Actress/Performance artist, educative pilgrim and a doctor in philosophy in applied theatre and drama.

Kerstin Bragby has an ongoing background as a theatre and cultural worker. Thirteen years in the internationally composed theatre group Earth Circus in the 80-to 90s that produced out- and indoor theatre for children, young and grown-ups, on their own stage in Stockholm and on tour in Sweden, the Nordic countries and Europe. On a national level Earth Circus was one of the initiators in arranging the first bigger performing art festivals in Stockholm. Cultural projects in urban areas and in schools, non-violent training and activism was part of a method for social and societal change. She also produces solo performances through conscious art experiments on themes of women identity, existential questions, culture, ecology (She hold a master’s degree in biology in her back-back).

As an educator she is since year 2000 active within as well as beyond the academy, with experience-based learning processes for individual, group and organisation inspired by the repertoire of the ensemble actor and co-creating devised processes in performing arts. In courses like “Creative retreats” and “Living life as an art”, the professional background in performing art, art-based research and education coincide with 20 years of initiated experience and teaching of Native American practises, and 10 years in a tantric tradition, ceremonial, meditative, personal developmental and yogic, know-how.

She develops hybrid forms of knowledge, in forms as poetic reports and aesthetic responses. Together with Ida Lod in Ki -Kompani she cultivates poetical improvisational- and performance practices to collaborate with many different contexts.