DANCER, PEDAGOGUE & RESEARCHER

ONGOING WORK / PROJECTS



ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS


https://www.mdu.se/en/malardalen-university/research/research-projects/art-based-methods-for-science...

Educational Innovation Project ARMESS : Art-Based Methods for Science Education & Sustainability - 2024-2025 - MDU. Dance as a process for creative, embodied and participative learning in higher education. 

My role & current work:
Guest-lecturer / Dance pedagogue. Co-responsible for developing and conducting workshops based in creative dance on urban sustainability, in collaboration with Silvia Bruzzone (Assistant Professor in Industrial Economics and Organization) at Mälardalen University, Västerås/Sweden (autumn 2021-today).

Research publications:
Bruzzone, S. & Stridsberg, H. (2023). Dancing Urban Waters. A Posthuman Feminist Perspective on Arts-Based Practice for Sustainable Education. In M. Cozza & S. Gherardi (Eds.), The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory. Re-imagining Method in Organization Studies and Beyond. Palgrave.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376568945_Dancing_Urban_Waters_A_Posthuman_Feminist_Perspe

Conference presentations: 

Stridsberg, H. & Bruzzone, S. (2023).
Exploring Urban Sustainability through Creative Dance. Methodological Reflections. Embodying Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Workshop, 20-21 September, Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, AMU, Poznan, Poland.
Bruzzone, S. & Stridsberg, H. (2022). Dancing Urban Waters. A Posthumanist Perspective on Sustainability in Engineering EducationAfter Method in Organization Studies IV: The epistemology of practice, 16-17 June, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.



DANCE TEACHING



https://tangoqueerer.se 

Tango Queerer Stockholm : a platform for tango activities that adopt a queer-feminist and norm-critical philosophy emphasizing following and leading for all, as well as an open, inclusive and explorational attitude towards tango styles and codes.

My role & current work:
Co-founder, Dancer, Dance Teacher & Workshop Facilitator in collaboration with Malin Backström. Organizer of social dance events, tango DJ. Weekly tango classes (in collaboration with Studieförbundet Bilda) & social dance events at Studio Touch & Hälsans Hus in Stockholm. Private classes. Regular workshops in various venues such as ABF Stockholm, Kvinnohöjdens feministiska kursgård & Lillsveds folkhögskola and at festivals organized by Stockholm Pride, Tango Primavera & Tango Norte. Guest teaching for tango communities in Gothenburg and Norrköping. Tango classes for the student union at the Stockholm University of the Arts 2022-2023 and for the actors of the play Älskarinnor at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern 2019.

Research publications:

Stridsberg, H., Backström, M. & Bruzzone, S. (2021). The Double Role Tango Movement in Sweden. A Queer and/or Feminist Project? In R. Bachelor, B. Havmoller & M. Plaschinski (Eds.), Queer Tango Futures: Dancing for Change in a Post-Covid World. (Online). Birthe Havmoller / Queertangobook.org.
Stridsberg, H. (2020). Conversations sur la pédagogie féministe et le tango argentin à La Colline des femmes. Funambule (Département Danse, Université Paris 8), n°15, 105-117.

Conference presentations:
Stridsberg, H. (2018). Pédagogie(s) féministe(s) en dansePratiquer, (se) former (aux), (re)penser et questionner les pédagogies émancipatrices, June, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France.