The Bureau for the Future of Choreography

The Bureau for the Future of Choreography is an apparatus, striving for collective authorship, that produces choreographies and documents. Based in New York City and with a fluctuating amount of participating artists, it engages in and arranges choreographic activities.

Some of the Bureau’s activities that Stina Nyberg have been part of include:

Score for a Lecture (2016) at the American Realness festival at Abrons Arts Center in New York. In Score for a Lecture, a sequence of speech acts choreograph the theater as a medium and institution that literally speaks. Instant collaboration reinvigorates institutional critique as a choreographed blooper. Score for a Lecture creates space to redefine the value of failure while we are inside the theater, the institution, the group, the pair and the self. In Score for a Lecture, as with all projects by The Bureau for the Future of Choreography, everyone becomes an agent of The Bureau.

Dance Marathon (2014), created in residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Councils arts center at Governors Island.

And some previous actions have been:

The Flowchart Project (2012-2013), which re-sorts hierarchies of knowledge through cooperative engagement, enthusiastic attention, and paperwork and a residency at the New Museum as part of Rethinking the Imprint of Judson Dance Theater Fifty Years Later: Movement Research in Residence (2012).

Desire Dances (2011), which occurred in public spaces and explored contexts that regulate bodies; a call to map the past fifty years in contemporary dance/choreography.