Born amidst the death throes of John Major’s second premiership, Skjære (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, facilitator, and theorist living in southern Norway. Her work deals with the imaginative and embodied possibilities of performance as sites of speculative becoming, identifying, in the here and now, other worlds that are already available for us to slip right into.
Graduating from The Rambert School in 2016, Skjære began working for Company Chameleon alongside the rise of Corbynism and the backdrop of the Brexit referendum. Her politics were informed by the defeat of Corbyn in 2019, leaving her with an embodied critique of party structures, bureaucracy, and institutionalism that were supported by her time as a student representative and clashes with management and hierarchy in the various companies she worked for during those years.
In 2019 she was hired by Panta Rei Danseteater, and toured Norway with their production, En…Som. During this time she fell in love with the country, and after an invitation from Therese Slob, decided to move in 2020. Since moving, Skjære has lived across southern Norway, where she has continued to work with Panta Rei Danseteater, as well as for 71Bodies, Carl Aquillizan, and Live Skullerud, amongst others.
Her work is situated in her lived experiences as a trans person, the increased salience of the Palestinian Genocide, her readings of anarchist and marxist scholars, and the rise of western fascism.
Alongside this performance work Skjære facilitates queer and trans inclusive movement spaces, focused on creating expansive experiences of relationality and self-expression. These spaces bump up against her writing, which uses queer thought as a site to question the role of the institutions and structures that govern cultural production.
In 2025 Skjære was given her name by the forest Østmarka, and in 2026 received permanent residency in Norway. She lives on a regenerative farm just south east of Oslo, where questions of land and food sovereignty are increasingly informing her radical practice.
