Keynote speakers
Karen Arnfred Vedel is Associate Professor, Section for Theatre and Performance Studies,
University of Copenhagen and PI of the research project Knowing in Motion. Dance, Body,
Archive (2023-2026). Her research interests include dance historiography, dance
infrastructures, and site specific performance. As member of the research project Dance in
Nordic Spaces 2006-2012, Karen edited Dance and the Formation of Norden.
Emergences and Struggles (2011) and co-edited with Petri Hoppu Nordic Dance Spaces.
Practicing and Imagining a Region (2015). Moreover, she has served on the board of
NOFOD and on the board of directors of Congress on Research in Dance (CORD).
Saul Garcia-Lopez, aka La Saula, is a performance artist, professor and coordinator of the MA in performance at the Norwegian Theatre Academy and former co-artistic director of La Pocha Nostra (2012-2023). La Saula focuses on Indigenous and Eurocentric performance-making pedagogies and Artistic Research addressing ethnicity, gender, and decoloniality. Saula currently leads the research Radical Elders: Transgenerational Performance Knowledge, supported by Hk-dir/PKU in Norway (2023-2026). Publications: La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for The Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society (Routledge, 2021) and A Meditative Rant on the Importance of Addressing Ethnicity While Teaching Eurocentric Performance Methods in Latinx Actor Training (Routledge, 2023).