Mette Ingvartsen

www.metteingvartsen.net

Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer. Her work is characterised by hybridity and engages in extending choreographic practices by combining dance and movement with other domains such as visual arts, technology, language and theory. An important strand of her work was developed between 2009 and 2012 with “The Artificial Nature Series”, in which she focused on reconfiguring relations between human and non-human agency through choreography. By contrast her latest series, “The Red Pieces” (2014–2017) inscribes itself into a history of human performance with a focus on nudity, sexuality and how the body historically has been a site for political struggles. She established her company in 2003 and her work has since then been shown throughout Europe, as well as in the U.S, Canada and Australia. She has been Artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater in Brussels and Volksbühne in Berlin, as well as associated to the apap-network.

Ingvartsen holds a PhD in choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts and graduated prior to that from the performing arts school P.A.R.T.S. - Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels. Besides performing, writing and lecturing, her practice includes teaching and sharing her research through workshops with students at universities and art schools. She has collaborated and performed with Xavier Le Roy, Bojana Cvejić, Jan Ritsema and Boris Charmatz, as well as invested in collective research projects such as the artist platform EVERYBODYS (2005–2010), the educational project “Six Months, One Location” (2008) and the performative conference “The Permeable Stage” (2016 – ongoing).

As of May 2019.