Hope Not, Fear Not

NB: The program will be announced soon, and tickets can be booked from week 45.

This artistic laboratory is curated by artist, choreographer, and author Malik Nashad Sharpe (US), and produced by Dansehallerne in close collaboration with UNION and the Danish Intersectional Folk High School.

HOPE NOT, FEAR NOT is positioned to engage with the term Hope and its discontents. It is wanting to suspend Hope in the air in order to find its function beyond necessity, on the ground. This artistic lab asks artists’ to reflect upon their relationships to Hope in an effort to create untold knowledge about what it can be, on the horizon. And what it has been today, for us all.

HOPE NOT, FEAR NOT revolves around the concept of HOPE and originates from Malik Nashad Sharpe’s own NO HOPE theory, where hope is set aside to make room for action and change. When we stop hoping, we must act on the realities and act. It’s about race, gender, and sexuality.

The program consists of public events and workshops where the artists look at their work, their ideologies, ideas, critiques through the optics of hope. It is free to attend, but there will be limited places for all workshops. The program will be announced soon, and tickets can be booked from week 45.

Malik Nashad Sharpe

Malik Nashad Sharpe is an artist working with choreography. Creating primarily underneath the alias Marikiscrycrycry, He creates performances that are formally experimental and engaged with the construction of atmosphere, affect, and dramaturgy. His works often traverse across social themes and topics as portals to unveil and unearth ulterior and undercurrent perspectives. He has been especially concerned with the affective and textural qualities of dance and how it can transform, disarm, and critically reflect upon mourning and melancholia.