Harald Beharie Workshop

August 5 – 9, 2026

Forum Dança, Espaço da Penha, Lisbon

Registration open.

Ambiguous Intensities

A workshop with Harald Beharie

In the last years Harald Beharie has been engaged in exploring the body as a site of ambivalence. A site where opposing forces, desires, and mechanics coexist and collide. The workshop draws on materials and methodologies developed across a trilogy of works (Batty Bwoy, Undersang and Sweet Spot, 2022 – 2026) , where the body is approached as something unstable, excessive, and exposed in its constant negotiation with its surroundings. Fragments, practices, and scores from these works will function as starting points and shared references. Not as fixed choreographies, but as material to be reactivated, distorted, and reimagined within the group. Together, we will form a temporary collective. A space for delving into ways of being, for channeling and manifesting attitudes and energetic states. Beginning with specific somatic and vocal practices, we will move into more open sessions, working with both voice and movement. The workshop explores how ambiguity can be sustained as a generative force, allowing a collective body to emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure. We will explore how playfulness and uncanniness can produce layers of magic, confusion, and slippage. How to remain in confusion, together and also leaning into awkwardness and silliness as a productive state. How ambiguity can be embodied through form, sensation, and duration. How something lingers and leaks.
The workshop includes elements of contact work and is open to professional performers and students within the performing arts.

Informations

Who is it for

Professional performers and students within the performing arts.

Schedule

DatEs: 5 – 9 August

Hours: Tuesday through Thursday from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. | Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Venue

Forum Dança
Espaço da Penha
Travessa do Calado, 26B,
1170-070 Lisboa

Participation fee

150€

Discounts

20% discount for people who participate or have participated in long-term courses at Forum Dança, participants in workshops promoted by Parasita/Forum Dança, and dance students.
50% scholarships for artists and/or dance students, with support from the GDA Foundation (upon application)

Form

All fields are required.

Bio

Harald Beharie

Harald Beharie(he/they) is a Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway.
Beharie’s practice and choreographies often emerge in the tension between the everyday and the extreme, the banal and the sacred, playing with transformation as a continuous principle, for both the body and the spaces they move through. At the core lies a desire to challenge how we sense, understand, and organize reality. Their works explore how queerness and the body can act as a medium and a site for revolt, ecstasy, and dissolution They hold a special interest for the DIY and the vulnerability of being in the unknown.
Beharie is interested in how the body can function as a motor for dramaturgy, a force in itself that transforms through practice. In his works Batty Bwoy and Undersang, pleasure, excess, and monstrosity can become forces for empowerment and transformation while using the body as a site of ambivalence.

Organization

Forum Dança & Associação Parasita