and or with but on in to… This exploration in writing and dance is inspired by the work of Gianni Rodari, an Italian teacher and children’s book writer whose pedagogy valued children’s innate playfulness and nurtured their imaginations as writers through collective processes. In Grammar of Fantasy (1973), his ‘introduction to the art of inventing…
Abrupt Disorientation of the Self “I will try to describe the physical stage of being between two places in life or stages in the body or thoughts etc. etc. Through the spoken and unspoken words or sounds of the voice, through a bodily search based on inner rhythm and response to the sounds of the…
Sign language – an artistic approach How do you create theater in an artistic group consisting of deaf and hearing people with different knowledge and ability to use verbal and sign language? And how can personal attachments to identity and language form the basis for a theater performance that includes both deaf and hearing people?…
YOUR HEART OUT is a dance work initiated by Ella Östlund and Ottavia Catenacci, in collaboration with the sound designer Eliza Bozek. YOUR HEART OUT is working with the concept of fandom. According to Cambridge dictionary Fandom is intended as ‘the state of being a fan of someone or something, especially a very enthusiastic one’.…
A Research on Art and Earth Jurisprudence – for The Forests Trial I am working on a 4 years research-performance, divided in 4 parts, one each year, investigating different forms of mining of nature and forests in the world, and the interconnection of these destructions at a local and global scale. During these years I…
What the eye doesn’t see We will explore how we can communicate dance, movement, music and song in the dark – through all senses other than sight. We will work with our poetic/aesthetic perception of space and direction, intensity and mood, dance and music when we are not using sight to experience the work. The…
Beatrice Visits Islands Beginning with ‘B’ In the experiment and project I will develop my multifaceted artistic practice consisting of acting, text, performance, video, drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, etc. Compile and fuse these different artistic approaches, forms and fields and bring them into a new context to: Beatrice Visits Islands Beginning with ‘B’. I will…
If anything is not The project “If anything is not” is a research around holes. Holes as entities made of nothing. We can define them as an absence or a trace of what it was, as well as the structure and identity of the entity that supports it. Holes talk about what it is through…
Ode to Alone is a celebration of solo practice that I will carry out for two consecutive weeks at Forsøgstationen. Over the past decade and a half, I’ve been going to the studio regularly to just dance by myself. To practice. To be alone. You could say that the studio became a unique body given…
SLIM S Question: Is it possible to write a script and perform a play in a gender-neutral way? – and ethnicity neutral? SLIM is a performative investigation about identity politics. The experiment looks at hhow much can be liquefied in one piece without losing its shape? How to play a snail snail, and how to…
Smooth Oscillator With Smooth Oscillator we are inspired by Jane Bennet’s definition of assemblage as a gathering of materials that are distinct but inseparable. The elements of an assemblage are never fully independent, constantly affecting and being affected by one another in a way that resists clear hierarchies. We want to explore the potential of…
Us Us / Us Else / Else Us / Else Else Else From our creation as humans, our heart rate defines our manifestation in the world. The heartbeat of an unborn human in the womb is 135 beats per minute. This is the same number of BPM (beats per minute) that DJs use to bring…
Anorexia; my best friend, my worst enemy Key question: How do we investigate the physicality of eating disorders based on autobiographical material to uncover and elucidate the psychomotor roots of body dysmorphia. The purpose of the experiment is toresearch methods for performing arts bodily work with vulnerable life experts on their terms, focusing on the…
TENDER is a research project and performance initiated by Beyond Darkness, the choreographic duo of Nadja Mattioli and Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen. During the “forsøg”, we are collaborating with dancers Cecilie Kjær, Anna Stamp and Camilla Schnack, sound artist Eliza Bozek, as well as invited dialogue partners such as Solveig Gade and Cath Borch Jensen. In…
Between Strings In the experiment Between Strings – the audience and the space, I work with the string installation, Between Strings. It is a large spatial sound installation that basically consists of seven strings in different materials, stretched out in space over 5-10 meters. In the experiment, I will expand the sound installation to include…
Emotional landscape How can I as a player navigate my emotions in an improvisation? Emotions are abstract, constantly moving and hard to pin down. How can I be concrete and approach the work without getting lost in the flux? Able to capture the feeling, make it clear, but still alive in the moment? Hopefully the…
