Founded in 2004 dadadans is the framework for Helle ach’s choreographic practice and vision — a dada-inspired universe reflecting the quirky, poetic, and ironic dimensions that live within all of us.
I’m moved by movement – wether participating or observing. For me movement is transition in between positions, it’s vitality, what happens when you breathe, when you are on the go to and from somewhere – in the air, on the street or in the thoughts hidden in the cavities of your brain. Movement is going toward someone, going away from a situation or simply enjoying the wind running over your face…. Movement moves idea’s, body and mind.
You can find dadadans on the traditional stage, in art museums, on the streets in direct contact with everyday life, on SoMe…
The company’s work is engaged with and sensitive to today’s society changing structures and our human social interaction.
dadadans’ wants to make the audience laugh and cry – by mirroring the banal realities of life as well as its poetic beauty.
dadadans is resident company at Bora Bora – Dance & Visual Theatre, Aarhus.
HELLE BACH dancer, choreographer and artistic leader of dadadans.
Helle was educated at the Ballet Academy, Gothenburg and Menagerie de Verre, Paris 1986 – 90.
After graduation, she worked as a freelance dancer in Paris.
Since 1999 she is based and workes as a choreographer and performer in Denmark.
She became a certified physiotherapist in June 2025, adding physiological and biomechanical knowledge to her understanding of dance.
Now under the heading Why Do We Dance? She combines her choreography and movement practices with physiotherapy exploring both artistic and therapeutic perspectives.
The following foundations have over time supported performance projects by dadadans and Helle Bach:
- The Danish Arts Foundation – Committee for Performing Arts/
- Augustinus Fonden
- Wilhelm Hansen Fonden
- Tuborg Fondet
- Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond af 1968
- City of Copenhagen – Københavns Scenekunstudvalg
- Oticon-Fonden
- Danish Actors Union – Dansk Skuespillerforbunds blankbåndsmidler
- Danish Actors Union – Dansk Skuespillerforbunds Koreograflegat
- City of Aarhus – Århus Kommunes Fritids- og Kulturforvaltning
- Beckett Fonden
- A.P.Møller Fonden
