No Deadline’s Ingeborg Zackariassen is active as a freelance writer. Here you can read a collection of recent texts (2023–2025). The texts cover different categories of writing; from the academic via the poetic, to the journalistic, and very often focusing on the interpersonal.
– My writing emerges from counterpoints; my curiosity towards the similarities and differences between choreography and writing, and how to draw words out of movement and vice versa.
– My fascination with memory and inner landscapes has led me to investigate intersections between language and dance – attempting to create a readable “fabric” of text in my artistic writing.
– A deep interest in culture, politics and what ties them together is a red line through my journalistic texts about our current situation in the local, national and international art field.
– In-depth interviews and conversations with artists open doors for the audience to get closer to the creative minds working in the contemporary choreographic- and artistic field today.
Ingeborg’s writing have been published by Arbetaren, Danstidningen, Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift, Tidskriften Horisont, Springback Magazine, Scenkonstguiden et. al. She has published close to 50 interviews with choreographers in her role as a writer and communicator at the independent Dance stage and Art hall 3:e Våningen (2023–2025.)
Review of the 37th edition of the Tanec Praha dance festival. Published by Springback Magazine 29/7-2025.
Review of the 2024 CODA Festival in Oslo, Norway. Published by Springback Magazine 18/11-2024.
2022-2024 Master’s thesis by Ingeborg Zackariassen.
During a two year period, my attention was turned to inner worlds. Taking part in other people’s descriptions of imagination and memory created a deep sense of listening which opened up a well of creativity, culminating in an installation and performance: Making Traces I and II.
Abstract: The last decades’ development of the seemingly ever-expanding field of choreography has paved the way for multiple methods, forms, and processes to exist within its frame. The aim with the project Making Traces was to transform my own choreographic practice from professional skillset to interhuman, communicative device. Utilizing the potential for discovery possible in the interdisciplinary approach, I developed a dialogical method of embodied listening to interact with my artistic practices of writing and photography. I asked myself which movements reside in our bodies, and which ones can be materialized with the help of dialogue, imagination, and remembrance. Making Traces is an example of work which, alongside an array of other methods and forms residing in the choreographic field today, resists categorization and helps paving the way for yet unknown artistic processes to enter the scene.
Appendix to Ingeborg Zackariassen's MFA Thesis Making Traces 2024
Article by Ingeborg Zackariassen, published by Spring back Magazine 21/11-2024, as part of the Budapest special supplement:
Art as political strategy.
The European defunding of the Arts is a fact. Now, how do we persist?
Originally published in Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift 20/10-2024: What happens to our society when cultural budgets are cut as the media landscape is weakened? All over Europe, a wave of right ring populism is crushing the already struggling art scene, as well as suffocating media diversity... Re-published in Scenkonstguiden 25/10-2024
Stop the dismantling of Art and Culture in Sweden. Opinion Article by Ingeborg Zackariassen, published by Arbetaren 17/5-2024. Republished by Scenkonstguiden 16/6-2024.
Ongoing collection of Ingeborg Zackariassen's conversations with dance artists, published on 3:e Våningen's online platform Omdans since 2022.