Johanna Hongell-Darsee
Stories from Far Away Islands, Deep Forests and Magical Gardens.
A princess who marries a wolf, an old hag who steals the sun and the moon, the first singer of stories, a magic rosemary plant, sea-ladies, dragons, air daughters.
These are some of the characters you will meet in our performances. We tell these folktales, myths and ballads with words, movement, masks, song and music.
We have stories for the very young to the very old, and we would love to come and visit you and tell you some of these tales.
Johanna Hongell-Darsee gives performances and workshops of Storytelling Theater with Live Music, together with her musician husband Scott Darsee Johanna Hongell-Darsee
Since they moved here to New Mexico from Scandinavia in 2001, they have had the opportunity to give over 100 performances in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and the Midwest, including Santa Fe Festival of the Book, Taos Storytelling Festival, Albuquerque Folk Festival, Santa Fe Summer Band Stand, the Renaissance Fairs of Farmington and Las Cruces, New Mexico University and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, as well as many libraries and schools.
Johanna has been performing theater, dance, mime and storytelling for about 25 years. She had her education from the Lecoq School in Paris, France and also studied East Indian dance and mime for many years with teachers in Chennai, India. She has performed at festivals throughout Europe. She also led her own dance and theater company for ten years in Sweden before moving here.
Scott is a poet, painter, song writer and composer. Parallel to his artistic work he also worked from 1981 as a Therapist for many dance companies including Dance Theater of Harlem, N.Y., Royal Danish Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, English National Ballet, and taught at Denmark s State School for Theater and Dance. He returned to USA in 2000 and has since performed at many venues with his compositions and songs.
Please visit our website: http://johanna.itgo.com
Or contact us at: (505) 294-4567 or jhdarsee@yahoo.com