Pontus Pettersson is a Swedish artist, choreographer, dancer and curator based in Stockholm, working in the expanded field of choreography, visual arts and contemporary dance.
Petterssons unique style is always a mix of practices and genres, where text, objects, sculptures, and choreographic instructions are always a part of the whole piece. The work ranges from fortune telling, cat practicing, writing poetry, making festivals to dancing. It is a love for dancing and movement with a particular interest in made and found objects that create choreographies in between subject and object, spectator and performer, where hospitality and temporality can be seen as two major choreographic and artistic principles, as well as more open fields of study such as poetry and water.
Working professionally as a dancer since his graduation from the Danish National School of Contemporary Dance in Copenhagen 2007, Pontus embarked on a diverse and spread out career working with world class choreographers such as Ohad Naharin and Deborah hay to name a few. Very early he started making his own work and has continuously shifted between roles inside of the larger spectrum of arts, dancing, creating, organizing, writing, teaching etc. Among his latest work you find the auto-fictive accordion solo A Dog Called Drama (Weld, 2022), the choreographic installation Pancor Poetics (Shedhalle 2023) The dance performance MOPA - The Last Stand (Sky) (MDT 2023)
Pontus has throughout his career worked on situations where inviting other artists has been a crucial aspect of understanding his work in a greater whole as well as working for a broader field of expressions and inclusion. Projects like the dance and performance festival My Wild Flag and his latest workshop project Delta , hospitality being one of his main conceptual concerns, seen as a choreographic principal for dance/art to emerge. Pontus holds two masters, one in choreography from SKH, and one in visual arts at Konstfack.