choreography, performances, installations
Beyond Darkness is a Denmark-based company created by choreographers Nadja Mattioli and Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen. Together, we craft sensorial worlds through immersive performances and ecocentric installations: spaces where movement, sound, and imagination invite new encounters between the human and the more-than-human.
Born from our fascination with darkness, we explore what emerges when we create from the unseen, the unspoken, the unknown. Forests, fungi, soil, and overlooked ecologies often become our collaborators; as do our emotional and subconscious landscapes.
Artistic Cosmos
We create through cross-aesthetic collaborations, bringing together dancers, sound artists, visual artists, scientists, and researchers in open and curious exchange. Posthuman, queer-feminist, and ecological thinking also inform our processes and the sensorial worlds we explore. Through our performances and installations, we aim to spark wonder, shift perspectives, and offer glimpses of futures where humans, other species, and materials live in symbiotic relations.
A practice in motion
Care is woven into the fabric of our practice. For artistic processes, collaborators, and the environments we engage with. We approach creation with deep attentiveness to the physical, emotional, and spatial conditions that shape our work, cultivating environments where slowness, listening, and shared authorship can thrive. It is a practice of nurturing, not just the body in movement, but the spaces between us and the worlds we inhabit.
Our team
Nadja Mattioli
Artist Director, Choreographer, PR
Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen
Artist Director, Producer, Choreographer
Astrid Gravholt
Administrator
Board of Directors
Susanne Dannig
Chairperson
Marie Haugsted Mors
Vice chair
My Lindblad
Treasurer
Naja Lee Jensen
Board member
Priscilla S. Lind Rasmussen
Board member
Associated artistic collaborators
Cecilie Kjær, Eliza Bozek, Lærke Barfod, Nanna Starck, Anna Stamp, Baum & Leahy, Jonas Schnor, Ruth Rebekka Hansen, Jacob Kirkegaard
Associated partners
Dansehallerne, Aaben Dans, Metropolis, GRASP Festival, Kulturpilot Amager, Furesø Municipality, Copenhagen Municipality, Copenhagen University, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Sydhavn Teater
Recipients of
Activity Grant for 2025 — Danish Arts Foundation / Committee for Performing Arts Activity Grant for 2026 — Danish Arts Foundation / Committee for Performing Arts Working Grant for Performing Arts in 2026 — Danish Arts Foundation Activity Grant for 2027 — Danish Arts Foundation / Committee for Performing Arts