Sten Rudstrom
Parkstrasse 15 A
13086 Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)30 6959 8848
Mobile: +49 (0)160 106 2309
Email: info@stenrudstrom.com
DOB 14 May 1960
Education
1992 M.F.A Creative Writing/Poetry
The Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO, USA
1989 M.F.A Fine Art/Performance
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
1982 B.S. Chemistry/Mathematics
University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, USA
1990 – present
Action Theater™ Senior Teacher, over 20 years of study with Ruth Zaporah — annual 10 day training, 6 month long intensive trainings, 3 month training, 5 month training, weekly instruction, California, New Mexico
Trainings & Workshops:
Contemporary Dance & Theater: Julyen Hamilton, Kirstie Simson, Stefanie Maher, Jerome Bel, Felix Ruckert, Jess Curtis, Yuko Kaseki, Minako Seki, Anna Halprin, Nita Little, Nancy Stark-Smith
Roy Hart Voice Work:Rossignol, David Goldsworthy, Carol Mendelson, Saule Ryan;
Viewpoints: Ilka Metzner;
Alexander Technique: Babette Markus
Somatics, Body-Mind Centering® & Laban/Bartenieff: Satu Palokangas
Meditation & Contemplative Arts: meditation workshops Shambhala, daily Vipassana practice; yoga training with Beate Cuson, Detlev Alexander
Teaching
The Discipline of Improvisation — one year training in the embodied practice of improvisation
This 360 hr training consists of two month-long intensives, six 1-hour ensemble performances, seven workshops in specific aspects of physical improvisation, ten hours of personal coaching, a required meditation practice and concludes with a 30-minute solo performance.
The Core of Expression — one week workshop of embodied improvisation practice using Laban/Bartenieff, Alexander Technique, alignment work, and experiental anatomy, developed with Satu Palokangas, CLMA, CSMT/E
Annual August Improvisation Intensive — four week improvisation training based on the model pioneered by Ruth Zaporah, combining contemplative awareness work with improvisation practice
Annual February Performance Tactics Training — two week improvisation and directing training employing daily meditation and writing practice
Dancing in the Brain: Improvisation & Habit — experimental training method bridging improvisation/somatics/Action Theater and neurological research in conjunction with the Champlimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal (in development)
Other teaching:
2010 – present, Annual Guest Faculty
RITS, School for Audio-Visual and Performing Arts
Erasmus Hogeschool, Brussels, Belgium
2010 – present, Annual Guest Faculty
Danscentrumjette, Brussels, Belgium
2010 – present, Annual Guest Faculty
HMDK, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt, Germany
2008 – present, Guest Faculty
MIME Centrum, Berlin, Germany
2012 Independent Dance, London, England, UK
2011 Lonely in the Rain Dance Festival, Joensuu, Finland
2011 Noore Tantsu Festival, Viljandi, Estonia
2011 Chorescence – Association for Contemporary Dance, Grenoble, France
2008/2009 TEAK, Theater Academy, Helsinki, Finland
MA Dance & Theater Pedagogy
2009 to present Action Theater™ 2 Week Performance Intensive, Berlin, Germany
2008 Ponderosa Dance Festival, Stolzenhagen, Germany
2007 – 2010 Annual Guest Faculty
Dartington College of the Arts, Totnes, England, UK
2007 TanzFabrik, Berlin, Germany
2006 Escapade Improvisation Festival, London, England, UK
2004 to present annual Action Theater™ Month long Intensive, Berlin, Germany
numerous workshops in cities across Europe and USA
Selected Artistic Work
2014
Improvisation # 195: Sparrows — solo improvisation, Freiform Frankfurt Improvisation Festival, Frankfurt, Germany
Duets w/Andrew Morrish, Sten Rudstrom & Peter Trotman, ImproExchange, Berlin, Germany
2013
Improvisation # 169: Ship of Headless Souls — solo improvisation, ImproExchange, Berlin, Germany
2012
Improvisation #168: Crushed Flowers — solo improvisation, Danscentrumjette, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Improvisation #167: The Little One — solo, evening length improvisation, Joensuu City Theater, Joensuu, Finland
Improvisation # 164: There’s A Package — solo, evening length improvisation, Danscentrumjette, Brussels, Belgium
White Walls & Electricity #3 — director, improvisation ensemble performance, TanzFabrik, Berlin, Germany
2010
Marathon of Empty Bowls —ensemble evening length improvisation performance, Railroad Performance, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Improvisation #63: Sheila is blind — solo, evening length improvisation, TanzWerk, Bremen, Germany
The Duets Project -Episode # 2:Improvisations from the South Stream, w/ Owen Walker — a multidisciplinary improvisation performance series working with a variety of improvisers from the contemporary improvisation world, Temescal Arts, Oakland, CA
White Walls & Electricity #2 — director, improvisation ensemble performance, TanzFabrik, Berlin, Germany
EAT: Busted Leg —evening length ensemble improvisation, TanzFabrik, Berlin, Germany
2009
The Duets Project—Episode # 1: w / Andrew Morrish, TanzFabrik, Berlin, Germany
White Walls & Electricity — Instructor/Director, 8-week physical theatre improvisation project with TEAK Masters students, 5 performances, Theater Academy of Helsinki (TEAK), Helsinki, Finland
EAT: I’ve Never Been So Popular —evening length ensemble improvisation, TEAK, Helsinki, Finland
Darkness at Halfmast— duet improvisation w/Andrew Morrish, Ponderosa Dance Festival, Stolzenhagen, Germany
EAT: Grass grows deep —evening length ensemble improvisation, Notafe Dance Festival, Viljandi, Estonia
2008
c(H)ord — performer/writer/collaborator in physical theater dance work by Shinichi Iova-Koga, inkBoat, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007
Ich Herz Berlin — evening length duet on the Americanization of Germany, with Stephanie Maher, TanzFabrik, Berlin, Germany, Eisfabrik Theater, Hannover, Germany
2006
Springtime(#43) — Number 43 in a series of solo improvisations starting in the year 2000, involving movement, text and voice, Shift Festival of Improvisation, Coventry, UK
2005
The Crossing — Director of large scale, outdoor site-specific group dance/theatre improvisation with 50+ performers, Carleton College of Arts, Northfield, MN
Ensemble Project — Director of an physical theatre improvisation ensemble pilot project involving performers from England, Hungary & Germany, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, UK
Moment to Moment — Director/performer, an annual ensemble improvisation project involving an international group of dancers & actors, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin
2004
Vergiss Nicht Mimi — Assistant Director, dance/theatre production, 6 member ensemble, based on the novel Die Krokodile by António Lobo Antunes , Theater Zerbrochene Fenster, Berlin
2003
Way to the Hidden Garden — performer, site-specific outdoor Butoh dance/theatre performance in sculpture park, Sapporo Art Park, Sapporo, Japan
2002
Onion — Performer/Co-Developer, physical theater dance work, Yerba Buena Center for Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Park Bank Series — series of improvisation duets with Sabine von der Tann, various outdoor locations in Berlin
1996
Theater of Cruelty — director/performer, ensemble dance theatre piece based on the writings and life of Antonin Artaud, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA, USA
Other Collaborations
InkBoat, Physical Theater & Dance, company member, collaborator in award winning productions, www.inkBoat.com
Action Theater, The Improvisation of Presence, Ruth Zaporah, North Atlantic Press, copy and line editor
EAT, European Action Theater Ensemble, founder, 5 member international improvisation ensemble; Kate Hilder, Sabine von der Tann, Peter Krempelsetzer, Andres Noormets
Streugut, founding member of Berlin-based improvisation group w/Heide Moldenhauer, Ingo Reulecke, Zufit Simon, Alexander Frangenheim, Martin Clausen
Adapt, founding member of site-specific dance/theater company with Shinichi Momo Koga, Minako Seki, Nils Willers, Yael Karavan and Yuko Kaseki
Digital Works
www.stenrudstrom.com (currently in the process of redesign)