Where Even Flowers Can Grow
Where Even Flowers Can Grow is an artistic exploration of well-being and mental health through movement, light, sound and spatiality. This cross-aesthetic dance performance aspires for moments of subtle and profound collective transformations.
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The experience is a tapestry woven with threads of honesty, vulnerability, longing, dreams, and magic. It prompts reflection on the moments of despair — questioning how we navigate through those feelings, how we reconcile the different facets of ourselves, and ultimately, how we heal individually and collectively.
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CREDIT
Choreographer & Dancer Caroline Blomqvist
Co-creator & Dancer Nadja Bounenni
Scenography & Costumes Aina Erika Jonasson
Composer Ingri Høyland
Light design Uli Ruchlinski
Consultants My Grönholdt, Else Tunemyr, Askovsfonden KBH+
Producer Anne Mai Slot Vilmann
Co-production KOMMA Performance Productions
Photo Morten Arnfred
Graphics Yuki Asano Nielsen
Logo Matilde Digmann
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The performance is supported by Nordisk Kulturkontakt, Nordisk Kulturfond, Augustinusfonden, William Demant Fonden og Frederiksberg Kommune
PSEUDO PSYCH
PSEYDO PSYCH is a sensorial performance installation around popular psychology.
"sink into a comfortable position.
breath in the light.
return to the universe.
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allow the space to softly caress your inner world.
movement, sound and material invites you to witness confessions, cracks, magic and relief. Performers and audience equally belong with the space."
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Premiere at DEBUT Festival, HUSET kbh 2022.
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Dancer and co-creator Nadja Bounenni
Choreographer and dancer Caroline Blomqvist
Scenography Aina Erika Jonasson.
Soundscape “Holotropica” Sofie Birch
Sound mix Yuki A. Nielsen
Outer eye Else Tunemyr
Light design Niklas Brandt Katborg
Scenography assistant Frederick Talbot-Ponsonby
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Video documentation Anne Margrethe Petersen and Jam Photographer
Photography Niclas Bjerre Hawkesworth
Supported by HUSET Kbh and KOMMA productions
Funded by Snabslanten
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The Picnic & The Fountains
Within an odd, colorful, steadily unfolding universe three heroines are hosting a picnic by the fountains, stumbling into a long overdue negotiation between themselves and their environment. A bleak reality of the planetary eco-collapse is insistently pushing them to tackle how they desire, portray and relate to resources essential to their life on earth.
What and how we consume is inseparably linked to lifestyle identity, so what is the future of what we are carrying in our picnic basket?
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The Picnic & The Fountains appeared as two site specific choreographic performances at Skt. Hans Torv in Nørrebro and at Christianshavn in August 2021 and at Tårnby Park Performance Festival as a durational performance installation in June 2022.
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Concept / choreography / performance by
Nadja Bounenni, Joana Ellen Öhlschläger, Lara Vejrup Ostan
Set design by Anders Toft Pedersen
Production by KOMMA Performance Productions
Supported by Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen and Københavns Kommune
Photo credits Max Morris Doherty
HARD WHITE
HARD WHITE is a solo performance, derived from a research based on impropriety and inappropriate behaviour in various contexts. The stage character creates narrative landscapes, that are interconnected through the notion of the intriguing human nature regardless the individual heritage. The work dives deeper into our secret thoughts that are yet universal and deals with them by insisting on the discomfort while allowing a laugh about it. Some of the socio-politic and body-politic areas that is touching upon, among others, is the representation of female bodies in hip hop industry, feminist agenda, fetishism, body modification.
The spectators are taken into a journey, where they are invited to reflect on their own references and create awareness of their experiential associations under the exposure of certain visual, audio and other elements of stimulation. The audience is encouraged to respond to the performance, while the piece discloses a discussion within the audience’s own ethics and prejudices.
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Hard White is a question, a dialog and most of all an inappropriate ride to the politics of self-expression.
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Choreographer & performer: Nadja Bounenni / Visuals: Nadja Bounenni, John Lauritsen / Mentorship: Quim Bigas / Supported by the Danish national school of performing arts
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Has been performed at:
DASPA, CPH/ Åben dans (Åben Laboratorium), Roskilde/ Bådteatret
(Ubåden), CPH
Flesh of memories
Flesh of memories is a site specific environmental art installation made originally for Toortuumik art festival, on a beautiful Esthonia’s wild coast. The project is made out of natural materials that have been collected from the respective area and have been re-curated and re-exhibited. Aligned with the laws of nature, the research and creation process have emerged through observation and meditation and adapted qualities of nature such us harmony, diversity, balance, recovery.​
Toortuumik Art Festival took place at Virtsu, Esthonia in 2018.​
Find more about the festival here:
S.Mou.Th. 2008-2021
Since 2008 Nadja has been collaborating with S.Mou.Th. (Synergy of Mousic Theater), a non profit organisation, whose workforce is a group of dedicated, experienced and emerging artists.
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8th Mill of Performing Arts, 2021
Work as an intern at the production of annual performing arts festival.
IPPOKRATIS 2021
Work as an assistant director for the Theater play "IPPOKRATIS" under the direction of Costas Lamproulis.
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Roots & Routes 2008-2011
Participation as a young artist in interdisciplinary projects (GR, NL, IT, DE, HU).
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Some of them are:
ROOTS & ROUTES Academy 2008-2010
ROOTS & ROUTES Follow-up 2009-2011
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Participation in workshops to engage artists with or without disabilities in a creative, international, intercultural artistic dialogue that unites England, Germany, Turkey and Greece.
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OFF ART company 2010-2016
Member of OFF ART Company in 2009-2016, a dance/art company that promotes a broad attitude towards the body as an instrument of expression.
Among other projects, Nadja performed original work of the company for Open Nights Festival 2016.
Member of Tribal Caravan 2016
Initial member of Tribal Caravan, a multi-disciplinary circus collective based in Athens.
Among musicians, dancers, fire jugglers, acrobats, actors and story tellers, Nadja created original group and solo work, on air and floor acrobatics, fire juggling and contortion dance.
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The magic revolved around the collective has been shared in Athens and Spain.
ICE AWAY
ICE AWAY is a series of 3 solo dance pieces, 3 dance workshops and an artist's talk, taking place at Mill of Performing Arts festival in Larissa, GR in 2023.​
Project leader and curator Nadja Bounenni and KOMMA Performance Production are co-producing the project with host organisation the Synergy of Music Theater. ​
Artists: Hilde I. Sandvold with the piece GRÅTT
Sigrid Mathiassen with the piece Cold Hawaii
Caroline Blomqvist with the piece Earthlings
The project is funded by the Statens Kunstfond and the Mayoralty of Culture and Science of the Municipality of Larissa
NEW SH*T Vol.8
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Dansehallerne presents the spring edition of New Sh*t, the recurring popular platform that, through the eyes of a guest curator, puts a sharp focus on what is moving in the choreographic landscape. To New Sh*t Vol. 8. in April 2024, we have invited the resident Greek/Tunisian dancer, choreographer and producer Nadja Bounenni, as guest curator. Guest curator Nadja Bounenni has created a program with selected choreographers: Elli Virtanen, RIVA The Faroese Dance Company and Parini Secondo. You can experience two performances and a film in a program shown only one evening.
Nadja Bounenni on the curation for New Shit Vol. 8: “New Sh*t Vol. 8 celebrates dance. This curation is a composition of three dance works, different from each other in style and format. We will experience artists who use physical dance as their main tool for choreography, works that remind us of what the power and magic of dance can do. Soundscapes are co-creative in the space as a basis for the dance. The works invite to be experienced with an open heart, to let ourselves be moved by them or make us want to move.”
PROGRAM
20:00 – 20:50
tveyeini (two-one) by RIVA The Faroese Dance Company by Rannvá G. Niclasen and Vár B. Árting
20:50 – 21:20 Break with film:
SPEEED by Parini Secondo x Bienoise (12 min - shown twice in the foyer)
21:20 – 21:40
SOFT BLAST by Elli Virtanen
21:45 – 23:30
DJ Y3K plays in the foyer
