance: HipHop & Electro dance. He studied
contemporary dance in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon(France) and modern dance at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen(Germany). Movement Director and Choreographer in 2020 he is granted the Tanzrecherche NRW to support his artistic research. In 2021 he received the Riksteatern stipendium to further investigate the relationship between film and dance. His films won several International prizes. His expertise and interest for multimedia lead him to further work with fashion as movement director with clients such as Vogue Scandinavia, H&M, H&M move, WEEKDAY, HOPE, CAP74024,…

Dancer at Cullberg he joined the ensemble autumn 2018 and worked with artist including Alma Söderberg, Deborah Hay, Jefta Van Dinther, Halla Ólafsdóttir, Eleanor Bauer, Hooman Sharifi, Ian Kaller.