Work-in-progress
a sneak peak into the beginning of a new project.
After my solo Pockets Filled with Time I started making my own ceramic wind chimes/bells in Vietnam for a new upcoming performance!
I had my first week trying to figure out and get to know them 🎐in Hanoi at @a.experimental.art warm thanks to Tuan Mami✨and for Caspar Day for passing by and documenting.
Also grateful for studio @motcucdat in Saigon for letting me use there studio space to make the bells and to An Nguyen for introducing different techniques of working with clay!
To be continued!
Photo
2-3 @motcucdat
7-10 @caspar_day
🛑Why we create this workshop for you guys🛑
Interviewing our fourth collaborator, Nathalie Wiberg, on how dancing can be different.
Bringing her inspirations and framework to Synergy Station on Feb 28 and March 1, HCM city.
Come move with us. Registration via DM
#synergystation #synergyworkshop #contemporary #bridgingthegap #saigon
A dance class! Yay!
‘I Know I Like To Feel The Sun In My Palm’
This contemporary class plays with imagination, waking up and tuning in to different ways of sensing and responding through the body and the space.
The class moves between improvisation, and some set exercises, traveling across the floor both individually and collectively, with and without music. Ending with an improv jam!
A little taste test of things! We will move, brush, listen, pretend to be a snail, do some pliées, pass through set positions, wonder and listen to some Abba. Come!
🐣Class time: 3pm-5pm, Sunday, 25 Jan 2026
🏁Location: Life Dance studio, level 1, 18 Tran Thien Chanh, Hoa Hung ward, Ho Chi Minh city
💥Ticket: 150,000 vnd/ ppl
🦾Open Level: to dancers and movement practitioners of all levels ✨
Register link on bio or DM us for more info
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About Nathalie
Nathalie Wiberg is a contemporary dance artist, she was adopted from Vietnam and grew up in Scandinavia. She did her training at Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School(DK), Institut Del Theatre (ES) and holds a bachelor degree in dance from The University of Stavanger (NO) Nathalie has worked with mentors including Ellen Söderhult, Katarina Skår Lisa, Hanna Filomen Mjåvatn, and Shanti Brahmachari. As a freelance dancer, she moves between her own creations alongside collaborations and performances with other artists.
Video by
Lars Kjemphol
Captured during a creative lab supported by Tekstlab, Norway.
I know I Don’t Like Coriander by Nathalie Wiberg
Writing and creative process workshop
Time: 3pm-5pm, Saturday, 24 Jan 2026
At: Reading Cabin
Drawing from her own experience as a Vietnamese adoptee, raised in Scandinavia, Nathalie explores how the dynamic between fiction and reality can influence our identity. Starting from text, movement and voice, she is working on finding artistic strategies and methods from what we “know, heard, wonder and imagine” about ourselves, in order to create a space where identity can be explored as something moving and alive.
[In the workshop]
We will begin with a creative writing session, followed by a composition phase using the material from the text. Later, there will be time to explore the work in a performative setting. Nathalie will also present and demonstrate how she has applied these methods in her own artistic practice.
The session will conclude with an aftertalk, reflecting on the work and sharing further nuances and perspectives on adoption from the artist.
[About the praxis and artist]
Nathalie Wiberg is a contemporary dance artist, having dance as her foundation she works across disciplines, engaging with voice, text, and photography. The praxis; I know I Don’t Like Coriander stems from Nathalie’s artistic praxis of working with text as a base for exploring and providing more layers into her creative processes. Nathalie has shared her creative works in Scandinavia and this will be her first time introducing it in Vietnam.
Supported by
Reading Cabin
Stavanger Kommune, Norway
*Workshop ticket: 100,000vnd/ppl include 1 drink, to ensure you’d come ^^
Please register in the link in bio
Please also stay tune for a contemporary dance workshop with Nathalie at a real dance studio. More info on this soonnn
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*Photos credit by
-Simen Diserud Thornquist
-Darja Olsevskaja
-Danielle Angela Cruzado Obiacoro
Collective Rites performances in November
At Gamle Munch, Oslo (NO)
Tekstlab
Idé & concept: Shanti Brahmachari
Peformers & co-creating artists:
Nathalie Wiberg, Elias Elvegaard, Frid Ding, Julie Vigeland, Anne Christina Olausson, Amelia Gòmez Snerte, Cesilie Lindeman Steen & Christine Bratvold
Photos by @darjaolsevskaja
Clips from our research period in Oslo🌳 Purnendra came to Norway! Last time we danced together was in India.
In August we explored how our practises, lived experiences and common interests could meet through movement in a residency facilitated by amazing @tekstlab
It ended with a work in progress showing,
To be continued
@itspurnendra
A little bit more than 1 yr since I started researching for my solo. Maybe one will become more
What started as something I thought I knew, became something different and now it’s a bit chaotic but I will organize it! The process continues
I have been researching
How one’s self-perception is affected by growing up and living in a society that doesn’t mirror one’s own self-understanding? What kind of dynamics emerges? Drawing from my own background as an adoptee from Vietnam raised in Scandinavia, I explore how the balance between fiction and reality can shape our identity.
Thank you for the tech collaboration Leif Ole Stampa Johannsen
and for following the whole process lovely Katarina Skår Lisa
Supported by
The Norwegian Art Council
Stavanger Kommune
@regionalarenaforsamtidsdans@tekstlab@tou__official
Work in progress showings at
RAS, Tou Scene, Stavanger Kunsenter, Stavanger
By Tekstlab- Sentralen & Gamle Munch, Oslo
”Seductiv Dance Monsters in the horror-erotic BLESSIKA”
A review by Dagens Nyheter
BLESSIKA by Ellen Söderhult ❤️🔥 is coming to Denmark 27th of Oct!
A little over a year ago we started the production of BLESSIKA in the forest of south of Sweden!
I always love and cherish dancing & singing in Ellen’s universes!
After the premiere at Weld in February we toured around Stockholm and now we are ready for Copenhagen!
and Norway in 2026! See you!
Choreography by @ellensoderhult 🔥🔥
Dancing with Ellen @cajsagodee@catzarazua
Composer @kablam
Costume & Scenography @enpandy
Light Design @forsberg_michael
2nd photo by Fredrika Eriksson
Video material by @karl.oskar.gustafsson
Some jumps and Jumps, smoke, wrestling, singing in and old ex church
Dunka Dunka By Ellen Söderhult + Tusen Tungor/konstmusik systrars jubileum
at Ericssonhallen, Stockholm
From reharsal and performance
photos by Anna Drvnik