Beyond Darkness is a Denmark-based choreographic company created by Nadja Mattioli and Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen. Together, we craft sensorial worlds through immersive performances and ecocentric installations: spaces where movement, sound, and imagination invite new encounters between the human and the more-than-human.

Born from our fascination with darkness, we explore what emerges when we create from the unseen, the unspoken, the unknown. Forests, fungi, soil, and overlooked ecologies often become our collaborators; as do our emotional and subconscious landscapes.

We create through cross-aesthetic collaborations, bringing together choreographers, sound artists, visual artists, scientists, and researchers in open and curious exchange. Posthuman, queer-feminist, and ecological thinking also inform our processes and the sensorial worlds we explore.

Through our performances and installations, we aim to spark wonder, shift perspectives, and offer glimpses of futures where humans, other species, and materials live in symbiotic relations.

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