Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli, the creators of the Beyond Darkness Podcast, are at The Danish National School of Performing Arts to come into dialogue with lighting designer, teacher and “lord of darkness” Michael Breiner. In this episode we ask Michael about his interest in darkness and about his artistic research which entails storytelling and dialogues in the dark. He talks about darkness as a creative space, a space for non judgemental encounters and about darkness in quantum physics and technological future scenarios. Enjoy! This episode was recorded Tuesday, 9th of June 2020 The Beyond Darkness Podcast is produced by Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli It is sponsored by The Danish National School of Performing Arts The podcast soundscape is by moltamole (https://moltamole.tumblr.com/) This episode was edited by Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen For more information about the BD research, visit www.bdmatterinmotion.com/, and for questions, queries and suggestions send an email to [email protected] Follow us on Instagram: @bdmatterinmotion @nanna.h.jensen @psynama

Nanna and Nadja Mattioli are in dialogue with their peer and close friend Annika Kompart at the premises of the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen. Annika is a choreographer and dance artist based in Denmark. She talks about her relationship to movement and the importance of darkness and translation in her practice. Annika also provides insight into her current artistic research: how can a book (Mephisto by Klaus Mann) become a Tanztheater performance? She also talks about come of her earlier works and anecdotes connected to darkness, translation and the body. Enjoy! This episode was recorded Tuesday, 26th of May 2020 The Beyond Darkness Podcast is produced by Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli It is sponsored by The Danish National School of Performing Arts The podcast soundscape is by moltamole (https://moltamole.tumblr.com/) This episode was edited by Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen For more information about the BD research, visit www.bdmatterinmotion.com, and for questions, queries and suggestions send an email to [email protected] Follow us on Instagram: @bdmatterinmotion @nanna.h.jensen @psynama

This time, Nadja is in dialogue with choreographer and founder of countertechnique Anouk van Dijk at the Münchner Kammerspiele in Germany. They met during their work on the production called TOUCH - directed by Falk Richter and choreographed Anouk van Dijk. After a long day of rehearsals, Nadja and Anouk dive into questions of why touch matters to us as human beings, how Anouk has worked with darkness, proximity, intimacy and illusions in the past and talk about her research which developed into an internationally acclaimed movement method called countertechnique. Enjoy! This episode was recorded Friday, 11th 2020 The Beyond Darkness Podcast is produced by Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli It is sponsored by The Danish National School of Performing Arts The podcast soundscape is by moltamole (https://moltamole.tumblr.com/) This episode was edited by Nadja Mattioli For more information about the BD research, visit www.bdmatterinmotion.com, and for questions, queries and suggestions send an email to [email protected] Follow us on Instagram: @bdmatterinmotion @nanna.h.jensen @psynama

Nanna and Nadja are at Aaben Dans in Roskilde (Denmark), in dialogue with Thomas Eisenhardt, choreographer and artistic director of Aaben Dans. To start the dialogue, Nanna and Nadja ask about movement and the importance of the senses in Thomas’s work. He shares information about the inspiration for his upcoming piece Hvad er Det? (What is this?), a performance for the youngest of audiences and about discovery and curiosity. And he explains how darkness was used as a main component in the piece Med Hånden På Hjertet (Hand on the Heart), a dance performance created in 2019. Enjoy! This episode was recorded Tuesday,  2nd June 2020. The Beyond Darkness Podcast is produced by Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli It is sponsored by The Danish National School of Performing Arts. The podcast soundscape is by moltamole (https://moltamole.tumblr.com/) This episode was edited by Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen. For more information about the BD research, visit www.bdmatterinmotion.com/, and for questions, queries and suggestions send an email to [email protected] Follow us on Instagram: @bdmatterinmotion @nanna.h.jensen @psynama

Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli, the creators of the Beyond Darkness Podcast, are in dialogue with each other, sharing why they wanted to create this podcast in the first place, details about their artistic practice, the different pillars of their artistic research, as well as the core values of the BD organism. Enjoy this introductory episode! The Beyond Darkness Podcast is a knowledge-sharing platform for artistic practice and artistic research, provided by Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli. As a part of the Beyond Darkness practice, Nadja and Nanna are sharing their dialogues with other performance artists and practitioners who are inspiring them during their investigations. Their main dialogue topics are: movement, darkness, the senses, imagination, collaboration, artistic practice and research. What Nanna and Nadja want to provide is an openly accessible platform inviting listeners to be curious about their insights and discoveries, hoping to provide new knowledge to the performing arts and artistic research community, as well as trying to connect the communities by inviting them to join into a dialogue with them and each other. The Beyond Darkness Podcast aims to function as a collective creative intelligence that connects us, enlarging our individual capacities and webbing us in a network of relationships to generate new forms of knowledge - a seeking together, a learning together, a thinking together! The Beyond Darkness Podcast is produced by Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and Nadja Mattioli It is sponsored by The Danish National School of Performing Arts. The podcast soundscape is by moltamole (https://moltamole.tumblr.com/) This episode was edited by Nadja Mattioli. For more information about the BD research, visit www.bdmatterinmotion.com/, and for questions, queries and suggestions send an email to [email protected] Follow us on Instagram: @bdmatterinmotion @nanna.h.jensen @psynama