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check out my nordic performings arts collective        W W W. B R A V O T O G A . C O M        

COMING UP
    Vindlaboratoriet (2024) Teater Tre
    New Nordic Poling (2024) Sydhavn Teater
    The Winterwar  - a skiballet on rollerskis (2024) Turteatern

WORKS  
    Anonyma Andliga Ateister 
    Don´t Fear Change
    Something Else Matters
    Dear Darkweb
    The Doggy Style Project
    The Slut Project 
    The Monica Project
    Grace Aliens & Letters 
    Inger Christensens Nobelmiddag
    Today Was a Complete Waste of Make-up

IN OTHER PEOPLES WORKS
    SIGNA
    Rimini Protokoll
    Den Store Stilhed 
    Dark Horse
    Dansinitiativet
    Expressteatern
    Teater Tre
    Anna Vnuk / Parkteatern
    Satans Demokrati
    Västanå teater
    Turteatern
PUBLICATIONS & PERFORMANCE LECTURES
    Girling Together: A Dialogue
    Microdramaturgy
    The Slut-Shaming Lecture
CONTACT

︎ lenabondeson (a) gmail.com
︎ bravotoga (a) gmail.com

+ 45 42 95 42 34 // + 46 76 400 1957

︎   lenabondeson // bravotoga
LENA bruun BONDESON DIRECTOR & PERFORMING ARTIST



LENA bruun BONDESON
danish - swedish director & performing artist

I create, perform & produce collaborative, contemporary & practice-based performing arts, either independently or as part of my nordic performing arts collective BRAVO TOGA ︎︎︎


I work cross-disciplinairy in the field between theater & dance by means of writing, filming, scoring, choreographing & larping. I like to engage in performing arts theory & do artistic research & have been part of several cross-sectorial projects combining practice & theory.
My background is within movement-based work and I enjoy conceptualising, deconstructing and rethinking the performing arts production, expression & methods, in order to let the practice - the “doing” of a subject - create the performance. My work explores formats of the performing arts “setup” by means of immersion, interaction & translating existing film-documentaries into/onto the stage.

 born 1988
she/her
based in copenhagen & stockholm
works in denmark, sweden, finland & germany
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   
︎ COLLECTIVES & COOPERATIVES
I am member in KOMMA Performance Productions (DK)
I am member & boardmember in the cooperative Interim Kultur (SE)


︎ BRAVO TOGA
My nordic performing arts collective BRAVO TOGA has been active since 2016 & consists of Anna Kuusamo from Finland, Lena Bondeson from Denmark & Sara Ribbenstedt from Sweden. We work with theater & dance & are situated as a cross-disciplinairy, humouristic & experimental collective in contemporary free field in Denmark, Finland & primary Sweden. ︎︎︎ WWW.BRAVOTOGA.COM


︎ EDUCATION

The Danish National School of Performing Arts  // MFA Directing (2019-2022)
exchange: Choreography & Performance CUP - JLU Giessen (DE)

Stockholm University of the Arts //   BA Physical Acting (2012-2015)
practicum: Turteatern, Stockholm (SE)



︎  ARTISTIC REASEARCH // EXCHANGE
In 2022 I completed my MFA with an exchange to the highly recognised MA program CUP (choreography & performance) in Giessen, at the Justus Liebig Universität, Germany.
During my 2-year Artistic Research in directing at The Danish National School of Performing Arts, we - I together with a team of 8 core-collaborators & several associated collaborators - developed the method “squatting” and “sloppy immersion” 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 participating performance-philosoher Dr. Phil. Jonas Schnor PhD dissertation - “Microdramaturgy - between Practice and Event: A Performance Philosophy“ - our methodology was described and theorized in chapter 5: “Sloppy immersion”. 


︎ PRODUCER PRACTUUM // BETTY NANSEN
During the winter of 2022-2023 I was in a producer-practicuum to theater manager Eva Præstiin and artistic researcher Mette Tranholm at the Betty Nansens Theater in Copenhagen.


︎ GIRLING TOGETHER // POTATO POTATO
In 2017-2019 I participated as a performance artist in Girling Together: A Dialouge - an inter-sectorial nordic collaboration between director Linda Forsell from the queer-feminist performance collective PotatoPotato (SE) and the nordic network FlickForsk! Nordic Network for Girlhood Studies. Through intersectional dialogue and method-development, we 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.








︎ Jacob Danielsson (1st), Adrienne Hayden (2nd & 3rd)