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Louis Schou-Hansen (it/they) is a dancer and choreographer whose work is situated at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Its practice encompasses various formats such as performances, making dances, performing, writing, and sometimes curating. Louis' work dives into speculative fiction as a tool to investigate, dissect, and denaturalize how bodies have been molded through violent Western fairytales, utilizing queer and trans-feminist epistemologies. Louis has studied dance at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Royal Danish Ballet School, as well as fine arts at The Dutch Art Institute.

In 2023, Louis was shortlisted for the Sandefjord Kunstforenings Art Prize with Harald Beharie, and was in 2020 nominated for the Norwegian Critics Association Prize for the piece Shine Utopians.

Louis’s work have recently been presented at Copenhagen Contemporary, The Munch Museum Oslo, Dansehallerne Copenhagen, Black Box Theater Oslo, Suprainfinit Gallery Bucharest, Untitled Tbilisi, and My Wild Flag in Stockholm.
In 2016, it started collaborating with Norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal, working as a performer in several of her works. Louis has also collaborated with and performed in the works of Runa Borch Skolseg, Pedro Gomez Egana, Edhem Jesenkovic, Goro Tronsmo, Andrew Amorim, Janne Camilla Lyster, & Ingun Bjørnsgaard, to name some. Between 2020-2022 it co-founded and curated the discursive, platform Brakkesnakk together with Ines Belli.

Since 2019 it has been active as a guest teacher at various institutions such as CONDTIONS STUDIO PROGRAMME London, Palais De Tokyo Paris, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, The Place London, and BRUT Vienna.