Anouk Jouanne is a contemporary dancer, performer & photographer. Originally from Reykjavík, Iceland, she now works between London & the Nordic region.
As a dancer she’s been a part of projects spanning traditional stage productions, site specific performances, music videos & film projects. Some of her highlights include being a gold painted alien dog on Botany Bay beach, dedicating a love song to Henry the Hoover and belting it out at the top of her lungs, wearing an inflatable dress in a swimming pool, being picked up by an excavator in rehearsal, the numerous times she’s represented the creepy child in a hallway (one time including a long brown wig), twirling along the balcony above the orchestra pit in Eldborg at Harpa Concert House & getting so tangled up in the live playing of Rodgman’s musical score that her blood would raze throughout the night.
She’s a member of the improvisation performance group Improv Now Collective. Made up of nine dancers based around Europe they perform live devised dance theatre.
She’s passionate about engaging with the role of movement within art on a widespread scale. She’s especially interested in the role of movement direction, with experience across theatre productions, music videos & short films.
Her directorial film debut is titled № 193 where she also acted as choreographer & movement director. Her second piece, a dance short titled Prelude: A recounting of two futures & a past was released with support of Flux Projects, as a part of their short film series Holding On. Both films are made with DOP Scarlett Gardner, accompanied with music by composer Joanna Ward.
As a photographer she works solely with analogue methods. Starting with the fascination of the tangibility of analogue film & an interest in capturing dance as it is researched & rehearsed. She handprints her own work in open tray (colour & BW) & continues to explore different methods in the darkroom & how to continue building on the photographic process in the tray.
She’s had her photographs exhibited at Vertical Terrain, curated by Synne Lundesgaard (Ugly Duck, London, 2022), Gutter Sprung residency, curated by Hannah Mason (The Horse Hospital, London, 2023), at London Art Fair as a part of Photographs of Movement curated by Flux Projects in January 2024, & höjden festival at höjden studio & verkstäder (SE).
In 2025, she was a part of the VÆKST Creative programme of Copenhagen Photo Festival 2025.
Since spring 2026 she’s sat on the board of Höjden studios in Stockholm.
Contact
anouk.jouanne@gmail.com · @anoukjouanne · vimeo
Homepage photography by Eydís Rose Vilmundardóttir