Trans* choreographer alex blum (DK/NL) invites us into their research archive with small queer movements towards critical fabulation. In this work sharing, alex will share excerpts and reflect upon their artistic research series PÅ TRODS, which seeks performative methods to commemorate queer movements in both history and futures.

As a series of ephemeral memorials to a past of forbidden caresses and a future of tender touches, PÅ TRODS is meant to commemorate the dance actions of the Danish Gay Liberation Front and other queer movements in spite of repression and queerphobia. The aim is to empower the dancing bodies and their political impact by asking: How do the dance actions of the 1970s live on in today's queer bodies, and what can the memory of the Dance Ban tell us about society's forbidden movements? What does queer dance and performance styles, such as voguing and waacking, offer to minoritised bodies? What do political communities with a bodily practice at the center offer?

Performance Lecture with alex blum is presented as part of LICA#4 in collaboration with Page 28.
Lund International Choreography Assembly (May 15-20, 2024) disrupts dominant narratives through global artists. Their embodied stories unearth erased histories and challenge sanitized versions of the past. Ephemeral dance becomes a tool for reclaiming silenced voices and confronting suppressed narratives. The artists explore themes of forbidden expression and collective transformation, inviting us to co-create a future informed by diverse truths.

LICA #4, is hosted by Embassy of Movement, a platform based in Skåne working with representation, community and diversity. It is a meeting place between theory and practice, caring for international artistic exchanges, guided by decolonial conviction and strategies.

MORE during LICA#4
Saturday May 18 at Skissernas museum, Lund
Collective amnesia - choreographic excavation of suppressed narratives
with international guests: Denise Palmieri, Sandra Chatterjee, Rani Nair, Alex Blum, Ray Roa

Read about the program and the artists at:
https://www.ticketmaster.se/event/collective-amnesia-choreographic-excavation-of-suppressed-narratives-biljetter/656499

LICA#4 is supported by Konstnärsnämndens Internationella Dansprogram, Statens Kulturråd, Region Skåne, Lunds kommun, Skissernas Museum, Page 28, Riksteatern Lund, Dansalliansen, Danscentrum Syd.