Sten Rudstrøm is a performer/writer who creates solo and collaborative dance/theater/music works. He gained his early performance art experience in Berlin in 1985, producing several solo works and forming the site-specific movement/music/art band Another Slice of RD. Returning to the United States in 1986, he formed the group Infantile Dance Baby Theater in Minnesota. After attending California Institute of the Arts, Rudstrøm began collaboration with Stokley Towles and Ernie Lafky on a work entitled Behind Every Great Man Is A Thin Boy Struggling To Get Out, which received funding from the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, and was subsequently produced in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Chicago.
Arriving in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1990, Rudstrøm studied with Ruth Zaporah, Sara Shelton-Mann, Tracey Rhoades, Debbie Taylor, and Julie Kane, Jess Curtis, Keith Hennessy and has performed in San Francisco at Theater Artaud, Footwork/Dancer's Group, New Performance Gallery, and The Marsh. He was a 1995-97 Artist-In-Residence at ODC/SF Performance Gallery. In 1996, he produced, directed and performed in Theater of Cruelty; a critically acclaimed show based on the life and writings of Antonin Artaud. In Berlin in 2000, he co-founded the site-specific dance/theater company adapt with Shinichi Momo Koga, Minako Seki, Nils Willers, Yael Karavan and Yuko Kaseki. With Koga and Kaseki, he created inkBoat's Onion, premiered at Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco, in 2001.
Since 2002, he has collaborated with Sabine van der Tann on a series of park bench improvisations and her latest production, Vergiss Nicht Mimi, 2004. He currently resides in Berlin where he teaches, performs, creates solo works and collaborations. He performs and teaches internationally at venues including Dixon Place, Dancers’ Group, Highways, LACE, Splinter Group, St. Mark's Church, Boulder Art Center, Chisenhale, Independent Dance, Dock 11, K77, and Tanzfabrik/Berlin.
For the last fifteen years, Sten Rudstrøm has been working extensively with Ruth Zaporah, developer of the improvisational performance training process Action Theater, and was a decisive influence on her book, Action Theater, The Improvisation of Presence. He has taught throughout the United States and Europe.
His workshops are high-energy, articulate and promote the development of stronger performance skills. His training techniques, derived from work with solo artists and ensembles, expand the awareness of the performer’s whole body instrument. Action Theater, devised by Ruth Zaporah, is a physical theater training that explores moment to moment awareness. All of the classes are improvisation based and movement oriented.
For more detailed class descriptions visit the websites: www.stenrudstrom.com or www.actiontheater.com
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