BIO

SNORRE ELVIN (he/him/they/them) is a Copenhagen-based dancer, choreographer and curator born in Aarhus, Denmark in 1991. Elvin's artistic work revolves around transformation, tactility, queerness, collectivity, and ecology.


He is a part of Danseatelier which is a collective consisting of 9 dancers and choreographers sharing a dance studio in Nørrebro, Copenhagen. With Danseatelier he makes performances, organizes and curates performance evenings, residencies and workshops as well staying in a constant research of collective structures. Danseatelier has been house artist at Toaster CPH. With danseatelier he has curated performance evenings such as DANSEatelier Performance Feast #1-#6 and presented choreographic work collectively at venues, festivals and art fairs such as Dansehallerne, Det Frie Felts Festival, ICE HOT, Alt_Cph, Copenhagen Contemporary, Den Frie Udstilling, Charlottenborg Kunsthal and Toaster.


Along with Caroline Blomqvist he is curating the professionel training and workshops at Dansehallerne, Copenhagen.


He works in a close collaboration with Nanna Stigsdatter on making riverine dance performances. Together they have been working as house artists at Aaben Dans in Roskilde and been co-produced by Dansehallerne in Copenhagen. They have presented their work at Dansehallerne, Aaben Dans, Hua International, Pollution #3 and Danseatelier amongst other places. 


With Peter Scherrebeck and Kat Staub he is in an ongoing choreographic and performative research on to make temporary porous nests in which dance can exist. They have presented their work at Det Frie Felts Festival, Lothringer 13 Halle and Lause and had residencies through HAUT, RAS and KRA. 


He has presented his own choreographic work at Roskilde Festival, Tanzquartier Wien, Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, Det Frie Felts Festival, Den Frie Udstilling, Danseatelier, The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Nos en Vera, Ergi.xyz and Juxtapose Art Fair amongst other. 


As a dancer and performer he has been working for artist and choreographers such as Michele RizzoAlex Franz Zehetbauer, Marie Topp, Sara Gebran, Ula Sickle, Pedro Goméz-Egaña, Esben Weile Kjær, Jules Fisher, Daniela Georgieva, Tina Tarpgaard/Recoil Performance Group, Martin Forsberg/Fors Works, Nønne Svalholm/Svalhiolm Dans, Eva Mag, Eva Kotátková, Claudia Comte, Kiani Del Valle, Naïma Mazic, Marie Brolin-Tani and Mathias Kryger among others.


He received an MFA in Choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2023 under the direction of Rasmus Ölme in addition to graduating as a dancer from the same institution in 2015 lead by Jeremy Nelson. Before his professional training he danced with the Archauz Youth Company from 2009-2011 lead by Louise Crnkovic-Friis and Johan Ohlson.


Elvin attended ImPulsTanz in Vienna with a danceWEB scholarship in 2017 with mentor Doris Uhlich and with the ATLAS program in 2025 with mentor Christopher Mathews. In 2024 he finished his 200-hour Level I Yoga Alliance ISHTA Teacher Training at Bija Yoga in Berlin with Julie Blumenthal and at Ishta Yoga in New York. 


Further on he has also been a part of the international collective dance for plants. Since 2024 he has been singing in the chamber choir Richters Skala lead by Laus Richter

PICTURE BY ZINNA BRIGH MAC-EOCHAIDH