Photo: Market Mouth, Operformancef, London 2026 by Olga Tomalik
THROAT
The throat connects downward — to the gut, the diaphragm, the pelvis — and outward, into the room, toward other bodies, toward whatever else is present. This workshop takes that anatomical fact seriously as a choreographic proposition.
Across two sessions, participants work with guttural voice, breath, and movement as technologies of attention.
The first session on Wed 13 May works purely with voice, breath, and movement. Drawing from Butoh, Qi Gong, and somatic practice, the work moves into interior state research and collective score-making, playing with contradiction: how the complexity of multiple, inconsistent selves can become material rather than problem.
On Thu 14 May, theThe second session introduces BDSM as additional technique — a precision instrument for working at the edge of sensation, permission, and trust. A no is as valued as a yes.
Both sessions centre consent and care as the actual substance of the work. Patterns of power, hierarchy, and desire already present in dance training and choreographic process are brought into explicit, slow attention.
Boundaries are treated as meeting points, not walls.
Encounter the other in a way that invites them to inhabit their own subjectivity, whether that other is human or not.
No previous experience is required. The sessions will include some discussions and readings, as well as a short break and time to wind down at the end of the session.
About
Lene Vollhardt is a London-based choreographer and performance artist, currently a Research Fellow at the Law & Theory Lab, University of Westminster. Her practice moves across live performance, moving image, choreographic research and facilitation, with a sustained attention to the body as a site of transmission and score.
Her work has been presented at Royal Academy of Arts, Chisenhale Dance Space, Sharjah Art Foundation, among others, and along with their work as performer/dancer she has collaborated with Danilo Andres for Berlin Art Week, Sasha Waltz at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Liz Magic Laser at KW Berlin. Recent projects include Hyperacusis (Chisenhale, 2024), Market Mouth (2025–ongoing), and Swan Languages, an ongoing movement research. She holds a background in classical ballet, Butoh, and non-Western dance forms, and has received support from institutions including Serpentine Arts Technologies and RadicalxChange, alongside fellowships from Impustanz Danceweb, and Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
Horizontal Practices is a strand of LPS programming dedicated to promoting peer-to-peer learning and non-hierarchical spaces for conversation. These take form as discursive events, professional training, curated guest workshops, and roundtable discussions initiated by the LPS team.
Horizontal Practices responds to the need for and importance of space for experimental modes of exchange that sit outside the context of institutional ‘education’ frameworks. As with the rest of the LPS programme, queer and feminist practices and those which sit in-between visual art and theatre are at the core of Horizontal Practices.
Sessions take place throughout the year on a monthly basis. Facilitators are both invited and selected through an open call process, reviewed quarterly.
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