Camilla Reppen

What program and subject do you teach at SKH?
I work in the Subject area for Dance Pedagogy. I am the program coordinator for the Master’s Programme Dance Education, and I also teach in independent courses and in the Bachelor's Program in Dance Pedagogy. As an artist/teacher, my teaching often takes choreography as its starting point in relation to didactic situations, pedagogical aspects of artistic processes, and how choreography and learning are connected to ethics, power, and leadership practices.

As an artist/teacher/researcher, I am interested in processes of change in higher (dance) education towards inclusive structures and content (for research output, see https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3936-6582).

Is there anything you would like to highlight in your field?
Dance education is a subject of great importance for the development of knowledge about artistic processes in general. Through didactic and pedagogical perspectives, we can highlight how learning and meaning making are enabled and/or limited through artistic work. I would particularly like to contribute to discussions on how ethics, power, and leadership operate in artistic processes and how conscious didactic choices can create more sustainable and inclusive practices.

What do you do when you are not teaching at SKH?
Outside of the university, I work as a choreographer, dancer, and teacher in the dance collective Arkeolog 8. Our work ranges from site-specific projects, participatory performing arts, community dance, digital/hybrid formats, and more traditional stage projects through themes such as archivism and contact with nature. We understand choreography as social engagement, where the artist can act as a catalyst for learning, change processes, and collaboration between individuals, groups, and activities in different sectors of society. For several years, a co-creative relationship with more-than-human life has been part of our artistic practice, which has formed the basis for the artistic research project Choreography as Nature Interpretation with internal research funding from SKH.

Combining my master's degree in educational leadership, and bachelor's degree in dance education, I am currently working on completing an independent scientific dissertation (Dr. Philos / PhD) on change in higher dance education, in the field of educational science. I am also a board member of the cultural center Gula villan in Järna, which offers residencies for professional dance and circus artists, among other things.