LENA bruun BONDESON danish - swedish director & performing artist
collective
www.bravotoga.com
contact
lenabondeson@gmail.com
bravotoga@gmail.com
+45 42 95 42 34
+4676 400 1957
personal stipends
Swedish Arts Grant Comittee (1 year workstipend), Swedish Arts Council,
Nordic Culture Contact, Nordic Culture Fund, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, Uniarts Study Grant
boardmember & member
in the cooperative Interim Kultur (SE) & member in KOMMA Performance Productions (DK)
education
THE DANISH NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS (DASPA) // MFA Performing Art - Directing (2019 - 2022)
Exchange: Choreography and Performance (CUP), Justus Liebig Universität, Giessen (DE)
STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS (UNIARTS) // BA Performing Art - Physical acting (2012 - 2015)
Practicum: Turteatern, Stockholm in the piece “Sånger för Norden”
DOCH (SE) // Summer residency 7,5 ects + Methods of writing in artistic practices 7,5 ects (2016)
SNDO (NL) // Intensive course: choreography & movement research (2015)
AKADEMIET (DK) // Scenekunst - physical theater 1,5 år (2010- 2011) + TUK - 10 week physical theater (2018)
VERA - skolen for kunst & design (DK) // Billedkunst A (2009)
performing arts
VINDLABORATORIET // Teater Tre (2024) - Directing
THE WINTERWAR - a skibalett on roler ski // BRAVO TOGA (2024)
NEW NORDIC POLING // Sydhavn Teater (DK) & Spitsbergen Artist Center Svalbard (NO) (2024)- Projectleading
DON’T FEAR CHANGE // BRAVO TOGA
Dansekapellet (DK), Inkonst (SE), Teater Universum (FIN) (2023)
Turteatern (SE), Åbne Scene (DK) (2020-2022)
ANONYMA ANDLIGA ATEISTER // BRAVO TOGA & KONTRÄR
Konträr (SE), Profilteatern Umeå (SE) (2023)
DARK HORSE // TV2
TV-series (2023) Role: Stine (ridding teacher)
DEN STORE STILHED // Feature film by Katrine Brocks
Monolit Film (DK) (2022) - Agnes (o.s. character)
THE WALKS // Rimini Protokoll
Audio walk (DE) (2021) - Voice-actor
SOMETHING ELSE MATTERS // MFA-graduation piece
The Danish National School of Performing Arts (2019), CUP Giessen (DE) (2021)
Mockumentaryfilm & immersive live-theater - Directing & performing
DET ÅBNE HJERTE // SIGNA
12-hours immersive night-performance - REUMERT WINNER - performance of the year.
Aarhus Festuge (DK) (2019) - Actor
HIDDEN ESCAPES // Dansinitiativet
Choreography: Moa Autio. Kulturhuset Luleå (SE), Tegelscenen Stockholm (SE) (2018) - Dancer
THE DOGGY-STYLE PROJECT // BRAVO TOGA
PotatoPotato (SE), Warehouse9 (DK), Teater Viirus (FI), Teater Tribunalen (SE), GBG Mime Fest (SE) (2018)
THE SLUT PROJECT // BRAVO TOGA
HAUT Eksil (DK) (2017)
PLADASK + ÖMHJÄRTAD // Expressteatern
(SE) Directing: Ed Damron. (2017 - 2018) - Physical Actor
THE MONICA PROJECT // BRAVO TOGA
Potato Potato Malmö, DOCH Summerschool Residency (SE) (2016)
MÖTA HÖSTEN TILLSAMMANS? // Directing: Anna Vnuk & KLASSEN
Dansens Hus Stockholm, Parkteatern Stockholm, Stora Teatern Göteborg, Scenkonstbiennalen Malmö, Malmö Sommarscen, Sommarlund, Festiborg (NO) (2015 / 2016) - Actor & dancer
SKA VI VA? // Teater Tre
(SE) Director: Marvin Yxner. Choreografi: Jimmy Meurling. (2016-2017) - Physical Actor
PEKA, TRUMMA, DANSA // Teater Tre
(SE) Director: Anne Jonsson. (2016) - Physical Actor
SATANS DEMOKRATI // Satans Triologi
Directing/Projectleader: Jimmy Meurling & Py Huss-Wallin
Immersive theater triology. Nobelberget (SE) (2015) - Audio-installation
LOMJANSGUTEN // Västanå Teater
(SE) Directing: Leif Stinnerbom. ( 2015) - Dancer & actor
SÅNGER FÖR NORDEN // Turteatern
(SE) Directing: Nils Poletti. (2014) - Actor (BA-internship)
TODAY WAS A COMPLETE WASTE OF MAKE-UP // BA-graduation piece (solo)
Stockholm Fringe 2015, The Departure Festival Uniarts, Unga Klara (SE). (2014/ 2015
publications & performance lectures
MICRODRAMATURGY - between performance and event // Publication (2022)
During my 2-year Artistic Research in directing at The Danish National School of Performing Arts, and together with a team of 8 core-collaborators & several associated collaborators, the method “squatting” and “sloppy immersion” was developed as an approach to paraphrase a filmdocumentary onto stage. By filming ourselves role-playing a real documentary (about the heavy-metal band Metallica) we created our own fake documentary & turned it into a combined mockumentary showing & live larp-performance (live action role-playing) called Something Else Matters. In the dissertation, by participating performance-philosoher Dr. Phil. Jonas Schnor PhD, “Microdramaturgy - between Practice and Event: A Performance Philosophy“, our methodology was described and theorized in chapter 5 called “Sloppy immersion”.
GIRLING TOGETHER: A Dialogue // publication & performance lecture (2019)
In 2017-2019 I participated as a performance artist and co-writer in “Girling Together: A Dialouge” - an inter-sectorial nordic collaboration between director Linda Forsell from the queer-feminist performance collective PotatoPotato (SE) and the scientific nordic network “FlickForsk! Nordic Network for Girlhood Studies”. Through intersectional dialogue and method-development, 8 nordic performers and researchers challenged the perceptions of how young femininity is portrayed on stage and our methods and artistic writing was published in the book “Girling Together: A Dialouge” november 2019 edited by Linda Forsell and published by Potato Potato and Riksteatern at Universus Academic press, 2019.
GIRLING TOGETHER: “Om flickighet på scen” // performance lecture (2018)
Performance lectures at Inkonst, Malmö (SE) and “Folk och kultur dagarna”, Eskilstuna (SE) by Potato Potato
“SEXUALISERAD VÅLD PÅ SCEN - vad gör det med oss?” // performance lecture (2018)
Performance lecture during “Festival Normal” at Kvinnohistoriska Museum Umeå (SE)
SLUT-SHAMING // curation of lectures (2018)
Lectures on the subject of the perfomance “The Doggy Style Project” curated by BRAVO TOGA at Teater Viirus (FIN) with participation of several nordic performing artist exploring the subject of slut-shaming.
INGER CHRISTENSENS NOBELMIDDAG // dinner-happening (2016)
A dinner-happening exploring how “to eat poetry” and a fictive nobelprize ceremoni granting Inger Christensen the prize she never received, for 30 nordic culture-, art- and science related guest in Hagaparken (SE) ::: Projectleader & performers: Lena Bondeson, Malou Zilliacus & Viola Bao, with help from Signe Barfoed & Sara Ribbenstedt among others.
workshopleader /pedagogue/ teacher
LULEÅ GYMNASIE, danselinje (SE) // Workshop in contemporary dance for students in 2.- og 3.G (2016)
POTATO POTATO (SE) // Workshop ”Physical & Contextual framing of Shame” (2016)
AKADEMIET (DK) // Workshop: Physical acting at Scenekunst linjen (2015)
TESTRUP HØJSKOLE (DK) // Workshop “The Unbearable Lightness of having a Body” (5 dage) (2014)
DOCH “FILTEN” picnic-festival (SE) // Workshop “So You Think You Can Mime” (2014)
VIBENHUS FRITIDSORDNING (DK) // Dramapedagogue (2019)
MALMÖ FRISKOLA (SE) // Pedagogue & substitute kindergarden teacher full time 1 month (2018)
CALLE FLYGARE TEATERSKOLA (SE) // Dramapedagogue all levels 5-18 y, 10 classes (winter 2015 - 2016)
GRANÖGÅRD TEATER-SOMMARKOLLO (SE) // Pedagogue (2014)
ØSTERBRO LILLESKOLE (DK) // Kindergarden teacher fulltime 3 months and substitute teacher at all levels from 1st-7th grade for 3 months (2009)
languages
DANISH (mothertongue), SWEDISH (fluent), ENGLISH & GERMAN (basic)
other skills
DANCE STYLES: contemporary, house, swing, folkdance, acrobatics, mimeacting
SONG: Rythmical & jazz, solo & choir (alto) practice since primary school. Basic skills in vocalbased loop-pedal instrument.
FINE ARTS & SCENOGRAPHY: Fine arts program at VERA (school for art & design (2009), privat lesson with scenographer Gøje Christine Rostrup summer 2010, exhibition i “Rummet” april 2011.
DRIVERSLICENSE B (since 2006)