Anne Lise Rønne is a Bergen-based dance artist working between movement, voice and performance. She holds a BA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and has worked for several years as a performer with Carte Blanche. She has recently been awarded a Government Grant for Artists from Arts Council Norway and now works as a freelance artist.

She collaborates in a range of projects as a dancer, singer and actor, while also developing her own artistic work. Her practice explores how physical expression and emotion are experienced and processed through the body.

Her projects HVILE and VILL explore rest and human wildness as complementary forces, and are currently in development towards both performance and workshop formats.

Performative work with Carte Blanche

HVILE

Artistic Practice in development

HVILE is an artistically guided practice I have developed over the past few years, and which I also engage with as part of my daily deepening. The practice explores rest as a creative state and as a space for regeneration — a place where body, breath, and sound are allowed to interact as sources of presence and expression.

HVILE has been shared with audiences as a living practice at Søgne Gamle Prestegård (2024), Bergen Dansesenter (2025), and Ravnedans Retreat (2025), and was presented at Havbris in Vollen in 2026. The work continues to be invited back to, among others, Bergen and Kristiansand in the summer of 2026.

The format is intimate and flexible. Participants are invited to lie comfortably, breathe actively, and gradually express themselves freely through movement and voice within the space. The intention is to create a safe place to arrive, to rest, to be held, and to learn how to hold oneself, collectively in both smaller and larger groups. HVILE explores the possibility of creating a contemporary ritual as a nourishing, liberating, and creative practice.

I am currently developing this work further into a performative experience, where elements of voice, dance, and sound merge into a unified expression, a sensorial performance concert in which the audience can witness, participate, or simply be within the experience as part of the work.

Ravnedans Retreat 2025

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VILL is a solo performance in development that explores the inner nature of the human being, both its stillness and its wild force. The work arises from my own artistic and personal journey, and unfolds as an embodied narrative of longing, liberation, and transformation. Through dance, breath, and voice, I explore how we may return to a more instinctive and authentic expression.

VILL is being developed as a flexible performative format, held within a minimal visual and auditory landscape. The intention is to convey human vulnerability and strength in a form that feels immediate and true, a meeting between body, voice, and presence.

Further development
In 2026, I will continue to deepen the work by exploring the meeting point between VILL and my practice HVILE. This includes both individual artistic research and collaborative exploration with others, through workshop formats and, over time, within a performative framework. The work is gradually opening into a wider artistic space where inner experience, collective process, and embodied expression can meet.