teachers

founders & teachers

INA DOKMO

Ina Dokmo är dansare, koreograf, pedagog och terapeut. Hon intresserar sig för perception genom olika vävnader. 2004 under sin kandidatexamen på Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance började Ina att undersöka upplevelsebaserad anatomi, främst skelettets kopplingar, med Gill Clark m.fl. Sedan dess har hon gediget utforskat olika andra kartläggningar av kroppen in i tredimensionellt varande, upplevd verklighet, rörelse, dans och koreografi. Hon har genom sin egna konstnärliga och pedagogiska forskning och projekt arbetat med de inre organen in i rörelse, zenmeridianbanor inom Shiatsu & Akupunkturpunkter inom Kinesisk Medicin, chakran samt fasciameridianerna som kartlagts av Thomas Myers i relation till dansande och hälsa. Genom sin master Nya Performativa Praktiker via DOCH och Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola 2015-2017 började Ina undersöka mer kring upplevelsebaserade kopplingar genom/mellan ting samt klurade kring det performativa i det somatiska och det somatiska i det performativa.

Samarbete som dansare för Tony Thatcher 2007-2012 som innebar neddykning och förståelse för Alexanderteknikens principer som bas för skapandet av dans och koreografi. 2020-2024 studerade Ina 350h BodyMind Centering och dess relation till Yoga faciliterat av Lisa Clark genom skolan för Body Mind Centering. I utbildningen fördjupade Ina sig i endokrina systemet , skelettet, de inre organen, samt neurocellulära utvecklingsmönster hos det lilla barnet.

Ina arbetar med att ge kroppsbehandlingar, hon är sedan 2012 diplomerad Shiatsuterapeut. Shiatsu är en japansk kroppsterapi med rötter i Anma och i kinesisk medicin.

Shiatsu, BodyMind Centering, Yoga, Improvisation

TUVA HILDEBRAND

Tuva Hildebrand is a choreographer, performer, educator, and somatic practitioner whose work is rooted in improvisation, embodied inquiry, and relational approaches to movement. As co-founder of Plattform för Improvisation & Somatik, she is dedicated to creating spaces where dance, somatic practice, artistic research, and community can meet and nourish one another.

With over fifteen years of experience studying and teaching somatic and improvisational practices, Tuva’s work draws from Body-Mind Centering®, Alexander Technique, Skinner Releasing Technique, Ideokinesis, Contact Improvisation, and the ongoing mentorship of pioneering somatic dance artist Eva Karczag, with whom she has apprenticed since 2017.

Educated in England, New York, and Sweden, Tuva spent several years immersed in New York’s postmodern dance and improvisation communities, studying and collaborating through Movement Research and alongside influential artists and teachers working at the intersection of dance, experimentation, and embodied practice. Her artistic and pedagogical work is informed by a deep interest in listening, self-discovery, ecological and social awareness, and the body’s capacity for imagination, agency, and transformation.

As a choreographer and performer, Tuva creates work that often explores intimacy, language, perception, vulnerability, and collective experience. Her projects span performance, teaching, curation, and artistic research, bringing together local and international communities through workshops, festivals, performances, and long-term learning processes.

Through her work, Tuva seeks to support movement practices that cultivate curiosity, embodied knowledge, creative rigor, and meaningful connection—both within ourselves and with the worlds we inhabit

http://tuvahildebrand.com

Skinner Releasing Technique, Eva Karczag’s work, Improvisation, Ecosomatics, CI

KAROLIN KENT

Karolin Kent kom i kontakt med somatisk praktik via upplevelsebaserad anatomi under hennes utbildning på Trinity Laban conservatoire of music and dance i London. Där undervisade Gill Clark och Charlotte Darbyshire, Henrietta Hale, Susanna Recchia med flera. Deras arbete influerade henne och skapade intresset att fördjupa sig inom förståelsen kring kropp och sinnets påverkan på vår rörelse och vilka vi är.

Efter studierna på Laban spenderade hon en tid i Indien för att förstå och undersöka praktikerna yoga, ayurveda och meditation på ett djupare plan som den österländska influensen inom somatiken. Hon har fördjupat sig inom Chan meditation ytterligare som är en praktik som följer hennes arbete. Mellan 2015- 2017 utbildade sig Karolin vidare till Somatisk rörelse praktiker/terapeut och rörelseanalytiker (CMA-SP/RSMT) via Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic studies International (USA). Där undervisade Janet Kaylo och Charlotte Darbyshire och blev en stor inspiration för hennes arbete framåt. Nu fördjupar hon sig ytterligare genom att undersöka BodyMind Centering samt kopplingar till ekologi och permakultur. Sedan 2017 har hon delat sin praktik med somatiskt inriktning konstnärligt, pedagogiskt och terapeutiskt i grupp och enskilda sessioner. Arbetet utgår från principer som handlar om att länka ihop kultur och hälsa och att etablera somatiska principer som en självklar del av danspraktiken och därigenom brygga avståndet mellan konstnärlig verksamhet och pedagogik/hälsa.

Hennes konstnärliga processer och verk fördjupar sig i somatisk praktik och improvisation där hon fortsätter att fördjupa kunskap och praktik kopplat till agens i konstnärligt intresse och samhällsaktualitet. Hon utgår från Wu ArtSpace i Sjönevad på Falkenbergs landsbygd men verkar nationellt. Här bedriver Karolin praktik inom, somatik, improvisation, konstnärlig praktik, odling, omställning och hållbarhet. Hon driver också somatisk verksamhet via Omni Somatisk praktik

Laban Bartenieff Fundamentals, Basic Neurocellular Patterns, Improvisation, Ecosomatics

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CELINE ORMAN

Celine Orman (SE/TR) has a background as a dancer and has been involved in somatic practices for the last 15 years. With an educational background in dance and movement therapy Celine has focused mainly on the practice of Authentic Movement, deepening her practice with the likes of Irmgard Halstrup (Ger), Mandoline Whittlesey (Fr) and Fran Lavendel (Scot).

Besides study and teaching Authentic Movement, Celine leads movement workshops together with Tuva Hildebrand, involving an exploration of the body as an Archive through somatic and creative interventions. Currently she is co-leading a dance initiative for elderly with dementia with dancer and physiotherapist Laura Lohi.

Celine recently finalized the project Maintaining Movement (Bevara Rörelse) at Skånes Dansteater. This began as a research and developmental project for preservation of dance as intangible cultural heritage, and is now an archive practice part of the institution’s ongoing activities.

Authentic Movement

KATARZYNA PALUCH

Katarzyna Paluch is an artist-researcher specializing in movement improvisation and dance partnering. Her research focuses on the decision-making process, blending analytical thinking with the spontaneity that arises during improvisation. She seeks tools to navigate the complexities of improvisation, balancing control with letting go, and uses these dualities to enrich the creative process. In 2024, she completed an MA in Contemporary Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg, defending her ongoing research in movement improvisation.

Currently, she is engaged in a research practice on improvised partnering Improbable lifts which she conducts together with Berlin-based artist Aaron Lang. Katarzyna works as a freelance performing artist and teaches workshops from partnering, contact improvisation, floorwork, and movement improvisation. Most recently, in 2025, she has taught at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), Danscentrum Syd (Malmö, Sweden), Studio Nieznane (Poznań, Poland), and No Limits Dance School (Wrocław, Poland). She is a member of Collective Nest and co-organized 5 editions of international contemporary dance festival, DO Festival, in Poland, which provides professional education and supports the freelance dance scene.

Improvisation, Contact Improvisation, Partnering, Floor Work

STINE MARCINKOWSKI

Laban Bartenieff Fundamentals, Infant Development Patterns, Reiki

pavleheidler

pavle heidler
– like many professional dance artists, i started dancing early on in life. through long-term exposure, dancing’s become an integrated part of my life. more than a profession, it’s how i’ve learned to approach and appreciate being in the world. professionally, i operate as a movement-and-word artist and activist, an educator, curator, and a queer critical thinker who specialises in developing research-oriented performative practices within the expanding fields of dance and choreography. my work-ing is meant to be encouraging of the continual re-form-ing in and of the intersectional and the emergent field of queer critical practice.

i am currently touring in two productions in Sweden and abroad, one made for neurodivergent younglings by dalija aćin thelander, and one discussing the value of laughter (in this economy?!) made by jannine rivel. most notably, i’ve worked with the 2024 recipient of the prestigious golden lion, choreographer Cristina Caprioli, for the better part of my late twenties and early thirties dancing, writing, speaking, choreographing, book-making, video-editing, etc.

the practices i am developing and engaging, i think, are first and foremost embodied practices, which necessarily makes them emergent practices, which necessarily makes them liberatory practices; in as much as working with the body, creating space for the body–or: body–necessitates critical study and the re-thinking of the existing structures that currently create and organise spaces for bodies.

BodyMind Centering