my performing arts collective ︎︎︎        W W W. B R A V O T O G A . C O M        



    WORKS I HAVE DIRECTED & PERFORMED

    NEW NORDIC POLING SYDHAVN TEATER
    THE WINTERWAR  - a skiballet on rollerskis BRAVO TOGA

    VINDLABORATORIET TEATER TRE
    ANONYMA ANDLIGA ATEISTER BRAVO TOGA
    SOMETHING ELSE MATTERS DASPA/GIESSEN
    DON´T FEAR CHANGE BRAVO TOGA
    THE DOGGY-STYLE PROJECT BRAVO TOGA
    ...and more


    IN OTHER PEOPLE’S WORKS

    SIGNA DET ÅBNE HJERTE  - Reumert award
    RIMINI PROTOKOLL THE WALKS
    DEN STORE STILHED MONOLIT FILM
    TV2 SERIE DARK HORSE
    GIRLING TOGETHER POTATO POTATO
    ...and more



CONTACT

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

+ 45 42 95 42 34 // + 46 76 400 19 57

︎   lenabondeson // bravotoga



LENA BRUUN BONDESON DIRECTOR & PERFORMING ARTIST



LENA bruun BONDESON
theaterdirector, performing artist & producer
danish / swedish - born 1988 - she/her
based in copenhagen & stockholm


I am a theatre director, performer, and producer specializing in contemporary physical theatre, immersive performances, and politically engaged collaborations. 
I co-founded the performing arts collective BRAVO TOGA and have been fundraising and creating performances in the independent scene since 2015. With international touring experience, I was a performer in a Reumert award-winning production in 2019.
I have been part of several cross-sectorial projects combining practice and theory.
During my MFA in directing at the Danish National School of Performing Arts, I conducted a two-year-long Artistic Research. I also did an exchange at the renowned MA in Choreography & Performance under Bojana Kunst in Giessen. Additionally, I hold a BA in physical acting from Stockholm University of the Arts.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

︎ COOPERATIVES
KOMMA Performance Productions (DK)
- Kulturkooperativet Interim Kultur (SE) - boardmember since 2023


︎ BRAVO TOGA
My performing arts collective BRAVO TOGA 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 the North since 2016  
︎︎︎ WWW.BRAVOTOGA.COM



︎  ARTISTIC REASEARCH  2019 - 2022
During my two-year Artistic Research in directing at The Danish National School of Performing Arts, I developed the method “squatting” and “sloppy immersion”. This was 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 about our role play. The combined mockumentary showing and live larp-performance (live action role-playing) was called Something Else Matters.
Our methodology was described and theorized in participating performance-philosoher Dr. Phil. Jonas Schnor PhD dissertation - “Microdramaturgy - A Performance Philosophy“.