M.A. DANCE - DANSVETARE & DANSPEDAGOG
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 specialization.
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 specialization 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, democratic- and participatory learning / processes and feminist practices in relation to dance.
I've been teaching different couple dances with a norm-critical gender/queer-pedagogic approach since 2010. I've been working 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.
In the last years I’ve been 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 had my tango training in Paris, Buenos Aires and Sweden with teachers such as Sandrine Navarro, Gisela Passi & Rodrigo Rufino, Maria Filali, Brigitta Winkler, Ana-Maria Shapira and currently Sara Westin & Juan Pablo Canavire (DNI Tango Stockholm).
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
- 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)
- Wiks folkhögskola, Uppsala/Sweden (2019. tango teaching and DJing)
- Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm/Sweden (2019. tango training with actors)
- Tango Norte, Svensk-Argentinska Tangoföreningen i Stockholm (2019. tango teaching)
- Tango BeGeer, Norrköpings tangoförening (2020. tango teaching)
- 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 couple-dances)
- RFSL, Stockholm/Sweden (2010-2012. salsa teaching)
- Fårösunds folkhögskola, Gotland/Sweden (2010. teaching in salsa and lindyhop)
- Kulturhuset Blå stället, Gothenburg/Sweden (2010. salsa teaching)
- Various workshops in Sweden, France, Spain
- Entréskolan, estetisk grundskola, Stockholm/Sweden (2020. teaching in contemporary/creative dance, dance teaching in annual entrance audition)
- Sweden Sports Academy, Sweden (2019. teaching in various dance styles for children between 2-12 years)
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)
Master thesis: Exploring the Notion of Feminist Pedagogy 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 - specialization Political sociology and discrimination, Université Paris 8/France (180)
Dramatic Arts, University of Södertörn, Stockholm/Sweden (60)
Fine Arts Education, Wiks folkhögskola, Uppsala/Sweden
*university credits