Helena Franzén is a choreographer with more than 35 years of practice as a dancer and with choreographic work. She has created close to 100 pieces for the stage, which have toured nationally and internationally both as projects of her own and as commissions for institutions like: Skånes Dansteater, Göteborgsoperans danskompani, Norrdans, The Edge, Nytt Dansk Dansteater. Helena Franzén is a sought-after teacher and mentor and she regularly teaches at a large variety of dance institutions around the world.
In 2019-2020 Helena Franzén presented a comprehensive retrospective exhibition at Dansmuseet in Stockholm - Mitt dansande liv. The exhibition included films, photographs, photo books, interviews with experts from the dance field, two publications by Cecilia Malmström Olsson and Sinikka Neuhaus, and excerpts from Franzéns 30 years of artistic work.
For the past ten years, Helena Franzén has created dance films together with the photographer and filmmaker Håkan Jelk. Their films have been presented at several international dance film festivals. During recent years, Helena has created work for other settings and rooms and her solo, Reverberate 2022, at Norrköpings konstmuseum is the latest in this series of collaborations. In 2024, she is collaborating with Uppsala konstmuseum in Brytpunkt, a spatial installation and live performance. Helena Franzén was awarded with DANSPRISET 2024 for her, among other things, being idiomatically uncompromising and consistent in her dance vocabulary throughout her long career.