M.A. DANCE - DANSPEDAGOG & DANSVETARE
I have a Master of Arts degree in Dance from Université Paris 8, with feminist- and critical dance pedagogy and argentine tango as my areas of specialisation. Right now I continue my education at Stockholm University College of Music Education (SMI) and Stockholm University of the Arts (DOCH), where I study creative/contemporary dance, improvisation, choreography and dance didactics.
I also have a bachelor in political science with specialisation in political sociology and discrimination. My background in between the arts and social sciences has led me to develop a special interest in community arts, participatory learning processes and feminist practices in relation to dance.
I've been teaching different social dances with a norm-critical gender/queer-pedagogic approach since 2010 - within popular adult education, feminist- and LGBTQ organizations & communities and cultural venues in Sweden, Denmark, France and Spain. Since more recently I also teach various dance styles to children and young people, today at the Stockholm Community School of Music and Arts (Kulturskolan).
I discovered the argentine tango in 2011 and had my tango training in Paris, Buenos Aires and Sweden with teachers such as Sandrine Navarro, Gisela Passi & Rodrigo Rufino, Brigitta Winkler, La Academia Tango Milonguero and DNI Tango Stockholm. Between 2014-2019 I was DJ'ing and organizing milongas, practicas and classes at Tango Queer Paris, founded by Miranda Lindelöw in 2011. Currently I'm co-organizing Milonga Queerida at Bagarmossens Folkets Hus.
I've been continously practicing different dance techniques, as well as other artistic forms since I was a child. I've also been exploring various somatic disciplines such as yoga, Pilates, Feldenkrais, Body-Mind Centering etc. I bring this investigation in body awareness and movement analysis into my dancing and teaching.
Professionnal experience / Dance teacher
- Kulturskolan Stockholm (ongoing since 2020. stand in dance teaching for children and young people 6-22 years old)
- Kvinnohöjdens feministiska kurs- och gästgård, Borlänge/Sweden (ongoing since 2010. facilitator of summer courses in tango)
- ABF Stockholm/Sweden (ongoing since 2019. tango teaching)
- Studieförbundet Bilda, Stockholm/Sweden (ongoing since 2019. tango teaching)
- Entréskolan, estetisk grundskola, Stockholm/Sweden (2020. teaching in contemporary/creative dance, teaching /elaboration of annual entrance audition)
- Tangoföreningarna Tango Norte, Tango BeGeer, Stockholm, Norrköping/Sweden (2019-2020. tango teaching)
- Wiks folkhögskola, Uppsala/Sweden (2019. tango teaching and DJing)
- Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm/Sweden (2019. tango training with actors)
- Sweden Sports Academy, Sweden (2019. teaching in various dance styles for children 2-12 years old)
- Queer Tango Paris/France (2014, 2017. tango teaching and DJing, organization of milongas and practicas and collaboration with international guest teachers)
- Kvindekurser (Kvindehøjskolen), Visby/Denmark (2016. teaching in various social dances)
- RFSL, Stockholm/Sweden (2010-2012. queer salsa teaching)
- Fårösunds folkhögskola, Gotland/Sweden (2010. teaching in salsa and lindyhop)
- Kulturhuset Blå stället, Gothenburg/Sweden (2010. salsa teaching)
- Various social dance workshops in Sweden, France, Spain
Education
2019-ongoing
Contemporary Dance Didactics (30*), Choreography (7.5), Dance for Children and Youth - Kulturskoleklivet (7.5), DOCH - Dans och Cirkushögskolan, Stockholm/Sweden
Creative Dance 1 (10), SMI - Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut, Stockholm/Sweden
2016-2018
Master of Arts - Dance, Université Paris 8/France (120)
Thesis: Feminist Pedagogies in Dance (original language french)
Areas of study: movement analysis & somatic studies, analysis
of corporeal practices, dance theory and history,
choreographic aesthetics, arts- and practicebased research
Intensive Introduction course to Laban Movement Analysis - Effort/Shape system, Conservatoire national supérieur de
musique et de danse de Paris
2009-2016
Bachelor of Political Science with Specialisation Political Sociology
and Discrimination, Université Paris 8/France (180)
Dramatic Arts, University of Södertörn, Stockholm/Sweden (60)
Fine Arts Education, Wiks folkhögskola, Uppsala/Sweden (1 year)
2007-2009
Aesthetics Programme with Specialisation Fine Arts and Design, Södra Latins gymnasium, Stockholm/Sweden
*university credits