The talk will also be streamed online on this page.
Daddies will be a brand new, bold, and fearless queer performance by the critically acclaimed company Himherandit Productions. The project explores the lives, desires, and experiences of gay men over 40, weaving together 100 recorded testimonies from around the world with live performance. Daddies will always be in development, a living, evolving work that celebrates older queer voices, challenges invisibility and ageism, and investigates identity, desire, and community on stage.
Himherandit come to this residency to continue the early stages of development for Daddies. During the artist time at the residency, they will gather testimonies from local gay men, explore how to work with texts already recorded, and investigate how a singular performer interacts with recorded voices on stage. The focus is on research, methodology, and building clarity around the frameworks that will guide the performance, rather than producing performative material at this stage.
About the artists
Andreas Constantinou is a performance artist and choreographer based in Aarhus, Denmark, and the artistic director of HIMHERANDIT PRODUCTIONS and THE GENDERHOUSE QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL. As a graduate of Trinity Laban (2003), he worked with Punchdrunk as a devising performer on landmark productions including Sleep No More and The Fire Bird Ball before founding HIMHERANDIT in 2006 and touring his work internationally.
His practice explores themes of gender, sexuality, identity, and grief, notably through THE GENDER HOUSE PROJECTS (2013–2018), several of which were award-winning and selected for Aerowaves, the award-winning MASS EFFECT (2019–2020), and THE GRIEF WORK SERIES (2020–2025), which includes acclaimed works such as CHAMPIONS, MY UNDYING LOVE, CARCASS, and SHROUD. Alongside his artistic work, Andreas has held significant educational leadership roles and now focuses on creating new work while offering mentorship and creative workshops.
Aris Papadopoulos is an architect, choreographer, and performer based in Athens, Greece, whose interdisciplinary practice merges architecture, landscape, walking, and performing arts to explore embodied experiences of the urban environment. A graduate of the Athens School of Architecture (NTUA, 2009) and the National School of Dance, Athens (2012), he works across Greece and Europe as a performer and maker, collaborating with companies and artists such as HIMHERANDIT Productions, ARBONAUTS, Pietro Marullo, Medea Electronique, and Michael Kliën.
As co-founder of arisandmartha, his work has been selected by Aerowaves (2018), presented at major festivals including Athens & Epidaurus and Kalamata International Dance Festival, and supported by institutions such as Aerowaves, the European Dance Network, and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. His site-specific and research-based projects have been presented internationally, and he is an Onassis AiR Fellow (2020), an SNF ARTWORKS Dance Fellow (2022), and a collaborator with the Laboratory for Social Choreography at Duke University.
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