Pontus Lidberg

Born in Stockholm, Sweden to psychiatrist Lars Lidberg and psychologist Yvonne Lidberg,{{Cite news|url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/familj/dn-gratulerar-lakare-med-ratt-att-skriva-ut/|title=DN gratulerar: Läkare med rätt att skriva ut – DN.SE|date=1 March 2000|work=Dagens Nyheter|access-date=31 October 2017|language=sv-se}} Lidberg began classical ballet training at the age of four.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/sweden/1354/|title=Sweden – Nordstjernan|website=nordstjernan.com|access-date=31 October 2017}} He has a M.F.A. in contemporary performative arts from the University of Gothenburg, Academy of Music and Drama, Sweden.

Lidberg has created works for dance companies including Acosta Danza,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/arts/dance/carlos-acosta-cuba-acosta-danza-city-center.html|title=To Be a Star Carlos Acosta Had to Leave Cuba. Maybe His Dancers Won't Have To.|work=The New York Times |date=20 April 2018 |access-date=9 November 2018|language=en|last1=Seibert |first1=Brian }} BalletBoyz,{{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/apr/21/balletboyz-life-review-sadlers-wells-rabbit-fiction|title=BalletBoyz: Life review – angry rabbits v dead choreographers in bold double bill|last=Mackrell|first=Judith|date=21 April 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=31 October 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} Le Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève,{{Cite news|url=http://www.lecourrier.ch/102300/essence_du_romantisme_recadree|title=Essence du romantisme recadrée|work=LeCourrier|access-date=31 October 2017|language=fr}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.journal-laterrasse.fr/une-autre-passion-2/|title=Une autre passion – Journal La Terrasse|website=Journal La Terrasse.fr|date=31 March 2017|language=fr-FR|access-date=31 October 2017}} Les Ballets de Monte Carlo,{{Cite news|url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2015/07/18/actualidad/1437227726_596282.html|title=Tres coreógrafos de futuro en Montecarlo|last=Salas|first=Roger|date=18 July 2015|work=EL PAÍS|access-date=31 October 2017|language=es}} Miami City Ballet,{{cite web |title=Miami City Ballet’s new program shows the dialog between ballet and modern dance |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/performing-arts/article272242573.html |website=Miami Herald |access-date=17 August 2023}} Morphoses,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2012/06/29/morphoses-premiere-combines-dance-film-jacob-pillow/aveKE9hHK6HHmJrqxNXv7O/story.html|title=Morphoses premiere combines dance, film at Jacob's Pillow|work=The Boston Globe|access-date=31 October 2017}} New York City Ballet,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/arts/dance/new-york-city-ballet-review-justin-peck-pontus-lidberg.html|title=New York City Ballet's Very 21st-Century Steps|last=Macaulay|first=Alastair|year=2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=31 October 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Paris Opera Ballet,{{Cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2019/02/08/danse-un-spectre-d-emotions-au-palais-garnier_5420854_3246.html|title = Danse : Un spectre d'émotions au Palais Garnier|newspaper = Le Monde|date = 8 February 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/season-18-19/ballet/goecke-lidberg-cherkaoui|title=Goecke / Lidberg / Cherkaoui – Ballet – Season 18/19 Programming|website=Opéra national de Paris|language=en|access-date=9 November 2018}} Royal Danish Ballet,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/t-magazine/gay-male-ballet-dancers.html|title=How a Group of Gay Male Ballet Dancers Is Rethinking Masculinity|work=The New York Times |date=5 November 2018 |access-date=9 November 2018|language=en|last1=Ebershoff |first1=David }} Royal Swedish Ballet,{{Cite news|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/scenrecensioner/raymonda-pa-operan/|title="Raymonda" på Operan – DN.SE|date=1 December 2014|work=Dagens Nyheter|access-date=31 October 2017|language=sv-se}} Semperoper Ballett and Wiener Staatsballett,{{cite web |last1=Staatsoper |first1=Wiener |title=Pontus Lidberg Interview |url=https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/en/staatsoper/media/detail/news/pontus-lidberg-interview/ |website=upstream.wiener-staatsoper.at |access-date=17 August 2023 |language=en}} as well as for his own company Pontus Lidberg Dance.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/arts/dance/review-pontus-lidberg-dance-a-swirl-of-choreography-and-even-puppets-at-the-joyce-theater.html|title=Review: Pontus Lidberg Dance, a Swirl of Choreography and Even Puppets at the Joyce Theater|last=Kourlas|first=Gia|date=9 June 2015|work=The New York Times|access-date=31 October 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Pontus Lidberg Dance has been presented at venues such as The Joyce Theater,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/arts/dance/dance-in-nyc-this-week.html|title=10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend|work=The New York Times |date=18 October 2018 |access-date=8 November 2018|language=en|last1=Kourlas |first1=Gia }} The Havana International Ballet Festival{{Cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/764c7bfa-640e-11e4-bac8-00144feabdc0.html|title=Havana International Ballet Festival, Cuba – review|website=Financial Times|date=4 November 2014|access-date=31 October 2017}} The National Arts Center of Canada,{{Cite news|url=http://nac-cna.ca/en/event/8379|title=Pontus Lidberg Dance {{!}} Tue, 14 April 2015, 7:30 pm @ Babs Asper Theatre (1 Elgin Street, Ottawa)|access-date=31 October 2017|language=en}} La Biennale di Venezia{{cite web |title='Biennale di Venezia 2023', si riparte: tra teatro, danza e musica sarà un anno ricchissimo |url=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/teatro-danza/2023/04/04/news/biennale_di_venezia-394812331/amp |website=la Repubblica |access-date=17 August 2023 |language=it |date=4 April 2023}}{{cite web |title=Biennale Danza 2023 {{!}} Pontus Lidberg – On the Nature of Rabbits |url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/dance/2023/dance-performances/pontus-lidberg-nature-rabbits |website=La Biennale di Venezia |access-date=17 August 2023 |language=en |date=11 April 2023}} and Festival Oriente-Occidente in Rovereto, Italy.{{Cite news|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2018/09/02/la-via-della-seta-e-fatta-di-gomma63.html?refresh_ce|title=La via della seta è fatta di gomma – la Repubblica.it|work=Archivio – la Repubblica.it|access-date=9 November 2018|language=it}}

In 2016 he was commissioned by Library of Congress to create a new work for the Martha Graham Dance Company, as the centerpiece for a celebration marking the Library's 90th anniversary as a presenter of the performing arts.{{Cite news|url=https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2016/16-030.html|title="Martha Graham at the Library" Festival Celebrates Historic Library of Congress Dance Commissions|work=The Library of Congress|access-date=31 October 2017|language=en}}

Lidberg has been Artist-in-Residence at Harvard,{{Cite web|url=https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/people/pontus-lidberg|title=Pontus Lidberg|website=ofa.fas.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=1 November 2017}} Headlands Center for the Arts,{{Cite news|url=http://www.headlands.org/artist/pontus-lidberg/|title=Pontus Lidberg |work=Headlands Center for the Arts|access-date=1 November 2017|language=en-US}} Baryshnikov Arts Center,{{Cite web|url=http://bacnyc.org/residencies/resident/pontus-lidberg|title=Pontus Lidberg|website=bacnyc.org|language=en|access-date=1 November 2017}} a choreography fellow at New York City Center,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nycitycenter.org/events-tickets/choreography-fellowship/|title=NY City Center – Choreography Fellowship}} and a fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2018/may/the-center-for-ballet-and-the-arts-at-nyu-announces-2018-19-fell.html|title=the-center-for-ballet-and-the-arts-at-nyu-announces-2018-19-fell}} He received a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/pontus-lidberg/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Pontus Lidberg}}

He was the artistic director of Danish Dance Theatre between 2018 and 2022.{{cite web |title=Danish Dance Theatre – New Artistic Director for Danish Dance Theatre |url=https://www.danskdanseteater.dk/en/new-artistic-director-for-danish-dance-theatre/ |website=danskdanseteater.dk |access-date=17 August 2023}}{{cite web |title=Dansk Danseteater får ny kunstnerisk leder |url=https://politiken.dk/navne/art9161915/Dansk-Danseteater-f%C3%A5r-ny-kunstnerisk-leder |website=Politiken |access-date=17 August 2023 |language=da-DK |date=2 February 2023}} His choreography "Roaring Twenties" opened the 2022 Montpellier Danse Festival.{{cite web |title=Pontus Lidberg, le phénomène de la danse venu du Nord|url=https://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Spectacles/Pontus-Lidberg-le-phenomene-de-la-danse-venu-du-Nord-1811094 |website=Paris Match |access-date=17 August 2023}}

In 2007, Lidberg directed The Rain, a film featuring Alicia Vikander that takes place in a ceaseless rainfall. The New York Times wrote: "Memorably The Rain illustrates what filmed dance can say that staged dance cannot".{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/arts/dance/10came.html|title=Short Dance Films at the New Museum of Contemporary Art|last=Macaulay|first=Alastair|date=10 November 2008|work=The New York Times|access-date=1 November 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

His subsequent film Labyrinth Within, featured Lidberg himself, former New York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan and Giovanni Bucchieri. It won the 2012 Jury Prize for Best Picture at the Dance on Camera Festival in New York City.{{Cite news|url=http://www.dancefilms.org/film-items/labyrinth-within/|title=Labyrinth Within|date=5 December 2011|work=Dance Films Association|access-date=3 November 2017|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.dancemagazine.com/when-the-camera-is-your-partner-2306891631.html|title=When the Camera Is Your Partner|date=26 March 2012|work=dancemagazine|access-date=3 November 2017|language=en}} During his 2012 tenure as resident artistic director of Morphoses, Lidberg developed the film into an hourlong work of live performance and film titled Within (Labyrinth Within), premiering at the 2012 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

His third film, Written on Water, premiered in 2021 at Le Festival International du Film sur l'Art in Montréal. Filming began in Paris in 2019 after a successful Kickstarter fundraising of £30,835.{{cite web|work=Kickstarter|title=Written on Water|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pontuslidbergdance/written-on-water-a-new-dance-film}} Starring Aurélie Dupont, Alexander Jones and Lidberg himself, it is an 81-minute feature film about an artist whose happy and comfortable married life is upended when she unexpectedly falls in love with someone else. Written on Water aims to convey the drama of desire and the turmoil of the protagonist's inner life through dance, evocative cinematography, and music.{{cite web |title=Written on Water |url=https://lefifa.com/en/catalog/written-on-water |website=International Festival of Films on Art |access-date=17 August 2023|language=en-CA}}

• On the Nature of Rabbits, La Biennale di Venezia (2023){{cite web |title='Biennale di Venezia 2023', si riparte: tra teatro, danza e musica sarà un anno ricchissimo |url=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/teatro-danza/2023/04/04/news/biennale_di_venezia-394812331/ |website=la Repubblica |access-date=17 August 2023 |language=it |date=4 April 2023}}{{cite web |title=Biennale Danza 2023 {{!}} Pontus Lidberg – On the Nature of Rabbits |url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/dance/2023/dance-performances/pontus-lidberg-nature-rabbits |website=La Biennale di Venezia |access-date=17 August 2023 |language=en |date=11 April 2023}}
• Petrichor, Miami City Ballet (2023)
• Roaring Twenties, Danish Dance Theatre (2022){{cite web |title=Les chorégraphies frissonnantes de Pontus Lidberg en vedette à Montpellier Danse |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2022/06/16/les-choregraphies-frissonnantes-de-pontus-lidberg-en-vedette-a-montpellier-danse_6130640_3246.html |website=Le Monde |access-date=17 August 2023 |language=fr |date=16 June 2022}}{{cite web |title=Pontus Lidberg, le phénomène de la danse venu du Nord |url=https://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Spectacles/Pontus-Lidberg-le-phenomene-de-la-danse-venu-du-Nord-1811094 |website=Paris Match |access-date=17 August 2023 |language=fr |date=11 June 2022}}{{cite web |title=Pontus Lidberg, l'oiseau libre de Montpellier Danse |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/pontus-lidberg-l-oiseau-libre-de-montpellier-danse-20220612 |website=Le Figaro |access-date=17 August 2023 |language=fr |date=12 June 2022}}
• Centaur, Danish Dance Theatre (2020), winner of Lumen Prize Nordic Award{{cite web |title=Winners Archive |url=https://www.lumenprize.com/winners-archive |website=The Lumen Prize |access-date=17 August 2023}}
• Between Dogs and Wolves, Wiener Staatsoper Ballett (2020)
• Les Noces, Paris Opera Ballet (2019)
• Siren, Pontus Lidberg Dance and Danish Dance Theatre (2018)
• Paysage, Soudain, La Nuit, Acosta Danza (2018)
• Une Autre Passion, Le Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève (2017)
• The Shimmering Asphalt, New York City Ballet (2017)
• Woodland, Martha Graham Dance Company (2016)
• Rabbit, Balletboyz (2016)
• Summer's Winter Shadow, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo (2015)
• Little Match Girl Passion, Westminster College Choir (2015)
• Untitled, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company (2015)
• SNOW, Pontus Lidberg Dance (2013, revised 2015)
• Raymonda, Royal Swedish Ballet (2014)
• Im Anderen Raum, Semperoper Ballett Dresden (2013)
• Stream, Oregon Ballet Theatre (2013)
• Giselle, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève (2012) Theater Basel (2022)''{{cite web |title=Giselle, Ballet {{!}} Theater Basel |url=https://www.theater-basel.ch/en/giselle |website=www.theater-basel.ch |access-date=17 August 2023 |language=en}}
• Within (Labyrinth Within), Morphoses (2012)
• Faune, Pontus Lidberg Dance (2011)
• Vespertine, Morphoses (2010)
• Warriors, Pontus Lidberg Dance (2010)
• Exit, Pursued by a Bear, Royal Danish Ballet (2010)
• Luminous, Beijing Dance Theatre (2009)
• Tactile Affinity, Stockholm 59° North: Soloists of The Royal Swedish Ballet (2009)
• Heart of Silk, Skånes Dansteater (2009)
• Transformations, NorrDans (2008)
• Metamorphose one, Morphoses the Wheeldon Company (2008)
• Light in a Night's Coat, Norwegian National Ballet (2005)
• Duet for Dancer and Pianist, Pontus Lidberg Dance (2004)

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• [http://www.lidberg.se/pontus Official website]
• [https://vimeo.com/pontuslidbergdance Pontus Lidberg Vimeo]

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