Swedish Performing Arts for an International Audie
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MALIN HELLKVIST SELLÉN Malin Hellkvist Sellén’s w
ork explores choreography as a physical and linguistic practice. By creating physical, symbolic and imaginary contexts for conversation, Malin seeks to challenge and displace the ways in which we interpret and understand this physicality. In this way, the process-oriented work starts out from an idea of a necessary conversation – with Malin in person, with the dancers, with a contemporary dance context, with the public and with its audience. Through these conversations, she is consistently looking for cracks in power structures, to create disharmony with recognized norms, with the aim of reformulating the limits of the possible. Malin is increasingly interested in where, when and how choreography and works arise, and works methodically to ensure that the public, as they are termed, take an active role in the choreographic works. Malin actively uses a queer, feminist and intersectional perspective. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden. She is currently preparing a new work, Missionären (“The Missionary”), about 20th-century lesbian missionaries, for 2016. Magnus Nordberg | magnus@nordbergmovement.se | www.malinhellkvistsellen.se Photo: Åse Bengtsson Helin.