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22.11.2021 - 15.04.2022 Hanna and Heidi are collaborating with
Portuguese artists and producers in this EU funded project titled
FÔLEGO (breath). FÔLEGO is an artistic intervention project
with impact on the development of audiences in 5 municipalities:
Mação, Oleiros, Proença-a-Nova, Sertã and Vila de Rei, bringing
closer together and strengthening the relationships between their populations, favouring artistic intervention methodologies that
come from a work with the community. Read more about the
project here: https://www.eeagrants.gov.pt/en/programmes/culture/
projects/projects/folego/


14.10.21 5 pm to 7 pm

Workshops for young people at Firstsite Colchester. This session of YAK invites you to imagine what a festival of the future could look like, in a workshop with choreographers of H2DANCE and curators of ‘Fest en Fest’, Hanna Gillgren and Heidi Rustgaard. H2DANCE are looking for young people to form part of their ‘Fest en Fest’ curatorial team, to create and produce a new form of festival by and for young people. Whether you like music, visual arts, digital arts, choreography, fashion, film, tattoo arts, theatre, lighting, architecture or immersive performances, or anything else creative that excites you, they want to hear from you!

Find out more at: https://firstsite.uk/.../h2dance-festival-of-the-future.../

Photo: Reykjaviks Dance Festival/The teenager in Reykjavijk 2018: "On Brand" in collaboration with Reykjaviks Art Museum

2021
FEST EN FEST - LAB HUB

This is an attempt to set up a virtual meeting place.
This is very much an experiment.

In this space artists and colleagues can dip in and out. An interactive space where you might go through different experiences, where you observe, share thoughts, play, discuss, take a position, collaborate, provoke and influence each other - a form of a social choreography that breaks down power structures and mobilizes and encourages self-organization and autonomy. Or just a space to hang out and talk about life.

It is important that it's a safe space, where care is at its centre.

Perhaps it becomes the go-to space for meeting your international colleagues? Perhaps it becomes a space we can share work with each other?

We don’t know but are excited about its potential.

Hope to see you there!

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2021
We are delighted to have been awarded a small Cultural Recovery Fund grant to help us develop our work and partnerships in the East of England & develop young curators for our Fest en Fest Nordic-UK performance festival for 2022 #HereForCulture @DCMS

2021
Throughout April Hanna has been collaborating with photographer/architect Ioana Marinescu in Beaconsfield Gallery, Vauxhall, London.
Ioana has worked with the dynamics of Beaconsfield's Upper Gallery, bringing other photographic archives into relationship with its specific architecture and history. 

She has been joined on different occasions, by Hanna and artist Elena Andreea Teleaga to develop aspects of their own research in collaboration.
Here is a Visual Diary of some of the research 

The residency culminates in a filmed discussion probing Marinescu's themes of erasure and power, with Magda Stroe, Acting Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute and Beaconsfield's co-Director Naomi Siderfin.

2021
Fest en Fest labs

H2DANCE are hosting two Arts Council funded Fest en Fest choreographic labs this spring. Each lab will take a different format with the aim to facilitate deeper thinking and exchange around expanded choreographic practice, exploring potentials for new ways of organising and presenting an artist run festival. Together with the participating artists and audiences we will learn from and work with wider contextual fields, histories, philosophies and knowledge of choreography.
How can we become more visible and sustain this visibility? Can artists change the current touring and producing models to develop more viable and long-term conditions? If choreography is about exploring new potentials for ways or organising, assembling, arranging, rearranging, fixing and unfixing material, how can we stay in the process of experimenting, failing and trying again?
Watch this space for invited artists, details on participation, schedule and locations. www.festenfest.info

2019 & 2020

This autumn H2DANCE has been exploring possible links between Nordic festivals and Fest en Fest. With support from BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen Norway we visited their festival Oktoberdans. In November we traveled to Everybody’s Spectacular in Reykjavik Iceland with support from Reykjavik Dance Festival.
We have now secured funding from the Nordic Culture Fund to further develop our connections with venues and festivals in The Nordic Countries and will take up residencies at Vitlycke Sweden, Reykjavik Dance Festival Iceland and Multiplié dansefestival Trondheim Norway in 2019.
The next edition of Fest en Fest will take place February 2020 in Deptford London and the east of England.

Spring 2018

Strangers & Others
H2DANCE invited writer Ian Abbott to write about Strangers & Others.
Under are the links to the works created in response to the work:
Introduction
Expectations
Reactions
Reflections
GIF review
Review

22nd – 24th of June 2018

In 2017 H2DANCE secured research funding from Arts Council England to develop a festival of new choreographies titled Fest en Fest in partnership with Trinity Laban,  The Albany  and Goldsmiths in South East London. The festival will take place 22nd – 24th of June 2018 across the three venues, encompassing performances, workshops, seminars as well as afternoon and evening gatherings and parties.  It will focus on work in the expanded choreographic field, presenting artists from the Nordic Countries and the UK.
www.festenfest.info
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10.10.17 – 6 & 8pm

Strangers & Others is premiering in Woking, followed by a  tour in the UK and Norway. Tour dates

22.07.17 11am – 4pm

Meeting Place workshops for kids
Family Dance Day, The Place London UK
For one day only, the whole building is completely taken over by an explosion of dance for children aged 2 to 8 and their families.
More info on the workshops: www.theplace.org.uk/whats-on/meeting-place-workshop-5
More info on Family Dance Day: www.theplace.org.uk/whats-on/collections/family-dance-day-2017

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