Linda Blomqvist

Biography

Linda Blomqvist born in Stockholm, 1985 is a choreographer and dancer. 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’s been working with artists such as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Mårten Spångberg and Florentina Holtzinger to name a few.

Linda initiated Indigo Dance together with Emma Daniel, Anna Gaiotti and Adriano Wilfert Jensen upon an invitation to curate the “Dance week” at PAF as part of the Summer University 2014. Indigo Dance is a platform for artists with manifestations such as study circles, a festival, tumblr and the publication – The Indigo dance magazine – They come at dawn. 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. Indigo Dance holds a space which is supportive and allowing, striving to build a strong discourse around our practice and field. Alongside her dance practice she also practices as a Doula/birth worker. Linda obtained her Doula certificate from FUR doula education in Stockholm 2018.

Linda says about her work:
” My 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. I usually work with notions that are vast and transformative. Expansive, inclusive and often difficult to fully grasp. Throughout the years I’ve explored notions like the cosmos, sound, subjectivity, emotion, vibe and atmosphere as well as friendship and companionship. At the moment I’m looking at the role of play in the arts and in life.

From these notions, the work usually unfolds incrementally through a practice of imagining and collecting. I start communing with the work, living with it and getting to know it and from there I start building a whole universe. I try to ask myself, how does it feel, look, smell and sound? What does it do and what does it want?

When I’ve come that far, usually a set of sub notions will emerge, which I would say are the themes that often connect all my different works. And those are: care, togetherness and intimacy.
So in a way I think that has become my practice. I practice, care, togetherness and intimacy.
And I would also add observation to that. Making art requires receptivity, you have to observe, not just impose. You have to plant a seed and then with care watch it grow.  And so the circle is closed.” 

Photo: Rikard Nilsson