Throughout the month of June, we are pleased to welcome dance artists Line Jonsdotter and Liza Tegel in residency at Köttinspektionen, selected through our open call. The residency offers time and space for artistic exploration, with a focus on each artist’s choreographic process. The residency concludes with a public sharing on Friday, June 27.
Line Jonsdotter, based in Uppsala, works from within hip hop’s movement vocabulary and culture — not as a theme, but as a method. In her practice, she explores how the philosophy, techniques, and community of hip hop can be translated into choreographic tools without losing their integrity.
Liza Tegel works with the concept of planned obsolescence as a scenic and poetic model. Through dance, text, and humor, she investigates ideas of transience, consumption, and the ephemeral presence of dance in time. Her work moves at the intersection of body, language, and that which is already disappearing.
About the artists
Line Jonsdotter is based in Uppsala and works with dance and performance both locally and around Sweden. Educated in the tradition of hiphop, the base and philosophy of Line’s choreographic practice is deeply rooted in hiphop specifically and street styles generally. In 2023 she presented her first solo performance Underjord and together with the artist collective Watch me bake, she is a strong advocate for dancers and their audiences in Uppsala. Since 2022 Watch me bake produces everything from productions to community events with the common goal of offering interesting movement based art in a way that is accessible, attractive and relevant.
Liza Tegel (b. 1996) is a choreographer, dancer, and poet, raised in both northern and southern Sweden and currently based in Sweden. She holds a BA in Conceptual Performing Arts from Malmö Theatre Academy and studied contemporary dance at the New Education for Contemporary Dance.
Her professional experience includes commissions from Norrdans (Härnösand), New Education for Contemporary Dance (Härnösand), Elise Vigier/Leslie Kaplan (Rennes/Paris), and Dans i Blekinge. Her poetry has been published by Anti Editör (Malmö), Cycle Press (Stockholm), Pralin Magasin (Stockholm), L’amour – La Mort (Stockholm), and Anomi tidskrift (Stockholm).
Her most recent project, Slovenia Dreams, has been developed in residencies with Dans i Blekinge and in collaboration with dance students at New Education for Contemporary Dance. In Slovenia Dreams, she explores dance, choreography, and poetic writing through the lens of ballet vocabulary — with an emphasis on “vocabulary” in relation to words, the wordless, the body’s humor, and imagination.
