Jonathan Ibsen (b. 1995) is a Danish dance artist and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. He’s educated with a BA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2019. Working both as a performer and choreographer, he moves fluidly between his own artistic projects and collaborations with others. He has worked with artists such as Ingri Fiksdal, Claire de Wangen, Caroline Wahlström Nesse, Malin Bülow, and Marie-Brolin Tani, among others.

His practice is rooted in queer choreographic approaches that explore how movement can resist, disrupt, and reimagine dominant norms. Grounded in a desire to explore freedom—not as a fixed state, but as a fragile, bodily negotiation shaped by systems of power, identity, and desire—his work asks how choreography can become a site for reclaiming agency and visibility. By creating physical states of exhaustion, contradiction, and transformation, he carves out speculative spaces where queer logics and embodiments can exist without compromise.

Ibsen is particularly drawn to the friction between strength and weakness, dominance and surrender, the possible and the impossible. He sees artistic potential in moments of ambivalence and uncertainty, believing they hold the capacity to provoke change. Through choreography, he aims to manifest alternative truths and open pathways for new understandings of identity, sexuality, and gender.

His choreographic practice also engages with broader questions of form, sensation, and collectivity. Approaching choreography as a speculative practice, he explores the interplay between the personal and the universal, the structured and the spontaneous. His practice uses elements of physical endurance, exhaustion, repetition, and unpredictability as generative tools. He is intrigued by the attempt - the flawed, awkward or even impossible notion of trying. It’s here he looks for moments of transformation and refiguration.

Ibsen is also one part of the artist duo Køteren og Terrieren. A duo consisting of Bjørk-Mynte Paulse and Jonathan Ibsen. Together they are creating works within the field of dance, theater and installation.

More about their artistic practice can be found here - www.køterenogterrieren.com