17/09/2025
We’re thrilled to announce the participants in PERFORMING ARTS RELAY 2025: Language // Landscape - Aarhus, Denmark.
Performing Arts Relay 2024-2026 is a series of 3 artistic research labs, each hosted by one of the Relay partners: Seachange Lab (Denmark), Davvi - Senter for scenekunst (Norway), Nightswimming (Canada), and School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA), University of Calgary (Canada). In each lab, artists from all 3 countries come together to explore, exchange and reflect, and advance their artistic practice.
The focus of the 2024-26 labs is the variety of the 3 countries' languages and (inner and outer) geographies, including the Arctic regions, as reflected in the work of the participating artists. As such, the thematic starting point of the work is Language//Landscape, a broad theme that can be interpreted in multiple ways by the participating artists, who are invited to map their artistic routes together, as they explore their own and each other's work practice.
Relay Aarhus will be held September 30 – October 3, 2025, at the artistic centre Earthwise in the National Park Mols Bjerge.
The Relay Aarhus artists:
Ekaterina Bespalova is a Russian actress and director. She was born and raised in Northern Russia and trained as an actress at the Academy of Theatre Arts in St. Petersburg. Bespalova came to Norway in 2010. Since then, she has run RuNo Theatre, which focuses on performing arts through international collaboration.
Col Cseke is a theatre-maker living and playing in Calgary on Treaty 7 territory. “Theatre-maker,” that promiscuous catch-all term, contains his work as a playwright, director, deviser, ensemble member, documentary maker, Deaf-Disability-Mad Theatre advocate, podcaster, teacher, community organizer, activist, and arts administrator.
Stine Marchinkowski was born in Aarhus and moved to Sweden in 2012. Stine has 20 years of professional experience in the field of performing arts and somatic practice, and has worked as a dancer, performer, choreographer, director, teacher, therapist and project manager.
Valentina Martínez is a transdisciplinary dance artist and choreographer whose work explores themes of adaptation, assimilation, spirituality, and cultural identity through movement and choreography. Rooted in Latin American and Afro-Cuban dance traditions, her practice spans stage, gallery, and public space.
Kindly supported by:
Nordisk Kulturfond Aarhus Kommunes Kulturudviklingspulje, Barentssekretariatet
