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International festival of expanded choreography, curated by @h2dance___ 21 - 29 March
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I very much enjoyed performing Looping practice #3 as part of @festenfest in March.

Taking the action of looping as a starting point for generating material, this first draft of the work examines the relationship between body, sound, and space, negotiating practices of insistence, repetition, transformation and transmission.

The performers insist on staying within the looped motion of the input, which in turn creates movement and sound relations as feedback and output. All three share the responsibility for giving, receiving, copying, transforming and pausing/cutting movement and sound from each other, blurring any individual authorship to generate collective sonic and spatial patterns.

Thanks so much to my amazing collaborators and performers @the_movement_ming @loreaburge and to @rosechoreographicschool for fantastic support and @no_other_thrill for brilliant dramaturgy.
Thanks also to the great audience that came along and supported the festival and the first outing of the work. I’m looking forward to the next phase !
Photo: @documentedbyhenrit
#choreography #curation #dance taken in APT Gallery & Studios London by @festenfest

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Fest en Fest 2026 recap by @festenfest

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“Fest en Fest underscored why we need festivals like this: to create more space and opportunity for artists to push dance beyond fixed forms and gender stereotypes.”
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Thank you to @festenfest / @h2dance___ for having us! Read our reflections on @chisatominamimura, Marte Sterud and @ankikongen, and @__salameche__ works on our website 🐉 🖊️ @jo_leask 📸 @henritartist taken in London, United Kingdom by @festenfest

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It has been a joy, pleasure, and privilege to invite such incredible artists and their work to this year’s Fest en Fest. We’ve loved every minute, from performances and talks to late hangouts, sharing the festival, and experiencing the work together with audiences in Brighton, London, and Colchester.
Like many independent initiatives, we’ve faced challenges, especially around funding. In a world shaped by uncertainty, where many people can’t move freely, gather, or live safely, returning this year with renewed support and a shared commitment to connect felt more meaningful than ever.
Thank you to all the artists and teams who brought such exciting work, and to the audiences who came, watched, shared thoughts, joined discussions, and spent time with us. Your curiosity, generosity, and commitment to experimentation are the heart of Fest en Fest.
Special love to the @rosechoreographicschool cohort, your presence all week gave us the energy to keep going.
This project is about sharing expanded choreographic practices, but also about gathering, exchanging, and thinking together with care and critique, building structures that last beyond the festival days.
Huge thanks to our producer, @michaelkitchin, production team @froudagram & @rubysevinkj
To @iz_whiz & @no_other_thrill for your ongoing support. To @southeastdance, @vsslstudio, @aptstudiosgallery, @trinitylaban, & @colchartscentre and for meaningful collaborations. To photographers @lukerspencer and @henritartist for capturing it all, & to all our volunteers. To our funders: @aceagrams, @fininst_uk_ireland, @swedeninuk, @norwayinuk, @vlaamseoverheid, @uni_roehampton. To @designprintbind for the website, @kaslassnr for the graphics, & @stephhdances for the social media content.

Until next time!

📸: @documentedbyhenrit

@c_s_projects  @alberto.aif  @shivaangee  @ankikongen  @martereiste  @butch_tribute  @chisatominamimura  @sonjajoki  @serafine1369  @hotskate14  @h2hanna
@heidirustgaard
@h2dance___
@loreaburge
@___mette_e
@gambinimagic
#noémiesolomon
@nadia_lauro_
@paul_paschal_
@rohanneudall
@aliaskar______abarkas
@amnabirye
@darragholeary
@lorenmck_
@rohanayinde
#YewandeYoYoOdunubi taken in APT Gallery & Studios London by @festenfest

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Today we present:

SLOW RIFFS / FIVE STAGES OF YES
PERFORMANCE by Heidi Rustgaard
6PM
APT Gallery

SLOW RIFFS / FIVE STAGES OF YES is a transdisciplinary sonic choreographic work working from Heidi’s one-note concept. Positioned between concert and performative installation, it unfolds as a spatial sound environment that continuously slows down—an immersive landscape of sculptural bodies and resonant sound that the audience can navigate. The piece reimagines the electric guitar as a gendered cultural artefact, queering its use by limiting its sonic material to a single note.

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Nadia Lauro, Scenographies
BOOK LAUNCH with Nadia Lauro & Noémie Solomon
7PM
APT Gallery

Visual artist and scenographer Nadia Lauro joins writer and curator Noémie Solomon to discuss NADIA LAURO, SCENOGRAPHIES,a monograph recently published by Les Presses du réel. Since the early 2000s, Lauro has designed a series of striking visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role in shaping the field of contemporary dance and performance in Europe and beyond. This conversation fleshes out Lauro’s singular approach and method, and more broadly the role of experimental scenography at the intersection of choreography and dramaturgy in making manifest a series of questions, intensifying affects, and situating dancing bodies alongside key material and epistemological issues.

For more info and tickets: www.festenfest

@nadia_lauro_
@heidirustgaard
@aptstudiosgallery
@rosechoreographicschool
@h2dance___
@michaelkitchinn
@stephhdances

#performance #booklaunch by @festenfest

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Tonight

Buster Mantis
@bustermantis

3-4 Resolution Way, London SE8 4NT by @festenfest

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Fest en Fest 2026

Presenting today

Compromised by Magic BOOK LAUNCH with @varamo_press

7pm
@aptstudiosgallery

The editors of Varamo Press, Mette Edvardsen and Jeroen Peeters, will share in conversation how and why they do what they do. How they imagine and realize publications, gradually building a catalogue in the process. And how these editorial questions intersect with their own artistic and writerly practices.

For more info and tickets: www.festenfest.info

@varamo_press
@h2dance___
@festenfest
@h2hanna
@heidirustgaard
@michaelkitchinn
@stephhdances
@rosechoreographicschool by @festenfest

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Today we present:

5pm
PERFORMANCE

Double Bill: Looping Practice #3 and Sonic Feelding Action #5 by Hanna Gillgren and Lorea Burge

7pm
BOOK LAUNCH
Varamo Press. The editors of Varamo Press, Mette Edvardsen and Jeroen Peeters, will share in conversation how and why they do what they do. How they imagine and realize publications, gradually building a catalogue in the process. And how these editorial questions intersect with their own artistic and writerly practices.

On this occasion, the artist and writer Augusto Corrieri will join them for the launch of Compromised by Magic, a new publication in the gestures essay series.

At @aptstudiosgallery

9pm
FEST EN FEST AFTER PARTY
Buster Mantis
3-4 Resolution Way, London SE8 4NT
bustermantis.com

For more info and tickets: www.festenfest.info

@h2dance___
@h2hanna
@loreaburge
@the_movement_ming
@varamo_press
@aptstudiosgallery
@rosechoreographicschool by @festenfest

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Today we present:

For What We Will by Stina Nyberg
PERFORMANCE
7PM
APT Gallery

For what we will is a choreography gesturing towards the work of building something with others. Through hard work and play it investigates the pleasurable work of moulding and being moulded.
What is the work of the performer? How does the effort of collaboration appear? And why are intimate encounters always so messy, painful and irresistable?

For more info and tickets: www.festenfest.info

@hotskate14
@h2dance___
@aptstudiosgallery
@h2hanna
@heidirustgaard
@michaelkitchinn
@stephhdances
@rosechoreographicschool by @festenfest

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Today we present:

Discursive Lunch with i.as.in.we
DISCUSSION
1-4PM
APT Gallery

i.as.in.we (Rohan Ayinde and Yewande YoYo Odunubi) will host a performative conversation inviting the audience to participate in their collaborative and iterative studying practice, The Score(s).

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Discursive Dinner with SERAFINE1369
DISCUSSION
5-7PM
Trinity Laban

A Fest en Fest discussion with SERAFINE1369, sharing insights from their PhD research and broader practice.

Has the world changed, or have I changed?
PERFORMANCE
SERAFINE1369
7.30PM
Trinity Laban, Laban Theatre

@rohanayinde
@serafine1369
@aptstudiosgallery
@trinitylaban
@h2dance___
@h2hanna
@heidirustgaard
@michaelkitchinn
@stephhdances

#discussion #dance #festival #choreography by @festenfest

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Today we present:

London

Discursive Dinner with Loren McK
4-6PM
VSSL studio @vsslstudio

REMEMBERING WITHOUT CEMENT
Loren will talk and invite conversation around remembering pulling in ideas around archiving, bodies in relation to archives, tactility, grief and building monuments or memorials. Formed with queer and disabled people and histories at the front of their mind Loren will question how we remember otherwise.

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Howl by Sonja Jokiniemi
7PM
APT Gallery @aptstudiosgallery

Jokiniemi returns to Howl — a performance work from 2019, then premiering at Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki and now re-living its material propositions with a new sound work by Gil Schneider, with whom she has collaborated on later works (ÖH 2020 and ARMO 2023).

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Colchester

Butch Tribute: Trilogy by Ann-Christin Kongsness & Marte Sterud
7.30PM
Colchester Arts Centre @colchartscentre

Butch Tribute consists of the three dance pieces; Flirt, Roses, Flannel Dream (2021) and the text-based performance A Butch is a Butch is a Butch is a Butch (2023) and the short film Handy (2026).

For more info and tickets: www.festenfest.info

@lorenmck_
@sonjajoki
@ankikongen
@martereiste
@h2hanna
@heidirustgaard
@h2dance___
@michaelkitchinn
@stephhdances

#lgbtqia #performance #festenfest #choreography #dance by @festenfest

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Join us for the Opening of Fest en Fest 2026!

Today we present:

@vsslstudio

4:00pm-6:00pm
Discursive Dinner with Ann-Christin Kongsness & Marte Sterud

@aptstudiosgallery

From 7:00pm
Deaf for 4’33” by Chisato Minamimura
Performative installation

8:30pm:
Flirt by Marte Sterud and Ann-Christin Kognsness
Performance

Handy
Short film by Marte Sterud and Ann-Christin Kongsness

Public Intimacies by Salaméche

Works by Aliaskar Abarkas

For more info and tickets: www.festenfest.info

@ankikongen
@martereiste
@butch_tribute
@chisatominamimura
@paul_paschal_
@rohanayinde
@aliaskar______abarkas
@norwayinuk
@h2dance___
@h2hanna
@heidirustgaard
@michaelkitchinn
@stephhdances

#opening #festival #choreography #dance #lgbtqia+ by @festenfest

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