Charlie Laban Trier

Gazing from the edge of bed

Close up of a person's lower body lying on a table in a yellow lit room, with a hand with a small tattoo, a denim shirt and legs wearing fishnet tights

Photo: Visual Artifacts/Haiducul Padure

We 4.12.2019, 21:00-22:00, MDT

Th 5.12.2019, 21:00-22:00, MDT

As they were lazily floating on a wave, letting the tip lick the back of their head. The wave at times got stronger, just enough to push them over, to get them completely under the surface. They could still look up, but the sun was not as strong from under the surface, and their perception seemed altered.

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"Gazing from the edge of bed" is a dance piece that is based on a desire to learn and unfold practices of pornography through studying the performativity produced by performers working in porn and the craft of translating a body to image and the idea of the image as a body. The piece holds the perspective that this performativity can give access to a certain non-exposed intimacy, which can create a performance that can affect and be served, whilst sustaining one’s own space of arousal and enjoyment. A doing of performance that is unapologetically vulnerable but not compromising, and where exposure is something else than being exposed. The piece wants to explore the possibilities of what a sexualized or aroused performance can do to space and all those who inhabit it.

Charlie Laban Trier

Charlie Laban Trier is a dance-maker and performer, (1987 CPH/DK), based primarily in Amsterdam. He graduated (2018) from SNDO – Bachelor in Choreography. His background is in styles such as House and Vogue and is still rooted within these scenes both in terms of his base of movements, but also through participation – especially within the European Vogue Ballroom scene. Being in different queer scenes and categorizing himself as a transgender person, has also influenced his thinking and approach to work. One of the focuses of his work is studying how to embody and learn from methods of already existing performance practices that can turn the gaze inside-out and that aims on enhancing space for bodies corrupted by different oppressive structures.


Charlie has worked in the past years with a variety of artists. In the recent year he has worked for artists such as Paul Maheke (LND), Michele Rizzo (AMS), Noha Ramadan (AMS), Keren Levi (AMS), Phoebe Osborne (NYC/AMS). He has since 2015 worked for and with Italian choreographer Cristina Kristal Rizzo. They are currently co.creating an upcoming piece (working title: “Hypernating”) that will premiere in 2020.

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