Salka Ardal Rosengren is a dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm. A graduate of P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, she has performed internationally in works by Daniel Linehan, Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Boris Charmatz, Sarah Vanhee, Tino Sehgal, Gunilla Heilborn, Malin Élgan, Rosalind Goldberg, Liz Kinoshita, and Björn Säfsten. Alongside her performance work, she has co-created pieces with Mikko Hyvönen (Trash Talk), Nicholas Hoffman (The Thing with a Hook), and Andrew Hardwidge (Subbodybodysub). In 2021, she completed an MA in New Performative Practices at Stockholm University of the Arts. Following her studies, she created Lasting Figures, presented at Weld, Flock Festival, Atalante, and HOROS, and scheduled for a national tour with Riksteatern in autumn 2025.
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WHAT DOES THE SITE RESIDENCY ENABLE YOU TO DO?
― I hope it will ground myself and my work for the year to come by allowing longer explorations. I wish it will be a collegial space where I can work on my own among others as well as sharing and taking part of the other artist’s practices. A context for continuity and persistence.
WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT?
― At the moment I’m starting out a new process, a new piece, that deepens my explorations of social dance and the socialness in dancing. My focus is on the phenomena of ‘play’ and ‘playing’ and of ‘danslekar’ (dancing games) — which, until quite recently, were not confined to children but practiced across ages. Alongside this, I am researching my own family history, tracing how embodied behaviors, gestures and ways of speaking have been passed and carried through generations.
I’m also dreaming of becoming a fluent tap dancer.
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO FURTHER DEVELOP DURING YOUR RESIDENCY AT SITE?
― I want to bring more structure and sustainability to my freelance practice, while having a good time. I want to develop my artistic methods and strengthen my skills to lead myself and others through the process of creating a production.