Linda Blomqvist

About Linda Blomqvist
- Linda Blomqvist born in Stockholm, 1985 is a choreographer and dancer currently based between Brussels and Stockholm. Her work aims to expand the notion of choreography with a focus on alternative modes of production, process and practice from a speculative viewpoint taking various forms and expressions.
  
  Linda studied dance at The Royal Swedish Ballet School 1995-2004 and at P.A.R.T.S 2008-2010. She has been active as a performer in various productions and is touring extensively internationally. In 2012 she joined Rosas where she performed in “Drumming”, “Rosas Danst Rosas” and “Golden Hours (As you Like it)”. Since 2013 she has been working and touring with Mårten Spångberg performing in “The Nature FR”, “Epic”, “La Substance – but in English”, “The Planet” and “Natten”. Besides this she’s also been performing with Alexandra Pirici, Cristina Rizzo, TG Stan and Cristina Caprioli to name a few.
  
  In 2012 she got invited to participate in the cross-cultural European network TRYANGLE in Montemor where she presented “The Power of Horror”. Her works “Lucha Libre”, “Circle Lux 9” and “Cosmos The Beach” have been presented at MDT- Stockholm, Small Projects- Tromsö, PAF Performing Arts Forum- St Erme, RPS Rosas Performance Space- Brussels, Rimi Scenekunst- Stavanger and at ImpulsTanz- Vienna.
  
  Linda initiated Indigo Dance together with Emma Daniel, Anna Gaiotti and Adriano Wilfert Jensen upon an invitation to curate the “Dance week” at PAF during the Summer University 2014. Indigo Dance is a platform for artists with manifestations such as a study circles, festival, tumblr and publication (Indigo dance magazine) These various manifestations aim to find alternative modes of knowledge production and exchange implying peers teaching peers in the name of curiosity, experimentation and realization of concepts. It holds a space which is supportive and allowing for the practitioners in the field striving to build a discursive landscape which questions who has a voice and the right to speak.
About the residency
- THE SOUND
  
  What is it with sound and the curious ontology of it….? It’s ambiguous nature, invisible yet so prominent and present… It’s a constant flux of becoming. Difficult to locate, to define it’s behavior and features and so it leaves so much space for imagination and pure feeling. Unlike the visual domain it doesn’t take up space but rather fills it. It immerses, goes through and around like water. It’s not there next to you, it’s all around you, encompassing a whole space, everything within it.
  
  THE SOUND is a sonic dance that engages in the relation and discrepancy between the sonic and the visual world. It works with sound as a capacity and material to build invisible landscapes to inhabit, care for and operate within.
  Thinking of sound as an altogether different kind of consciousness that we can learn from if we spend time with it and listen.
  It’s a means to build a tactile, sensorial space to reach another layer than surface and image. It’s the act and the joy that it implies to sing, play and dance together. Every song and dance is a gift.
  It’s s a way to enter a new territory to see how sound can change what dance can be and maybe even us on the way.
Residency dates 2017
- 1-7/5
  17-21/5
  29/5-11/6
  31/7-11/8
  16-29/10