Elinor Tollerz Bratteby is a dance artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. During the summer of 2023, she was an artist in residency at Movement Research working on her project and/and/and. She devotes her artistic practice to dance and choreography, and collaborates mainly with independent artists and groups. She works nationally and internationally, mainly in Europe, North America and East Asia.
Elinor has worked as a dancer since 2012 in the contemporary and experimental scene, and she continues to engage in dance and choreography as expanded notions. She pursues her artistic research through dance and movement, photography, writing, reading, dressing up and conversing. She is committed to experiments and the not-yet-knowing.
Proximity to local communities is a big influence in her work. She supports and gets support from networks of artists nationally in Sweden and internationally. She has been a representative in the Swedish Union and engaged in a wide range of contexts to raise the voice of dance artists in cultural politics. Her movement in between communities, organizations and various infrastructural levels becomes a link to exchange knowledge, gain common languages and share perspectives. The act of organization, whether it is about materials, colleagues or change, gives energy and relevance to her work.
Collaboration is her preferred form of working. During 2018-2022 she was part of the duo Uncover Choreography (UC) with choreographer Sanna Söderholm. Throughout that time, they presented exploratory and surprising work at the Stockholm Fringe Festival, the Swedish Institute in Paris, the platform for experimental art and music Fylkingen in Stockholm, ccap/Hallen in Farsta, Weld, Bonniers Konsthall, The Swedish Art Grants Committee and more, bringing together a wide range of artists and expressions: Newcastle based electronic music duo :zoviet*france:, poet/dancer/photographer pavleheidler, soundartist Scott Cazan, dancer/artist Nea Landin, textile artist Karin Furness, to mention a few.
Elinor has had an ongoing collaboration with the Swedish artist Éva Mag, with whom she danced in the Performa 19 Biennial commission DEAD MATTER MOVES, a 6-day long performance with 10 dancers and clay bodies at Judson Church in New York City.
Since 2013, she has been a part of Ehrstrand Dance Collective, an international and intercontinental collective of dance artists led by choreographer and teacher Julia Ehrstrand, that travels together to dance, exchange artistic ideas and engage with local audiences in the countryside.
Elinor is grateful to have learned from many collaborators and teachers: Cristina Caprioli, Anna Grip, Julia Ehrstrand, pavleheidler and Max Stone, are some of those significant people who inspire her to continue. She is also a frequent reader and currently aligns with thoughts formulated by Byung-Chul Han, Elizabeth Grosz, Olivia Laing and Jonna Bornemark.
is a dance artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. During the summer of 2023, she was an artist in residency at Movement Research working on her project and/and/and. She devotes her artistic practice to dance and choreography, and collaborates mainly with independent artists and groups. She works nationally and internationally, mainly in Europe, North America and East Asia.
Elinor has worked as a dancer since 2012 in the contemporary and experimental scene, and she continues to engage in dance and choreography as expanded notions. She pursues her artistic research through dance and movement, photography, writing, reading, dressing up and conversing. She is committed to experiments and the not-yet-knowing.
Proximity to local communities is a big influence in her work. She supports and gets support from networks of artists nationally in Sweden and internationally. She has been a representative in the Swedish Union and engaged in a wide range of contexts to raise the voice of dance artists in cultural politics. Her movement in between communities, organizations and various infrastructural levels becomes a link to exchange knowledge, gain common languages and share perspectives. The act of organization, whether it is about materials, colleagues or change, gives energy and relevance to her work.
Collaboration is her preferred form of working. During 2018-2022 she was part of the duo Uncover Choreography (UC) with choreographer Sanna Söderholm. Throughout that time, they presented exploratory and surprising work at the Stockholm Fringe Festival, the Swedish Institute in Paris, the platform for experimental art and music Fylkingen in Stockholm, ccap/Hallen in Farsta, Weld, Bonniers Konsthall, The Swedish Art Grants Committee and more, bringing together a wide range of artists and expressions: Newcastle based electronic music duo :zoviet*france:, poet/dancer/photographer pavleheidler, soundartist Scott Cazan, dancer/artist Nea Landin, textile artist Karin Furness, to mention a few.
Elinor has had an ongoing collaboration with the Swedish artist Éva Mag, with whom she danced in the Performa 19 Biennial commission DEAD MATTER MOVES, a 6-day long performance with 10 dancers and clay bodies at Judson Church in New York City.
Since 2013, she has been a part of Ehrstrand Dance Collective, an international and intercontinental collective of dance artists led by choreographer and teacher Julia Ehrstrand, that travels together to dance, exchange artistic ideas and engage with local audiences in the countryside.
Elinor is grateful to have learned from many collaborators and teachers: Cristina Caprioli, Anna Grip, Julia Ehrstrand, pavleheidler and Max Stone, are some of those significant people who inspire her to continue. She is also a frequent reader and currently aligns with thoughts formulated by Byung-Chul Han, Elizabeth Grosz, Olivia Laing and Jonna Bornemark.
