Mathilde Caeyers is a contemporary dancer and choreographer currently living and working in the North of Norway. She graduated in 2018 with a Bachelor Honours Degree in dance from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Her choreographic practice continuously evolves in close collaboration with installation art and music composition. Mathilde draws inspiration from philosophy, creating performances that explore everything from consciousness, time as a non-linear construct, to determinism and free-will.
Mathilde was recently awarded an artist grant from the Arctic Arts Festival | Festspillene i Nord-Norge, where she will premiere her second full length stage performance New Religion in 2021. She will also create a commissioned piece together with Icelandic musician Bjarki for Extreme Chill Festival and Insomnia.
Mathilde is director of the Forum for North Norwegian Dance Artists and board member for the performing arts festival Vårscenefest.
Photo by Jens Kristian Nilsen
Education
09.2014 - 05.2018
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Bachelor Honours Degree in dance
Liverpool, UK
08.2013 - 05.2014
Trøndertun Folkehøgskole
One Year Dance Intensive
Trondheim, Norway
08.2010 - 06.2013
Kongsbakken Videregående Skole (High School)
Music, Dance and Drama
Tromsø, Norway
Board
memberships
Forum for North Norwegian Dance Artists (FNND)
2021 - 2023 Director
2019 - 2020 Co-director
Vårscenefest Festival
2020 - 2022 Board member
Work 2018-2022
Fly on the wall (2021/22)
/ Insight into company life and ///performance processes of winter ///guests/Alan Lucien Øyen
///2021/22│Oslo Opera House, Norway
New Religion
Choreographer, artistic director
and dancer
/ Performance @Nordlysfestivalen ///2022│Tromsø, Norway
/ Premiere @Arctic Arts Festival ///2021│Harstad, Norway
LuxTempus
Choreographer, co-director and dancer
/ Tour with Dansenett Norge ///2022│Norway
/ Performance @Dansefestival Barents ///2020│Hammerfest, Norway
/ Premiere @Tromsø Kunstforening ///2020│Tromsø, Norway
Bjarki Collaboration (working title)
Choreographer, co-director and dancer
/ Performance @Insomnia music festival ///2021│Tromsø, Norway
/ Residency and premiere @Extreme ///Chill Festival 2021│Reykjavik, Iceland
Mun dajan mii / Jeg snakker Oss by Jakop Janssøn
Co-choreographer and dancer
/ Performance @Nordlysfestivalen ///2021│Tromsø, Norway
KATMA/Katrine Strøm
Dancer
/ Mørkemodig tour
///2021│Oppland, Norway
///(Cov. cancellation)
/ Mørkemodig tour
///2020│Troms og Finnmark, Norway ///(Cov. cancellation)
/ Utsikt tour
///2021│Troms og Finnmark, Norway
/ Utsikt tour
///2020│Troms og Finnmark, Norway
/ Ritsj performance @Vårscenefest ///2020│Tromsø, Norway
///(Cov. cancellation)
/ Ritsj tour
///2020│Nordland, Norway
///(Cov. cancellation)
Arctic Innovation Week by Innovation Norway
Co-choreographer, dancer and speaker/debater
/ Performance 2020 @Storgata ///Camping│Tromsø, Norway
XNAKK by Innovation Norway
Speaker
/ Video about sustainability within the ///arts│Tromsø, Norway
Dans Hos Haakon (dancefilm)
Co-choreographer and dancer
/ Filmed in 2020 @Hos Haakon furniture ///store│Tromsø, Norway
Eksogen II (interactive dancefilm)
Choreographer, artistic director and dancer
/ Premiere @Vårscenefest 2020 (digital ///festival)│Tromsø, Norway
Joikemusikal by Elle Sofe Sara
Dancer/actress
/ Outdoor testfilming
///2020│Kautokeino, Norway
Smelt by Sofie Westvik
Dancer
/ Premiere @Vårscenefest ///2020│Tromsø, Norway
///(Cov. cancellation)
/ Residency in 2020 @Dansearena ///nord│Hammerfest, Norway
Eksogen
Artistic director, choreographer and dancer
/ Performance @Dissidanse Dance ///Festival 2019│Ajaccio, Corsica
/ Performance @Platform Nord ///2019│Kristiansand, Norway
/ Premiere in 2019 @Kulturhuset i ///Tromsø│Tromsø, Norway
/ Work in progress @Vårscenefest ///2019│Tromsø, Norway
/ Work in progress @FNND anniversary ///2019│Tromsø, Norway
/ Residency in 2019 @Dansearena ///nord│Hammerfest, Norway
UREDD Talentprogram
Selected artist
/ RadArts talent program
///2018/2019│Tromsø, Norway
Grants
Norwegian Arts Council
//5 grants│2018, 2019, 2020
Sparebankstiftelsen SNN
//2 grants│2019, 2020
Arctic Arts Festival
//1 grant│2020
FFUK
//4 grants│2019, 2020
Fritt Ord
//1 grant│2020
Tromsø Municipally
//2 grants│2019, 2020
Tvibitstigen
//4 grants│2018, 2019, 2020
FNND
//2 grants│2019, 2020
Trafo
//1 grant│2020
References
Linda Birkedal
Dansearena nord
0047 971 62 723
Jenny Svensson
Uredd Talentprogram
0047 913 12 533