MEDIATHEK

IRÉNE HULTMAN is native of Sweden and a New York based choreographer. From 1983-1988 she was a member of the Trisha Brown Company. In 1988 she created Iréne Hultman Dance and received national and international recognition for work spanning fifteen years, of which several premiered at The Joyce Theater and Danspace Project St. Mark's Church in NYC. She has choreographed seven Opera Productions including Mozart's Don Giovanni for Norrlands Operan, Sweden and The Magic Flute for Drottningholms Slottsteater,Sweden. Her commissions includes Firebird for Gothenburg Opera Ballet and I Find Comfort for Pina Bausch Company 2 (FTS), Germany. She has also choregraphed musicals and cabaret's including South Pacific for Malmö Opera och Musik Teater and A Touch of Kurt Weil for Kultur Huset, in Stockholm. She is the co-Founder of Järna-Brooklyn, a Swedish-American cultural entity that encourages artistic experimentation and exchange and a founding member of the multi-media collective "Fire Work" in Stockholm. Hultman is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography and a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Award among others. Ms. Hultman serves on Danspace Project's Artist Advisory Board and on The Bessie Committee (New York City Dance and Performance Award). Ms. Hultman continues her involvement with Movement Research and other independent art organizations in NYC. (www.movementresearch.org)