NextDoor Project creates choreographic art based on a socio-poetic practice.
Through art-documentary, art-intervention and co-creation we bring untold stories forward and open socio-poetic spaces where most needed.

Since 2012 NextDoor Project has developed new formats for citizen involvement, relational art stretegies, co-creation with focus on equality and mutuality between citizens, artists and artwork.


Our artistic practice is founded in nomadic strategies travelling our artistic works and concepts to connect closely with the local, weaving threads of connectivity and artistic citizenship across divisions and perspectives.

We investigate the transformative potential of dance and the choreographic relation exploring how sensous exchange can awaken and heal the collective mind and open visions of alternative realities.

We produce in both local, national, nordic and global collaborations. Based in our socio-poetic practice we inhabit asylumcentres, nursing homes, townhalls, flooded basements, streets, schools, daycare institutions, parks, museums, galleries, libraries, community houses - as well as conventional stages and black boxes.

NextDoor Projects artistic profile is lead by choreographer, dancer and auteur Ingrid Tranum Velásquez.

Current works;
REMAINS
Research project creating connections between shop rooms in Scandinavia and Korle Lagoon in Accra, where the West have placed their wasteland for unwanted fast fashion, - far from our field of view, selfimage and consciousness. An apocalyptic coastal landscape. A redirected consequence of Western oversonsumption. Through exchange of sound, images and sensous components we awaken the connection between the two realities.

VI ER NORDEN - a decolonizing ritual with, by and for the nordic population. 
- VI ER NORDEN travels colonial and post-colonial terrains of the Nordics, facilitating through a performative situation the local debate about decolonization.
In a sensuous and co-creative space, we search for a decomposition of the inherited choreographies, forming the outline of a new landscape.

The bird experience
- The bird experience is a creative europe project, created around the black bird figure of SorgFugl. In 2024 5 sibling birds are send into 5 european destinations, meeting local communities and with poetic realism facilitating stories of grief.

Happy End
- the art-intervention Happy End is created in collaboration between professional dancers and nursing homes residents.
Happy End has travelled in Greenland, Island, Faroe Islands, Åland, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark and the nordic journey of the work is documented by swedish filmmaker Engeli Broberg in the socio-poetic film "Happy End", as well as by danish photographer Per Morten Abrahamsen.
In 2021 NextDoor Project started collaborating with Arctic University of Tromsø and Artful Dementia Research Lab, researching the artistic practice developed in Happy End and the mutual and equal relations unfolded in the work. 

Unfinished Tales
- a 4 year cross-atlantic project investigating the bodily and emotional heritage of nordic colonialism.
Unfinished Tales is created in collaboration between artists and youth from Kallaalit Nunaat (Greenland), Førøyar (Faroe Islands), Ísland (Iceland), Norge (Norway), Sverige/Sapmi (Sweden/Sapmi), Finland/Sapmi, Ghana, Ay Ay (St Croix) and Danmark (Denmark).

NextDoor Project is financed through project support from a.o.
Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordic Culture Fund, Danish Arts Council, Creative Europe, Norwegian Arts Council, international and municipal collaborators and private funds.

Postaddress:
Sceneloftet
Vesterfælledvej 7A
1750 København V

Contakt:
mail(at)nextdoorproject.dk
+45-23438503

Board members: Jessica Petersen, Mie Brandt, Niels Righolt, Anja Mølle Lindelof,
Accountant: John Gottenborg Bruun