Biography

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Stage Work

 

2022   Merkurius

2022   37 Hours & 3 Minutes

2020   Give It Some Time

2019   Monument

2018   The Book

2017   The Wonderful and The Ordinary. 

2016    Why I Wear This Shirt.

2016    The Long March.

2015    The Knowledge.

2014   Gorkij Park 2.

2012   The Academy.

2011   This is not a love story.

2011    The Assignments.

2009    Alaska.

2009    Five Year Plan.

2008   Everything you want.

2007   Potato Country

2007   Everest.

2005   Åtjärn Stories.

2005   England.

2003   Dogma Dance 1&2.

2002   Catherine the Great.

2002   The Ocean is Blue.

 

Shortfilms:

 

2014   We are different now

2009    This is Alaska.

2007     What you do.

2004   The Lodge

2003   Henrik Vikman talking

2003    Rewind

Education

1986-88         Radio/Film Studies  Nordens Folkhögskola

1991-92         Studies for Anna Halprin, San Fransisco Dancers         Workshop

1995-98         Choreography Studies. University of Dance, Stockholm

After studies for Anna Halprin at the Tamalpa Institute in San Francisco, USA and the program of choreography at the University of Dance in Stockholm 95-98 has created performances and movies with great success for both adult and children audience. Heilborns’ unique way of combining text, motion, video and images, always spiced with humor and a cool irony, has given her an indisputable position as one of Sweden’s most interesting performance and film artists.

The films are created together with filmmaker Mårten Nilsson and often with the same dancers as in the stagepieces.
“The Lodge” (nominated for Best Screen Choreography at Dance Screen Brighton 2005 and nominated for the Swedish Guldbagge Award for best short film in Sweden 2005) and “Rewind” (nominated for best short film at the Guldbagge Awards in Sweden, 2003). ”What you do”, created together with Mårten Nilsson and Kim Hiorthøy, was awarded the Guldbagge Award for best short film in 2007. And the latest film “This is Alaska”, originally created for the stagepiece “Alaska” is now touring shortfilmfestivals around the world.

 

Gunilla+Maxim

Interview by Cecilia Djurberg for Bastard Blog.

Scenen som minnespalats – Konsten att minnas Gunilla Heilborns scenkonst