Bjørk-Mynte Poulsen
About/Bio
Bjørk-Mynte Paulse is a Danish/South African performer, dancer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist working across contemporary dance, theatre, and performance art. Known for emotionally charged and uncompromising work, Paulse creates performances that merge raw physicality, poetic imagery, and political urgency into experiences that are both intimate and confrontational.
Trained at the Royal Danish Ballet School in Odense before earning a BA in Contemporary Dance from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, she combines a strong classical foundation with an experimental and deeply expressive movement language. Her artistic practice explores themes of identity, transformation, gender, vulnerability, power structures, and the politicised body, often through highly physical and visually immersive work. Drawing inspiration from instinctive movement, emotional landscapes, and non-binary and visceral aesthetics, Paulse challenges conventional ideas of gender, queerness, and embodiment.
Central to her practice is a commitment to trans activist and politically engaged art. Through performance, she investigates trans embodiment, visibility, systemic violence, intimacy, and collective resistance, positioning the body as both a poetic and political site negotiating vulnerability, autonomy, and agency.
From 2021 to 2023, Paulse was part of Holstebro Dance Company, where she performed in several acclaimed productions. She received a Reumert nomination for Dancer of the Year for her portrayal of Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl by Tim Rushton, as well as for her performance as Olympia in Sandmanden by Jonas Corell and Christian Lollike. Her interpretation of Lili Elbe gained international attention for its emotional depth, technical precision, and striking stage presence.
Paulse is also co-founder of the interdisciplinary artistic duo Køteren og Terrieren alongside Jonathan Ibsen. Together they create works at the intersection of dance, theatre, and installation art, focusing on queer visibility, identity politics, and speculative futures. Their first work, Epiclogue, has been presented internationally across Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Iceland, and Croatia.
Currently working as a freelancer across Scandinavia and Europe, Bjørk-Mynte Paulse continues to establish herself as a distinctive and radical voice within contemporary performance art.