Nønne Mai Svalholm (she/ her) is the Artistic Director/ Artist of the company SVALHOLM based in Aarhus, Denmark. Nønne Mai Svalholm is chosen by the Danish Arts Foundation for the program: The Young Artistic Elite.
She works multidisciplinary with choreography, dance, light design, sculpture and installation art. She creates work for black boxes, white cubes and site-specific in the public space.
Her work takes place in a landscape of pleasure, pain and the uncanny. Morphing through a constant of what has been, what is, and what will be - were bodies, objects, light and space becomes symbols of transformation, time, life and death.
In Nønne Mai Svalholm´s work since 2015, including the BIG BANG trilogy (2019-2024), she works with a dogma: to collaborate with citizens over the age of 60 years as performers together with young professional dancers. This dogma as led to a pool of over 70 elder citizens based in Aarhus, Region Midt who recurrently perform in her creations. One of the performers is Sisse Lunøe (73 years old) who has become Nønne Mai Svalholm´s muse and appears in all her late work. Together, they constitute a sort of extended family.
