Former artists in residence Bora Bora Residency Centre

Residency Artists

During the years, Bora Bora Residency Centre has welcomed many international artists and sent Danish artists in exchange residencies with our partners. Here you can read more about each of the artists, and their projects.

Photo: WARRIOR, Anne-Marieke Hess

2023

Here you can read more about the artists who were a part of the Bora Bora Residency Centre in 2023

20th – 31st of May 2023

2022

Here you can read more about the artists who were a part of the Bora Bora Residency Centre in 2022

28. nov- 11. dec

17. sep- 23. oct 2022

26. sep- 8. oct 2022

09.-21. January 2022

14.-26. March 2022

27 March – 8 April 2022

1.-14. May 2022

4.-18. July 2022

2021

Here you can read more about the artists who were a part of the Bora Bora Residency Centre in 2021

Portuguese born Liliana Barros is an Independent  dancer and choreographer, based in Germany. Highly visual, her work is characterized by the idiosyncratic aesthetics of the movement language. Visceral and archaic combined with elegant plasticity and use of technical elements in a somewhat deconstructed form. During her residency, Liliana worked on the piece “Techni Fauna” with 3 dancers.

Liliana Barros received a residency at Bora Bora Residency Centre via open call 2020

Website: https://www.lilianabarros.com/

4.-24. January 2021

A part of Micro and Macro Dramaturgies in Dance

22.-30. March 2021

SURVIVORS

5-18 April 2021

The idea for this project comes from a very silly proposal: Would it be possible to make a live interactive performance version of the computer game Façade by Procedural Arts, based upon choreographic structures?

6.-23. April 2021

Call Of The Void

31 May – 11 June 2021

Grått

7.-20. June 2021

The Mirror Project

14.-27. June 2021

Recovering

14.-30. June 2021 at Holstebro Dansekompagni

RESILIENCE
– part of D&D EU

1 – 15 August 2021

dAzzleMAZE

11.-30. October 2021

Are you ok

27 October – 9 November 2021

2020

Here you can read more about the artists who were a part of the Bora Bora Residency Centre in 2020

Simon Renaud is a dance artist based in Montreal. He uses the body as an architecture in motion to question themes of solitude and individuality. During the residency at Bora Bora, he worked with 2 performers on the concept of cognitive intimacy and intimacy in being vulnerable with each other.

Simon Renaud received a residency with Bora Bora Residency Centre through an international exchange with Circuit-Est – Centre Choreographique

Anne-Mareike Hess is based in Luxembourg and Berlin and works as a choreographer and performer in the field of contemporary dance. Anne-Mareike spent her residency at Vestjyllands Højskole, researching new material for the piece “Dreamer”.

Anne-Mareike Hess received a residency at Bora Bora Residency Centre via open call 2019.

Website: https://annemareikehess.com/

Fabio Liberti & Emanuele Rosa are both choreographers from Italy, with Fabio being based in Denmark. They spent their residency with Bora Bora, researching use of latex materials and working on choreographic material. They were also granted a co-production, which culminated in the performance As if, I have missed myself.

The piece is based on movement, sound and video art which create ever-changing visual landscapes on stage. It arises from an out-of-body experience, which triggered choreographers Fabio Liberti and Emanuele Rosa to question the notion of personal identity.

Fabio Liberti & Emanuele Rosa received a residency and a co-production with Bora Bora Residency Centre via open call 2019.

Watch the trailer for “As If I Have Missed Myself”

Marika Peura, Kaisa Nieminen & Suvi Kemppainen received a residency at Bora Bora Residency Centre through the Nordic Residency Exchange Program. They spent the residency at Bora Bora working on material for the new performance “and then they left”.

Jernej Bizjak received a residency and a co-production at Bora Bora Residency Centre via open call 2020. He and a team of dancers, actors, conductors, designers and sign language experts, worked on material for the piece “For Ludwig”, which will be performed at Bora Bora in the autumn of 2021.

Jernej also received two additional residencies through Bora Bora Residency Centre with the residency exchange program Dance & Dramaturgy EU.

Roni Chadash is an Israeli choreographer and performance creator. Roni and her team of 5 dancers have, due to covid-19, been at home in Israel for the residency, working on a new project. They received online feedback through several sessions with the team at Bora Bora.

Roni Chadash received a residency at Bora Bora Residency Centre via open call 2019.

Website: https://www.ronichadash.com/

2019

Here you can read more about the artists who were a part of the Bora Bora Residency Centre in 2019

Adriano Wilfert Jensen is a choreographer, with a BA in choreography from the School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam. He was in residency at Vestjyllands Højskole. Creating the final stage of his piece “feelings”, researching inhuman contact improvisation and activating various forms of touch. “feelings” premiered at Bora Bora in the end of January 2019.

Adriano received a residency at Bora Bora Residency Centre via open call 2018.

Website: https://adrianowj.wordpress.com/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adrianowj

Colette Sadler is a British choreographer and dancer based in Berlin. She is trained in Classical Ballet followed by completing a BA (Hons) at the Laban centre, London.
For the performance Temporary Store Colette was working in depth with the integration of video and light with a focus on interactions between humans and technology.

Colette received a residency at Bora Bora Residency Centre via open call 2018.

Website: http://colettesadler.com/about/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colette.sadler.9 

Igor & Moreno is a Southern European choreographer-duo, based in London, with a interest in people and what makes us such special animals. They started creating stage works collaboratively in 2007, co-founding ‘BLOOM! dance collective’ in 2009 and ‘Igor and Moreno’ in 2012.

They spent their time researching intimacy as choreographic material.

Igor & Moreno received a residency at Bora Bora Residency Center via open call 2018.

Website: http://igorandmoreno.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IgorAndMoreno/ 

Rósa Omarsdóttir is an icelandic choreographer and dancer, based in Brussels. She studied theatre and contemporary dance at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík and has since created pieces that have toured in Europe. In her residency with Musik- og Teaterhøjskolen in Toftlund, she worked with her team on creating “spills” – a piece on ecosystems with inspiration drawn from the phenomenon of ‘dark ecology’, using scenographic elements as important participants on the stage.

Rósa Omarsdóttir received a residency at Bora Bora Residency Centre via our open call 2019.

Website: https://www.ingaandrosa.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ingaandrosa/

Roza Moshtaghi is a freelance choreographer and  dancer in collaboration with artists from the fields of dance, sound, technology and visual art. She is curious about how she, buildings, streets, nature, bodies and objects in general react or adapt to structures.

Roza Moshtaghihas received a residency with Bora Bora via The Nordic Residency Collaboration Exchange.

Website: https://www.rozamoshtaghi.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roza.moshtaghi.9