DIALOGS 2022 | Ulrika Kinn Svensson

DIALOGS 2022
International scan of the educational offer in the movement arts sector

Activity: Instagram LIVE

Public: Open to everybody

Synopsis:

DIALOGS 2022 is a cycle of four conversations around the international panorama of the educational offer in the movement arts sector. The sessions will take place via Instagram LIVE on November 15, 17, 22 and 24.

The first session will be a conversation between Roberto Olivan, director of L’OBRADOR Espacio de Creación, and Ulrika Kinn Svensson, artistic director of Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg. You can consult the rest of the sessions in this same calendar.

Biography:

Ulrika Kinn Svensson (Falkenberg, Sweden 1980) moved to Holland to study dance at Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg (NL) in 1999. During her study she started to work with the underground performance collective T.R.A.S.H, a company that she would return to work with on several occasion during her career.

In 2010 Ulrika created the duet ‘Somethimes its There’ together with Koen dePreter. The duet was selcted by Eurowawes for an european tour. Ulrika also worked with artists/choreographers such as Choi Ka Fai (Singapore), Javier Barcala, Christoph Koppens,(BE) Kristel van Issum(NL) and Jelena Kostic. Ulrika is currently Artistic Leader at Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg.

In 2012 she danced in the movie Ánna Karenina’directed by Joe Wright with choreography from Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. The move starred Keira Knightley and Jude Law. Ulrika also assisted Damian Jalet on several of his solo and duet projects. During her Dansweb scholarship at Impulstanz in Vienna in 2023 she met Cris Haring and Stephanie Cummings/Liquid Loft. She later joined the company and performed in ‘Kind of Heroes’, ‘My Private Bodyshop’ and in the film ‘Partime Heroes’.

In 2022 she moved to Gent (BE) to work with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damian Jalet/Les Ballets C de la B. In the coming 10 years she performed in their award winning productions; ‘foi’, ‘Myth’and ‘Babel’. These productions toured to all major festival and stages around the world.

Organised by: ROPA / Roberto Olivan Performing Arts and L’OBRADOR Creation Space

Supported by: Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura and Diputació de Tarragona