Jens Bjerregaard

Guest Teacher

(Denmark)

Trained at the Laban Centre (UK), Bjerregaard has been active in dance since 1992 and established in 1998, the award-winning ensemble Urban Elves. In 2005, Bjerregaard founded Mancopy and developed an unconventional structure welcoming collaborations with artists from all over the world. In 2007, he founded Archauz, the first Choreographic Centre in Denmark, where he curated festivals, organized choreography competitions and outreach programs. He has been choreographing for companies, curating and creating opportunities for artists and been jury member on several international competitions. For the past 5 years, Bjerregaard has been working out of Beirut. He is currently choreographer on “So you think you can dance” TV Show, in its first edition in the Arab World. In early 2015 Jens established Jens Bjerregaard/Aurora Borealis that serves as a new platform for his artistic work. Bjerregaard practices dance as an abstract, transcendent form of expression. He has persistently followed his own choreographic direction. His style is spellbinding and displays a certain ‘Scandinavian feel’, based on a consciousness of form and visual design.