HELENA LAMBERT
Working with dance as an art form is a way for me to examine and explore different realities in myself and around me. Through dance, I strive to catch issues, images and ideas that can change and open perspectives, both in myself, my students and my audience. Severe and pronounced sensations and feelings, ambiguities and uncertainties, absurdities and elusive comedy, all these sudden clarities and blurred spots that exist in our relationships with one another, to ourselves and to life's big questions - are given acceptance ... and a place for contemplation .. in dance!
I am 34 years old and work as a freelance choreographer, dancer, dance teacher, producer and instructor in Gyrotonic ® and Gyrokinesis ®.
My principal art education has taken place at the Ballet Academy (1995-1996) and the School of Performing Arts at the University of Surrey (1996-1999 BA) where I deepened my study of choreography, butoh, Greek folk dance, Indian kathak, release- technology, dance analysis and dance anthropology. I discovered during this time that I really was drawn to the various Indian classical dance styles, traditional Japanese artistry such as Noh and Kabuki, and in particular the cotemporary art form Butoh. The interest in these styles have influenced my style of dance and my choreographic work.
In autumn 1999 I moved to New York to study butoh, release-technique, flamenco and Mary Overlie' s 'The six viewpoints' and to do a field- work for the department of Theatre Studies, Stockholm University (MA 2001). In New York I also worked in the company, Zona (new butoh).
Back home in Sweden (2000), I indulged in a few years butoh training with SU-EN Butoh Company and various movemnet experiments and installations together with Kristina Borgkrans (classical Indian dance - Koochipoodi).
I have in recent years choreographed and danced in my own performances and collaborated with performing artists and musicians in various fields both nationally and internationally. I have also and created scenic venues for artists outside the 'traditional' black.box in the form of performance art nights and interactive art walks.
In the winter of 2005 I, together with the musician Mats Karlsson, moved out of the city to create a 'room' for the performing arts and music in the middle of the countryside. We call it Beenhouse. Here artists from different disciplines have the opportunity to meet in an exploratory way. And, the local people, from young to old, are always invited to meet the artists and form a relationship with the contemporary performing arts and music.
At the Beenhouse I also lead yoga classes, dance classes for children and from here I lead Mariposa's student company ELDSMYGARNA (children 7-9 years old).
Beenhouse is Mariposa's work and rehearsal space.
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My principal art education has taken place at the Ballet Academy (1995-1996) and the School of Performing Arts at the University of Surrey (1996-1999 BA) where I deepened my study of choreography, butoh, Greek folk dance, Indian kathak, release- technology, dance analysis and dance anthropology. I discovered during this time that I really was drawn to the various Indian classical dance styles, traditional Japanese artistry such as Noh and Kabuki, and in particular the cotemporary art form Butoh. The interest in these styles have influenced my style of dance and my choreographic work.
In autumn 1999 I moved to New York to study butoh, release-technique, flamenco and Mary Overlie' s 'The six viewpoints' and to do a field- work for the department of Theatre Studies, Stockholm University (MA 2001). In New York I also worked in the company, Zona (new butoh).
Back home in Sweden (2000), I indulged in a few years butoh training with SU-EN Butoh Company and various movemnet experiments and installations together with Kristina Borgkrans (classical Indian dance - Koochipoodi).
I have in recent years choreographed and danced in my own performances and collaborated with performing artists and musicians in various fields both nationally and internationally. I have also and created scenic venues for artists outside the 'traditional' black.box in the form of performance art nights and interactive art walks.
In the winter of 2005 I, together with the musician Mats Karlsson, moved out of the city to create a 'room' for the performing arts and music in the middle of the countryside. We call it Beenhouse. Here artists from different disciplines have the opportunity to meet in an exploratory way. And, the local people, from young to old, are always invited to meet the artists and form a relationship with the contemporary performing arts and music.
At the Beenhouse I also lead yoga classes, dance classes for children and from here I lead Mariposa's student company ELDSMYGARNA (children 7-9 years old).
Beenhouse is Mariposa's work and rehearsal space.
J