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Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish dancer, choreographer and performance artist who has been active since the early 2000s. Mette Ingvartsen came into contact with the dance world at a very young age; she was a member of the Junior Company lead by the Swedish choreographer Marie Brolin Tani in Aarhus, Denmark. Since 1999, she subsequently studied in Amsterdam and Brussels, where she graduated in 2004 from the dance school P.A.R.T.S., which was founded by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Afterwards she obtained a PhD in choreography at UNIARTS / Lund University in Sweden. Its subject was the relationship between an artist's theoretical work and their artistic practice. Since 2002 Mette Ingvartsen has worked in Brussels on an oeuvre of choreographies, performances and 'living installations' that are both conceptual and very physical. Her artistic work never sets apart from research and theoretical concepts. She created her first performance, Manual Focus (2003), while still studying. After that she initiated various research projects and created a wide range of performances, including 50/50 (2004), to come (2005), Why We Love Action (2007), It’S In The Air (2008), Giant City (2009) and All the way out there... (2011). Mette Ingvartsen started to consider choreographing as a practice that not only relates to the physical body of the dancer but also to different types non-human performers and animated materials. She even takes away the dancer's body from the scene, and she shifts the hierarchy between the body and the objects in dance. In addition to her performances, Mette Ingvartsen is researching, writing and documenting artistic work. She teaches classes and workshops on developing methodologies of choreographic practices. Since 2005, she is working on everybodys, an open and collaborative project based on the principle of open source. The project aims to produce tools and techniques which can be used by artists in the creation of their work. In 2017, Mette Ingvartsen is Valeska Gert Visiting Professor at Freie Universität Berlin. During one semester, she is working with students on the Viscous Environments Project, which deals with how a so-called 'durational environment', a mix of an installation and a long-term performance, can be created using human bodies and not-human performers. As an extension of 6M1L, she co-organized the festival In-presentable 09 in Madrid, at the invitation of Juan Dominguez. On the occasion of the restaging 69 Positions and 7 pleasures at the Kaaitheater, Mette Ingvartsen organized The Permeable Stage, a performative conference on the politics of sexuality in relation to the public and private sphere.
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