Hanne Trap Friis
Hanne Trap Friis is a multidisciplinary artist who lives between Denmark and Greenland. She is the artistic director of Teater freezeProductions. The company produces new Danish drama, visually beautiful and temperamental theater. The Theater works with current issues and wants us to pause, think, contemplate, sense and converse.
Annelie Nederberg
Annelie is a Stockholm-based composer, performer and sound artist. She has a background as a theatre sound designer, but now focuses on creating music for performing arts such as dance, theatre and performances/installations. She also composes acousmatic music and performs live electronic music. During her doctoral studies in electronic music at University of Surrey she developed an instrument based on acoustic feedback, which is one of her main expressive tools. As a researcher and lecturer at KMH in Stockholm her main interests are corporeality, contemporary animism, movement and feedback.
Abigael Winsvold
Abigael is one of the co-founders of Acting for Climate, and has her whole artistic life had an urge in finding ways to express issues related to climate change and sustainability through arts. In her artistic work she focuses on interdisciplinary work by combining dance, theatre and circus, with focus on combining scientific research in the art-processes. She is specialized in the circus disciplines rope (CODARTS Rotterdam) and partner acrobatics (AMoC Copenhagen).
Emma Langmoen
Acting for Climate board member Emma is a circus artist by education, and an activist by heart. These days, almost all her days are on tour and creating with Acting for Climate, but she also works as a freelancer, and is the Artistic Director of Oslo Nysirkus. Emma is interested in physical and verbal poetry, site-specific work, and the power of art to create new narratives. As one of the two project leaders of Ripples, she is super excited to go sail touring again.
Max Behrendt
Max has worked as a pair acrobat for over ten years but has lately changed focus to a more theatrical approach with elements of magic and clownery. He grew up in Sweden but did his higher education in France where he has since stayed and worked. Merging his concern for the climate crisis with the performance arts has long been a dream but it wasn’t until the collaboration with Acting for Climate that this became reality. He’s looking forward to sailing, performing, meeting people and sending Ripples of climate action all around the Baltic Sea.
Ole Dampe
Ole is a Danish circus artist who went through youth circus as a child, explored musical and theatrical performance as a teenager and traveled Europe as a young adult, in search of learning circus technique, finding his acrobatic partner Marie along the way. Ole is thrilled to join Ripples and to sail all over the Baltic Sea this summer!
Marie Binda
Marie is a French artist who grew up in acrobatic gymnastics and found her home in circus as a young adult with Ole. Using acrobatics such as russian cradle, hand to hand, and banquine as her medium, she feels in her element, when she flies through the air.
Lucie Piot
Lucie Piot is a freelance contemporary dancer. She studied contemporary dance in Copenhagen where she graduated with a BFA in Dance and Choreography at the Danish National School of Performing Arts, in 2020. Her artistic interests lies within social and environmental questions with emphasis on musicality and playfulness. After being part of the Greenhouse Network, she is thrilled to continue working with Acting for Climate for this production.
Heidi Miikki
Heidi works in the core crew of Acting for Climate with several projects. Heidi is a Helsinki-based dancer and circus artist who has a dancer’s education from Outokumpu, Finland and studied circus both at AFUK in Copenhagen and BA degree at Turku Arts Academy. She dances and jumps on the tightrope, on the ground, in a harness, and climbs the pole and trees. She is an environmentalist to whom empathy, caring and meeting are the core of being.