Mette Edvardsen is a choreographer, dancer, and performance artist from Norway, who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Although some of her works explore other media or formats - such as videos, books and texts - her interest always lies in their relationship with performing arts as a practice and situation.
[11] By using a playful approach to thoughts and references Edvardsen examines how language can be used to form pictures in the heads of the audience.
In 2013, Edvardsen created, together with the artists Sarah Vanhee, Alma Söderberg and Juan Dominguez, Manyone, a supportive structure that helps them organize their work in both a sustainable and tailor-made way to their individual practice.
The organization receives structural funding from the Flemish government based on the Kunstendecreet (Arts Decree).
This choreography is part of the production 5 (Thomas Hauert, Mark Lorimer, Sarah Ludi, Samantha van Wissen and Mat Voorter / ZOO, 2003).
Version Christine De Smedt, Ghent (BE), a performance of a dance score by the German choreographer Thomas Lehmen (2002-2004).
The small ensemble production is induced by the relationship between dream and action, voice and language, body and music, suggesting alternative scenarios for the Ancient Greek female role figure of Penelope.
Her research project, Writing in Space and Time, explores text and language as a raw material for dance practice.
[32] She also regularly hosts workshops, lectures and presentations of her work, including at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2009); Kunstakademiet i Tromsø (Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing in Tromsø) (2010); Luca School of Arts, Ghent (2011); eXplore dance festival, Bucharest (2014);[13] Reykjavik Dance Festival 2015[33] and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2017).
[34] In 2016, she participated at the Brussels Kaaitheater also in The Permeable Stage,[35] a 10-hour research event by choreographer / dancer Mette Ingvartsen dedicated to investigating the politics of sexuality and its proximal relations to privacy and the public sphere.