Andreas Haglund
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Andreas Haglund in Little Miss Beast Mode. Photo: Clara Silva
Sa 4.10.2025, 15:00-21:00, MDT
MDT and Cinema Queer Film Festival team up for a vibrant evening of film and performance that bends genres and breaks norms.
The evening includes a showing of Little Miss Beast Mode, by Andreas Haglund:
SSSHHHH!!!! SOMETHING IS MOVING IN THE BUSHES! Something artificial? Something gorgeous? Something monstrous? Something natural?
Little Miss Beast Mode is a 35-minute dance performance that explores the promise of queer ecology through somatic and performative processes of de- and re-humanisation. Accompanied by a 3-meter bullwhip and music created by São Paulo-based composer TUCY (Lucas Torrez),
the piece takes place in the blur between animals and humans, between the natural and the supernatural, the organic and the artificial. Choreographer and dance artist Andreas Haglund moves through a cavalcade of creatures, tracing the ideological tensions behind staged biomimicry. What ideas of nature do portrayals of the natural world reveal? What role does the body play in performing said nature? Who is welcome in that nature? How gay can it get?
In Little Miss Beast Mode a stream of grotesque, confused and unhinged beasts frollick through the hazy maze of the black box. These constantly transforming apparitions sniff out the promises of queer ecology. What happens when nature is articulated from a position denied access to the so-called "natural"? With the crack of a whip the dancer snaps out of the rigid confines of this supposed naturality, leaving behind a wild mesh of beasts that dance out a world where nature doesn’t have an order.
Shhhh !!! Something is really moving in the bushes.
More acts TBA.
Andreas Haglund
Andreas Haglund (b. 1996 in Stockholm, Pronouns: He/They) works as a freelance dancer, performer and choreographer in and around Stockholm and Copenhagen.
He is an active member of Dance Cooperative; a platform, dance studio and venue for leftist practice and performance organised by 14 professional artists in Copenhagen. Through this framework he has facilitated several performance events, presenting both his own works and collaborations as well as hosting other artists and their works.
They are educated in Dance & Choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts where they trained mostly western dance techniques with an emphasis on contemporary dance practices. Their education also included an exchange semester at The Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Croatia.
Andreas has worked in various constellations with choreographers, visual artists and institutions such as: Frédéric Gies, Jules Fischer, Weld Company, Zheng Bo, Ágnes Grélinger, Tårnby Park Studio, Paolo Gile, Nordlys, Stina Ehn, Antonia Harke & Denise Lim.