Choreographers TILT Grow 2026

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Thi Mai Nguyen

Thi Mai Nguyen is a French-Vietnamese dancer, director, and actress. She studied at the Paris Conservatory (CNSM) and then at P.A.R.T.S. for a year before joining choreographer Wim Vandekeybus’s company, ULTIMA VEZ, from 2002 to 2012. She danced in Blush, Puur, Spiegel, Radical Wrong, and Oedipe. In 2012, she joined director James Thiérrée for Tabac Rouge and La Grenouille avait raison. Thi Mai assisted James Thiérrée with the choreography for his project, Frôlons, at the Opéra Garnier in May 2018, and later on his creation, Room.

On October 1, 2018, ETNA, Thi Mai Nguyen’s first solo performance, received the Critics’ Prize for Best Belgian Dance Show. PRÉMISSE, her second solo piece, premiered in 2021, and STAND BY, her third creation, premiered in March 2022. Her new creation ÉMEUTE, in collaboration with her sound designer and DJ Marion Faure, will take place the 20 of october 2026 at Théâtre de la vie in Brussels.
She works with choreographer Vania Vanneau on her creation “Héliosfera,” with choreographer Habib Ben Tanfous on “Orchestre vide,” with Benjamin Kahn for a role resumption in the show “Bless the sound that saved a witch like me,” with Leslie Mannès in “FORCES,” with Damien Jalet on his show “PLANET” and for Vania Vanneau’s “Nebula.”

Thi Mai plays the role of Serpentik in the feature film “Reflet dans un diamant mort” by Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet, which was an official selection at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival. She has appeared in the films, Blush, Hereafter, by Wim Vandekeybus, and Mister Nobody by Jaco van Dormael. She studied the Meisner technique with Larry Silverberg and Scott Williams.

Halla Ólafsdóttir

Halla Ólafsdóttir is a dancer and choreographer with an MA in choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts (formerly DOCH). Working collectively and from a feminist perspective, she often collaborates as part of a choreographic duo to challenge the idea of the solitary (male) genius, looking for ways to expand the notion of choreography. Her work frequently draws on recognizable material from art and popular culture, exploring how meaning shifts when placed in a new context. Halla uses conventions and clichés only to bend, blur, and break them apart explores how politics and gender are projected onto body movements.

Together with Amanda Apetrea she has toured and created the pieces Sälkvinnorna (2022), DEAD (2017) and Beauty and the Beast (2011), winner of the Prix Jardin d’Europe Awards in 2013. Halla and Eliisa Erävalo have created the works Lunatic (2025), Granddaughters (2022), Bitch (2021) and BITCHCRAFT (2017). Together with Erna Ómarsdóttir Halla created Julia & Romeo (2024), The Juliet Duet (2022) and Romeo <3 Juliet (2018) which was nominated for “DER FAUST Awards” in 2019. Halla premiered the piece Sylph (2023) together with Cullberg at Dansens Hus.

Halla has choreographed various international dance companies such as Cullberg (SE), Iceland Dance Company (IS), Böler Samvirkelag (NO), Gärtnerplatztheater company (DE) and Ballet Basel (CH). As a dancer she has worked with choreographers and collectives including Dorte Olesen, Samlingen, Inpex, Nadja Hjorton, mychoreography and The Knife. Halla experiments with various art forms and expressions and has acted in films by Ester Martin Bergsmark, Sidney Leoni and Joachim Koester.

Jens Jeffry Trinidad

Jens Jeffry Trinidad is a Filipino-Norwegian performing and creative dance artist with a background from X-Ray/UKH in Oslo, where he began his hip-hop journey in the late 1990s and was a member of the established crew Cre8. He has been employed by the Norwegian Actors’ and Dancers’ Alliance since 2018 and received the Rolf Gammleng Award in 2024. He was nominated for a Hedda Award for “Best Stage Performance in Dance” and received the Gulljerven Award (Scenekunstbruket) for “Artistic Achievement of the Year” in 2025. In his own projects and works, Jens approaches choreography from a performer’s perspective, placing the act of performance at the core of both the creative process and the stage presentation. Rooted in club and street dance styles, he works on projects spanning contemporary dance and performance art.

Yaniv Cohen

Yaniv Cohen is a dancer, choreographer, and professor of contemporary dance at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He has over twenty years of experience as a performer, working with Carte Blanche, Iceland Dance Company, the Norwegian National Ballet, and numerous freelance choreographers. Since 2009, he has developed a choreographic practice combining physical intensity, text, and real-time in-ear instruction systems. His work explores ADHD and neurodivergence as artistic themes and creative methods, treating attention as material and examining how bodies navigate pressure, regulation, and social expectations. Cohen’s performances have been presented in Norway, Israel, Switzerland, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, among others. He continues to develop a body of work centered on hypersensitivity, presence, and embodied freedom.

Line Tørmoen

Line Tørmoen has worked as a professional dancer for over 30 years. She trained at the Norwegian National College of Ballet and spent seven years dancing with Carte Blanche, where she collaborated with choreographers such as Ina C. Johannessen, Mats Ek, Jo Strømgren, Rui Horta, Sølvi Edvardsen, and Kjersti Alveberg. In 2000, she began working with the company Zero Visibility Corp, led by Ina C. Johannessen. This close and significant collaboration spanned for more than two decades and resulted in 22 full-length productions performed worldwide. She has also freelanced with choreographers including Jo Strømgren, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Kubilai Khan Investigation, and François Verret (France). Additionally, Line has long-standing ties to several educational institutions—including the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), Kristiania University College, and OsloMet—where she has both taught and choreographed.

Dario Wilmington

Dario Wilmington is a dancer, choreographer, and composer. After completing his studies at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden, he was engaged as a soloist at Stadttheater Pforzheim and Staatstheater Kassel before transitioning into freelance work.

The starting point of his choreographic career was the award-winning duet “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness”, created together with Selene Martello. The work was presented at international competitions including the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition, the Hannover International Choreography Competition, and MASDANZA. This collaboration led to further commissions and creations for Stadttheater Pforzheim, Nationaltheater Mannheim, and Avant Garde Dance Company 2 in London.

At the core of his choreographic practice lies the exploration of apathy as a state between physical intensity and mental dissociation. His methodology combines conceptual research with his own improvisational framework, Method of Instinct Archive – The Body Thinks First. He approaches the body as an autonomous, intelligent system that does not reproduce emotion but generates it through muscle memory, refined technique, and instinctive intelligence. Through somatic activation and rhythmic impulses, he creates conditions in which the nervous system acts before conscious thought intervenes—precise, intuitive, and immediate. Music is an integral component of his work: as a composer, he develops distinct sonic environments that interweave movement, atmosphere, and concept into a unified artistic language.