This choreographic process explores what it when inhabiting multiple landscapes. In January means to belong to different places—physically, 2026, NACC will host the first of a series of emotionally, and culturally. Rooted in the residencies in which Chollada and Fia join their experience of navigating distinct landscapes, processes in person. The public will be welcomed the work investigates how our sense of self shifts for an Artist Talk and viewing of the work in across environments and how language and process during this time. This cultural artist movement reflect these changes. Developed exchange project will have its final outcome in through a series of international residencies, 2027.
This residency is formed in collaboration by the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre in Yellowknife and the Davvi Centre in Norway.
About the Artists
Fia Grogono is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University and brings a dynamic fusion of contemporary techniques, martial arts, contact improvisation, and Afro-Brazilian rhythms to her work. Her choreography explores the interconnections between body, nature, and culture, guided by a strong creative vision and a deep-rooted sense of place.
A certified Rambert Grades teacher, Fia teaches contemporary and somatic movement to youth and adults, drawing from both technical and intuitive practices. Her choreography for youth dancers has received multiple awards at regional and national competitions. She has also been awarded funding from both the NWT Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts to support her creative work.
Fia is passionate about using dance as a vehicle for social change. Her debut short dance film Home Waters won Audience Choice at Toronto’s International Dance Film Festival (2020). She produced and performed in North of 60×60 (2024), collaborated with Toronto’s Echo Chamber Ensemble on I Can Finally Feel the Sun (2023), and directed, choreographed, and performed in At Tension (2025), a short dance film raising awareness about wildfires and the climate crisis in the Northwest Territories.
With roots in the North and a background in both dance and alternative medicine, Fia’s work is a reflection of her commitment to ecological, social, and personal transformation through movement and dance culture.
Chollada Phinitduang (b. 1990) is a Thai-Norwegian dance and performance artist based in Tromsø. Her interdisciplinary practice spans choreography, poetry, video, and sound—exploring identity, hybridity, and the emotional textures of human relationships. Born in Thailand and raised in Northern Norway, she weaves Eastern and Western influences into improvisation-driven, site-responsive works grounded in memory, place, and personal inheritance.
She trained at Høyskolen for Dansekunst (formerly Skolen for Samtidsdans) in Oslo from 2012 to 2014—a pioneering two-year program in dance art, choreographic thinking, and composition, where she began developing her somatic and interdisciplinary approach. Her work examines how social, emotional, and cultural power structures shape our sense of self, belonging, and resilience. Drawing from her hybrid identity, Chollada navigates a fluid “third space,” where the body becomes both archive and question. Her movement practice embraces slowness, symbolic gesture, and gender-neutral expression—an approach deeply shaped by her two-year tour with Marina Abramović’s The Cleaner.
Writing is central to her choreographic process. Her poems have been published through Alfabèto is For (Emerald Green and Cloud Illusions), and her eco-poetic letter To Mother Earth continues to guide her landscape-rooted explorations. For Chollada, terrain—whether Arctic, tropical, or industrial—is an active collaborator in shaping movement, rhythm, voice, and presence.
Her recent works include Wounded Rhymes (Berlin, 2024), a site-responsive dance performance in an industrial setting that explores the raw depths of human relationships, vulnerability, and resilience; and Wired Buffalo (Bangkok, 2024), which reflects on the tensions between tradition and technology through the symbolic lens of Southeast Asian labor. The latter was selected from artists across 33 countries and was one of only two performance works invited to the Intact Festival 2024—recognizing Chollada’s distinctive voice in global performance discourse.
She is currently supported by a three-year working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council (2025–2027). Her upcoming piece To Be a Body, Is to Be Tied to a Certain World premieres at Dansens Hus, Oslo, in May 2026. She is also part of the Dance Artist Exchange Residency in Yellowknife, Canada (2026).
