Dancerness

During the Nordic Forum for Dance Research meeting around the concept of Dancerness, you will take part in presentations, discussions and workshops in Swedish and English within dance research.

Dancerness is a concept developed by SKH's professor of choreography, Rebecca Hilton. 

Rebecca Hilton explains:

“The performed lecture Dancerness was first presented in the context of Framed Movements, a 2014 exhibition held at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts in Melbourne. Below is text from the original catalogue:

Framed Movements investigates the potential that lies at the shifting boundaries between dance and art. Exploring the many ways a movement-based approach to the occupation of time and space is practiced not only in dance but increasingly in the realm of contemporary art, the exhibition brings together a series of Australian and international artists who use a choreographic approach in their work.

It struck me, both then and now, that in the choreographic turn the contemporary art world was and is still having, the thing that gives form, materiality, nuance, credibility, agency to this 'movement-based occupation of time and space' was dancerness – the particular qualities and ways of knowing that come from being a dancer. 

Dancerness was a public response to the perceived lack of visibility and acknowledgement I believe dancers were/are experiencing in the art world's ongoing choreographic turn. So, we re-present

Dancerness here, with just a little updating, because dancerness is, to my mind, still wildly underrated as a significant site of knowledge.”
 

Schedule 

Bios

Rebecca Hilton, Professor in Choreography for the research area Site Event Encounter at SKH
An Australian born dance person, Rebecca Hilton is an artist, researcher and pedagogue. She creates and explores encounters between embodied knowledges, oral traditions, choreographic systems and social contexts. Situating participatory art practices and processes in spaces that are private, public and/or in flux, her research environments include universities, hospitals, shopping malls, community gardens and family homes. She contributes artistic research to DöBra, a Karolinska Institute transdisciplinary research program exploring experiences of, and relationships to ageing, grieving, death, and dying in Sweden. Other current activities involve co editing an international anthology on writing and choreography for Routledge, and generating Together Forever, an interdisciplinary artistic research, documentation and ethics project, in collaboration with visual artist Dr Ellen Roed.

Dianne Reid, PhD in screendance
Reid is an independent screendance and performance artist based in Australia. She creates and performs work in live and screen contexts. Her creative practice and research interests include dance improvisation, disability arts and integrated practice, screendance and expanding perspectives on and engagements with the physical body. The screendance piece Nothing but bones in the way about her collaboration with Melinda, won the Best Dance Film award at the ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival in Toronto, Canada. Dianne has received several artist residencies and film commissions from Dance Hub SA, Tasdance, Australian Dance Theatre, and The Mill.

Petra Hultenius, subject manager Dance, business developer at Kulturskolan, Stockholm
Educated at University College of Dance (DOCH) and with a master's in choreography from Master Dance Education (current M.A.D.E.) at the Stockholm University of the Arts. Works as. Hultenius has long experience of working as a dance teacher in Kulturskolan/The Culture School and as a educator in preschool. Hultenius is the Swedish treasurer in NOFOD.

Ami Skånberg, PhD, artistic researcher, SKH 
Head of M.A.D.E. - Master Dance Education at the Stockholm University of the Arts, and also works at University of Gothenburg. She has co-chaired Nordic Summer University Study Circle of Artistic Research. Skånberg´s research interests are practice-led and concern Japanese dance, screendance, gender codified movement practice, non-hierarchical treatment of global dance techniques, and auto-ethnographic accounts from within the practice. Skånberg also delves into walking as an artistic practice. She is a board member of NOFOD.

Lena Hammergren, Professor emerita at Stockholm University and at SKH
Hammergren’s research has focused on dance analysis and Swedish and international dance history. Hammergren has, among other things, published Ballerinas and bare foot dancers (2002), Dance and historiographic reflections (2009) and several chapters on Swedish dance history in international anthologies. She was one of the initiators of NOFOD, and has been a board member of the International Society for Dance History Scholars and is now a member of the board of Stiftelsen Dansmuseifonden.

Ingrid Redbark-Wallander, PhD in Dance Studies from Stockholm University
Redbark-Wallander has been active as a dancer for many years in both independent groups and dance institutions. She has worked at the National Agency for Education with revisions of dance courses and the Royal Swedish Ballet School's professional dance education. A member of the editorial committee for the Nordic Journal of Dance 2012-2017. Between 2013-2021, she was the Head of Master Dance Education (current M.A.D.E.) at Stockholm University of the Arts. Board member of NOFOD 2002-2006, and chair 2004-2006.

Maria Edin, Dance pedagogue at Sigtuna kulturskola
Edin was educated at University College of Dance (DOCH). In recent years, Edin has mostly worked in primary schools with full class teaching for younger students, six to nine years old. The teaching has been designed so that it works in harmony with the aims and values of the primary school. In 2023, Edin received her master's degree from Master Dance Education (current M.A.D.E.) at Stockholm University of the Arts.

Andreas Berchtold, PhD student, Dancer and dance pedagogue at SKH
Berchtold has moved in environments of folkdance and has experiences of, and close relation to different contexts of social dancing. The interest in, and a critical view on folkdance, has during the last years led to practice-based research and expositions within the field of artistic research. He has a degree from Master Dance Education (current M.A.D.E.) at the Stockholm University of the Arts in 2019. Berchtold  is currently combining doctoral studies in choreography with working as assistant professor in folkdance at the subject area of Dance pedagogy and Dance at Stockholm University of the Arts.

Katarina Lundmark, Assistant professor in Jazz Dance at SKH
Lundmark holds a BA in Dance Pedagogy and a degree from Master Dance Education (current M.A.D.E.) at the Stockholm University of the Arts. Lundmark works mainly at the Subject Area Dance Pedagogy, but also at Subject Area Circus and Subject Area Acting, with dance, dance didactics, supervising, collaborative projects and research. The focus in my lectureship is an ongoing development of didactics in jazz dance through practical explorations. Her research is currently divided between a dance didactical project concerning the silent dimensions of jazz dance, and a cluster project shared by SKH, dance pedagogy and acting, and KTH concerning dance, communication and AI-technique.

Camilla Reppen, Assistant Lecturer in Dance Pedagogy/project leader at SKH
Reppen is co-artistic leader of the small cultural center Gula Villan in Järna/Södertälje, and choreographer in the dance group Arkeolog. She holds a BA in Dance Pedagogy and MA in Educational Management. As artist/researcher/teacher she shows a particular interest in choreography as an approach to learning, decentralized perspectives on leadership practice in artistic processes and performing arts as nature interpretation.

Lovisa Lundgren, BA student of Dance Pedagogy at SKH 
Lundgren is part of the working group rewriting the dance pedagogy program as a student representative. She is also chair of the student union board and is very interested in change making perspectives. Lundgren has a background in Energy and environmental engineering from the Royal Institute of technology, with a masters in Sustainable urban planning and design. (One of her fields of interest is how one can create opportunities for cultural infrastructure through urban and regional planning.) Alongside her artistic studies she works as a sustainability educator.

Registration

Welcome to register by sending an email to: ami.skanberg@uniarts.se