(b. 1981 in Bergen, Norway)
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden
Education
2024
Master of Fine Arts with specialization in Contemporary Performative Arts, University of Gothenburg
Political Strategies in Contemporary Performance, SKH, Stockholm
2023
Dance dramaturgy, Kulturakademien
2022
Analogue Photographic Processes, Valand Art Academy, Gothenburg
2021
Methods and forms of writing in relation to artistic practice, SKH, Stockholm
Contemporary art and philosophy, HDK Valand
Epistemology and Science Theory, Högskolan Dalarna
Digital Photography + Photowalk with Joakim Roos, Folkuniversitetet
2020
Historical Western Philosophy at Gothenburg University
1997-2000
Professional Dancer Programme, Royal Swedish Ballet School, Stockholm
Curating and Producing
2025
Rabbit/Duck, Interdisciplinary Art Festival, Scen 46, Gothenburg
Creative Currents, Scen 46, Gothenburg
Regional Collaboration with Finnekumla Dans- och Konstscen and Boy Konsthall
International Artists to Gothenburg
2024
Rabbit/Duck, Interdisciplinary Art Festival at Scen 46, Gothenburg
2024/2025 Producer, Anne Pajunen/SMOK
2023
Rabbit/Duck, Interdisciplinary Art Festival at Scen 46, Gothenburg
2017–2019
Transition, GöteborgsOperan, Atalante, 3:e Våningen, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Konstkollektivet, Stora Teatern.
2017
Production assistant, SKAPA, GöteborgsOperan
Admin. assistant to Artistic Director, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani
Published writing
2025
Upcoming:
Article, tanz.dance
Review, Tanec Praha, Springback Magazine
Artist Portrait, Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift
Review, Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift
Review, SiSi Autumn Dance Festival, Budapest
Review, Drugajanje, Slovenia
Published:
Artist Portrait: Peter Svenzon/ Art of Spectra, Danstidningen
Review: Seasons blend together as political landscapes fade into the background, aplavz.net, Beyond Fronta
2024
Review: Drugajanje Festival, Slovenia, aplavz.net, Beyond Fronta
Making Traces – Embodied listening and interdisciplinary choreographic practices, Master’s Thesis + Appendix: A small book of memories and connections, GUPEA
Building Faculties, collective writing, Powers of Love: Enchantment to Disaffection, PARSE Journal
Den pågående kulturkrisen i Europa, Danstidningen
Art as political strategy, article in Springback Magazine’s Budapest Assembly supplement, republished by EDN Network
Glass Utopia, essay, Tidskriften Horisont
Den pågående kulturkrisen i Europa, Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift, republished by Scenkonstguiden
Stoppa nedmonteringen av konst och kultur i Sverige, (Eng. tile Stop the demolition of art and culture in Sweden) Arbetaren, republished by Scenkonstguiden
Series of reviews written during Aerowaves’ Spring Forward Festival in Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Mainz
Feature article Why Dance Writing?, Springback Magazine, republished by Scenkonstguiden
Mentoring and editing by Laura Cappelle (the Guardian, the New York Times, the Financial Times)
2023–2025
Series of interviews, choreographers, curators and other artists, Omdans, 3:e Våningen and Scenkonstguiden
2020–2021
Series of poems, Fragmented Magazine
Choreography
2025
Crunch Crisis, collaboration between No Deadline and musician Donovan von Martens, ON art and sound in an empty OFFice, Organised by Levande Musik, curated by Arvid Kraft.
2024
Crunch Crisis, collaboration between No Deadline and musician Donovan von Martens, Scen 46
Silence and Stillness, collaboration between No Deadline and Kepler Trio ferat. singer Linda Oláh, Atalante
Improvisation, No Deadline duo, organised by Levande Musik, Upperud, Dalsland
2023
Walk Inside, collaboration with visual artist Melina Bigale, Site Specific, Sockerbruket
Silence and Stillness, collaboration between No Deadline and Kepler Trio feat. singer Linda Oláh, Atalante
Tracing, solo performance/installation, site specific, Valand Art Academy
This Dust of Words, collaboration with composer Arvid Kraft, GIBCA Extended, Scen 46
2022
Without, audience installation, Valand Art Academy
Tending Towards Gesture, exhibition and solo performance, Valand art Academy
2019
Transition, No Deadline, music: Linda Oláh, Stora Teatern, Gothenburg
2018
Voyagers, GöteborgsOperan
Förvandlingen/ The Metamorphosis, collaboration with Soil Collectors, Göteborgs Dramatiska Teater
I/You/We/The Future, choreography by No Deadline, commission by Swedish Ballet School, Gothenburg Opera’s small stage
2017
Transition, a No Deadline production, Atalante, GIBCA Extended: GöteborgsOperan, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, 3:e Våningen, Konstkollektivet i Mölndal
What is it? (Owl and Bear), a No Deadline production, commission by Framtidsveckan, GöteborgsOperan’s small stage
2015
An Antechamber, 3 months’ investigative site specific improvisation work, draft foyer and surrounding areas, GöteborgsOperan
Consequence of Mergence I and II, collaboration with Linda Oláh (I and II) and Isabel Sörling (II) 3:e Våningen, Atalante
Transit – A Swarm in 5 acts, AHA-Festival, Chalmers University
2014
(a) Space Revisited, collaboration with Johan Jutterström, Linda Oláh, Andreas Hiroui Larsson, Toby Kassell, Joe Giddings and Shaun Ryder, site specific, durational 1 week long improvisation, Gurkparken, Söderhamn
2013
Silent Duet, with Toby Kassell, Göteborgs Konsthall
Improvisation I, with Johan Jutterström, Folkteatern
2011
Ingenstans (eng. title: Nowhere), choreography for NuDans, GöteborgsOperan
2010
Settlement, choreography, Pustervik, Gothenburg
Freelance work as dancer/performer
2025
Fält, Adele Essle Zeiss, 3:e Våningen
Crunch Crisis, ON art and sound in an empty OFFice, Organised by Levande Musik, curated by Arvid Kraft.
2023/2024
The Gardener, Långsamhetens vällust, Zheng Bo & DACE, Göteborgs Konsthall
100 Buckets of Peace, Moa Matilda Sahlin, Värnamo
2022
Tunnel Vision, Linda Wardal, site specific, Gothenburg Fringe Festival
2021
Moor, Jesse Bechard, Gothenburg Opera
2020
A Study of Choices, Linda Wardal, 3:e Våningen
2018
Pussy Riot, Liseberg
NG Revisited,Johan Jutterström, RIMI/IMIR, Stavanger, Norway
2017
Real Time Utopias, Johanna Bruckner, Galleri Box, Gothenburg
2016
Sketches, Toby Kassell, 3:e Våningen
2015
r, Johan Jutterström, Röda Sten Konsthall
Barren, Johan Jutterström & Toby Kassell, 3:e Våningen
2014
Multiple Self, Toby Kassell, 3:e Våningen
2013
NG, Johan Jutterström, 3:e Våningen
Silent Duet, Duo w/Toby Kassell, Improvisations Festival, curator: Johan Jutterström, Göteborgs Konsthall
Work as a dancer in companies
2007–2022
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, performing pieces by- and most often creating in close collaboration with – choreographers such as Örjan Andersson, Ingun Bjørnsgaard, Yoann Bourgeois, Cristina Caprioli, Stijn Celis, Sidi Larbi Cherkaui, Maxine Doyle/Punchdrunk, Mats Ek, Alexander Ekman, Jorma Elo, Martin Forsberg, Guy&Roni, Rui Horta, Toby Kassell, Jiri Kylian, Anton Lachky, Susanna Leinonen, Constanza Macras, Marina Mascarell, Ohad Naharin, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Tilman O’Donnell, Jo Strømgren, Mattias Suneson, Saburo Teshigawara, Didy Veldmann, Sasha Waltz, Medhi Walerski, Roberto Zappala et.al.
2006/2007
Skånes Dansteater, Rui Horta, Angelin Preljocaj
2000–2006
Norwegian National Ballet, George Balanchine, Mats Ek, John Cranko, William Forsythe, et. al.
Films
2024
Collective dir. by Cha Blasco, camera work by Donovan von Martens, part of exhibition På Gränsen, Röda Sten Konsthall
Sekretären, dir. by Agnes Markebo
2022
Golden dir. by Donovan von Martens, for Maria Norseth Garli
2021
The Fall dir. by Donovan von Martens, for Paperwing feat. Loney Dear
Moor dir. by Daniel Kedem, for Jesse Bechard
2019
Anima dir. by by Paul Thomas Anderson, for Thom Yorke, Netflix
Photography exhibitions
2024
Att släppa (Letting go), group exhibition By the Sea, Göteborgs Bildverkstad & Centrum för Fotografi
Making Traces I, exam exhibition/installation, 3:e Våningen, Gothenburg
2023
This Dust of Words, different locations in Gothenburg.
Treeness, Det är STORT 25 + 1, Nabo, Göteborgs Bildverkstad
Tracing, MFA in Contemporary Performative Arts, exhibited at Valand Art Academy and other locations in Gothenburg
2022
Without, MFA in Contemporary Arts, exhibited at Valand Art Academy
The Presence of Absence, Salong CFF, Vulkano, Gothenburg
Tending Towards Gesture (series of darkroom prints) has been part of the group exhibition
Between Daydreams and Nightmares, group graduation show, Analog Photographic Processes at Valand Art Academy
Group exhibition By the Sea, CFF, Göteborgs Bildverkstad
Fönstret, CFF Stockholm
Published photography
2024
Photo series Frozen in Time, Tidskriften Horisont
2023
Summer, portrait in Artdoc Magazine, Visual Diary Online Photography Exhibition
Teaching
2025
Writing course for dancers, Balettakademien
Writing course for dancers, Folkuniversitetet
Work as Moderator
2025
Moderator and coach, Open Stage, Dansakademien
Art of Spectra Evenings, Atalante
Publiksamtal, 3:e Våningen
Communicator
2022–current
3:e Våningen
Rehearsal director
2016
Idomeneo, GöteborgsOperan
Board assignments
2023–current
Founding member and chairperson, No Deadline
2023 –current
Board member, Scen 46
2018-2020
Advisory board member, Swedish Arts Council
2010–2016
Union representative, Teaterförbundet (Fackförbundet Scen och Film) Avd. 5 GöteborgsOperan
Grants and Stipends
2025
Västra Götaland Region, Artist Stipend
Beyond Front@, Dance Critic’s Stipend, EU Grant
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, International Travel Grant, Tanz im August, Berlin
2023
Neubergh/Gurmunds stipendium, for development of interdisciplinary work
2019
Ulf Gadd memorial fund, for development of No Deadline
2014
Elisabeth Palmer foundation for Dancers
2004
Statens Kunstnerstipend, Artist travel grant, Norway
1998
Sparebanken Vest, Young Artist Scholarship, Norway
Funding
2025
Västra Götaland Region, Project Grant (Rabbit/Duck: Regional collaboration with FInnekumla Dans-och Konstscen and BOY Konsthall)
City of Gothenburg, Development Support (No Deadline, international artists to Sweden)
City of Gothenburg, Project Grant (No Deadline, Rabbit/Duck Interdisciplinary Art Festival)
2024
City of Gothenburg, Project Grant (No Deadline, Rabbit/Duck Interdisciplinary Art Festival)
City of Gothenburg, Pronto (No Deadline, Silence and Stillness filming)
2023
City of Gothenburg, Project Grant (No Deadline, Rabbit/Duck Interdisciplinary Art Festival, GIBCA Extended)
2022
City of Gothenburg, Pronto (No Deadline, Silence and Stillness at Atalante)
2019
City of Gothenburg, Pronto (No Deadline, Transition, Stora Teatern)
Konstnärsnämnden, International exchange in Sweden
2018
City of Gothenburg, (Kassell/Zackariassen, later No Deadline, support for organising)
Konstnärsnämnden, International exchange in Sweden
2017
City of Gothenburg, Pronto (Kassell/Zackariassen – later No Deadline – Transition, GIBCA Extended)
Konstnärsnämnden, International exchange
Kultur i Väst, production scholaT