Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen

A Tease and mix of some of our works 🤍 with music by Mihai Dobre Project Pomegranate is an interdisciplinary collective founded by Edith (choreographer) and Lea (filmmaker), grounded in the belief in shared effort, collaboration, and collective authorship. The collective works at the intersection of dance and film, creating movement-based and narrative art that evokes reflection, empathy, and embodied experience. ​ At the heart of Project Pomegranate lies a strong sense of artistic responsibility. The collective understands art as a powerful social force - one that can create a sense of “us”, foster empathy, and highlight what we share rather than what separates us. Working from a feminist and queer perspective, the collective is interested in giving voice to stories from the margins and beyond dominant narratives, and in engaging with socio-political thematic complexes through embodied and cinematic storytelling. With the wish to break normative expectations and create space for new narratives in film, particularly around sexuality, intimacy, and the body, the collective resists neat narratives and definitive conclusions, favouring complexity, fluidity, multiplicity, and diverse identities and experiences. Rooted in ethics of consent, collaboration, and respect, Project Pomegranate wishes to foster working processes that are non-hierarchical, collaborative, and grounded in exchange. In addition to the artistic work, Project Pomegranate offers Intimacy Coordination for film and stage. We see this as part of a broader and necessary development within the industry - toward safer sets and rehearsal rooms, consensual working environments, and a culture of respect.

Project Pomegranate is an interdisciplinary collective working at the intersection of film, dance and theatre. ​Rooted in collaboration and collective authorship, the collective creates movement-based and narrative works that invite reflection, empathy, and embodied experience. ​Working from a feminist and queer perspective, Project Pomegranate explores socio-political themes through power-critical and transcultural storytelling. Their work challenges normative narratives around sexuality, intimacy, and the body, embracing complexity, multiplicity, and diverse identities. ​ Alongside their artistic practice, the collective offers Intimacy Coordination for film and stage, contributing to safer, consent-based working environments.

UPCOMING WORKSHOP In Berlin Listening Practice with Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen Dance Workshop “With a focus on listening; to our body, the space and everything around us. We will work towards freeing the body and mind from its determination and ordinary paths, and encourage each other to develop layers of complexity in our physical language and performative expression. We will invite laughter as much as tears and look for rooms of resonance, where we can make our body : open, attentive, and ready to be moved. “ Open to professionals and people with interest in moving. 15-17th May 2026 10:00–16:00 Uhr In Berlin, Studio „Fahrbereit- schaft“, Herzbergstr. 40-43, 10365, Berlin Register : [email protected] Students 140 € Professionals 170 € Event is organised by Mitteldeutscher Verband für Sprechwissenschaft und Sprecherziehung e.V. To register you write them an email and transfer fee to : MDVS e. V. | IBAN: DE30 8005 3762 0388 0603 20 | BIC: NOLADE21HAL Verwendungszweck: Listening Practice [Name] 📷 @hannes_greve

A mix from Sri Lanka ❤️ After a year of non stop work, I took a month to reflect, write, spend time with my heart and meet some animals. Thanks @kundalahouse for holding the space for us and being so awesome 🤍

The way we shine Alone, yet still casting it's quiet. ♡♡♡ Have a lovely evening, dear friends! Love & Peace Jas Dancer: Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen @edith.b.p #spectaclummagazine #artistyflaire #fujilove #blurewillsavetheworld #bnwsoul

Birthday week recap ❤️ Thanks for many wishes and much love , for many friends who are like family and for my body who carries on with me for another year of shenanigans ! Bw’s by David Matley

Been traveling back and back again to Trondheim the past half year, making “after the last prayers” by @marierechsteiner - meeting the sweetest team that I will miss am already missing ❤️ getting visits from love and family ! Making fires , dancing .. a photo dumb with a bit of it all … @kenbruun @ninasmw @lea_karolina @big_fisha @yasenvasilev @heida_karine @nikvegas @dansit_koreografisk_senter @rosendalteater @dansitrondelag

Hva betyr det å tro? ✨✨✨ Torsdag 5. februar kl. 19:00 er det premiere på After the Last Prayers av Marie Rechsteiner. Etter mange år i Berlin er Rechsteiner tilbake i Trondheim med sin største produksjon så langt – en forestilling om tro, fellesskap, sekter og alternative virkeligheter. «Kultvibber i et glitterlandskap.» 🎭 Velkommen til premiere. Forestillingen presenteres av DansiT❤️ Video: Kristoffer Skogheim #kulturrådet #kultur #dans

The Love project nr. 1 is an invitation to embrace love as a choice, a verb to be acted upon. As Bell Hooks writes “love is an active force that leads us into communion with the world.” What would it mean to carry love like that, intentionally, daily? And can we bring this into the ways in wich we create dance and theater? How can we actually meet each other - with open eyes, with care? How do we create spaces not only of agreement, but of connection beyond agreement? It is easier said than done. Love is loaded, with associations, with desire, with memories of pain and loss, with need. It is entangled with the ecstasy of falling in love and the ache that follows. One more chance in this round to watch us try ❤️ 7th February 18.00 With Lisa Dattler Ariana Heinzelmann Laura Herz Denise Karner Florentine Konrad Leander Krembs Liliane Requardt Luca Weber Choreography/Directress Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen Directors Assistent Tanja Uhlig Dramaturgy Florian Hoermann In Englisch and German In @athanorakademie And in Uferstudios Berlin End of July 2026 🤍 Stay tuned for more love. Photos @lefranchy

The love project no.1 “ not sure what I want or need as I have no sense of my self without you. I have entered a state of dependency , this thing, this “us”, I have glorified, and wished for now feels like a burden, an amputation of my self. A Hang out, became dating, dating became sex, sex became mind blowing, mind blowing , became “seems like love”, “seems like love” became love, and love became “are we in relationship?”, and then it became “us” - I went into plastic surgery when that happened, and out came this morphed existence, a body that can only exist with your body near it.. How dumb.” 3 more chances to watch Tomorrow & 1st & 7th February 18.00 @athanorakademie Because love takes time, the duration of this performance is 3-4 hours. ALSO- coming to Berlin Ufer Studios this summer ! ❤️ Photos by @lefranchy

The love project no. 1 „Can you do love?” - love not as a feeling, but as a verb, as something we choose, something we do consciously. Not in a “free love,” rose-colored-glasses kind of way, and not only in the romantic sense, but as a way of being, a way of seeing. Maybe even as a political act. As Bell Hooks writes “love is an active force that leads us into communion with the world.” What would it mean to carry love like that, intentionally, daily? And can we bring this into the ways in wich we create dance and theater? How can we actually meet each other - with open eyes, with care? How do we create spaces not only of agreement, but of connection beyond agreement? It is easier said than done. Love is loaded—with associations, with desire, with memories of pain and loss, with need. It is entangled with the ecstasy of falling in love and the ache that follows. In The love project nr. 1 we propose a way of walking, of being, with love. We explore Love as something mystical, something we long for. A force that pulls us into the most absurd spirals, into the most beautiful transformations. Love as a power, a way of life. As something deeply human. As a counter to fear. As a quiet revolution. In our current climate, where division and fear often dominate, we seek to portray love as a powerful counterforce—one that invites connection, collaboration, and understanding. The Love project nr. 1 is an invitation to embrace love as a choice, a verb to be acted upon. Premiere 22. January @athanorakademie With Lisa Dattler Ariana Heinzelmann Laura Herz Denise Karner Florentine Konrad Leander Krembs Liliane Requardt Luca Weber Choreography/Directress Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen Directors Assistent Tanja Uhlig Video Toma Hurduc Dramaturgy Florian Hoermann In Englisch and German Shows : 22., 23., 30. Januar und 1., 6. Februar 2026 18:00 Uhr

Happy New years 🤍 2026 I am ready to wiggle with you.. please bring as many exiting projects and inspiring people to my life as 2025 has done 🤍. And may I have more time for wiggles like this in the studio without goals , just process, body and Resonance .