Mette Ingvartsen (DK)

Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer. From 1999 she studied in Amsterdam and Brussels where she graduated from the performing arts school P.A.R.T.S. in summer 2004. Since 2002 she has made several performance works among others “Manual Focus”, “50/50”, “to come” and “Why We Love Action”. Her practice includes writing, making, performing and documenting work. Her most recent performance works are “IT’S IN THE AIR“ (2008) a collaboration with Jefta van Dinther and the YouTube project “Where is my privacy” (2008/9). “GIANT CITY” and “evaporated landscapes” will premiere at 2009 steirischer herbst festival in Graz.
Besides her performance work, she is engaged in research and in questioning modes of production within the performing arts. In 2008 she participated in “6Months1Location“ confronting questions around education, structures of production and research within the performing arts. Since 2005 she has been working on “everybodys”, an ongoing collaborative project based on open source strategies that aims at producing tools and games that can be used by everybody in order to develop work. She is part of the collective COCO’s who recently presented “Breeding, Brains and Beauty” and has collaborated with Jan Ritsema and Bojana Cvejic on several theater performances.

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