Ami Skånberg

Dance

Assistant Professor

Stockholm University of the Arts

Ami Skånberg, PhD in Dance from University of Roehampton, is a performer and artistic researcher. She is the current Head of M.A.D.E. -Master Dance Education at the Stockholm University of the Arts, and also works at University of Gothenburg. She has co-chaired Nordic Summer University Study Circle of Artistic Research. She is a board member of NOFOD (Nordic Forum for Dance Research), as well as the Peer Review board of Journal of Artistic Research. She has held keynotes at Stockholm University of the Arts, Latvian Academy of Music and Dance, University of Philippines, Royal College of Art (UK) and University of Bologna. Her research interests are practice-led and concern Japanese dance, screendance, gender codified movement practice, non-hierarchical treatment of global dance techniques, and auto-ethnographic accounts from within the practice. Ami creates stage work, dancefilms and documentaries about dance. A collection of her films are released by Njutafilms. She is a Doctor of slow walking with her thesis Suriashi as Experimental Pilgrimage in Urban and Other Spaces.