Rebecca Hilton

Rebecca Hilton is an Australian born dance person living in Stockholm. She is Professor of Choreography for the research profile area Site, Event, Encounter, at the Stockholm University of the Arts. Her research environments are  inter art form, transdisciplinary, and collaborative with a focus on unfolding relationships between embodied practices, oral traditions and choreographic systems. Her ongoing project GROUPNESS (2000-) manifests as a series of long-term artistic research residencies situated in universities, hospitals, dance companies, community groups, friendship circles and family units in Australia, Korea, Mexico, Argentina and Sweden etc. She is an artistic researcher in the context of DöBra, a Karolinska Institute research program exploring experiences of and relationships to death, dying and grieving in Sweden. Hilton has contributed to a range of publications: Routledge Dance Studies Reader (UK), the Swedish Book of Dance History (Sweden), Movement Research Journal, Public Health Journal (US), Sarma, Oralsite (Belgium), Writings on Dance, Dancehouse Diary, Performance Paradigm (Australia) etc. She has contributed chapters to several anthologies, most recently Bare Bodies – Thresholding Life, de Gruyter (2023) and co-edited the collections Researching in/As Motion, Nivel/Teak (2019), and Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond dance, Routledge (2024).