Tectonic

Feel the deep vibrations and pulsation of the earth in the new choreographic work TECTONIC. The body of dancer and choreographer Mirko Guido transforms through states of compression, release, friction and gliding in a scenography of metal plates in motion. Refractive light alters your perception as sound envelops both performer and audience in a bodily experience where sound recordings of the Earth’s moving crust mixes with electronic textures.

TECTONIC is an open invitation to experience the deep rhythms of the world between human, nature and technology – the visible and invisible forces that shape and reshape our landscapes. Our bodies are sensitive instruments and with them we can listen, tuning ourselves into the forces beyond ourselves.

TECTONIC means “to build” and comes from ancient Greek and Latin. In geology, it describes the slow, powerful movements that shape the Earth’s surface—when plates collide, drift apart, or push against each other.

Mirko Guido (b. Italy) is a choreographer and dancer based in Aarhus, Denmark, where he is an in-house artist at Bora Bora – Dance and Visual Theater. He holds a Master’s degree in New Performative Practices from DOCH / Stockholm University of the Arts.

As a performer, he has been a member of renowned companies such as Cullberg Ballet, Thoss Dance Company, Donlon Dance Company, Tanz Theater Bielefeld, and has worked with a diverse range of choreographers, including Benoît Lachambre, Deborah Hay, Tilman O’Donnell, Crystal Pite, Johan Inger, Mats Ek, Paul Lightfoot & Sol León, among others.

His early choreographic career was recognized with First Prize and the Audience Prize at the International Choreographic Competition in Hannover (2008) and a nomination as Young Choreographer to Watch in Ballet Tanz Magazine (2009). He has created commissioned works for institutional dance companies such as Saarbrücken Staatstheater and Wiesbaden Staatstheater, before transitioning to independent choreography, where he immersed himself in contemporary, experimental, and interdisciplinary practices.

His choreographic work unfolds in theatres, museums, galleries, and public spaces, approaching movement as a process of attuning and navigating shifting relationships between body, space, materiality, and presence. His projects take shape through immersive environments, where bodies interact with architectural structures, resonant materials, and sonic landscapes—allowing choreography to extend beyond the body and into the surrounding space.

His choreographic works have been presented at international festivals and venues, including the 20th PuSh Festival (Vancouver, Canada), 6th Athens Dance Festival (Greece), Festival La Becquée (Brest), Festival MAP/P E-motional (Porto), Teatri di Vita (Bologna), Dance Station (Belgrade), SPEL – The State Gallery of Contemporary Art (Cyprus) Weld and Dansens Hus (Stockholm), Bora Bora and ARoS Art Museum (Aarhus), The Royal Theater – Skuespilhuset and Dansekapellet (Copenhagen), among many others.

Website: mirkoguido.com