Marika Hedemyr, the artistic director of

 Choreosound 09, is a Swedish choreographer and dancer in contemporary dance, educated at Laban Centre London (1999). In spring 2000 she returned to Sweden and started Crowd Company.

She finds inspiration in pedestrian movements, non verbal communication and challenges the borders as well as places for dance performances. She currently shares her time between freelance engagements and her own productions and projects with Crowd Company.

For her work she has been awarded the CORD Award for Graduate Research 1999, Region of Västra Götaland Cultural Award 2001, Gothenburg City Cultural Award in 2002, and yearly working grants from the Swedish Arts Grant Committeé in 2004, 2007 and 2008.

In February of 2009 her piece "Just In Time" was selected for the final of the international choreography competition of Yokohama Dance Collection R in Japan. After Choreosound 09 Marika will work on "Office Hours", the last part of a triolgy on office enivroments as a working place (the other two pieces are "Just in Time" 2007 and "Minutes II" 2008). Marika will also start the research phase for "I denna ljuva", a solo performance premierering spring 2010.