Beck Heiberg
(he-him)
Beck Heiberg (b. 1987, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a choreographer and performer based between Copenhagen and Berlin. His work spans a wide field of theatre and performance, always returning to his first love — dance. Movement lies at the heart of his artistic language, forming the foundation of his conceptual performance and live art practice, where the movement serves as the primary tool for storytelling.
Beck is currently spending time connecting with the written word and reconnecting with his training within club and street styles, exploring how these vocabularies can be reimagined as narrative and conceptual devices within performance art. His work often delves into the complexities of human emotion — touched by melancholy and gravity. In recent projects, he has investigated the intersections between sensuality and grief, as well as between cuteness and sorrow.
A core element of Beck’s practice is his ongoing exploration of queer and transpolitical aesthetics, both as an explicit and implicit part of his artistry. This perspective informs his aesthetic codes, the subjects he engages with, and the ways he constructs creative processes. It is expressed, among other ways, through a continuous attempt to find rest within discomfort, and to explore experiences that are not represented or do not exist within normative society.
Beck has had the pleasure of working for and together with several inspiring colleagues, and are currently working with Anna Näsström, Sigrid Stigsdatter, Antoinette Helbing, Falk Richter and Laura Løwe & Luka Holmegaard. In addition to his own artistic work, Beck co-curates Feral Festival together with Elise Bjerkelund Reine — a festival where experimental circus, sound, and performance meet in euphoric chaos.
Beck has a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from Copenhagen University and holds diplomas from Juste Debout School in Paris, France and Hotstepper Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Credits includes: The Royal Theatre (CPH), FLICfest (NYC), INSITU (NYC), Folketeatret (CPH), Warehouse 9 (CPH), Dansehallerne (CPH), TOASTER (CPH)
Beck has received stipends from both Dansk Artist Forbund, Dansk Skuespillerforbund, the Danish Arts Foundation and Wilhelm Hansen Fonden in support of his artistic practice.