Nadja Hjorton

Nadja Hjorton is a Swedish choregrapher and dancer based in Stockholm. She did the MA program in Choreography at DOCH from 2010-2012. Nadja is interested in thinking choreography through different contexts and formats and she is working with dance and choreography, seeking to challenge norms and notions of what choreography and dance is and can be. Her works deal with issues like power, body politics, sexuality, humor and desire and she is always busy with finding different ways and spaces for people to spend time together - the theatre room being one space full of potential for this activity.

Nadja had made a numerous of independent and collaborative works over the years. Her latest works, MILF, Cuteness overload (with Lisen Rosell and Anna Efraimsson) and Clan of the cave bear with (with Lisen Rosell and Amanda Apetrea), are moving around thematics like motherhood, cute aggression, object/subject, gaze and sexual desire. In her two pieces Radio dance and On air radio broadcasting became the format for the choreography and in Medea- it’s a classic she used the classical play as a starting point for her work. Nadja’s works have been presented at several venues and festivals around Europe.

Nadja is part of the feminist collective ÖFA-kollektivet that has been a recurring point in the culture scene for more than 10 years. Nadja also works collectively with choreographers such as Zoë Poluch, Stina Nyberg, Halla Ólafsdóttir and Amanda Apetrea and together they constitute a group, SAMLINGEN, that is working with dance and choreography in Sweden, with a shared interest of dance history and history writing. SAMLINGEN has worked together with the Cullberg Ballet at the Dance museum in Stockholm, as keynote speakers at the POSTDANCE conference at MDT, Kulturhuset/Stadsteatern and last year at the Works at Work festival in Copenhagen.