Sybrig Dokter is a choreographer and performer in the field of contemporary dance, visual arts and contemporary theatre. She has her base in the physical, choreographed, body and her works manifest in a variety of materials. Her performance work and teaching have taken her amongst others to the Baltic countries, Austria, Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia, France, Bulgaria, Russia, Scandinavia and Great Britain. With Benno Voorham she founded LAVA-Dansproduktion in 1997. Sybrig was a member of Weld Company in Stockholm from 2013 – 2022.

‘I am interested in layering of physical practices to do with synchronicity, mirror-neurons and proximity.’

Grants and stipends

Stockholm Arts Council, project grant 2010.
Swedish Arts Council, collaboration with composer, 2012.
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, work stipend in 2005, 2015, 2018, 2022 and 2024.
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, project grant 2016.
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, international cultural exchange in 2001, 2004, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2020.
Weld, Stockholm, residencies 2016, 2020.
Swedish Institute, support for projects undertaken through Lava-Dansproduktion, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016,2019, 2021.
Residency at AQB, supported by Pro Progressione (Budapest) 2017 and 2020. Residency at Açık Stüdyo, Izmir, Turkey, 2017.