Join us for an intimate informal showing on 13.11.2026 featuring three exciting performing arts projects developed during the DancEUA Artist-in-Residence programme.

The informal showing will be followed by a moderated conversation where you can ask questions, share impressions, and hear directly from the artists about their inspirations, challenges, and next steps.

This is a great opportunity to experience fresh creative work and connect with the artists behind it!

About the artists work

Pelyustka by Sofiia Karanfilova (UA)
Our fears are like petals. Fear is often deeply rooted in our experiences and consciousness. It can become a part of the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us. Yet our relationship with fear can determine what it becomes within us. When we accept our fears as a part of ourselves, we may find the strength to transform them into an experience of learning and growth. But when we try to ignore or suppress them, fear can only become stronger. Through living through fear, we are given the opportunity to reflect on the unknown circumstances of life, to encounter what we cannot control, understand what frightens us, and slowly learn to coexist with uncertainty. Fears are not eternal, just as petals are not eternal. Can we let go of fear as easily as a petal falls away?

Perhaps sometimes we can. When we find inner calm, understanding, and acceptance, we may finally allow ourselves to release what we have been holding onto. Just as a petal can detach from a flower and be carried away by the wind, fear can disappear when we give ourselves permission to stop holding onto it and trust the process of letting go. Throughout the work, petals gradually fall and gather on the floor. They become traces of fears that have already been experienced, fears that once felt heavy, vivid, and overwhelming, but have now become part of the past. As the petals accumulate, a path begins to emerge through them. It is a passage through what we have lived through, a physical manifestation of moving forward and leaving behind the fears that no longer have the power to frighten us. Each fallen petal represents a fear that has been faced. Something that was once alive and intense, something that once held us in place, has finally fallen and become a part of our history.

Rearward eye: In her time by Isabella Eva Ljubičić & Lea Filipčić (HR)
Rearward Eye: In Her Time is an artistic research project exploring death through objects, movement, film, and language. The research asks: “How can I animate something non-living or make something living dead?” It investigates the uncanny qualities of objects, the fetishization of young bodies, and gestures of mourning. Through cuts, loops, repetition, and time manipulation, the project explores how principles of inorganic movement can become dance material, while developing a personal poetics of language and performance.

Unfound by Daria Cristea (RO)
Unfound is about the invisible patterns that precede conscious choice and shape the body’s ways of moving, responding, and relating to its surroundings. Where does intention end and conditioning begin? To what extent can the body detach itself from what it has already learned to repeat? Through the process of “desearching,” the work questions the notion of freedom: does freedom lie in finding a new direction, or in recognising the invisible traces that have been guiding us all along?

Mentor of the DancEUA residencies – Gry Kipperberg (NO)
Gry Kipperberg is a dance artist educated at KHiO in Oslo and the Merce Cunningham Studio in New York, and is a certified BMC® Practitioner. She has worked and performed both nationally and internationally with numerous choreographers and in a wide range of artistic collaborations since 1990. In 1999 she co-founded the company Wee with Francesco Scavetta, where she also created two solo performances — Strangely Enough (2010) and Under the Nothing Night (2020).

She has been employed by the Norwegian Actors’ and Dancers’ Alliance (Skuespiller- og Danseralliansen) since 2013, and has extensive experience as a teacher, mentor, and outside eye, as well as from organizational work within the dance field. Gry was awarded the Rolf Gammleng Award in 2012 and received a ten-year Government Grant for Established Artists in 2024.