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Work title: Director of Arts School, Assistant Professor in Dance Pedagogy, on artistic ground
Work place/organisation: Sigtuna Arts School in the Municipality of Sigtuna
Beata Alving is the Director of Sigtuna Arts School, which offer all children and youth arts-based activities of high quality, in their leisure time. She is also Assistant Professor in Dance Pedagogy.
Beata is a Flamenco dancer with 15 years of artistic practice with live performances where the collaboration with musicians always has been central. Head Teacher of Flamenco Dance at DOCH School of Dance and Circus (now Stockholm University of the Arts, UNIARTS) 2003-2012 and more than 20 years of experience teaching Flamenco at different levels.
Project leader, initiator and/or part of the project group of different projects and conferences that has aimed towards inclusion, different functionalities and challenges of body norms. Among others the transnational Erasmus, Strategic Partnership-project, Next Move, a collaboration with Språng that resulted in the course Dance Didactics for Different Conditions of Functionalities at DOCH/Uniarts and the conference exChange Perspectives that was held at DOCH/Uniarts and Dansens hus 2017.
Led Stockholm University of the Arts´ work with developing education within Kulturskoleklivet, a governmental project aiming for educating teachers for the Municipal Music and Arts Schools where the notion of inclusion is a central part.
Since 2021 part of the Swedish Arts Council advisory board regarding issues concerning the Municipal Music and Arts Schools where questions on functionality and accessibility are central.
– Share Music´s work challenges the norms of society and provides a platform for critical discussions on the inequality in the artistic field. Share Music´s work makes changes possible. It opens up for and gives access to different artistic perspectives, to different bodies. This work is central to make art, as a democratic right, accessible to everybody.
Photo: Kari Kohvakka
