Gunilla Heilborn (S)

Gunilla Heilborn is a choreographer and film maker based in Stockholm. After studies at the Tamalpa Institute in San Francisco, USA and the program of choreography at the University of Dance in Stockholm 95-98 she has created performances and movies for both adult and children audiences. Heilborn’s unique way of combining text, motion, video and images, always spiced with humour and a cool irony, has given her an indisputable position as one of Sweden’s most interesting performance and film artists. Works of her are touring international, amongst them “Potato Country” and “The Five Year Plan”. In 2009 she collaborated with the Göteborg Ballet for the first time, creating the critically acclaimed production “Alaska”. 2011 she returns to Göteborg, but this time to The Göteborg City Theater, and creates a new piece for the Big Stage premiering in October 2011. Her films include “The Lodge”, “Rewind”, “What you do”, that she created together with Mårten Nilsson and Kim Hiorthøy, and “This Alaska”, which was awarded Best International Short Fiction Film at Expresión en Córto in Mexico in 2010. In spring 2011, steirischer herbst invited Gunilla Heilborn for a one-week-residency in Graz to work on her latest production “This is not a love story” which is based on the experiences from different places in Europe and premiered at Dansens Hus in Stockholm in May 2011.
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