Heilborn has created performances and films with great success for both adults and children. Her unique way of combining text, movement, video and images, always spiced with humour, has captured the interest of audiences all over the world. She intelligently and poetically dissolves the line between seriousness and humour.<\/p>\n
Heilborn studied radio and film at the Nordic Folk High School and choreography at DOCH in Stockholm and with Anna Halprin at the San Francisco Dancers workshop. Her international success as a choreographer came with the work Potato country<\/em> 2007 and since then she has created numerous works that have been presented at festivals such as Tanz Im August, Dance Umbrella Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Potsdamer Tanztage and many more.<\/p>\n Gunilla Heilborn has also enjoyed great success as a film maker. The film How to do<\/em>, created with M\u00e5rten Nilsson and Kim Hiorth\u00f8y, won a Guldbagge Award in 2007 for best short film. The film Alaska<\/em> was awarded 'Best International Short Film' at Expresi\u00f3n en C\u00f3rto in Mexico in 2010.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gunilla Heilborn is a choreographer and film maker based in Stockholm.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":35848,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-43943","dh_artist","type-dh_artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"meta_box":{"components":[{"component_type":"embed","embed_group":{"embed_type":"video","embed_video":"235614016"}}],"grid_description":"","mobile_featured_image":false,"photo_credits":"","featured_image_position":"","linkbox":[{"linkbox_image":"40441","linkbox_heading":"\"V\u00e4rldens b\u00e4sta roman\" - Anna Karenina","linkbox_text":"Koreografen Gunilla Heilborn, regiss\u00f6ren Ragna Wei och Stefan Ingvarsson, tidigare kulturr\u00e5d i Moskva i en intervju p\u00e5 SR och P1, Godmorgon v\u00e4rlden. H\u00e4r f\u00e5r du h\u00f6ra om bakgrunden till Gunillas senaste verk 37 timmar och 3 minuter som hon beskriver som en bristf\u00e4llig kartl\u00e4ggning av Tolstoys m\u00e4sterverk Anna Karenina.","linkbox_url":"https:\/\/sverigesradio.se\/artikel\/varldens-basta-roman-anna-karenina"},{"linkbox_image":"30000","linkbox_heading":"This is Alaska","linkbox_text":"En grupp m\u00e4nniskor har flyttat till Alaska. De vill hitta ett s\u00e4tt att leva som ger en h\u00f6gre grad av frihet. Denna kortfilm av Gunilla Heilborn vann Uppsalas internationella filmfestival 2009 och blev b\u00e4sta internationella kortfilm i fictionklassen vid Expresi\u00f3n en Cort\u00e9 i Mexiko.\r\n\r\nMedverkande: Kim Hiorth\u00f8y, Louise Peterhoff, Kristiina Viiala, Henrik Vikman, Lisa \u00d6stberg. Regi:\u00a0Gunilla , M\u00e5rten Nilsson, Manus:\u00a0Gunilla Heilborn, Foto:\u00a0M\u00e5rten Nilsson, B-foto: Adam Nilsson, Ljud:\u00a0Svante Tidholm, Musik:\u00a0Kim Hiorth\u00f8y, Klippning:\u00a0M\u00e5rten Nilsson, Producent:\u00a0M\u00e5rten Nilsson, gnufilm.","linkbox_url":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/11929290"},{"linkbox_image":"29998","linkbox_heading":"Rewind","linkbox_text":"\u00c4nnu en kortfilm av Gunilla Heilborn. Den handlar om Henry som flyttar in i ett hus. Filmen blev nominerad till en Guldbagge f\u00f6r b\u00e4sta kortfilm 2003.\r\n\r\nMedverkande: Helena Franz\u00e9n, Anna K\u00e4llblad, Sandra Medina, Tove Sahlin, Staffan Eek, Garp, Jukka Korpi, Henrik Vikman, Speakerr\u00f6st: Stephen Rappaport, Regi: Gunilla Heilborn, M\u00e5rten Nilsson, Manus: Gunilla Heilborn, M\u00e5rten Nilsson, Producent: Lisbet Gabrielsson, Foto: M\u00e5rten Nilsson, Musik: Kim Hiorth\u00f8y, Koreograf: Gunilla Heilborn, Scenografi\/kostym: Katarina Wiklund, Mat: Ulla Lann\u00e9r","linkbox_url":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/11617773"},{"linkbox_image":"30003","linkbox_heading":"Danspodden Isadora","linkbox_text":"Gunilla Heilborn delar med sig av livet nu, livet d\u00e5 och hur framtiden kommer att se ut.","linkbox_url":"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/isadora-danspod\/25-virpi-pahkinen"}],"background_topbanner":"","color_topbanner":"light","overlay_topbanner":"none","gradient_topbanner":"","artist-to-event_to":["39317","45748"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansenshus.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dh_artist\/43943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansenshus.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dh_artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansenshus.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dh_artist"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dansenshus.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dh_artist\/43943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dansenshus.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansenshus.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}