Ami Skånberg is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker and writer. She holds a PhD in Dance from University of Roehampton. She walks slowly in urban and other spaces as a ceremonial, subversive act. She is the current Head of M.A.D.E. - Master Dance Education at the Stockholm University of the Arts, and also works at University of Gothenburg. Together with Dr Lucy Lyons, she has co-chaired Nordic Summer University Study Circle of Artistic Research. She is a board member of NOFOD (Nordic Forum for Dance), as well as the the Peer Review board of Journal of Artistic Research. Her research interests are practice-led and concern Japanese dance and philosophy, screendance, gender codified movement practice, non-hierarchical treatment of global dance techniques, and auto-ethnographic accounts from within the practice. Ami often creates stage work (solo, and collaborative) based on her embodied life story in a particular theme. Her 90 min solo performance A Particular Act of Survival received a performing arts award at Scenkonstgalan in Sweden in 2015. Recent works are Atsumori/Hero for the Noh theatre Festival in London, The laugh of the Medusa (2017), Yamamba - waltz for a wounded ancestor (2018), and Ancestor (2022). Ami makes dance films and documentaries about dance. Her debut film won an honorary mention at VidéoDanseGrandPrix in Paris 1995.