Working at the crossroads of theatrical presentation, exhibition-based contexts, and public art modalities, Michael Helland makes creative interventions aimed to foster social connectivity and help communities face the dark uncertainty of the future. His research-in-action RECESS (Ritual Experience Concept Event Spa Show) has resulted in RECESS: Dance of Light (2016) – a one-hour theatrical intervention at Abrons Arts Center in New York, RECESS: ZSenne Salon (2017) – a two-week pop-up urban sanctuary at ZSenne art lab in Brussels, and RECESS: Becoming Crystalline (2018) – an immersive workshop at Gropius Bau in Berlin. As a Brussels-based dance artist, Helland has performed with Maria Hassabi, Christian Bakalov, Thomas Proksch, Isabel Lewis, Tino Sehgal, Daniel Linehan, Heather Kravas, Xavier Le Roy, and Eleanor Bauer, among others. Additional projects include works with Yan Duyvendak, Marina Abramović, Roseanne Spradlin, and Big Art Group. In 2019 he facilitated the Temporary Body Worker Union at Workspacebrussels and graduated from the Conscious Living yoga teacher training program at Yyoga in Brussels. Helland holds degrees in Dance and in Community, Environment, and Planning from the University of Washington in Seattle.
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