Working grant from The Danish Art Foundation

Once again I received a working grant from The Danish Art Foundation, which gives me the opportunity to continue my work and artistic development. I am very thankful for the support and recognition and I am excited to share the outcome of this precious time

NEW WORK IN PROGRESS

We just finished the shooting of SOLUS during our residency at the Lab Stage in Dansehallerne. The work is now in post production and will premiere in 2017. Thanks to Dansehallerne, WHYRED, Wood Wood and Filmgear for supporting the production

ATTENDING TANZMESSE 2016

I will be attending Tanzmesse 2016 in Dusseldorf. Looking forward to see a bunch of performances and share ideas, experience and knowledge with fellow dance professionals

RESIDENCY AT LABORATORIESCENEN

We have been selected for a residency at Laboratoriescenen at Dansehallerne for the development of a new work, which will be a collaboration between musician and video artist Tim Panduro, dancer Anna Stamp Møller and myself. The title for the project is SOLUS and will include elements of dance, video and sound.

REVIEW OF WWW IN THE STRAITS TIMES

“Danish choreographer Simone Wierod presented WWW, a rhythmically sensitive and slapstick dance performed to a carefully edited soundtrack of weather reports. The two dancers bounced energies off each other with impeccable timing…” ” …I was suddenly very aware of the size of the world I live in.”

Read the full review by Lee Mun Wai here: http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/dance-platforms-growing-pains?&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=addtoany

WWW SELECTED FOR RELEASE 5.0 IN SINGAPORE

It is with great excitement that I can announce that we have been selected to go to Singapore with WWW in March 2016 to take part in the dance festival RELEASE 5.0 at Maya Dance Theatre. We will perform WWW three nights in a row at The Substation from the 10th-12th of March 2016. A big thanks goes to the Royal Danish Embassy in Singapore whose generous support make us able to go there.

VISITING KIBBUTZ CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY

I had the pleasure of visiting kibbutz Gaa’ton where the Kibbutz Dance Company is located. Inspired to meet the whole dance community there and not least to follow the rehearsals of the talented French choreographer Martin Harriague's new work PITCH

GAGA WINTER INTENSIVE

I just finished a week of intense Gaga and repertoire training at Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv with Ohad Naharin and the beatiful dancers from Batsheva Dance Company. Feeling inspired, overwhelmed, refreshed – and sore!

SUPPORT FROM THE DANISH ART FOUNDATION

Grateful and honored to receive support from the Danish Art Foundation to go learn, share, be inspired and develop my artistic expression in Israel over the next 30 days. Lots of exciting things and meetings scheduled!

PREMIERE ON "IF" IN SARECHA, INDIA

Yesterday was the premiere of my new site specific solo performance IF, which was created during the Sowing Seeds Artist Village Residency. I would like to thank Kaman Art Foundation and all the involved artists, locals and volunteers for the support.

SOWING SEEDS ARTIST VILLAGE RESIDENCY

I am very excited to take part in this artist residency in Rajasthan in India in only a few days. It will be two weeks of inspiration, learning, sharing and creating together with a group of very interesting artists from Holland, Singapore, Brazil, Philliphines, Egypt, Bulgaria and India.

PERFORMING WWW AT AABEN DANS

We will perform WWW at AABEN DANS in Roskilde, Denmark, where we will take part in Åben Laboratorium on the 24th of November 2015 alongside three other acts. Tickets are for free and still available, so make your reservations now. Looking forward to see you there!

WWW IN AMSTERDAM

WWW is still touring and now it’s time to go to Amsterdam. We will take part in the Highs&Lows performance night alongside other national and international artist, and it will all take place at OT301 in Amsterdam this Wednesday the 18th of November 2015.