Chrysa Parkinson identifies as a dancer. She comes from North American and Northern European dance communities where she has been working for forty years as a performer. Her artistic inscriptions include the proscenium stage, queer communities, and somatic practices – the combination of which manifest as a deep respect for both poetry and camp, a queasy relation to categories, and an ongoing pleasure in redefining virtuosity through experimentation. Since 2011, Chrysa has been working as a Professor of Dance at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), where she directed the New Performative Practices Master education for many years, and is now Head of Subject for Dance. Her research focuses on how dance situates itself in practitioners’ lives and how performers, in turn, author, dismantle and reconstitute worlds.
Chrysa is currently (2025) leading the research project Authorship Ownership and Control: dancers’ roles and materials (AOC). Hosted by SKH and funded by the Swedish research council, AOC will be completed in 2027.
