The Beyond Darkness Dialogues
Arts & Culture Podcasts
THE BEYOND DARKNESS DIALOGUES is a podcast about artistic practice and artistic research, hosted by Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli. We want to share our conversations with performers, artists and practitioners who are inspiring us during our creative BD investigations as we believe in the importance of providing more sources around artistic practices and encouraging artists to share their ideas, questions and findings with each other. A place for knowledge-exchange and new ideas within the performing arts. Enjoy! Visit www.bdmatterinmotion.com for more information about us.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
THE BEYOND DARKNESS DIALOGUES is a podcast about artistic practice and artistic research, hosted by Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli. We want to share our conversations with performers, artists and practitioners who are inspiring us during our creative BD investigations as we believe in the importance of providing more sources around artistic practices and encouraging artists to share their ideas, questions and findings with each other. A place for knowledge-exchange and new ideas within the performing arts. Enjoy! Visit www.bdmatterinmotion.com for more information about us.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.bdmatterinmotion.com
Episodes
9: In Dialogue with Nana-Francisca Schöttlander
6/22/2022
BEYOND DARKNESS had the pleasure of talking to Nana-Francisca Schöttlander. She is a performance and visual artist who works at the intersection of performance, installation and conceptual art. Her work is often durational and involves immersive strategies and serial formats. Nana-Francisca predominantly works site-specifically with a co-creational approach to the site and the beings in it.
We thank Nana-Francisca for this inspiring dialogue and hope you'll enjoy it too.
This episode...
Duration:01:37:37
8: In Dialogue with Naja Lee Jensen
5/16/2022
This time BEYOND DARKNESS comes into dialogue with interdisciplinary performance artist and artistic director of HAUT, Naja Lee Jensen. We talk about her artistic practice, her latest work Darkness and Nature, her site-specific research, other performances, and the importance of challenging, rearranging and interweaving the contexts you find yourself in.
We also talk in depth about HAUT, a space dedicated to artists across the performing arts in Denmark, supporting the field with...
Duration:01:17:03
7: In Dialogue with Gry Worre Hallberg
3/17/2022
This time BEYOND DARKNESS comes into dialogue with Gry Worre Hallberg, the artistic director of Sisters Hope, to talk about her practice and her then newly published PhD “Sensuous Society - Carving the Path towards a Sustainable Future”. We also touched upon artistic research and methodologies, collaboration as well as ecological theory and our inherent connectedness with the world.
We thank Gry for this great conversation, and hope you enjoy it too!
For more information about Sisters Hope...
6: Nadja & Nanna in Dialogue together
2/22/2022
Nanna and Nadja are back in the recording studio for season 2 of their podcast. In this first episode, they are in dialogue with each other, talking about their experiences in 2021, such as working on their piece SCINTILLAE, the relationship between this performance and their movement practice, what they have learned from each other and their collaborators, as well as what’s to come for 2022.
The Beyond Darkness Dialogues this season continues to focus on the sensorial, on artistic...
5: In Dialogue with Michael Breiner
4/16/2021
Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli, the creators of the Beyond Darkness Podcast, are at The Danish National School of Performing Arts to come into dialogue with lighting designer, teacher and “lord of darkness” Michael Breiner.
In this episode we ask Michael about his interest in darkness and about his artistic research which entails storytelling and dialogues in the dark. He talks about darkness as a creative space, a space for non judgemental encounters and about darkness in quantum...
4: In Dialogue with Annika Kompart
3/16/2021
Nanna and Nadja Mattioli are in dialogue with their peer and close friend Annika Kompart at the premises of the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen. Annika is a choreographer and dance artist based in Denmark.
She talks about her relationship to movement and the importance of darkness and translation in her practice. Annika also provides insight into her current artistic research: how can a book (Mephisto by Klaus Mann) become a Tanztheater performance? She also talks...
3: In Dialogue with Anouk van Dijk
2/14/2021
This time, Nadja is in dialogue with choreographer and founder of countertechnique Anouk van Dijk at the Münchner Kammerspiele in Germany.
They met during their work on the production called TOUCH - directed by Falk Richter and choreographed Anouk van Dijk. After a long day of rehearsals, Nadja and Anouk dive into questions of why touch matters to us as human beings, how Anouk has worked with darkness, proximity, intimacy and illusions in the past and talk about her research which developed...
Duration:01:20:39
2: In Dialogue with Thomas Eisenhardt
1/15/2021
Nanna and Nadja are at Aaben Dans in Roskilde (Denmark), in dialogue with Thomas Eisenhardt, choreographer and artistic director of Aaben Dans.
To start the dialogue, Nanna and Nadja ask about movement and the importance of the senses in Thomas’s work. He shares information about the inspiration for his upcoming piece Hvad er Det? (What is this?), a performance for the youngest of audiences and about discovery and curiosity. And he explains how darkness was used as a main component in the...
Duration:00:56:28
1: Nanna & Nadja in dialogue together
1/15/2021
Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli, the creators of the Beyond Darkness Podcast, are in dialogue with each other, sharing why they wanted to create this podcast in the first place, details about their artistic practice, the different pillars of their artistic research, as well as the core values of the BD organism.
Enjoy this introductory episode!
The Beyond Darkness Podcast is a knowledge-sharing platform for artistic practice and artistic research, provided by Nanna Hanfgarn...
Duration:01:10:21