Curatorial practice
Dance film is a cross disciplinary art form that intersects dance/choreography, film and visual arts – sometimes leaning more towards one or the other but always with movement at is core.
When movement is the starting point, the work speaks to my body and my senses before my analytical mind. Here there is a potential to tell a story in a different way, that can challenge the masculine, linear dramaturgy we have grown up with from Hollywood.
It challenges me as a viewer, and it is challenging as a maker as well.
When I curate a program I look for films that can move me in new directions. I watch the films over and over again and through this practice I have come to discover that many of my favorite films are working with a non-logical dramaturgy. Every time I watch them the editing feels different and I experience something new. This opens up the film from being a linear experience to a universe that I enter. This discovery is intriguing to me.
Diversity is an important factor to me as well. Both in terms of the artistic expression and the artists behind the films. Unlike popular believes in the dance world, I don’t think dance is a universal language, where we can understand each other across borders and cultures, but I think by setting a clear frame for the curated dance film programs, there is a potential for starting a conversation.
CV for my curatorial practice
2023
- Dance film nights, a one hour program with selected Nordic short films for Danish Dance Theater’s annual festival Copenhagen Summer Dance.
- Dance through the (camera)lens, one hour program with selected international short films for the international performing arts festival CPH Stage in collaboration with the Danish Cinemateque.
- Physical Cinema: Helena Jónsdóttir, a masterclass and screening with Jónsdóttir facilitated in collaboration with the Danish National School of Performing Arts and the Danish Cinemateque.
2022
- Dance film nights, a one hour program with selected Nordic short films for Danish Dance Theater’s annual festival Copenhagen Summer Dance.
- Dance through the (camera)lens, one hour program with selected Danish short films for the international performing arts festival CPH Stage in collaboration with the Danish Cinemateque.
2018
- Jury member for Leeds International Film Festival Screen Dance competition.
- Danish dance films loop screening, the Nordic Festival at Chaillot in Paris.
- Pre-selection jury member, 60secondsdance international online dance film competition.
2017
- Jury member for Leeds International Film Festival Screen Dance competition.
- Choreography as a cinematic language, screening of selected international dance films and talk with Danish artist Maja Friis at Nordisk Panorama.
- Pre-selection jury member, 60secondsdance international online dance film competition.
2016
- Krop og Koreografi i Fokus, one hour program with selected international short films for Odense International Film Festival.
- Jenni Hiltunen, three selected works for loop screening in the foyer of Dansehallerne.
- Pre-selection jury member, 60secondsdance international online dance film competition.
- Jury member, Cinedans festival international competition (NL).
2015
- Jury member SinemaDansAnkara.
- Film program for the performance series Thousand Threads in Dansehallerne.
- Pre-selection jury member, 60secondsdance international online dance film competition.
- My Moving Moment 3, screening and talk with selected professionals from the Danish dance and film industry.
2014
- Monthly dance film loop screening in the foyer of Dansehallerne.
- Billy Cowie, workshop, 3D video installation and film screening in Dansehallerne.
- Jury member, 60secondsdance international online dance film competition.
- My Moving Moment 2, screening and talk with selected professionals from the Danish dance and film industry.
2013
- Monthly dance film loop screening in the foyer of Dansehallerne.
- Jury member, 60secondsdance international online dance film competition.