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photo: Tale Hendnes
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Nagelhus Schia Productions continues the tour of the ever-so-successful IN C. The upcoming performances at Dansens Hus on 5-8 Dec 2024 mark the 10th time the company performs this popular piece in Norway.
IN C is based on the musical composition by Terry Riley from 1964. Riley’s masterpiece is an open composition, generally considered to be the first piece of minimalist music. German choreographer Sasha Waltz has translated this concept into dance, creating 53 movement phrases to be used in a structured improvisation with clear rules. Nagelhus Schia Productions is currently the only professional dance company with the license to perform IN C with its own dancers. The upcoming performances at Dansens Hus in Oslo (NO) will feature three guest dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests and seven live musicians. More info here.
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photo: Mats Bäcker
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HÄNDEL ON HANDS is a magical circus-musical-opera adventure that invites the whole family to experience the wonders of Georg Friedrich Händel’s music in a completely new way. Through breathtaking performances by circus artists, musicians, and opera singers, the audience is swept into a dramatic journey through the elements—fire, water, air, and earth.
HÄNDEL ON HANDS is created by the collective balans-resonans, an artist collective started on the initiative of cellist Mime Brinkmann, who has long carried a dream to be able to move like a circus performer when she plays. Together with the opera singer Thomas Volle and director Tilde Björfors, the three make up the artistic direction for the balance-resonance collective, whose purpose is to experiment and playfully develop what can arise in the meeting between the art forms of opera, music, circus, and visual arts. HÄNDEL ON HANDS can be performed for all ages, indoors & outdoors. Produced by Art from Circusheart. For more information please contact Åsa Edgren, Head of Sales, Finance, and Executive Producer here.
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photo: Karolina Pahlén
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Since 2013, the Gannvik Foundation has awarded the Gannevik Scholarship, granting 500,000 SEK each to visual arts, design, music, theater, dance, and film artists. This year´s recipient for dance is Virpi Pahkinen. She is one of the most unique artists from the contemporary dance scene in Sweden and a legendary choreographer for four decades. Read more here.
Here is the motivation from the jury:
“Virpi Pahkinen's dance creations are unmistakable in their grandeur and depth, captivating audiences around the globe for decades with their majestic and introspective qualities. Whether performing solo or choreographing for others, she conjures the sacred powers of dance. Her artistic world spans a broad range of creative forms, unified by a movement language that is both stripped down and intensely focused.”
On 10-11 Dec 2024, Virpi will dance and sing in the Vox Pacis performance at the European Festival of the Night in Korpilombolo, in the very far north of Sweden.
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photo: Jim de Block and Søren Meisner
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In DOLLY, OR/ELLER reimagines what it means to come to life. Through unceasing dance, different moments of becoming are explored via three iconic figures: Dolly the sheep, Dolly Parton, and the doll. Each of these Dollys reflects a different aspect of creation and existence—the clone, the artist, and the imaginary. DOLLY is a dance piece for audiences aged 10 to 99, inviting all to contemplate the art of coming to life— and how art itself comes to life.
Performance dates: 16 Nov – 1 Dec 2023, MDT, Studio 1, in Stockholm (SE). For more info and dates - check MDT.
NET by OR/ELLER is presented at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm (SE) from 3-12 Dec 2024 (only for preschools to attend). A net moves in and spreads in your school's sports hall or at your closest theater. NET is a dance performance where YOU call the shots. To catchy beats and melodic loops, we dance through this experience, mimicking, building, helping, waiting, fusing, and actively resting in the imagination. Suitable for children ages 5-9. Read more here. | |
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photo: Håkan Jelk
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Capturing a moment, a rhythm, or perhaps a lost memory with two bodies in a mutual dialogue with live music. The Swedish choreographer Helena Franzén´s latest work, CAPTURE, premieres on 29 Nov-1 Dec 2024 at Mältinranta Artcenter in Tampere (F). Choreography by Helena Franzén. Music by Juho Kanervo. The dancers are Helena Franzén and Ville Oinonen. With support from Take, Föreningen Konstsamfundet and Mältinranta Artcenter.
Find out more about Helena Franzén at madeintheweb.com | |
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photo: Louise Herrche Serup
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On 25 Feb 2025 at Dansehallerne in Copenhagen (DK), Convoi Exceptionnel's next performance, DETACHED FROM OTHERS, will have its world premiere.
DETACHED FROM OTHERS is a choreographic and musical experience exploring the solitary body and the state of loneliness - a feeling many are familiar with. Numerous researchers point to loneliness as a modern public health issue, with several studies finding a link between loneliness and an increased risk of premature death. Yet, there are also qualities in chosen solitude and isolation. Loneliness is both an existential condition and a societal challenge, and it is in this nuanced ambivalence that the performance finds its foundation. The performance is created by Jon R. Skulberg and performed by the unique and charismatic dancer Kenzo Kusuda, supported by a newly composed organ piece by Lil Lacy, performed by organist David Bendix Nielsen— an instrument whose solitary nature amplifies and resonates with the theme.
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photo: Dan Siedel
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An Afro-fabulist flight into the future hosted by John-Paul Zaccarini - dragademic and Professor of Shade - on the black studies research vessel THE AFROSTAR GALACTICA as it journeys through a multi-brown verse of scent, song and pan-sensual, decolonial medicine.
The AFROSTAR GALACTICA + MARQUIS BEY is presented at MDT on 11-13 Dec 2024. More info and tickets here.
Cabin Crew on this flight includes musician/apprentice perfumier Toubab Holmes, and anti-gravity artist Lucie Maisha N'Duhirahe. Welcome onboard a foxy, unorthodoxically perfumed performance lecture, infused with the richness of Afro-optimistic thought.
During the days at MDT FutureBrownSpace will also host a lecture with Marquis Bey.TBA.
FutureBrownSpace is a weave of Afro-Diasporic practitioners based in Black Studies, dedicated to creating nourishing spaces for people of the global majority to develop their projects. We fabulate a futuristic black unconscious as an imaginative platform for producing coalitional thought in both separatist and mixed spaces without the interference of neo-colonial noise. A Vetenskaprådet artistic research project based at Stockholm University of the Arts. More info here.
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In October, choreographer Claire Parsons guested Movers Signum at Dansens Hus in Stockholm (SE) to talk about her work, art, and company. The interview, along with excerpts from DUST, is now available to watch here. Claire's presentation was first in line in this edition of Movers Signum. The program also featured choreographers Lisa Janbell, Philip Berlin, Pontus Pettersson, and Salka Ardal Rosengren.
The company's newest production, DUST, has been hugely popular among audiences on its many touring dates this fall, but it has not yet performed in Stockholm (SE). Therefore, the company wants to invite readers of this newsletter to the Stockholm premiere. On 6 Dec 2024, at 9:30 and 11, DUST will perform for school audiences at Haninge Culture House. Welcome to see DUST together with the target group! Book your seat here.
Learn more about Claire Parsons Co. at madeintheweb.com
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photo: Mats Bäcker
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TRANSPLANTATION - a loving dance about identity and existence at the cellular level, is showing at Säters Folkets hus in Säter (SE) on 23 Nov 2024. Charlotte Engelkes and dancer and choreographer Sofia Södergård create a life-affirming variety show with dance, cultivation tips, music, stand-up, comedy, drama, passion - and Wagner, based on Engelkes’ own experience from a bone marrow transplantation. TRANSPLANTATION was selected for Sweden's largest performing arts festival in 2022 and toured with Dancenet Sweden the same year. More info here.
On 28 Nov 2024, Charlotte Engelkes and the pianist Göran Martling perform their program KOM SKA VI TYCKA OM VARANDRA (Come, let us like each other) with songs by, among others, Allan Edvall, Barbro Hörberg and Olle Adolfsson. The hall will have tables, and the ticket price includes soup and home-baked bread. More info and tickets here. Engelkes and Martling have previously done Engelke's SPÖKSUPÉ at Strindbergs Intima teater in Stockholm (SE) where the Swedish playwright and novelist Augsut Strindberg's texts were mixed into a musical ghost supper.
In 2024, Charlotte Engelkes was awarded the Stockholm City Bellman's prize. Her new show, DROTTNING INUTI (Inside Queen), premieres at Folkoperan in Stockholm (SE) on 23 April 2024.
Find out more about Charlotte Engelkes at madeintheweb.com
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photo: Fabian Kriese
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Charlotta Öfverholm´s IN A CAGE OF LIGHT is being featured at this years online platform of Dansmässan - the dance fair in Stockholm (SE) with a focus on dance and choreography.
We tend to trust the predictable - but how much trust is needed to be unpredictable? A stage performer who has been in the spotlight her whole life is forced to reevaluate her trust in the body's own ability and to reappraise the relationship with herself. If your self-image was built in a cage of stage light, do you dare to trust that it is still intact when the lights switch off?
IN A CAGE OF LIGHT will be available at DANSMÄSSAN from 5 Nov-14 Dec 2024. Buy your ticket here.
More info here. Read the latest review from Sadlers Well's in 2024 here.
Learn more about Charlotta Öfverholm at madeintheweb.co | |
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photo: Thomas Zamolo
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Following its premiere at Hallen/The Hall in 2023, DEADLOCK returns to captivate Swedish audiences once again from 6-21 Dec 2024.
DEADLOCK is an essay on trans-morphic dancing, a flight into the unruly. A reckless, utterly precise choreography, serially ordered, performatively embodied. Singular in kind, manyfold in subtext. Restrained, flickering light of a disappearance. At once death-wish and evidence of life. A dance. Immersed in the aesthetic thrill of a passage that unleashes the senses.
CCAP is a non-profit site for the production and distribution of choreography in the formats of performances, installations, publications, transdisciplinary art projects and social activities, founded and run by artistic leader Cristina Caprioli.
Performig dates: 6-21 Dec 2024, Hallen/The Hall, Farsta, Stockholm (SE). More info and tickets here.
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KORDA Art is now planning for next season, and two new pieces are available for booking:
GAVIA ARCTICA with Linda Forsman, Kerstin Abrahamsson, and Rebecka Carlsson. Electroacoustic music by Lou T Lundqvist.
DUO, SOLO, SOLO, DUO with Julyen Hamilton, Linda Forsman and Lou T Lundqvist. Choreography and Dance by Julyen Hamilton and Linda Forsman. Music by Lou T Lundqvist, Barre Phillips, Christian Jormin, Roy Carroll, and Julyen Hamilton.
Also presenting lectures by Linda Forsman showing KORDA´s dance film NIERÍKA. And working with children in the program DANSLUST – a creative approach to dance as an art form.
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photo: Tina Axelsson
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The artistic duo Byström Källblad is busy with a new site-specific work in Falun (SE) in residence with
Riksteatern Falun och Dalateatern premiering on 17 Jan 2024. More info here.
The duo is planning for tours 2025 of the film installation CITY HORSES, recently exhibited at Teatro Stabile Torino 22-23 Oct 2024 at Big Pulse Reflections 2024 and Dance First Torinodanza Festival, as well as tours of the new work CALLING WE ARE HERE and CITY HORSES. Byström Källblad is represented by Nordberg Movement, present at 2024 CINARS Biennale. Read more here. Contact Byström Källblad here.
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photo Erik Linghede
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Nordwind Festival and Kampnagel present AFIA and YEBO YES! on 12-13 Dec 2024.
Fast step sequences, rhythmic movements, and precise group choreographies characterize the South African dance isiPantsula, simultaneously marked by virtuosity and a spirit of resistance. The Pantsula subculture originated in the Sophiatown district of Johannesburg during the violent expulsion of black people during the apartheid era. It became a common expression and identity that united the country's eleven ethnic groups and was used as a means of communication during the demonstrations. In YEBO YES! the dancers combine isiPantsula with freestyle and club culture, emphasizing character, individual expression, playfulness, unity, and drive in an homage to the expressive power of this dance - an electrifying group dynamic and strong community that never seems to end. Tickets and more info here. | | All the best from the team at MADEIN-THEWEB.COM and all our joint members. |
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