gry tingskog

bio

Gry Tingskog (they/them) works with choreography together with dance, sculpture, technology, DIY programming and text, making experimental scenic and sensorial experiences. Their practice moves between making performances in a collaborative manner, performing for others, institutional critique, teaching, dramaturgy and writing. Their work has been presented in Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway and France in theatres, galleries and museums.

Gry's works animate human and more-than-human bodies to disrupt normative conceptions and representations of dancing bodies. Their practice explores sculpted objects as scores for dance, asking: how can choreographic parameters be embodied in an object, mediated through touch instead of language, and interpreted through the dancer’s labor? By crafting how various scenic mediums come together to choreograph the audience's perception and attention, Gry explores how to set the conditions for a dance that takes place more in the body and imagination of the audience, then on stage in front of them. Oriented by the politics of queering, traversing ethics, methods and aesthetics, Gry's practice moves across disciplinary borders and conventions.

In 2017 Gry co-initiated INSISTER SPACE, an artist-run organisation imagining choreographic methods to rethink and reorganise artistic work in practice. They were also part of founding höjden, a trans-disciplinary workspace for artists and cultural workers in Östberga, Stockholm.

As a performer they have worked with, among others, Benoît Lachambre, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Myriam Lefkowitz, Halla Ólafsdóttir and Eliisa Erävalo, Isabelle Schad, Ellen Söderhult, Chloe Chignell, Rodrigo Andreolli, Anna Lublina and Luis Garay.  

Gry is based between Stockholm, Sweden and Berlin, Germany. They hold a MA degree in Choreography and Performance from the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen, and a BA degree in Dance Performance from DOCH/Stockholm University of the Arts. Gry was awarded the danceWEB Scholarship in 2019, Anders Sandrews Utbildningsstipendium in 2019, DAAD 2020-2021 and DIS-TANZEN 2023.

cv

choreographic work

work as performer / collaborations

texts

Ravel Review

2024  Recurring writer of dance critique for the independent and artist-run initiative Ravel

The Virus and The Parasight

2024  MASKA Journal Volume XXXVIII., issue 217-218. Editor-in-chief Pia Brezavšček

Darkness Manifesto

2022  Commissioned by Weld for Kvadernalen

As disappearances appear

2021  Master Thesis, MA in Choreography and Performance, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies Gießen. Self-published.
Supervisors Prof. Dr. Bojana Kunst and Livia Piazza

Weaving patterns of hypertext

2020  Self-published

Cheating discipline and other artistic affaris

2018  Text and scores published at endfest.se POSSE Blog Takeover
2017  Excerpt published in This Container 3 ed.
2017  Bachelor Thesis, BA in Dance Performance, Stockholm University of the Arts. Supervisor Josefine Wikström

cultural policy / discourse

INSISTER SPACE

2017 – ongoing.  Co-founder and board member

INSISTER SPACE is an artist-run organisation imagining methods and ways to rethink artistic work in practice. We experiment with ways to open source knowledge and resources, ways of meeting and working together across projects, rethinking studio practice, how knowledge is developed and shared, as well as methods to collaborate in administrative work and application writing. INSISTER SPACE aims to create a broad platform for professional freelance dance artists to share, collect and reorganise artistic practices in a sustainable way. We wish to reshape the neoliberal structures in the dance field, replacing competition with collaboration and support

2023  HOFFICE, collective residency week for administrative work, SITE Stockholm (SE)
2023 HOFFICE, collective residency week for administrative work, SITE Stockholm (SE)
2023  AT ISSUE: Practice, Curating and facilitating collective residency , Weld Stockholm (SE)
2022  AT ISSUE: Practice, Curating and facilitating collective residency and performance, Skogen Göteborg (SE)
2022 AT ISSUE:Practice, Curating and facilitating collective residency and publication, Skogen Göteborg (SE)
2022  5-year anniversary, performance ritual and party, höjden Stockholm (SE)
2020  Introducing INSISTER SPACE: Talk at (Re)Union Biennial Performative Arts Meeting, Lisbon
2020  Format for sharing practices at Within Practice, MDT and höjden, Stockholm
2019  AT ISSUE: Practice, residency at Skogen, Göteborg
2019  AT ISSUE: Practice, professional daily training at höjden, Stockholm
2018  AT ISSUE: Practice, residency at Skogen, Göteborg
2018  AT ISSUE: Performing, festival at Weld, Stockholm
2018  AT ISSUE: Practice, 1 week of professional daily training at Danscentrum, Stockholm
2017  Exposition: INSISTER SPACE, launch at Weld, Stockholm

https://insisterspace.se

Rough Proposals Festival

2019  Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. 4-day festival

höjden

2018 – 2019.  Co-founder and board member

höjden is an artist driven interdisciplinary house for artistic work and production located in Östberga, Stockholm. It holds dance studios, ateliers, office spaces, a workshop and music studio

https://hojden.house

Para Institutional Models (PIM)     

2018 – ongoing

PIM is a mobile Nordic-sized art institution made in collaboration with initiatives and organisations from the Nordic countries initiated by Anders Paulin

Interim Kultur

2017 – 2018. Board member

Interim Kultur is an employment cooperative for artists within the field of dance and choreography

teaching

scholarships

education