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Anybody With Any Body

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Dancer:

Sandie Liv Tange

Anybody With Any Body

Foreningen for Integreret Moderne Dans i Danmark (FIMD)’s dance performance Anybody With Any Body is aimed at young people and focuses on a diverse expression in movement with a different body on stage.

Anybody With Any Body invites you to experience a dancer who challenges normality and questions the idea of the aesthetically perfect body.

Where are the fat bodies? The slow bodies? The scarred bodies? …

…Who fits in? What is normal?

Anybody with Any Body was created out of a need to highlight all bodies as valuable and to show that bodies are different.

The audience gets an insight into, and perhaps a new perspective on, which movements are valuable and which bodies have the right to be shown on stage… and maybe even a newfound acceptance of their own body?

One of FIMD’s goals is to demystify taboos around different bodies, thus helping to break down the distance between people.

The following talk touches on topics such as; doubt, fear, vulnerability, shame, norms, prejudice and lust for life – in a world of constant editing and striving for perfectionism.

Lars Tagensbo School:
“What courage Sandi has to be so open and vulnerable in front of her audience”

Dorte Østergaard
“It’s the most beautiful show FIMD has created so far”

Janne Weidinger Artistic Director
“As an artist and citizen of Denmark, I miss diversity. Integrated dance initiates change that can inspire our society collectively. We can help break the current normative and give the audience ‘a new leg to dance with’”

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Anybody With Any Body

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Who am I? Who are you? -Without me

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Who am I? Who are you? -Without me :

Dancers: Malene Becker, Lisa Dahlkild, Cath Borch, Bettina Stoholm & Jerry Jensen

“WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU? -WITHOUT ME…”

-is a dance event and an artistic exploration of who we are as people and what we initiate and mirror, how we act and react when we encounter each other’s differences and similarities. The event focuses on the integration and joy of diverse expression in movement, with differently functioning bodies.

On stage there are 4 dancers with different abilities, a walker, a wheelchair and a prosthetic hand. ….

On August 23, 2019, FIMD performed at the Culture Night in Kolding, and it was a great experience for us Koldingers.
A few minutes into the performance, I thought that the group deserves both attention and great recognition for what they can do.

A dance performance consists of many elements: the choreography – the dancers’ skills – the music – the stage – the audience’s participation. For me, it all came together in a beautiful and higher unity.

The 4 performers each filled their own space on stage, and they performed with the calmness and confidence that characterizes very well-crafted performances. The performance has a fine choreography that kept our attention. The fact that the audience was invited onto the stage and briefly given the opportunity to dance themselves was received with enthusiasm.

FIMD dancers have different abilities. The performance immediately convinced us that you can perform dance even if you have a disability. But…

The show is much more: It is an aesthetically beautiful performance with a high artistic level.

And – yes. Our boundaries and expectations are being pushed. We’re not used to seeing a prosthesis being taken on and off and a wheelchair user being out of the wheelchair for periods of time, but here it seems natural and in no way awkward. Nor should we underestimate the courage it took for the dancers to put themselves at the center of everyone’s attention – perhaps especially in the beginning.

As I said: A great performance with a high level.

If you get the chance, I would recommend everyone to see FIMD’s performance.

“Who am I? Who are you? – Without me…”

You will have a great experience.

Henning Laursen, Kolding

Performances of “Who am I?” in 2019:

December; Frederiksberg City Hall’s Volunteering Award on International Disability Day

Tagensbo school

Sydhavns Compagniet

BLU for TV2

Strandparkskolen

November; Utterslev school Kbh. Nv.

October; Hjernesagen conference; Move the brain

Nyager school; Theme weeks Total Normal

Haslev Sports Efterskole

Egmont Folk High School in Hou

September; “Sct. Hans race” in Roskilde

The Compass/IF Giants

Christianshavns Torv

HF Aftermath

Geelsgårdskolen

August; Kolding Culture Night

June; “Store Torv” in Rønne, Bornholm

May; Grundtvig Church’s Parish Council party, Bispebjerg

April; “Friday Night Sharing” in Dansekapellet

February; Bispebjerg Hjemmet

Performances with “Who am I” in 2018:

December; On International Disability Day, Rentemestervej Library

September; Copenhagen Fusion Festival

August; Christianshavns Torv, for Christianshavns Library

July; Bispebjerg Torv

June; In Emaljehaven & at Utterslev Torv

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A house artist project in collaboration with Egmonthøjskolen

– Is FIMD’s 3. House artist project, which took place in the summer of 2022, at Egmont Højskolen.

The classes consisted of dance/movement, body-work, choreography, dance and music theory.

In collaboration with musician Anja Tietze Lahrmann and Consultant Nicky Visser, we explored 2 different forms of listening:

The listening, where we experience sounds. The listening that is an auditory activity. Sound waves cross the three smallest bones of the body in the middle ear and vibrate the cochlear coil. -What is the farthest sound you can hear? -What is the closest? We used microphones and stethoscopes to explore this.

Listening as sensing – it is an open state of awareness. We practice listening through our body, through our skin… -listening through touch.

…Both these ways of listening lead us into movement and dance.

We listen to our own body, we listen to our partners and we listen to the group when we dance.

We listen to the room…

Video by Alexander Håkansson:

Line, dancing in week 29: “It has been an incredibly rewarding and inspiring week. It was wonderful to move so much and in all sorts of new ways, and to let myself lead and trust that my body knows how it wants to move. Listening in and out, and the co-created safety in the group was an enriching experience. I have again been confirmed in how meaningful it is when we are together in diversity. The dance and music is a great way to feel the community and all that connects us.”

Erica, Dancing participant: “I have always been very fond of dancing, but it surprised me how much I liked and how relaxing I found free dance. The theory was a bit heavy at times, but everything else was spot on. I liked all the dance exercises.”

Mulle & Cliff, audience and married couple, one of whom has a disability, attend the family college with their children: “It was a really nice performance. It wasn’t like wheelchair dancing. Here you had the disabled as equals. It was aesthetic. It was art!”

Rasmus, teacher at Egmont Højskolen: “It went well. This year it was easier to see the dance and movements because we were so close to the performers.”

Charles (music teacher) & Michael (father of 2 of the young performers): “It was really good music played at the show, for old jazz enthusiasts like us! ”

This year’s house artist project reached 250 people through performance, installation and lecture + documentary.

LISTEN-IN video from Egmonthøjskolen: https://youtu.be/ilMI_1_EeWY

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My best friend

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My best friend

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The apple of my eye:

A house artist project in collaboration with Egmonthøjskolen

– Is the title of two teaching weeks that took place in weeks 28 and 29, summer 2021, at Egmont Højskolen.

The classes consisted of dance/movement, body-work, choreography, dance theory and a trip to Norsminde Apple Farm, where we explored dance, movement and sensuality, in and with nature.

The participants, who were aged 13-75, were given the task of noticing what was their favorite thing about the summer, the course and the dance lessons – to focus on how we see, experience and receive impressions.

At the end of each week, the dancers put on a performance where the other course participants were the audience. The audience was eventually invited to dance. We were privileged to have live music for both performances.

In collaboration with Nicola Visser, the Association for Integrated Modern Dance in Denmark (FIMD) developed “Min Øjesten”, our first House Artist project. It was a wonderful and intense experience that we are happy to have spread to around 400 people who now know that there is an art form in Denmark as integrated dance!

Rasmus Schmidt, teacher at Egmont Højskolen:
“Very touching and inclusive performance that got all students participating. You were left with chills and the conviction that dance is for everyone.”

Line, mother of a boy with special needs, has attended Family Week several summers in a row:
“I stood watching the beautiful and mesmerizing dance performance as the dancers moved from the walkway onto the beach and suddenly tears streamed down my cheeks. They spoke words along with the music and the dance was the epitome of beauty, sensuality, connection and love. What life is all about. Interpersonal contact, reciprocity and connectedness. For me, it was so life-affirming how people can move through dance on many levels, regardless of different levels of functioning.”