Chrysa Parkinson

Chrysa Parkinson is a dancer and performer based in Stockholm. Since 2011, Chrysa has been working as a Professor of Dance at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), where she directed the New Performative Practices Master education for twelve years. She is now Head of Subject for Dance at SKH.

She was raised in North American and Northern European dance communities where she has been working for forty years as a performer. Her artistic inscriptions include the proscenium stage, queer communities, and somatic practices – the combination of which manifest as a deep respect for both poetry and camp, a queasy relation to categories, and an ongoing pleasure in redefining virtuosity through experimentation. Her research focuses on how dance situates itself in practitioners’ lives and how performers, in turn, author, dismantle and reconstitute worlds.

Chrysa is currently leading the research project Authorship Ownership and Control: dancers’ roles and materials (AOC), funded by the Swedish Research Council.