maj holm ingemann thomsen
(dancer, creative development)

majGrowing up on stage, Maj’s been heard and seen in various musicals, bands, choirs, plays, short movies, radio programs, cabarets, weddings and theatre restaurants, and claims she sang before she could speak. Maj is currently studying Drama at the Faculty of VCA and Music at the University of Melbourne, where she has been presented with great challenges such as the (black) Afro-American transvestite Betty in “Division St” and Cæsar in Shakespeare’s tragedy.  Outside of VCA, challenges have been blind woman Charlie in the feature film “Imitating Charlie”, several plays and short movies, “Longing Belonging Land” at the Melbourne International Festival 2008 and collaboration with German visual artist Boris Eldagsen.

Although “Strictly Ballroom” was her first fave movie, and later led her to train as an actor in Oz, she had always been TERRIFIED of dancing! Meeting with Travel Art in 2007 slowly but steadily changed this, and together they have elaborated on the VCA method named “Pulse”. After almost 3 years working together, they have arrived at what can only be termed as the “art of travelling”. Through weekly workshops a very particular vocabulary has been developed, where dancing meets singing, acting meets dancing, dancing meets the world and the boundaries of what is art are questioned and tried.