I'm a Swedish dance artist who recently found my two feet standing on Cornish grounds.

Excited to be in a new place with new meetings and new dances, I'm now based in Falmouth area.

Feeling no extreme attachment to a specific way of working but more a constantly growing curiosity for the different ways of making and the discourse around the definitions of dance and choreography I don’t necessarily make work to explain something I already know, I make work to try to understand what I don’t know, or perhaps what I don’t know that I know.

For me dance is about people, about you and me, viewers and performers, beings and buildings, social structures and individuals, known moments and unknown moments.
We are a set of bodies sharing space, listening with elbows and talking with heals, singing with knees and looking with chins, understanding with skin and wondering with fingertips.

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I graduated in 2008 from SEAD -Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria with a diploma in both performance and choreography.
Since then I've been working as a freelance dance artist in Sweden, Germany, Austria, Ireland and England, presenting my own work as well as collaborating with other artists, teaching and organizing events.

For more information about me and projects I've taken part in please visit www.emmalena.se or contact me on emmalenafredriksson@gmail.com