Mona Namér is a dancer and choreographer from Gothenburg, based in Stockholm. She trained at Broadway Dance Center in New York with a focus on hip hop and modern dance, and has since traveled and worked between Paris, New York, London and Johannesburg. Namér is active in stage and film productions, various art projects and as an educator, and in her practice she explores how movement can act as an alternative language for communication and reflect our contemporary world. The focus of Mona's artistic work in recent years has been on themes such as surrealism, ritual and identity.
In 2023, Mona premiered the performance Birth Liquid at MDT, which is an extension of the dance film A Bath In My Mother's Womb that she directed in 2021. The film premiered at the Gothenburg Film Festival, was shown on SVT Play and has won several awards including Best Experimental Short Film at the Next Generation Indie Film Awards in Los Angeles.
Her credits include choreographic collaborations with Little Dragon, Tate Modern, Fotografiska, Milano Design Week, IKEA, AFROPUNK Festival Brooklyn, Way Out West and Live Art Festival at Kampnagel in Hamburg.
Previous participations in: Sweet & Sticky by Lisa Janbell (2023), SEARCH by Lisa Janbell (2022), Skiftet by Johanna Fröjd at Dansens Hus and Dansstationen Malmö (2021), Untitled (Entitled) by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn at Bonniers Konsthall (2021), The Dress/La Robe by Carmel Loanga at La Villette in Paris and KVS in Brussels (2019-2020), 5 Degrees by Twisted Feet Dance Company at Stora Teatern (2015), VOLVO Trucks Launch by Twisted Feet in Gothenburg and Seoul, South Korea (2014), Festival de Danza Querétaro by Twisted Feet in Mexico (2013), Wallstreet by Twisted Feet at Göteborgsoperan (2012)
