anna vilhelmine wallin (pippi)
2015
2016
Anna Wallin is a movement artist, researching, writing, teaching, organising and performing.
Born in 1990 in Malmö, Sweden. Started dancing ballet at age two, then modern, 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, receiving a bronze medal at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera.
Movement has always been the central anchor in 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.
Her work is expressed and experienced through children’s performances, publications, workshops, and educational programs that investigate the nuanced relationship between the fragile and the solid in movement. She offers regular classes in C.I, contemporary dance, improvisation, and creative composition for various ages both in Sweden and abroad. Teaching at arts institutions for higher dance education, dance theatre companies, corporate clients, and numerous international festivals. In addition, she is deeply committed to develop the Swedish C.I community, launching an annual C.I program 2021, now in its fourth edition, and co-organising the Sweden Contact Fest. Beyond Sweden she has taught 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 create space for personal and artistic exploration in building a listening body. Driven to hold less, sense more and explore what we can be and build together.