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photo: Lia Jacobi
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STUFF IN THE PARK invites the audience to experience four unique dance works by the Nordic countries currently most interesting choreographers. The piece is adapted to its space, touring different parks all around Sweden and with a stop in Berlin. Among budding flowers, fresh air, and summer vibes, world-class dance and choreography arise.
Norwegian artist Ingrid Berger Myhre has made a name for herself as a consistent and playful choreographer. The Swedish choreographer Philip Berlin creates extreme and articulated dances that draw the viewer into intense moments of complete concentration. Danish artist Sigrid Stigsdatter creates emotional work where the dancers move between dream and reality. Finnish choreographer Janina Rajakangas has worked a lot with amateurs in her artistry. It is political, humorous, and norm creative.
STUFF IN THE PARK premieres on 24 May 2024 in Sundsvall (SE), followed by a vivid tour. Read more here.
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photo: Erik Berg
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JSK is on the move this spring, with exciting performances lined up in Norway, Poland, and the Åland Islands! After a memorable show at the Macao International Comedy Festival in China, the company is thrilled to bring A DANCE TRIBUTE TO THE ART OF FOOTBALL to the Åland Islands on 26 April 2024.
Meanwhile, THE LOFT is hitting the road in Norway, with stops in Nøtterøy, Haugesund, and Drammen. Then it’s off to Poland for performances at the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre and the 4th International Dance Theatre Festival, “Boundaries of Nature – Boundaries of Culture”, hosted by the Polish Dance Theater in Poznan. As part of the tour, young audiences will have the opportunity to explore the world of modern dance through special school performances and workshops led by JSK’s dancers.
THE LOFT tour dates: 19 April 2024 Nøtterøy Kulturhus, Nøtterøy (NO), 21 April 2024 Festiviteten Konserthus, Haugesund (NO), 23 April 2024 Drammens Teater, Drammen (NO), 25 April 2024 Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdansk (PL), 27-28 April 2024 Polish Dance Theatre, Poznan (PL)
A DANCE TRIBUTE TO THE ART OF FOOTBALL tour dates: 26 April 2024 Alandica Culture and Congress Centre, Mariehamn, Åland Islands (FI) See more in the full touring list here.
JSK is funded by Fritt Ord Foundation, Norwegian Ministry of Culture, and by Danse- og teatersentrum / Performing Arts Hub Norway via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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photo: Tina Axelsson
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The new work by Byström Källblad CALLING WE ARE HERE premieres in Sala (SE) on 4 May 2024. A dance in the street. Collective joy manifesting female presence. Tell it to the daughters, you are not alone. Your pain and struggles are shared, shared by half of humanity. This dance celebrates female strength across lands and traditions, for centuries to come.
Continuing addressing the female body in the public space concerning place, power, history, and the present, which Byström Källblad started in the work CITY HORSES, they here continue to develop that theme, also working with voice, specially composed by Karin Kolterud for CALLING WE ARE HERE.
In collaboration with Västmanlandsmusiken, with the support of Kulturrådet, Konstnärsnämnden, Region Västmanland, Region Stockholm. More information is coming soon!
Find out more about Byström Källblad at madeintheweb.com
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photo: Knut Bry
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Nagelhus Schia Productions is collaborating with renowned Norwegian choreographer Ingun Bjørnsgaard on a new work titled SONNET IDIOT that will premiere at The Norwegian Opera & Ballet in Oslo (NO) on 14 May 2024.
With Shakespeare's sonnets as a point of departure, Bjørnsgaard explores both sensual and platonic love in her new work in collaboration with seven dancers from Nagelhus Schia Productions. Bjørnsgaard is known for her exceptional take on the fleeting fragility of modern identity and its social foundations gradually venturing into the complex relationship between the feminine and masculinity, in both men and women. Through the visual language of movement, Shakespeare's linguistic sensuality is abstracted in a world of unfulfilled needs, misunderstandings, and an attraction toward the inaccessible. The music, composed and performed by Christian Wallumrød, plays a central role in creating a dialogue between dance and sound.
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photo: Klara G
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DOMINO is an outdoor dance performance and a vibrant explosion of joy, magnificent costumes, and new choreography by Italian choreographer Erika Silgoner. It is a unique performance dissolving the borders between the worlds of our imagination and reality. Inhabited by wonderous creatures and evolving scenography, DOMINO incarnates an evocative and memorable colorful world set to the heartbeat of a live DJ.
DOMINO premieres on 1 June 2024 in Västra Hamnen, Malmö (SE). The show will perform outdoors June-July 2024 in Malmö and on tour in Skåne and Stockholm (SE).
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photo: Louise Herrche Serup
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THE WEATHER REPORT is an exploration of navigating life's instability and turbulence. Dance, video, and music merge in a metaphorical journey into turbulence and aviation.
- In a formalized space, the two dancers and a performer balance the atmosphere, creating an abstract choreographic language confronted by a presence-based. A familiar situation, mirrored in the meeting between the audience and bodies on stage, says Jon R. Skulberg, stage director.
THE WEATHER REPORT is created with Video designer Magnus Pind, dancers Kenzo Kusuda and Christine Sollie, performer Josephine Kylén-Collins, composers Kristian Hverring and Julie Østengaard, and costume designer Kit Wan. Co-produced by Dansehallerne in Copenhagen and Bora Bora in Aarhus. More info here.
Tour dates: 24-26 April 2024 BORA BORA, Aarhus (DK), 2 May 2024 RAS, Sandnes Kulturhus (NO), 15-16 May 2024 Danshallerne, Dansekapellet, Copenhagen (DK),
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photo: José Figueroa
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Johansson pelargoner och dans is currently rehearsing the upcoming performance REALITY IS ROUND, which is premiering at Norrlandsoperan on 6 Sep 2024. REALITY IS ROUND is a participatory dance performance for children aged 1-3 and their adults. Two dancers and a musician invite us to meet in the grand and irrational, exploring the limits of voice and body.
I’M THINKING OF YOU is selected to perform at Bibu – Sweden’s largest performing arts festival for a young audience 15-17 May 2024. I’M THINKING OF YOU (for ages 10 and up) is a participatory work that takes place in libraries. Read the jury’s motivation here.
I’M THINKING OF YOU is also embarking on a tour to different libraries in Sweden in April and May.
THE CHOREOGRAPHY is invited to the Spleen*graz festival in Graz (AT) on 21-22 April 2024. With imaginary hamsters, confetti, and bold movements, THE CHOREOGRAPHY is exploring how the way we move can affect what we think and feel. The performance is based entirely on audience participation.
Also – come join MEDELGYMPA on International Dance Day in Sala (SE) on 29 April 2024 - or in Sergels torg in Stockholm (SE) on 12 June 2024!
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FESTEN (The Party) is on tour in Sweden this April with Dancenet Sweden. FESTEN by Viktor Fröjd is a tribute to the human and the spiritual. To dance and to use the body to experience all the inherent possibilities in the human being, together as well as alone. Everyone who participates in FESTEN is also part of creating it. More info here.
Choreography and idea by Viktor Fröjd. Co-creating dancers are Joanna Holewa Chrona, Johanna Fröjd, Yared Tilahun Cederlund, Maele Sabuni and Viktor Fröjd. For the full credits list go here. Co-production: Kulturföreningen Iver, Dansens Hus, NorrlandsOperan and Dansstationen. Supported by Kulturrådet, Malmö Stad, Region Skåne and Konstnärsnämnden.
Tour dates: 16 April 2024 Västerås konserthus, Västerås (SE), 22-23 April 2024 Dansstationen, Malmö (SE), 25 April 2024 Kungsbacka teater, Kungsbacka (SE), 27 April 2024 Vitlycke center for performing arts, Tanumshede (SE), 29 April 2024 Kulturhuset Glada Hudik, Hudiksvall (SE).
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photo: Annika B. Lewis
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HAPPINESS UNLTD is an immersive performance that has its re-premiere on 28 May 2024 - and runs until 8 June 2024, in the shopping mall Fisketorvet in Copenhagen (DK). At HAPPINESS UNLTD is a popup bureau for escapist travels where you can explore the concept of happiness. We offer sensuous performance art, feel-good music, and endorphin-stimulating taste bombs that make your happiness barometer go through the roof. Drop in – and come out with a smile on your brain!
HAPPINESS UNLTD volume 2 is produced by Kassandra Production in a collaboration with theatre FÅR302 and CPH Stage festival. Idea and direction by Annika B. Lewis. HAPPINESS UNLTD is a co-production with theatre Bora Bora. Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation. For full credits and contact information - please read here.
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photo: Mats Åsman
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MARMALADE is a delicious, tactile performance about meeting, mixing, and blending. Two performers taste and feel in poetic movements and circus actions while creating an exquisite and visual experience together with the audience. MARMALADE looks at the world through body, eye, feeling, and taste in a room with fluffy skirts, soft circus, and Fellini music. Claire Parsons Co.'s ever-popular MARMALADE is set to go to Italy this summer. MARMALADE will perform twice on 6 July 2024 at the festival OperaEstate in Bassano del Grappa. It is part of Minifest, the festival's program for young audiences. I'M THINKING ABOUT has performed 16 fully booked shows over the Easter break. Claire Parsons Co. would like to thank the Dance Museum in Stockholm (SE) for a fantastic collaboration, and our enthusiastic audience who have shared experiences, reflections, and movements with us. Financial support by the City of Stockholm.
" I can't describe how good it was!" Audience member, aged 5
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photo: Urban Jören
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KORDA Art in Motion is celebrating International Dance Day in collaboration with the choreographer and dancer Åsa N Åström, Balettakademin, and Dance for Health IADMS (International Association for dance, medicine and Science). Linda Forsman will dance a solo to live music by Markus Lindmark at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm (SE).Read more here.
A lecture and Artist Talk ”The Choreographer and Creativity” will be the outcome of a collaboration between Linda Forsman and Christel Östfelt, psychologist and dance therapist The lecture and Artist Talk will be at the Swedish Psychoanalytical Association in Stockholm (SE).
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photo: Tyler Herin
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The short film METEOR is doing an impressive round on the international festival circuit and has lately been screening at festivals in Italy, Mexico, and Portugal. METEOR is a dance reflection on our short lives and forces larger than ourselves. A lamentation echoing on the rauk fields that carry the eroded memory of the ancient coral reefs. Next up is the Tampere Dance Current on 25 May 2024. This Finnish dance festival features performances, talks, and a selection of dance films. Read more here.
The dancer Victor Persson will be performing the solo BAT TECHNO at The SoloDuo International Dance Competition in Cologne (DE) on 11 May 2024. Find out more here. Victor has appeared in several of Virpi's pieces, the latest one being CHANGE, which premiered at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm (SE) in spring 2023.
Virpi Pahkinen will continue a round of church dance concerts in collaboration with the composer Jonas Sjöblom. The duo will perform in Borås (SE) on 11 May 2024 with their program BLUE PRAYER.
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photo: Philippe Lebruman
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Wearing skin-tight playsuits, Aloun Marchal and Henrique Furtado weigh each other up, stare at each other, stand firm in the middle of the stage, and let out a cry from deep inside: the challenge is laid down. Face to face, close to each other, conniving and provoking at the same time, they are getting ready. They explore a wide range of sounds and movements with clashing styles, from sports fighting to teasing childish games, from rumbling noises to lullabies, from straightforward breathing to bestial yelling.
Progressive mechanisms drive the performers even further into their exercise, moving disjointedly and opening their throats more and more. The pas de deux glides from controlled violence to sensuality, which are both disturbingly based on listening mimicry and exchange of movements. Progressively and cruelly, get tangled, mixed up, and rival each other. Henrique Furtado and Aloun Marchal are ready, at last...
Performance date: 27 April 2024, Festival Encontr'Arte em Terra de Encantar'24, Casa do Povo in Cabeção, Concelho de Mora (PT). More info here.
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image: Jens Strandberg
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CHEST opens at Dansens Hus in Stockholm (SE) on 8 May 2024, with additional performances 10-11 May 2024. CHEST is a choreography at the intersection of ecology, animals, and masculinity. It intertwines seemingly contradictory concepts such as hard and soft, limp and stiff, or hairy and bald in sweaty attempts to be natural to one another. With CHEST, Stina Nyberg continues to explore new musical horizons, this time in collaboration with composer Kaki King, based in New York, USA.
CHEST is the third part of Nyberg's exploration of humanity's assholery, previously developed in SWEET (MDT 2022) and THE DAWN CHORUS (Norrdans 2022). Producers are Terry Johnson (Johnson & Bergsmark), Magnus Nordberg (Nordberg Movement). Supported by the Swedish Arts Council and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. CHEST is part of STHLM DANCE - an international contemporary dance festival in the Stockholm region 2-12 May 2024.
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photo: Håkan Jelk
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BRYTPUNKT/ BREAKING POINT is an exhibition and a dance performance. Its world premiere was at Uppsala konstmuseum on 13 April 2024. The exhibition runs until 12 May 2024.
Choreographer Helena Franzén and filmmaker Håkan Jelk have created an exhibition consisting of a spatial installation. With video, sound, light, textiles, and scenography, it explores man's complex relationship with nature – from being an organic part of an ecological context to feelings of powerlessness and guilt. BREAKING POINT is a reflection and a reminder of our fragile existence. The exhibition invites you to deepen and reflect on our relationship with nature.
On recurring occasions, Helena Franzén will dance in the exhibition. In her solo- improvisation, she brings things to life in the exhibition. The dance is performed on two occasions on Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays during the whole period of the exhibition.
Live performance in the exhibition at Uppsala konstmuseum: 18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28 April 2024 and 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12 May 2024.
Performance on stage at Uppsala konstmuseum: 18 April 2024: Helena Franzén performs together with the musician Emma Augustsson.
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In COSMETIC DEMONS: A CHOREOGRAPHIC SALON, the hair salon is a place where gossip, emotions, and personal processes are made visible. In front of the chairs - where there is usually a mirror - there is now a dancer. Three hairdressers, three clients, and three dancers play out a choreographic idea that becomes a salon. The piece premiered at Inkonst, Malmö (SE) on 11 April 2024 and will perform at Dansens Hus in Stockholm (SE) on 16-18 May 2024.
Producer: Sindri Runudde and Nordberg Movement. Co-production: Dansens Hus, Norrlandsoperan and Inkonst. Supported by the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Nordisk Kulturfond, and Region Skåne.
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