Greyscale: Workshop
The workshop will delve into the anatomy of driving.
Through conversations with truck drivers, Lara Ostan Vejrup observed how they use their bodies in their work and how this shapes their perception of time and space. Drawing on their experiences, she developed a range of exercises and movement structures based on touch, somatization, improvisation, and instant composition, establishing somatopoetic bridges between truck driving and dance. In the workshop, Ostan Vejrup will lead practices focused on vision and embodied perception.
The workshop is primarily intended for professional and semi-professional dancers, choreographers, and other movement practitioners. Those who do not identify with this description but are interested in the workshop are also warmly invited.
The workshop is free of charge. Prior registration is required at: pr@maska.si.
Led by: Lara Ostan Vejrup
GRAYSCALE – Residency
About the project
What do roads teach us about time, space, and movement?
The world of truck drivers: long working hours with irregular schedules, solitude as well as loneliness, strict regulations, precarious working conditions, and long periods spent away from home, friends, and family—forming a paradoxical situation of movement: being in motion while remaining still. It is a play with prejudices about perception and agency, a game about who moves whom, at what pace, and through which spaces.
Greyscale is a continuation of the research project Driver, in which the author Lara Ostan Vejrup approaches driving as an essential aesthetic and sensory dimension of today’s globalized world. In earlier works, she explored how movement co-creates the mythology of the automobile (White Line Fever), and conducted field research with truck drivers across Europe. She translated their practices of timekeeping, spatial orientation, and travel into a choreographic language (Before Lunch).
In Greyscale, she turns her focus to the infrastructure of driving – to roads through which time is not measured but produced, to constant labor in transit, and to forms of work that are pushed to the periphery.
About the artist
Lara Ostan Vejrup (1995) is a Slovenian–Danish choreographer based in Denmark.
Through her work, she challenges the capitalist logic embedded in movement. She approaches choreography and dance as socio-political practices, and understands corporeality, time, and space as constitutive elements of perception and creation that shape how we imagine, create, and recreate worlds. Her work engages with specific contexts such as roads, driving, and truck drivers in DRIVER vol. I and DRIVER vol. II; migration, care workers, and agricultural laborers in Movement for All, homes; and stillness and the phenomenon of hikikomori in All these roads just for you. In her artistic practice, she employs somatopoetic strategies to document and foreground reality. She works across various formats and media, including film and text, to shape, transmit, and further develop the logic of dance.
Ostan Vejrup is also a co-founder of KOMMA Performance Productions, a performing arts association based in Copenhagen.