Upcoming | On going: Performances | Residencies
Upcoming:
2025
Wind Wind Situation, by Maya Mi Samuelsen, Karlsøy festival, DansFestivalen Barents (NO)
Fortellinger fra Kvinner, By Astrid Mæland, Tid for Dans, Ælvespeilet, Prosgrunn (NO)
2024
Wired Buffalo, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (TH)
To be a body, is to be tied to a certain, ArtLab and Radvent, Rådhuset, Tromsø (NO)
What Is Real Inuitional, When There Sediments To Reality? in collaboration with Rina Eide Løvaasen and Thomas Voll,
Babel -visning rom for kunst, Art gallery, Trondheim (NO)
On going since 2023:
Maur/ Ants, by Rom for Dans (NO) and Polyglot Theater (AU),
The Cultural Schoolbag, Miniøya festival, Public space in Oslo (NO)
Residencies:
2024
Chang Theater , Bangkok (TH)
Photo by: Tale Hendes
Photo by: PAC- Performing Arts Collective
Chollada Phinitduang (b.1990) is a Thai-Norwegian dance artist, performance artist, and choreographer whose work centers on the exploration of identity, cultural hybridity, and the emotional landscapes of human relationships. Born in Thailand and raised in Norway, Chollada weaves Eastern and Western cultural influences into her conceptually driven work, examining how social, emotional, and cultural power structures shape our sense of self, belonging, and resilience.
Her practice is rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration and spans dance, performance art, poetry, textile art, and video. Integrating mediums such as film, photography, live music, and architecture, she expands the boundaries of movement and the body, continuously evolving her work to deepen its physical and sensory impact, drawing audiences into an experience that is both tactile and emotionally resonant.
In her choreography, Chollada explores the concept of the hybrid body through movements that fuse diverse cultural styles, fluid forms that transcend gender norms, and symbolic gestures that blend the natural and the artificial. This approach opens up rich possibilities for expressing complexity, adaptability, and the evolving nature of identity through physical movement. Her work embodies an exploration of humanity, questioning how we live, adapt, and experience life collectively.
A central element of Chollada’s work is the interplay between physical endurance and slowness, influenced by her two-year tour with Marina Abramovic’s The Cleaner exhibitions. This experience deeply shaped her approach to energy dynamics, audience engagement, and durational presence. Inspired by Abramovic, she incorporates slowness, repetition, and resilience into her performances, creating powerful, immersive experiences that delve into time, emotional presence, and human connection. Balancing explosiveness with subtlety, she embraces gender neutrality in movement, transcending conventional gender norms to create universally resonant experiences. Drawing from her personal experience of a hybrid identity, Chollada navigates a fluid “third space” that merges cultural expressions from both regions, inviting audiences to explore movement in transformative ways.
Currently, Chollada is focused on her own productions, working with artists across various disciplines, including musicians Andreas Lanesjord (NO) and Lars Andreas Nilssen (NO), film and visual artist Aleksander Johan Andreassen (NO), architect Pål Luis Sanchez (NO/PE), and dancer Thomas Rohe (DE). She is also part of Rom for Dans, performing in Maur (ANTS), a production for Norway’s Cultural Schoolbag program, as well as touring public spaces and children’s festivals.
Chollada’s work has been presented nationally and internationally, both through collaborations and solo projects, at venues and festivals including Malmö Art Museum (SE), Redan Galleri (SE), Roskilde Festival (DK), Flutgraben e.V. (Berlin), Gamle Munch Museum (NO), Ælvaspeilet (NO), Franje Festival (NO), Copenhagen Art Run (DK), Barnas Ultima, Sentralen (NO), Louisiana Museum (DK), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (NO), Bundeskunsthalle (GE), Palazzo Strozzi (IT), Aral Sea (UZ), Corner Teater (NO), and Kunsthallen i Grenland (NO).
As a dancer and performer, she has collaborated with a diverse range of artists, including Rina Eide Løvassen (NO), Lisa Halle Baggesen (DK), Yaniv Cohen (NO/ISRL), Caroline Doullaird (FR), Marianne Heier (NO), Caroline Skjørshammer (NO), Lundahl/Seith (SE), Astrid Mæland (NO), Eliot Moleba (SA), and Teresia Fant (FIN)
Photo by: Andreas Lanesjord
Wired Buffalo explores the intersection of traditional labor and modern technology, with the water buffalo as a central symbol. Through dance, live modular synth music and scenography, the performance reflects on how technology has influenced traditional work practices. The piece is hybrid between dance and performance arts, creates a multi-sensory experience that mirrors the tension between physical, earthbound labor and modern technological systems.
Premiere: Intact Festival, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand 20th December 2024
Choreographer and Performer: Chollada Phinitduang (TH/NO)
Musician: Andreas Lanesjord (NO)
Costume design: Siri Koller (CH/TH)
Producer, Productionassistance, and outside eye: Mirte Bogaert (BE/NO)
This site-specific dance performance debuting in Berlin September 2024. The performance explores the bittersweet, transient nature of human relationships and the "ghosts"—memories, emotions, and invisible scars—that these fleeting connections leave behind. Set against a backdrop of global chaos and unrest, it reflects on how people are inextricably linked, even when the significance of these bonds is only understood with the passing of time. The dancers move through various spaces within Flutgraben, with each new setting adding depth and dimension to the performance, creating a dynamic, multi-layered experience that intertwines with the urban landscape of Berlin.
Premiere:
Import/ Export performance event, Flutgraben, Berlin, 20th-21th September 2024
Concept and Choreography: Chollada Phinitduang
Creation and Performer: Chollada Phinitduang & Thomas Rohe
Costumes: UY Studio
Supported by: Europe Culture Mobility Funding, Europe Culture Funding, Performing Arts Hub Norway- Dance and theater centrum and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Curated by:
Import/ Export performance
Photo by: Alfonso Moral
In this project, I aim to explore the body's connection to the world and how the fast pace and technological overload of modern society impact human life and behavior. In collaboration with sound designer Lars Andreas Nilssen and visual/video artist Aleksander Johan Andreassen, we investigate "slowness" as a method to create choreographic material that emphasizes presence. Together, we question the direction we are heading and whether we can find ways to slow down before losing contact with ourselves and nature amidst ever-accelerating technological forces.
Early-stage Process Sharing: Rådstua, Tromsø, Norway, 22nd February 2024
Research Program Host: ArtLab and Davvi - Scene
Final Process Sharing: Radvent, Tromsø, 5th December 2024
Supported by: Forum for Nordnorske Dansekunstnere, Oslo Municipality (Culture Department - Diversity Grant), Kulturdirektoratet - Dance Pre-project
is an interdisciplinary project by dance artist Chollada Phinitduang and architect Pål Luis Sanchez, exploring the complex relationship between the human body and architectural space. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s Le Modulor, this work investigates how geometric structures—angles, inclines, heights—shape and sometimes restrict the body's natural flow, revealing the tension between freedom and confinement, organic movement and structural rigidity. As the body navigates this custom-built installation, audiences witness a powerful interaction that challenges perceptions of space, embodiment, and autonomy.
This project has been developed through a series of residencies and open-process sharing sessions with the support of NORA dans at Ælvespeilet in Porsgrunn and TextLab Prøverom at Gamle Munch in Oslo in 2023. These residencies offered a dedicated environment for experimentation, enabling the artists to refine the work's themes through direct engagement with space and feedback from open rehearsals. Audiences in these settings contributed to the evolving narrative of the piece, helping shape its final form by sharing responses that enriched the work’s depth and interactivity. Together, these residencies have allowed Shaping This – Body and Object to become a reflective experience that highlights the subtle power dynamics between human movement and architectural structures, inviting viewers to reconsider the invisible ways space influences identity, behavior, and freedom of movement.
Choreographer, artistic- and project leader:Chollada Phinitduang
Arkitektur and sceneographer: Pål Luiz Sanchez
Creation and performer: Chollada Phinitduang and Pål Luiz Sanchez
is a dance performance exploring the form and function of the ego in modern society, focusing on the contrast between Eastern and Western perspectives on the self. The performance delves into questions about how we relate to our ego and how this relationship is shaped by cultural and social factors. As an artist, I question the role of the individual in a globalized world where individualism and collectivism coexist. With my Thai background, I aim to embody the experience of being pulled between these philosophical directions and examine how platforms like social media influence self-perception and the pursuit of self-realization.
The performance draws inspiration from Buddhist ideas, where the goal is to transcend the ego, in contrast to Western emphasis on individualism and self-realization. Through choreographic exploration that includes bodily and textual deformations, "Me, Myself and I" invites the audience into a kaleidoscopic universe of the self.
This work was showcased as a work-in-progress during the Choreography Lab in 2021, in collaboration with dance artist Elise Austad and musician/composer Kjetil Jerve. The performance was supported by Oslo Municipality Project Funding and Dansens Hus Oslo.
Antiseptisk Væske is a performance that explores and challenges taboos surrounding menstruation. Menstruation is a natural part of being a woman, yet it is often stigmatized and trivialized with nicknames like "Aunt Flo" and "Strawberry Week." This performance aims to normalize and bring visibility to menstruation as a natural bodily function, inviting the audience to reflect on their own perceptions.
The performance uses a looppedal and turntable to create a soundscape based on audience responses, while the choreography draws inspiration from the word "cycle." Documentary material from the performers’ own menstrual periods—including images, film, and logs of emotional and physical experiences—are woven into the choreography as a narrative tool. Antiseptic fluid is used symbolically to confront and raise awareness of the prejudices often associated with menstruation.
Antiseptisk Væske was showcased at Dansehallerne during Loona Night in Copenhagen in 2017, building on themes from the earlier work Flood Fuzz, which also addresses feminist liberation and the status of menstruation in contemporary society
2022 Kunsthallen i Grenland, Porsgrunn, Norway
2023 Redan galleri, Malmø, Sweden
2024 Babel- visning rom for kunst, Trondheim, Norway
My Moving Castle- Rico On The Run
2020- On going