Mathilde Caeyers and Marie Rechsteiner participate in the Big Pulse Dance Alliance Visiting Artist Program

Mathilde Caeyers participates in the New Baltic Dance Festival from 2.-5. May. Caeyers is a dance artist who lives and works in Tromsø. She graduated in 2018 with a Bachelor Honors Degree in Dance from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

Photo: Marthe Thu

Since graduating, she has created four choreographic works, two of which have been selected to go on tour with Dansenett Norge. In 2021, she was one of the young artists at Festspillene i Nord-Norge, where she premiered her third stage production, New Religion, which was on tour in February this year at Dansens Hus, Oslo. Her choreographic practice continuously develops in close collaboration with installation art, where she currently explores the inherent nature of philosophy within science-fiction.

She is currently working on a dance film installation that will be shown at the Intercultural Museum in Oslo in 2023.

Marie Rechsteiner takes part in the Sismògraf festival between 13.-16. April. Rechsteiner is a Norwegian contemporary dancer and choreographer, based between Trondheim and Berlin.

After graduating from the University of Stavanger in 2012, she has been involved in a number of performances and collaborative projects, in addition to her own practice.

As a performer, she has worked with, among others, Malin Bülow, Cirka Teater, Benoit Maubrey, Raffaella Galdi, Yan Leiva, Christian Falsnaes and Alexandra Pirici and was part of the collaborative project Yngvesson/Rechsteiner. Since 2014, she has been part of the studio collective Garage – Atelier für Kunst und Tanz in Berlin.

In her own practice, she is interested in the interdisciplinary, where movement is combined with sound art, video projections and site-specific, improvised interaction. Thematically, she works with current social themes and looks at how society’s expectations are manifested in the body and can be seen in the choreographic work.

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The Big Pulse Dance Alliance Visiting Artist Program gives a choreographer the opportunity to visit other festivals in the network.

The program gives the choreographers a meeting with the festival’s artistic directors, collaboration with local artists, tickets to festival performances and networking with choreographers from other European countries. The program is completely unique in its field and offers huge benefits in the form of skills development, creative exchange and networking.