These are the artists participating in our new international residency programme, Atlas, born out of a partnership between Dance Limerick (IE), Bora Bora (DK), and O Espaço do Tempo (PT): Kristian Hverring & Tone Lorenzen, Aoibhinn O’Dea & Jessie Thompson, and Bernardo Chatillon & Silvana Ivaldi.
Atlas is a meeting ground for six artists working across dance, performance, dramaturgy, design, music & sound, visual arts, and hybrid practices. Their shared work starts with a question: How can thinking through dance, in conversation with other disciplines, chart fresh ground for meeting the challenges of our time?
Through a series of residency encounters in the studios and local contexts of Bora Bora, Dance Limerick, and O Espaço do Tempo, the Atlas artists ⎯ Kristian Hverring & Tone Lorenzen, Aoibhinn O’Dea & Jessie Thompson, and Bernardo Chatillon & Silvana Ivaldi, will explore this question through shared research, dialogue, collaboration, and experimentation. The residency programme will be facilitated internationally by artists Laura Murphy, Pedro Barreiro, and Mirko Guido. Rather than focusing on production, the project centres on process: collective inquiry, experimentation, and the possibility of transformation through shared practice — and a willingness to let the process inform one’s own way of working. The daily rhythm of each residency will be shaped by the interests and proposals of the participating artists, and facilitated by an artist or dramaturg from the hosting organisation.
Read more about the Atlas artists below:
KRISTIAN HVERRING (DK)
All I want is to be vibrated by sound. My materials are music and sound. In my work, I ask questions about how sound is perceived, not only by the auditory system but by the body. How we, and other beings, listen and how this informs the experience of being a being in the world. How listening is influenced by our experience of time and is intrinsically linked to space, physical or virtual. How listening is time travel, closely associated with memory, and towards imagining possible futures. My practice is interdisciplinary, often collaborative, and spans performances, music releases, and sound installations under my own name or the alias Krishve, as well as composing music and sound worlds in the performing arts. Notable long-running artistic liaisons are Convoi Exceptionnel and Hotel Pro Forma. I am the artistic co-director of the interdisciplinary performing arts company Alter Ego, founded together with dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Sonne.
TONE LORENZEN (DK)
Tone Lorenzen is a performance artist and artistic director working across immersive, site-specific, and participatory performance formats. Her practice explores intimacy, erotics, collective ritual, and the politics of the body, creating sensory environments where audiences and performers encounter vulnerability, proximity, and shared physical experience. Moving between care and confrontation, pleasure and discomfort, her works often unfold in unconventional settings such as saunas, public environments, and installation-based performance contexts.
She is co-founder and artistic director of CuntsCollective and collaborates internationally across interdisciplinary artistic fields. Lorenzen has curated and performed projects across Europe, the United States, Brazil, and China. She also works as Community Engagement Director for HIMHERANDIT, facilitating large-scale participatory projects rooted in trust, embodiment, and collective storytelling. Her performance Weeping Men, created in collaboration with the Finnish shouting choir Huutajat, tours internationally and forms part of her ongoing artistic research into bathing cultures, ritual, and embodied audience encounters.
AOIBHINN O'DEA (IE)
Aoibhinn O’Dea is a dance artist working across the dance, music and visual arts field. She trained in Contemporary Dance (Tanzfabrik, Berlin), with an MA in Dance and Performance (Irish World Academy) and BA in FA Sculpture (NCAD). Her work is often site-specific and public, combining movement, costume, and sound to explore themes of human connection and societal limitation. She teaches inclusive dance workshops across Ireland and collaborates with an array of multidisciplinary artists, underpinning an interest in making dance and performance more accessible to a wider audience. Her work has been supported by The Arts Council, Light Moves, Bell Table Theatre, VISUAL, Carlow Arts Festival, Dance Limerick, Temple Bar Gallery, IMMA, Dance Ireland, Project Arts Centre, Glastonbury Festival, Electric Picnic and Altogether Now, among other venues and festivals.
JESSIE THOMPSON (IE)
Jessie Thompson is a Dublin-based dance artist and choreographer working across hip-hop, contemporary dance, theatre, film, and live performance. Her work explores physicality, collaboration, and community, with works including CRAWLER, The Floor Is Yours, and AUTOMATA: A Myth Reawakened, Dance Music for the Apocalypse, and more. A recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland Dance Artist in Residence Award (2025-2026) & (2026–27) and a resident artist at Project Arts Centre, Jessie creates and performs work nationally and internationally. She is also the founder of Battle of Zen, an Irish street dance and experimental battle platform.
BERNARDO CHATILLON (PT)
Bernardo Chatillon investigates and creates ways of making theatre, dance, and performance through the concept of magical thinking applied to these artistic dimensions, where speculation, listening, and the experience of the sensorial become the central materials of his artistic practice. He imagines new positions for living from within his experience of the contemporary world, drawing inspiration from obstructed and camouflaged spaces of perception — often illegible and ignored — seeking to activate a poetic, relational, and attentive presence, without the pressure to resolve or transform anything immediately. Playing at world-making is what drives his creation, programming, and curatorial work within artistic spaces, always considering the audience as part of an ongoing conversation, the experience itself, and the unfolding artistic event.
SILVANA IVALDI (PT)
Silvana Ivaldi is a transdisciplinary artist who predominantly works as a performer, costume designer, creator, dramaturgist, and graphic designer. She holds a degree in Fashion Design and a Master's in Image Design. She uses the heterogeneity of her background to think, explore, and create poetic and hybrid forms through visual and performative devices. She lived and worked in São Paulo, Brazil, for 4 years. She participated in PACAP 6, curated by Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, and taught at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, supervising the final degree project in 2024. She has a regular professional relationship with Diana Niepce. She highlights her work with: Pedro Barreiro, Maurício Paroni de Castro, Ana Carolina Teixeira Soares, André Uerba, André de Campos, Jo Castro, Gonçalo Alegria, Bruno Pereira (Aires), Eduarda Neves, Cão Solteiro, and, more recently, Gaya de Medeiros. Currently, she continues to perform her latest creation, ICONA, and begins her partnership with Pó de Vir a Ser, in Évora, where she develops work with marble, and with Terceira Pessoa, where she will participate in the project Margem de Erro. She is the founder of the Sr. João structure and an associate artist of Cão Solteiro.