Baryshnikov Arts Center Resident Artist
Pontus Lidberg
BAC Space 2015: Dance / Multimedia Residency
Nov 2-21, 2015
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Baryshnikov Arts Center Resident Artist

Pontus Lidberg

Choreographer/filmmaker Pontus Lidberg (Stockholm, Sweden / NYC) will develop Written on Water (working title), a film about an impossible love, in which dance serves as the thematic and poetic device. The layered process of creating choreography for film—interacting with dancers, filming scenes, and reconstructing these experiences through editing—inspires content impossible to convey through any singular medium.

Pontus Lidberg
Artist Bio

Pontus Lidberg

Pontus Lidberg is a Swedish choreographer, filmmaker and dancer, who is most recognized for his film The Rain for which he received numerous awards around the world. As a choreographer for the stage, Lidberg has created over 40 works for major international dance companies, such as SemperOper Ballet Dresden, Le Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, The Royal Danish Ballet, The Beijing Dance Theatre, The Royal Swedish Ballet, and Morphoses.

Pontus has also created works for his own group Pontus Lidberg Dance, which made its New York debut at New York City Center's Fall For Dance Festival in 2011. In just a few short years Pontus Lidberg has firmly established himself as a creative and visionary artist bringing dance and film together. He was nominated for a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) in Outstanding Visual Design for his dance and film evening WITHIN (Labyrinth Within), created during his 2012 tenure as Resident Artistic Director of Morphoses. His dance film, Labyrinth Within won Best Picture at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival in 2012. Raised in Stockholm, Sweden, Lidberg trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet School. He holds an MFA in Contemporary Performative Arts from the University of Gothenburg, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts.

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Slide photo: Andrew McLeod / Upcoming page + bio photos: Nir Arieli