*MADE TO BREAK by Ruth Rebekka Hansen – Qlab artistic development

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*MADE TO BREAK by Ruth Rebekka Hansen – Qlab artistic development

4, January 2027 - 17, January 2027

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*MADE TO BREAK

– by choreographer Ruth Rebekka Hansen

A study of the breaking of things

A world of flesh and trash merging

MADE TO BREAK is a two-year artistic research project by choreographer Ruth Rebekka Hansen exploring destruction, impermanence, decay and transformation. At its core lies a paradox: objects are made to break yet persist as waste, while humans strive for permanence in bodies that inevitably decay. Through movement, performance, installation, sound and visual arts, the project investigates this collision between flesh and objects. MADE TO BREAK is focused on capturing a mature audience by prioritizing raw and early work-sharing, Q&A, feedback sessions – and by exploring a durational performance format.

*MADE TO BREAK is a part of Qlab – Warehouse9’s lab for artistic development.

In this residency, we investigate the moment leading up to destroying or breaking something. An investigation into tools of destruction and how tension is built through interacting with them. We look at how the presence of different tools and objects affect the space and what happens when a body interacts with the tool, this meeting being the entry point into a movement and character research. Building on Ruth Rebekka’s current choreographic practice, working with archetypes and pop cultural references as well as how to build and break expectations and tension in relation to the audience.

The residency will also pose questions such as: When is a threat or the idea of danger created? How does the relation between a character and an object change? When is the idea or hint of what happens next created? How does the audience react to the sequence and how does the character/performer react to the audience’s reaction?

Together, we explore this setting through movement, choreography, scenography and dramaturgy. We invite audience to a work-sharing in the end followed by a Q&A/feedback session. More info to come.

VANISHING PRODUCTIONS is a performing arts association established in 2026. As the title suggests, VANISHING PRODUCTIONS centers around fleeting moments. Under the artistic leadership of Ruth Rebekka Hansen, the development and production of movement-based works unfold through strong poetic and political visual experiences. Interested in themes of transformation and impermanence through cross-disciplinary settings and set in the space between appearing and disappearing.

Artistic leader, choreographer and performer: Ruth Rebekka Hansen

Scenographer and costume designer: Benedikte Beate Hansen

Props- and stage designer: Anders Toft Pedersen

Light designer: Brian Cord’Homme

Dramaturg & Producer: Norma Skretting / Art&About

*MADE TO BREAK is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation.

Warehouse9 is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The City of Copenhagen.

Access Information

Warehouse9 has level free entrance to the space and a gender neutral accessible toilet that can be accessed via a certified stairlift.

All events at Warehouse9 are considered “relaxed”. We operate with a safer space policy and ask that you orientate yourself upon entry to the space.

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Start:

4, January 2027

End:

17, January 2027

Ali Cedroni

Technician

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Ali Cedroni (She/Her) has been involved in nearly every industry involving sound, from recording studios, to film sets, to video games, to concerts and theater.
After studying Audio Arts and Acoustics at Columbia College Chicago in 2016, she left the US and became heavily involved in the DIY music and queer art scenes in Scandinavia, expanding her skills to lights and performing music herself.

Sarah Wegeberg

Producer & communications

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Sarah Wegeberg (she/they) is the producer and head of communications at Warehouse9.

Sarah has an MA in Theatre- and performance studies from University of Copenhagen (2023), with a focus on queer dramaturgy, performance ontologies, and communications. She has worked with several queer theatre and performance groups, across both independent and larger institutional contexts.

At Warehouse9, Sarah produces multidisciplinary art and community projects that connect artists and communities across disciplines and traditions.

Kasper Daugaard Poulsen

Chairperson of Warehouse9's board of directors

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Dancer, performer and choreographer.
Educated dancer from the Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2002. Kasper works in a wide variety and mix of formats and genres such as dance, performance, text-based theatre, music drama, installation work, video art, site-specific work, and works for children and young audiences, both on a national and international basis.
He served as member of the Danish Arts Council, The Committee for Performing Arts as well as The Committee for Music Drama (2014-17), and as member of Aarhus City Arts Council (2018-21).
Member of the board of Aarhus Theatre and chairman of SCENATET –ensemble for art and music.
Member of the Horsens Theatre Festival curating group 2026-29. Board graduate from Aarhus Business Academy 2026.

Jasmin Ingemansen

Communications manager

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Jasmin has a master’s degree in English and cultural communications from the University of Copenhagen and has worked with several fields within the cultural sphere. She has worked with executing and communicating films, festivals, art fairs, and literature, and has now embarked upon queer performance art at Warehouse9.

Emma Castro Møller

Co-Director

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Emma (they/she) has been a core member since 2012 and a leading effort in driving organisational development. They have helped shape WH9’s artistic profile, initiated national and international collaborations and consolidated WH9 through fundraising strategies, and insisting on production methods centering care and accessiblility.
In addition, Emma works as an independent curator, e.g. through the curatorial duo osborn&møller, where they have acted as guest curator at the Wellcome Collection (UK) and curated part of City of Women’s 25 year anniversary festival in 2019 (SL). Emma has experience as a freelance producer in the UK, where they worked with artists such as Poppy Jackson, Manuel Vason and SPILL Festival. Emma holds a MA in Theater and Performance from Queen Mary, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre & Education from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Jørgen Callesen

Artistic Director

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Jørgen Callesen (They/He) is co-founder and artistic director of Warehouse9.
For the past 19 years, they have been an integral part of developing Warehouse9 to become a leading organisation for cross-aesthetic queer art, including international festivals and socially engaged projects. He holds a Ph.D. in information & media science from Aarhus University (2005) and has an artistic practice with the performance figure “miss fish”. They have presented solo work in Denmark and internationally since 2002 and work in collaboration with numerous queer artists as well as in lager scale productions.

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