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Artist talk: Lia Rodrigues

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International

-  In her hands, dance is an activist act. For over 40 years, Lia Rodrigues has used movement to break down barriers, make art accessible to all, and argue—lyrically and persuasively—for greater inclusion and diversity.

Lia Rodrigues, dubbed “Brazil’s miraculous choreographer” by the Financial Times, was born in 1956 in São Paulo, Brazil. She studied classical ballet and history at the University of São Paulo (USP), becoming part of the city’s contemporary dance movement in the 1970s. After a lengthy period in Europe as a dancer, she returned to Brazil and set up the Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças in Rio de Janeiro, and in 1992 established the Panorama Festival in Rio and ran it for 14 years.Since 2004, her company has supported educational and creative activities in the Maré Favela in Rio de Janeiro, and this led to the establishment of the Maré Arts Centre, which opened in 2009 and the Free Dance School of Maré, which opened in 2011. Rodrigues combines dance and activism on themes such as racism, inequality and poverty, demonstrating the synergy between art and social processes. She works with dancers from the favela, as well as with performers of different backgrounds and physiques. At the crossroads between performance, visual art and dance, her work moves the body outside its comfort zone.Among the wide variety of her productions previously performed at Dansens Hus are Encantado&nbsp;in 2023 and For the Sky not to Fall in 2017. Lia Rodrigues has received the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from France, the Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands in 2014 and the SACD Award for Choreography in France in 2016. She was voted 2019 Choreographer of the Year by Tanz magazine.Borda is a colourful celebration of life, a challenge to our divisions, and a reminder that borders made by humans can also be changed.

Borda

Seminar

Seminar: Community work

Workshop

Open Improvisation #5

15 Bazm

Norwegian

- Armin Hokmi meticulously focuses on the origin of the movement, the momentum, the precise moment of the impulse, without attack and without the gesture ending in evanescence.

- For Hokmi, dance is not presented as an escape. It does not flee from the world, even when it seems abstract.

Armin Hokmi works with dance and choreography. His starting point was as an actor in Iran in 2009, and he has since studied and worked internationally. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Acting from the Norwegian Theatre Academy (2015–2018) and a Master’s degree in Solo/Dance/Choreography from HZT Berlin (2019–2021).As an associated artist at Montpellier Danse 2024–2026, he explores dance that falls outside traditional categories. His work is characterized by precision, accuracy, and a blend of joy and sensitivity. He previously presented the performance Shiraz at Dansens Hus in August 2025.

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- The work is as impressive as it is thought-provoking. It reveals the considerable talent of an artist.

Bazm (Repertoire)

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Artist talk: Armin Hokmi

Foredrag

DFL SMR

Dansefaglig lunsj: Labanotation is a very bad system

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Workshop: Ole Kristian Tangen x PRODA

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Dramaturgy seminar: Dramaturgy at Work.

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Children and youth

Papirvinger is directed by choreographer, dancer and pedagogue Ine Terese Hogstad, who explores the relationship between place, nature and people. With a holistic, phenomenological perspective, she creates new spaces and new worlds, and is fascinated by how tiny details can be connected to bigger contexts.In recent years, she has focused on multi-aesthetic performance art productions for very young children, with an emphasis on tactile, holistic experiences and sensorimotor presence. Her works include Fabelaktig (2022, contemporary circus and dance), Lutter øre (2025, for children aged from 0–3 years) and Fløyelshjertet(designed for children with visual impairment, part of the Dansens Hus initiative BIG art for ALL children).Hogstad has a Bachelor's degree in dance from the University of Stavanger, and a Master’s in dance studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She also runs Papirvinger, collaborates with Moonmade Produksjoner and runs the ImproLaBergen dance collective.&nbsp; The performance is a co-production with Dansens Hus and is part of the project GREAT Art for All Children, which focuses on promoting diversity in performing arts for children.GREAT Art for All Children is supported by Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.

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Familiedager 2026

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Workshop with Piero Issa and Ole Petter Knarvik

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Ole Kristian Tangen graduated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and moved to Spain in 2013 to dance in IT DANSA under Catherine Allard. There he worked with choreographers including Ohad Naharin, Alexander Ekman and Jiří Kylián, and has toured throughout much of Europe.He has been working as a freelance dancer and choreographer in Norway and internationally since 2015. He set up the company Tangen|Benzal with Jesús Benzal, and has created works for companies in Czechia, Hungary and Spain. He has received numerous awards, including the Premi de Dansa de l’Institut del Teatre, and in 2025 set up his own initiative, ok prosjekter.He has been associated with zero visibility corp./Ina Christel Johannessen since 2015, and has toured internationally with the company. He has also worked with the Danish Dance Theatre, Norwegian National Ballet, Kenneth Kvarnström and Metteson, where he has danced and choreographed concerts and music videos.The production is still a work in progress, and will have its world première at Dansens Hus in December 2026.

ways of being, still

Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças

Armin Hokmi

Papirvinger

Familiedager 2026

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