Clara Lee Lundberg CV

Clara Lee Lundberg is a dancer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist. Graduated from the MA-program New Performative Practices (specialization choreography) at DOCH – University of Arts, Stockholm. Always operating at the breaking point between activism, theory and artistic practices, inspired by theorist and philosophers like Franz Fanon, Suely Rolnik, BP Preciado, Foucault and Sara Ahmed. She is particularly interested in analyses of socio-political relations, neocolonial structures, gender and queer theories, aesthetic norms, and philosophy.

She has presented a number of her own works at various theaters, galleries, and festivals such as Face a Face (Parque das Ruinas, Rio de Janeiro) Orionteatern (Sweden) Teatro Ipanema (Rio de Janeiro) Encuentro Hemisférico (São Paulo), Centro Coreográfico (Rio de Janeiro), MDT (Sweden), Göteborgs Teater och Dansfestival (Sweden), Festival Montañas at Centro Cultural Borges (Buenos Aires), Festival Baixo Centro (São Paulo), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Chapitô Teatro (Lisbon) and Festival de Danza Vídeo & Habana Vieja: Ciudad en Movimiento in Havanna (Cuba).

She has studied with choreographers and teachers as Lisa Nelson, Gustavo Ciríaco, Carmen Pereiro, Aline Bernardo, Ricardo Neves, Khosro Adibi, DD Dorvillier, Ko Murobushi, Andrew Harwood, Natalia Tencer, David Zambrano, Marlene Miller, Charmaine LeBlanc, Ori Flomin, Martin Keogh, Mey - Ling Bisogno, Edgardo Mercado and Isabelle Chade.

PERFORMANCES AND DANCE PIECES IN SELECTION:
Solo performance “Corpus en vivo”, at the festival Habana Vieja: Ciudad en Movimiento.

April 2016 in Havanna.

Solo performance “Direito de sambar” about samba, sexuality, cliches and violence. April 2016 at the festival Face a Face at Parque das Ruínas, Rio de Janeiro.

Performance Lecture “It ́s black, it ́s white, yeah yeah yeah”, at Acervo Africa, March 2016 in São Paulo.

Performance Lecture “It ́s black, it ́s white, yeah yeah yeah”, at Capacete Summer Program, January 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

Solo performance “Corpus en vivo”, a bodily essay based on texts by the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nanzy. At the festival Montaña at Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, december 2015.

Solo performance “Direito de sambar” about samba, sexuality, cliches and violence. Presentations at Teater Tribunalen Monologue-festival, Stockolm (Sweden) November 2015.

Solo performance “I ́m all for you body and soul” about the colonial heritage in dance Premiered at Orionteatern, Stockholm (Sweden) in May 2015.

Performance Lecture “It ́s black, it ́s white, yeah yeah yeah”

Invited artist at the Exchange Perspective Symphosium, a colaboration between Dansens Hus and DOCH. (March 2015).

Is this Brazil?

Project in colaboration with the Brazilian dancer and choreographer Mariana Pimentel. Investigating how movement, prejudices, cliches and corporeality are related to the image that Brazil represents to the world and to the Brazilian people themselves.
Includes Claras solo “Direito de sambar” (2014).
Premiered and presented at Konstnärsnämnden, September 2014.
Presented in Teatro Café Pequeno in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (February 2015).

Souvenirs

Participates as a dancer in the artist Luciana Amado short film Souvenirs. Intercult summer residence. Stockholm, August 2013.

The Laboratory of the Political Body, Part II : The political psycho-magic act

Performative lab led with Paloma Madrid for 10 invited artists and dancers from 13 to 14 June 2013, final public presentation on June 14 in Fisksätra Folkets Hus.

One is not born a woman, one becomes

Workshop lab about gender and performance, for the theater company Coletivo Obscuro in São Paulo, Brazil. April 2013.

Residency: Tropical Urbanism / Urban tropicalism

Investigation project about micro-political expressions of body and sound during a residency at Nuvem - Estação Rural de Arte, Visconde de Maua, Brazil. 27 January to 2 February 2013.

Bodies Occupating Luz (Corpos na Ocupação da Luz)

Performative installation with light and movement in collaboration with lighting architect Lina Färje (SWE) and activists from MSTC São Paulo.
Presented in January 2013 at the Encuentro Hemisférico and in April 2013 at the Festival BaixoCentro (both São Paulo).

Luana is present

Solo performance presented at Teatro Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. (December 2012).

Arvores

Participated as a dancer in the Brazilian choreographer Clarice Limas Performance "Arvores" at Panorama Dance Festival, Rio de Janeiro. (November 2012)

Brasil x 2: Residence at Centro Coreográfico in Rio de Janeiro together with the Brazilian choreographer and dancer Mariana Pimentel (October-November 2012).

Sala de Maravilhas

Collective performative exhibition at Centro Coreográfico, curated by choreographer Gustavo Ciríaco. Rio de Janeiro (April 2012)

Lecture Performance: The Political Body and Testo Yonqui de Beatriz Preciado

Vídeo and performance in a intimate format for five persons during danceWEB Scholarship /Impuls Tanz Festival, Vienna (2011)

Dance film "Corpus"

Idea and interpretation, in collaboration with film director Pedro Maldonado (MEX) and composer Carl Bromell (SWE), with text by the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nanzy.
Presented at:
Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival 2012

Video dance festival Agita y Sirva 2012 (México, different cities) DanceWEB Marathon / Impuls Tanz Festival 2011 (Vienna , Austria) University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 2011 (Chicago, USA)

"About philosophy, time and choices"

Installation at the Summer University, PAF (Performing Arts Forum), France (2010) .

Dance film "S - dance for the dead ones"

Idea and interpretation, in collaboration with film director Pedro Maldonado (MEX).
Mar del Plata, Argentina (April of 2009).
The film has been shown at the VI Festival Internacional de Video Danza DV Habana, March 2011

The Laboratory of the Political Body, Part I: Genderhackers

Performance in the "open lab" format with Paloma Madrid and invited guests.
Shown at Modern Dance Theatre (MDT) in Stockholm, at the Sala DT in Madrid (October 2010), and at Uppsala Pride Festival (November 2010) .

Samba pra Caramba - you have the rhythm in your blood ?

Dance performance with choreographer and dancer Malena Sjöstedt in collaboration with composer Carl Bromell and video artist Roberto N. Peyre .
Shown at the Festival Emergencia at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, in July 2009,
and at the Festival "Underground goes Overground "at MDT, May 2007.

La Leona

Video-performance about boxing and dance.
Presented at the Festival "A Lo Sinatra" in DT Espacio Escénico in Madrid December 2008, and at the Festival "Underground goes Overground" at MDT September 2008.

There is always something underneath I & II

Performance with video and dance in collaboration with filmmaker Emma Dedorsson.
Presented at JAM - Performance Festival at Kulturhuset Stockholm 2003, and the Breakfast Club Performance Festival at Folkkulturcentrum 2003.

EDUCATION AND STUDIES:

BALLET

2000-2002 DOCH (Danshögskolan) Training School, Stockholm. 2005-2006 Estúdio de Dança Classica Gurquel, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2006-2008 IUNA (University of Fine Arts) Buenos Aires, Argentina 2006-2011 Alba Serra, Estúdio de Dança Classica, Buenos Aires, Argentina

CONTEMPORARY DANCE TEQUNIQUES (Flying -Low, Graham, Release, Tuning Score)

2004-2005 Flying-low, Centro Cultural San Martin , Buenos Aires
2005-2007 Flying-low, IUNA (University of Fine Arts) Buenos Aires, Argentina 2007-2008 Flying-low, Centro Cultural "Camarin de las Musas", Buenos Aires (Teacher : Edgardo Mercado )

2006-2008 Graham, Tedancari - Instituto Cubano de Danza, Buenos Aires (Teachers: Marta Bercy ) 2008 Flying-low and Release, Estudio 3, Madrid (Teacher: Francisco Leiva and Meyling Bisogno ) 2008 Flying-low & Physical Theatre, Estudio 3, Madrid (Teachers: Marta Gomez )
2010 Tuning Score (technique created by Lisa Nelson)Buenos Aires (Teacher: Carmen Pereiro)

CONTACT IMPROVISATION

2008 Estudio 3, Instituto de Dança y Teatro, Madrid (Teacher: Christiane Boullosa)
2009-2011 Orion Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Teacher: Vanina Goldstein)
2011 Centro Coreográfico Rio de Janeiro, Contact Improvisação Festival: (Teacher: Martin Keogh) 2011 danceWEB, Impuls Tanz Festival, Vienna (Teacher: Andrew Harwood)
2012-2013 Amok and Teatro Escola Angel Vianna, Rio de Janeiro (Teacher: Ricardo Neves and Aline Bernardo)

IMPROVISATION AND CHOREOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION

2009-2010 Casa Collectivo, Centro de danza y coreográfia, Buenos Aires (Teacher: Natalia Tencer) 2011 danceWEB, Impuls Tanz Festival, Vienna (Teacher : David Zambrano)
2013 Danscentrum Stockholm, Rosalind Crisp 1 week fulltime workshop (September)
2013 Choreography, fristanding course at DOCH 7,5 point (Teacher: Ulrika Berg)

2014 Lisa Nelson Laboratory, São Paulo.

SCHOLARSHIPS IN SELECTIONS:

In the autumn of 2011 Clara Lee Lundberg received a scholarship from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee was invited to do a residency at PAF (Performing Art Forum) together with the composer and cellist Sergio Castrillón to start working on the project "Can you please take it one more time ? - A performance in 10 micro pieces about improvisation and power of relations" .

Clara Lee Lundberg was awarded the danceWEB scholarship in 2011, which implies the

involvement of danceWEB Scholarship Program and the participation in the dance festival Impuls Tanz in Vienna July 13 to August 17 2011.

In 2008-2009 Clara Lee -Lundberg received the scholarship of the English - Spanish Foundation "Scholarship for training and Continuing formation studies in dance and movement arts" in Madrid, Spain . Scholarship grant was spent on the "DT Dance and Theater Company Espacio Escénico" in Madrid. Daily training in Graham technique with the dance company members, workshops and classes in choreographic composition and theatrical production, as well as assistance in the company 's performances.

In the autumn of 2009 Clara Lee Lundberg received a scholarship from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's , she Realized an international exchange with Spanish performers and was invited to present the dance performance "Samba para caramba - Tenes el ritmo en la sangre , cara ?" at the culture center "La Casa Encendida", Madrid.

In the summer of 2010 Clara Lee Lundberg received a scholarship from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's to Participate at the Summer University at PAF ( Performing Arts Forum),
St.Erme, France, July-August of 2010.

OTHER DANCE-RELATED ACTIVITIES:

Workshop "Lifting and falling - reclaim your body", part of the project "The Laboratory of the Political Body" (teacher) Sep-Nov 2010
Clara took the initiative and led this workshop for 8 no-dancers, all women. She used different techniques and methods (Contact Improvisation, Tuning Score, Graham etc.) to investigate and work with weight – support and giving weight, falling, support or lift a partner and “re-activate" the power and force of both the solar plexus and the abdominal muscles. The workshop took place in Malmö Dance Center, Sweden.

LABORATORY of SCENIC EXPLORATION

As the only Swedish and European dancer, Clara Lee Lundberg was invited to participate in an extensive investigative project along with 30 other dancers and performing artists at the Centro Cultural de la Cooperación, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
February-May 2009

DEBATE AND DISCUSSION ABOUT CONTEMPORARY DANCE AND IDENTITY

Clara Lee Lundberg participated along with dance-journalist Cecilia Olsson, choreographer Malena Sjöstedt and other dancers at the Modern Dance Theatre Festival "Underground Goes Overground", Stockholm, Sweden, September 2008.

IMPRESSIONS OF DANCE, a course in choreographic composition led by the Belgian choreographer Khosro Adibi, at the University of Karlstad, Sweden, June 2010.

Contact:
Clara Lee Lundberg
Phone: + 46 (0) 739810285 Email: clara@labellamaffia.com

klaralee.lundberg@gmail.com

Address: Siargatan 19, 2 floor 118 27 Stockholm
SWEDEN