Rosendal Teater
Since 2021, I have been Artistic and Managing Director of Rosendal Teater in Trondheim. Together with the team, I have been developing the theatre as both an ambitious artistic platform and a learning institution: a place where local, national and international artists can stretch dominant modes of theatre, dance, choreography and live performance, and where the institution itself can be changed by the people who use it.
Over this period, we have tried to make the theatre more resonant: to artists who need stronger conditions for making work; to audiences who have not always found performing arts institutions welcoming or relevant; and to the people who work here.
That has meant investing in local artistic development, building a serious access offer, widening and deepening relationships with audiences, confronting exhaustion and precarity, and treating the theatre’s money, labour, building, climate impact and social role as part of the artistic project rather than separate from it.
- Bastard 202715–18 September 2027, Rosendal Teater, Trondheim, in development
- EUphoric Youth2026–2029, European forum for open-source researching, instituting and curating with youth
- Bastard 202517–20 September 2025, Rosendal Teater, Trondheim
- What is the good life?20 September 2025, Bastard 2025, Rosendal Teater, Trondheim
- Nothing Special2025, city-wide exhibition, Trondheim
- The School of Enough2024–2026, Europe / Rosendal Teater / The Big Green
- Avslappa Norge2023–2026, national learning platform on access and inclusion
- Bastard 202326–29 April 2023, Rosendal Teater, Trondheim
- The Great Pause26–29 April 2023, forum on exhaustion within Bastard 2023, Rosendal Teater
- The Shake Down2022–2023, Norway / Latvia, teenage curatorial programme
- Fæst for byenRecurring editions since 2022, Rosendal Teater, Trondheim
- Little Bastard 202218–22 May 2022, Rosendal Teater, Trondheim
Reykjavík Dance Festival
From 2013 to 2020, I co-directed Reykjavík Dance Festival with Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir, developing the festival as both an international platform for dance and choreography and a sustained curatorial experiment in how a festival could belong to the artistic field and to the city around it.
Our work focused on nurturing the national dance and choreography field, connecting Icelandic artists with international contexts, building new relationships between dance and diverse communities in Reykjavík, and sharing curatorial authority through open-source approaches with artists, teenagers and other collaborators. Across the period, we expanded the festival beyond a single annual event into year-round editions, partnerships, public-space projects, discourse and experiments across theatres, schools, swimming pools, galleries, music venues, streets and homes.
- Wanna Hangout?, Teenagers in ReykjavíkNovember 2019, Reykjavík Dance Festival, Reykjavík
- Dance is Ours, Reykjavík Dance Festival 2019November 2019, Reykjavík, Iceland
- Spectacular Symposium 2019, Many VoicesNovember 2019, Reykjavík Dance Festival / Iceland University of the Arts
- Vorblót 2019April 2019, Reykjavík Dance Festival and Tjarnarbíó
- Every Body's Spectacular 2018November 2018, Reykjavík Dance Festival / LÓKAL
- Spectacular Symposium 2018, Including OthersNovember 2018, Reykjavík Dance Festival / LÓKAL
- Let's Hang Out Together vol. 2August 2018, Reykjavík Dance Festival
- Dancing on the Borders, A Nordic Teenage ExchangeMarch–September 2018, Reykjavík, Nuuk, Santarcangelo, Kuopio
- Teenagers in Reykjavík FestivalMarch 2018, Reykjavík Dance Festival
- Every Body's Spectacular 2017November 2017, Reykjavík Dance Festival / LÓKAL
- Spectacular Symposium 2017, With OthersNovember 2017, Reykjavík Dance Festival / LÓKAL / Iceland University of the Arts
- Let's Hang Out Together vol. 1August 2017, Reykjavík Dance Festival
- FÓRNMarch 2017, Reykjavík Dance Festival / Iceland Dance Company / LÓKAL / Reykjavík City Theatre
- Teenagers in ReykjavíkNovember 2016, Reykjavík Dance Festival
- Every Body's Spectacular 2016August 2016, Reykjavík Dance Festival / LÓKAL
- Reykjavík Dance Festival × SónarFebruary 2016, Harpa, Reykjavík
- Dance × TextNovember 2015, Reykjavík Dance Festival
- Into the CityAugust 2015, Reykjavík Dance Festival with LÓKAL
- Reykjavík Arts Festival × Reykjavík Dance FestivalMay 2015, Reykjavík
- Speaking DanceFebruary 2015, Reykjavík Dance Festival
- Queering the PopularNovember 2014, Reykjavík Dance Festival
- Bigger Than Us AllAugust 2014, Reykjavík Dance Festival
- Reykjavík Dance Festival 2013, Super Social SpaceAugust 2013, Reykjavík
Independent curatorial work
Alongside the longer-term work with Reykjavík Dance Festival, I developed independent curatorial projects, commissions, laboratories and invited engagements.
- Onassis New Choreographers Festival #7January 2020, Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece
- Curating with Unlikely CollaboratorsDecember 2019, Zodiak, Helsinki
- Live Works vol. 6July 2018, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy
- Participation, Faith and Communities City Lab6–9 June 2016, Alkantara Festival, Lisbon
- Cairo City Lab, Choreography, Performance and the Public13–17 April 2016, Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, Cairo
- Artist-on-LoanApril–September 2013, Reykjavík and Akureyri
- Make Space InitiativeMarch–October 2013, Reykjavík and Kuopio
- Public Live Art Second Chance FundNovember 2012, Reykjavík
- The Public Space Programme2009–2012, Reykjavík and London