kNOwBOX dance Short Series 2020
Official Selection Filmmaker Spotlight
I'm Fine by Nana Anine
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
“I’m Fine” is a short film about human interaction, peeling off the superficial
language.
Nana Anine is a Danish dancer and performer. In 2015 she moved to Haarlem in The Netherlands, where she danced in the youth company of Dance in Art as a mentee. Afterwards she started her studies at The Contemporary Dance School of Hamburg to widen her practise in the contemporary dance field. After graduating in 2018, she got a contract with the Hamburgian Thalia Theater dancing in the ensemble, choreography under Eyal Dadon, regie under Antú Romero Nunes. Alongside she co-founded the international dance collective of Hamburg Kollektiva. Kollektiva. have shown their works at various inland stages and at the nunArt Guinardo in Barcelona. They also provideweekly dance classes for professional dancers.In 2019 Nana received a scholarship to continue her studies at the dance platform in Torino, Nuova Officina Della Danza. She recently came back to Hamburg after a 3 months long residency at The LungA School in Iceland where she researched her newest work, Tomorrow I Was Raining. A research on “mental illness versus creativity”. Furthermore she taught the students at the art academie in movement and dance techniques. Her latest work “Planet no 2” , a research on Femininity, was screened at the Our Stories Online Dance Festival in June ‘20 created by Addo Platform. Nana Anine is inspired by working in cross-disciplinary collaboration with other artists which shows in her first solo-work JUICE and later in projects in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark and Iceland.
Connect
IG: @nanaanine