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Helena Jonsdottir  Iceland/ Belgium. Choreographer/ Director, filmmaker, video artist, teacher. lectures/workshops about physical film and theatre.

Helena Jonsdottir studied at the National Theatre Ballet School of Iceland, with additional studies at Alvin Ailey, New York. She has performed in and choreographed countless productions for television, film, music videos and the stages. Helena has also written, choreographed and directed many dance films, including Breaking voices (2002) and Zimmer which won the IV. Videotanzpreis 2003/2004 of SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne, Another / Teine co-produces by Arte, ETV, SVT, YLE, NRK. Winner of 1 prize at the Cinnesonne Film Festival Paris 2005.

Besides being recognized internationally the last years for her work in Scandinavia, UK and USA – in 2003 she was nominated as Best Choreographer at the Music Video Production Association Awards, Los Angeles – Helena Jonsdottir has been highly respected in Iceland for many years as one of the leading contemporary choreographers and artist both for television and stage.

Open Source won the first prize in the Icelandic Dance/Theatre awards in June 2003. Since then Helena has further developed the piece and made an Irish version of it, which was premièred at the Galway Arts Festival 2004. Helena has also created a new full-length version of Open Source for the Iceland Dance Company at the Reykjavík City Theatre in 2005- 08. Among other festivals it opened the Guangdong modern dance festival, China with Icelandic Dance Company and that version will be performed at the Reykjavik City Theatre autumn 2007 then it went to Brussels, Belgium at the BOZAR in 2008. The piece deals with the idea. Whose is the idea? Every individual is influenced by everything and everyone, and has at the same time the possibility to influence others. Episodes/Tímar a new work from Helena a Physical theatre - Gesamtkunstwerk, created for the Icelandic Dance Company, touring Europe 2014-16.

Visual art; a installation project “ Freeze” in Alaska (http://www.freezeproject.org/) organized by the Alaska Design Forum and the International Gallery of Contemporary Art and older visual art projects like Hinterland is a collection of artists projects which primarily take place along the banks of the River Trent in Nottingham. The initiative was launched in September 2006 curated by Jennie Syson. Contemporary art - traveling exhibitions "100 artist see god" curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston. - ICA London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, CA and more.

Beside of the creative projects Helena teaches regular professor at the Art academy of Iceland and at the Icelandic film school, CPA - visual and Performance art at the University of Gothenburg. among giving lectures and workshops abroad such as University of dance in Stockholm, Sweden and The University of Ulster in Ireland. 2010 - 2012 the artistic director of ECA network, physical cinema workshops, 16 departments, 7 National art academies in the Nord. (Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia). Lectures and workshops in Physical cinema, Physical theatre, words into movement/ movement into words: "Get out of the hole into the whole".  For more information www.this.is/helena - Vimeo Helena Jonsdottir, mediadans@this.is