anna vilhelmine wallin (pippi)
2015
2016
Anna Vilhelmine Wallin
is a dance artist, researcher, teacher, and performer.
Born in 1990 in Malmö, Sweden, she began dancing ballet at age two and expanded into modern dance, jazz, tap, urban styles, martial arts, physical theatre, and gymnastics.
Growing up in a family with horses, she discovered vaulting and quickly advanced to the Swedish national team, competing worldwide and receiving a bronze medal at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera.
Movement has a has always been the central anchor in her life, eventually leading her to Contact Improvisation (C.I) in 2015 - a form that resonated deeply, allowing her varied practices to coalesce and evolve together. Since then, she has studied C.I extensively across Europe, the Middle East and Scandinavia, learning from leading practitioners and institutions, including Bewegungs-art in Freiburg, the Karelia Dance Department in Outokumpu, The Academy in Copenhagen, and DOCH Dance and Circus School in Stockholm. Her learning has been both formal and exploratory, involving global travel and in-depth exchanges with teachers and dancers. In 2022, she embarked on a postgraduate program for professional dancers, MADE (Master in Dance Education) at Stockholm University of the Arts focusing her research on the practise and theory of C.I as an evolving art form.
Currently, her work is expressed and experienced through children’s performances, publications, workshops, and educational programs that investigate the nuanced relationship between fragility and resilience in the body. She offers regular classes in C.I, contemporary dance, improvisation, and creative composition for various ages both in Sweden and abroad, working with dance theatre companies, arts institutions, corporate clients, and at numerous international festivals. In addition, she is deeply committed to develop the Swedish C.I community, launching an annual program 2021, now in its fourth edition, and co-organizing the Sweden Contact Fest. Beyond Sweden she has taught and developed collaborative projects in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel, Lebanon, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Turkey.
Weaving together a diverse spectrum of movement practices Anna is devoted to creating spaces for personal and artistic exploration in building a listening body.