About

Ida Hørlyck Thomsen (b. 1996) is a Danish freelancer of dance, performance, and creator of own works and collaborations.
She's a Gemini, with dominant Taurus-placements, currently based between her two domiciles Aarhus in Denmark and Hamburg in Germany.

In 2016 she graduated from the International Dance Program, under the artistic direction of Lotem Regev. Led by Rami Beér and Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, in Kibbutz Ga’aton, Israel.
Ever since, she has worked with different artists and choreographers such as Eyal Dadon, Eglé Budvytyté, Nora Elberfeld & Jonas Woltemate, Yolanda Morales, and multiple times with Chilean José Vidal & Companía, amongst others.

Ida has presented her own choreographic works in Germany, Slovenia, Israel and Denmark, on festivals such as Internationales Solo Tanz Theater Festival, Stuttgart, Quonga Festival Aarhus, Young Choreographers Showcase, Kibbutz Ga'aton, and Fronta Festival in Murska Sobota, Slovenia.
In 2017 she won the 1st price award for 'best performance and choreography' for her solo "PROMQUEEN", at the 9th edition of Opus 1, in Celje, Slovenia.

Ida has taught guided improvisation-classes since 2017, for different age-groups and levels. In 2017-2019 she has been teaching choreography and composition for the students at Balletakademiet Aarhus, and has been a guest-teacher at Det Jydske Musikkonservatorium, Filuren Aarhus, Testrup Højskole and Ry Højskole, among other platforms in Denmark.
In the season 2018-2019, she was the director of the dance department at the talent academy

My work tastes as the most sour and artificial colored candy you can possibly find in the candy bowl. It's about discovering the caveman’s painting – the classical structure – but wrapped around neon colored, cheap stickers. As seeing and naively navigating through the smoke and strobe light in the club. Finding the answers or the questions by the empty, lonely and dark night. As feeling that you are truly alive via the romantic and heavy base to you heart. It's a constant question if I’m a maker of “high art” or “low art”? – something that you only can be in doubt of, if you grew up, and created the majority of your identity during the 00’s and 2010’s pop-culture.