Photography by Camilla Greenwell
Anouk Jouanne is a contemporary dancer, performer & photographer. Originally from Reykjavík, Iceland, she now works between London & across the Nordic region.
As a dancer she’s been a part of projects spanning traditional stage productions, site specific performances, music videos & film projects. Credits & collaborations include Sung Im Her, Gregor Petrikovic, Gabriella Engdahl, lisa luxx & Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Goat Girl, Jack Davison, Paris Paloma, Alice Ortona Coles & Synne Lundesgaard , Kandinsky Theatre, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Hjorted Art & Music Festival, Nina Maria Allmoslechner & more.
Anouk is a founding member of the improvisation performance group Improv Now Collective. Made up of nine dancers based around Europe they practice instant composition dance theatre making. The group has worked with groups & organisations such as Dartingon Hall, Company of Elders at Sadlers Wells, Child Studio, Age UK, Mind The Gap & Youth Theatre Japan.
She’s passionate about engaging with & growing her perspective on 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 (such as associate movement director for Sung Im Her for Breach Theatre’s After The Act, Kandinsky Theatre & associate choreographer on ‘stories of us but all at once’ created for London Contemporary Dance School graduate show in 2024), music videos, short films (such as Saskia Steinbergs ‘Danced’ with Gaia Wise) & various photoshoots.
Her directorial film debut is titled № 193where she also acted as choreographer & movement director. Her second piece, a dance short titled Prelude: A recounting of two futures & a pastwas 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 & 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 work 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.