Ella Östlund

Ella Östlund (she/her) is a Swedish dancer and performer working in the free field between Copenhagen and Stockholm. She graduated with a BFA in dance and choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2022. As a dancer Ella has performed recurrently in works by choreographers like Alma Söderberg, Joana Öhlschleger, Lara Vejrup Ostan and Malin Elgán. Her artistic ground is found through an interest in materialities of performing and where they meet dance’s virality and production of meaning, with a particular interest in the interplay of voice and movement, and for dance's possibility to twist senses and ways of gathering.

Ella is currently pondering about the artistic role of the dancer. With the Space Away residency she aims to take the opportunity to grant space to the loose fragments, unused intuitions, traces and residues which has appeared or been rubbed off through (and inbetween) her work as a dancer in other people’s work. This entails songs that need to be sung, old dances reframed, time to think, poems that shall be spoken aloud. Throughout, questions around authorship and the skill of availability is at hand, how can the first be understood from the role of the dancer and how can the second be practiced in and of itself.

Karin Bergman

Karin Bergman (she/her) works with dance and choreography as a freelance artist based in Copenhagen. She was educated at The Danish National School of Performing Arts from 2013 to 2017 and is currently studying Body-Mind Centering®. Karin has been teaching contemporary dance at institutions such as The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Dansehallerne and Danscentrum (SE). Karin has worked as a dancer with choreographers Tilman O’Donnell, OR/ELLER (Anja Arnquist & Madeleine Lindh), Cristina Caprioli, Boaz Barkan, Rebecka Berchtold, and Joana Öhlschläger, among others.  

Karin makes dance phrases inspired by the score used by Trisha Brown for her dance performance “Locus” (1975). The dance phrases take place in an imaginary cube, with three levels and 25 spatial directions. With a continuous fall and in balance by extending body parts between different points in space, she turns, curves and spirals around herself.

Karin also spends time with the organs of the body, dancing from and in to their internal locations. By giving in to different organs, she pushes her weight around inside a soft, three-dimensional trunk, generating movement with a round and heavy quality and a complex, unpredictable and delayed sequencing of movement. 

During her time in Danseatelier, she will engage with the two different materials in parallel, curious about how the materials influence one another.

Alice Martucci

Alice Martucci is a choreographer and dancer whose work explores the relationship between movement, memory, and imagination—often through questions of loss, grief, care, and intergenerational transmission. She works with score-based improvisation: short written prompts that act as containers for embodied research and choreographic composition. Writing is an integral part of her practice, used to attend to experience and to experiment with language as material alongside movement. Martucci often collaborates with sound and visual artists to create cross-aesthetic performances and research-based formats that evolve over time and across contexts. Born in Florence and based in Copenhagen since 1998, she holds an MFA in Choreography (2024) and a BA in Dance (2002) from the Danish National School of Performing Arts, and a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies (2018) from the University of Copenhagen.

For this phase of the Space Away residency, Alice Martucci focuses on refining and clarifying the research questions and methods of Amulets in a mentored studio process with curators Stine Frandsen and Marlene Bonnesen. At the centre is the amulet as choreographic element and method, explored through the practice of the list—as words, rhythm, spatial coordinates, and movement.

During the residency, Martucci will test and articulate how these score-based practices generate “amulets” as layered units of meaning, memory, and the unknown. She will also invite collaborators into the studio to dee