gry tingskog

bio

Gry Tingskog (they/them) makes performances in a collaborative manner, performs, teaches, organizes, writes, makes light design and dramaturgy. Their work weaves together choreography, dance, darkness, textile sculpture, technology and programming into multi-sensory and immersive experiences, presented internationally in theatres, museums and galleries.

Gry engages with dancing as something starting on the level of perception. Their work explores sensorial ambiguity, perceptual uncertainty and choreographies of attention, devising experimental set-ups to perceive what we cannot sense directly. Gry crafts large-scale interactive objects and explores them as technologies for movement, asking how choreographic parameters can be held by an object, shared through touch rather than language, and interpreted through the dancer’s sensory processing.

By crafting how various scenic mediums come together to choreograph the audience’s perception and attention in the dark, Gry explores how a dance can take place more in the body and imagination of the audience, then on stage in front of them. In this way, their works invoke situations in which imagination is not only possible, but necessary.

In 2017 Gry co-initiated INSISTER SPACE, an artist-run organisation imagining choreographic methods to rethink and reorganize artistic work in practice. They were also part of founding höjden, a trans-disciplinary workspace for artists and cultural workers in Östberga, Stockholm.

Gry is based between Stockholm, Sweden and Berlin, Germany. They hold a MA in Choreography and Performance from the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen, Germany and a BA degree in Dance Performance from DOCH/Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden. They were awarded the K3 Choreographic residency in 2025-2026, the danceWEB Scholarship in 2019, Anders Sandrews Utbildningsstipendium in 2019, DAAD 2020-2021 and DIS-TANZEN 2023.

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choreographic work

work as performer / dancer

work as dramaturg

Anna Lublina – The land speaks to me about something shared, a prayer for ancestral rhythms

2025  Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
2025  Produktionshaus Naxos, Frankfurt
2024  English Theatre Berlin

Luis Garay – Temporal Object #3 - Future Technology

2021  Produktionshaus Naxos, Frankfurt
2021  Werkstatt, Frankfurt

work as light designer

Alex Piasente-Szymański – In Recess

2025  Tanzfabrik, Berlin

Anna Lublina – The land speaks to me about something shared, a prayer for ancestral rhythms

2025  Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
2025  Produktionshaus Naxos, Frankfurt
2024  English Theatre Berlin

Anna Lublina – Undying in Yidderland

2024  MADE Festival, Gießen
2023  Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt

Amina Szecsödy – Operators

2022  Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt

Rodrigo Andreolli – Zu Verschenken

2021  Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt
2021  Theaterlabor, Gießen

texts

TECHNOMANCY - lecture performance

2025  Lecture performance of the research behind TECHNOMANCY, given at K3 Center for Choreography in Hamburg, self-published

Ravel Review

2024  Recurring writer of dance critique for the independent and artist-run initiative Ravel

The Virus and The Parasight

2024  MASKA Journal Volume XXXVIII., issue 217-218. Editor-in-chief Pia Brezavšček

Darkness Manifesto

2022  Commissioned by Weld for Kvadernalen

As disappearances appear

2021  Master Thesis, MA in Choreography and Performance, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies Gießen. Self-published.
Supervisors Prof. Dr. Bojana Kunst and Livia Piazza

Weaving patterns of hypertext

2020  Self-published

Cheating discipline and other artistic affaris

2018  Text and scores published at endfest.se POSSE Blog Takeover
2017  Excerpt published in This Container 3 ed.
2017  Bachelor Thesis, BA in Dance Performance, Stockholm University of the Arts. Supervisor Josefine Wikström

cultural policy / discourse

INSISTER SPACE

2017 – ongoing.  Co-founder and board member

INSISTER SPACE is an artist-run organisation imagining methods and ways to rethink artistic work in practice. We experiment with ways to open source knowledge and resources, ways of meeting and working together across projects, rethinking studio practice, how knowledge is developed and shared, as well as methods to collaborate in administrative work and application writing. INSISTER SPACE aims to create a broad platform for professional freelance dance artists to share, collect and reorganise artistic practices in a sustainable way. We wish to reshape the neoliberal structures in the dance field, replacing competition with collaboration and support

2023  HOFFICE, collective residency week for administrative work, SITE Stockholm (SE)
2023  HOFFICE, collective residency week for administrative work, SITE Stockholm (SE)
2023  AT ISSUE: Practice, Curating and facilitating collective residency, Weld Stockholm (SE)
2022  AT ISSUE: Practice, Curating and facilitating collective residency and performance, Skogen Göteborg (SE)
2022 AT ISSUE:Practice, Curating and facilitating collective residency and publication, Skogen Göteborg (SE)
2022  5-year anniversary, performance ritual and party, höjden Stockholm (SE)
2020  Introducing INSISTER SPACE: Talk at (Re)Union Biennial Performative Arts Meeting, Lisbon
2020  Format for sharing practices at Within Practice, MDT and höjden, Stockholm
2019  AT ISSUE: Practice, residency at Skogen, Göteborg
2019  AT ISSUE: Practice, professional daily training at höjden, Stockholm
2018  AT ISSUE: Practice, residency at Skogen, Göteborg
2018  AT ISSUE: Performing, festival at Weld, Stockholm
2018  AT ISSUE: Practice, 1 week of professional daily training at Danscentrum, Stockholm
2017  Exposition: INSISTER SPACE, launch at Weld, Stockholm

https://insisterspace.se

Rough Proposals Festival

2019  Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. 4-day festival

höjden

2018 – 2019.  Co-founder and board member

höjden is an artist driven interdisciplinary house for artistic work and production located in Östberga, Stockholm. It holds dance studios, ateliers, office spaces, a workshop and music studio

https://hojden.house

Para Institutional Models (PIM)     

2018 – ongoing

PIM is a mobile Nordic-sized art institution made in collaboration with initiatives and organisations from the Nordic countries initiated by Anders Paulin

Interim Kultur

2017 – 2018. Board member

Interim Kultur is an employment cooperative for artists within the field of dance and choreography

teaching

scholarships

education