Anna Koch

Anna Koch dancer/choreographer and artistic director at Weld. Here she works and presents her own artistic work and cultivates the organisation. Throughout her career, Anna has worked in a variety of international contexts. She is a frequent participant in the worlds of art and the theatre but is also actively engaged in the field of electronic music.  

During fall 2011, Anna has been working with her ongoing project Omprövning. In the spring of 2012, she will develop the project further and have a presentation in the end of March.

In December she performed One/Scratch memory (a duet with electronic musician Mats Lindström) at The Issue Project room in Brooklyn, in the festival Swedish energies. In April 2011, Anna presented the choreography Unfolding at festival:Display in the Modern Museum in Stockholm and  Weld far out West at the festival Almost out of sight  April 1-20, at Weld. In August she was invited by Dansens hus in Stockholm as the artistic coordinator for ENPARTS-Open campus.

In March 2010 Anna Koch premiered Happy To be Here, at Dansens hus in Stockholm. The piece toured to Made festival in Umeå and back for  two evenings at Weld. She also initiated the project Weld far out west, an excursion that became a performance at Gothenburg dance and theatre festival.

In 2009 she had the premiere of the duet 8.66 together with ex-Cullberg dancer Gunilla Hammar.  Anna was also touring her solo piece Scratch memory and engaged herself and nine colleagues in a site-specific work and a film "Another Pavilion". She toured the piece Inexakt with choreographer Marie Fahlin and electronic musician Mats Lindström. She also coached the project Fast Forward-movement and film in Belgrade.

In the fall -08 she participated at the Navinkifestival in Minsk and toured her solo to become Montage 3 to Art Lab in Venice. In May-08 she premiered a new performance with nine actors named "deconstructed formations 1" this piece was reworked to "deconstructed formations 2" and had a new opening the 31st of October -08. In the spring she held a workshop at the Swedish dancebiennale in Umeå. In dec/jan-07-08 Anna participated in a new production by Erika Latta(Nyc) taking place in Ljubliana, Slovenia. In the festival node.stockholm Anna collaborated with the artists Geska Helena Andersson and Robert Brecevic in the project Overklighetesinstallation at gallery HAP in Stockholm. In 2007 Anna has been touring the second part of the triptych Montage: a solo for the actor Simon Norrthon, which premiered on the 22 of November-06. Montage 2 toured to Inkonst in Malmö and to the Nordwindfestival in Berlin, where she also played the new solo To become montage 3.  In spring -07 Anna had a residency at Theatre in Motions BeiLab in Beijing. In september 07 she participated in the International performance festival Navinki in Minsk. She is also an active member of INPEX. Anna gives workshops and lectures nationally and internationally.

Anna Koch utilises various methods to create her choreographic works as can be seen in solos such as Vocoder, Duolouge, Exrpt and Same but Different. She also works with open knowledge-generative processes, a path she started on with the show Transmission (read text)– a solo consisting of movements “swapped” between 35 Swedish choreographers. In Transmission Petit for the Panacea Festival held at Stockholm’s Dansens hus, she used written instructions to provide 35 dancers with the movements for the piece. In the choreographed exhibition work Projekt Djurgårdsbrunn (a commission from Magasin 3, Stockholms konsthall) she extended the Transmission concept developing it into a site-specific work. She had a study carried out of the Magasin 3 project both as a geographical location and a social convention and then invited a large number of her colleagues to engage in individual working processes and shared workshops, finally presenting an accounting in the form of a performance at Stockholm’s Jewish Theatre. The spring of 2006 saw the premiere of her work Montage, a duet performed by Marie Fahlin and Peter Jansson.

As a dancer, Anna has worked with both swedish and international artists such as Efva Lilja, Xavier Le Roy, Michael Laub, Margareta Åsberg, Lotta Melin and most recently with Erika Latta/the WaxFactory.

Since 2005 she has collaborated with norwegian director Ole Anders Tandberg which has led to choreography for opera and theatre at the Royal opera house, the Royal dramatic theatre, the Citytheatre in Stockholm and the National theatre in Oslo.

Anna is a supervisor at the bachelor and doctorial studies at DOCH the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm.