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photo: Håkan Larsson
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COMMON GROUND is a choreographic game of chess. Ingrained rules are upturned by unexpected moves — intricate gambits, sacrifices, and reactive attacks. Together with her team, Dutch choreographer and former Chunky Move Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk looked at the duet form as both a utopian ideal and a display of the inherent complexity that partnerships bring.
Restaged and performed by two strong Skånes Dansteater dancers, this breathtaking duet has become a poetic study on similarity, equality, defining territory, and shifting grounds, testing the tension between the support we need and the restrictions of codependency.
COMMON GROUND premieres 8 Feb 2024. The show is available for international touring.
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photo: Tina Axelsson
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Byström Källblad are invited by Moving Borders and CAMP_iN festival to work with a local cast and perform CITY HORSES in Merida in Mexico. Byström Källblad will also have a residence to research their new work SIRENS in Querétaro at CEART Centro de las Artes de Querétaro
Choreographer Anna Källblad has received the Swedish Arts Grants Committee ten-year artist work grant and is in the midst of developing new projects.
The duo Byström Källblad continues collaborations with Big Pulse Dance Alliance and partners as selected artists and would be delighted to make new collaborations as well! Supported by the Swedish Arts Council, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Region Västmanland, Region Stockholm.
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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...
The performers and choreographers Aloun Marchal (FR) and Henrique Furtado (PT) are presenting a hyperventilating performance, bringing together a wide range of manhood practices – from throat songs to couple dances and modern wrestling.
Performance dates: 11-13 Jan 2024 at Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon (PT)
Find out more about Aloun Marchal at madeintheweb.com
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photo: Lia Jacobi
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In RITE OF SPRING, the dance comes dangerously close and the grand notes of composer Stravinsky manifest in a small but explosive ensemble, in a form of rebellious playfulness and total lack of sacrifice. This great classic, reformulated by Norrdans’ Artistic Director Martin Forsberg, is a macrocosm in a small space, where scales, volume, and vibrations take center stage. The beauty finds its place next to the sublime and the captivating next to the distorted.
After the re-premiere on 12 Jan 2024 in Härnösand (SE), RITE OF SPRING finds its way through venues in the north of Sweden. In addition to this, the production will make an extensive tour in the autumn of 2024, as a co-production with Riksteatern (SE). The piece is available for international touring. RITE OF SPRING was part of the program at The Swedish Biennial for Performing Arts 2023.
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photo: Convoi Exceptionnel
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This fall Convoi Exceptionnel premiered the third part of TRILOGY OF EDUCATIONAL SPACES, with YOU ARE A DAY TOMORROW, a spatial audio piece set in the classroom.
Convoi Exceptionnel is now looking forward to the premiere of THE WEATHER REPORT the 24 April 2024 at Bora Bora, Aarhus (DK).
THE WEATHER REPORT is a performance about turmoil, turbulence and stability. A choreographic, visual and musical work for two dancers and a performer. An existential story about the relationship between psychiatry, aviation, and ever-changing weather.
Dance, video, and music merge in a metaphorical journey into turbulent weather systems and bipolar disorders. Both pilot and patient attempt to maneuver through the ever-changing and unknown, where storm, mania, depression, and humidity are all part of the same forecast.
Tour dates: 24-26 April 2024 at Bora Bora, Aarhus (DK), 2 May 2024 at RAS (NO), 15-16 May 2024 at Dansehallerne, Copenhagen (DK).
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photo: Mirka Kleemola
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Susanna Leinonen Company will perform NASTY at Tanssin Talo in Helsinki (FI) on 18-20 Jan 2024. NASTY is a strikingly topical work that centers on the expectations, limitations, and attacks targeted at our bodies. The piece presents an unvarnished vision of our world, where evil hides in the structures of society but also in ourselves: we pass along the injustice and cruelty we have experienced.
Susanna Leinonen Company’s works are known for their extremely skillful and demanding movement. This time choreographer Leinonen and her ensemble have chosen to examine our bodily limits, as well as how constantly being looked at and under conflicting demands and expectations shape the female body and experience. In the center of the work are dancers and their bodies as tools of artistic work. In Nasty, the highly trained physique becomes a machine that stretches, bends, and creaks to fulfill its full potential. But the question remains: who gets to define that potential? For more info and tickets go here.
“ ….utterly brilliant and undoubtedly one of the finest contributions to the debate on women’s right to self-determination.” Demokraatti (FI)
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photo: Stina Nyberg, image: Jens Strandberg
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TVÅTAKT is a duet in two acts, created and performed by critically acclaimed artist Ingela Ihrman and choreographer Stina Nyberg. In the performance, they take on and explore each other's artistic practices and bodies. Premiere at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, Stockholm, (SE) on 12 Dec 2023. Plays until 17 Dec 2023. On stage: Ingela Ihrman & Stina Nyberg. More info and tickets here.
Created with support from Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, DansPlats Skog, Butiken i Hörken and Art Lab Gnesta. Production: Terry Johnson (Johnson & Bergsmark), Magnus Nordberg (Nordberg Movement) and Konstnärskooperativet Interim kultur. Funded by Swedish Arts Council, City of Stockholm and Region Stockholm.
CHEST is premiering at Dansens Hus in Stockholm (SE) on 8 May 2024. CHEST is a choreography at the intersection of ecology, animals, and masculinity. With CHEST, Stina Nyberg continues to explore new musical horizons, this time in collaboration with composer Kaki King, based in New York, USA.
Performance dates: 8-11 May 2024. More info and tickets here.
Production: Terry Johnson (Johnson & Bergsmark), Magnus Nordberg (Nordberg Movement). Supported by the Swedish Arts Council and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
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photo: Fabian Kriese
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IN A CAGE OF LIGHT is performed at Ö2 Södermalm in Stockholm (SE) on 26-28 Jan 2024, and at Sadlers Wells in London on 12 April 2023. A stage performer who has been in the spotlight her whole life is forced to reevaluate her trust in the body's ability and to reappraise the relationship with herself. Choreographers and creators are Charlotta Öfverholm and Jordi Cortes.
"In a cage of light" shapes to a beautiful, slightly amusing black and associative contemplation over both the performing arts as well as the terms of existing - a dance around the poles of loneliness and addiction." -Anna Ångström, Svenska Dagbladet
After the performance of IN A CAGE OF LIGHT at Ö2 Södermalm (SE), the Swedish premiere follows the film JUICE, a short film by Anders Larsson and Charlotta Öfverholm, and a commission work from Sadlers Wells Digital Stage. What triggers the sparkle and juice of each person's life? And where is your secret place where you recharge your batteries? Don´t wait! It might be too late!
Learn more about Charlotta Öfverholm at madeintheweb.com
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photo: Tina Axelsson
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DUST, the new production by Claire Parsons Co. will be at the SALTO! Festival in February. Salto! is the annual dance festival for a young audience organized by Dansstationen in Malmö (SE), From 66 proposals in total, the jury selected 15 performances and DUST is one of them. Excerpts from the performance will be shown on 5 Feb 2024.
DUST is a playful fictional tale of memory, tactility, and magical realism, inspired by the French philosopher Bachelard's theories on dreams and spatiality. DUST premiered on 23 Nov 2023 in Karlshamn (SE).
In spring 2024 the company will tour with LITTLE SWAN LAKE, YELLOW, and DUST.
I'M THINKING ABOUT will be back at the Dance Museum in Stockholm (SE) after a much-appreciated run this fall. For more information and booking contact the producer Lena Yngvesson.
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photo: Johanna Jonasson
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A new children´s performance! With inspiration from Japanese culture and the artist Yayoi Kusama’s universe of dots, Memory Wax invites you to a suggestive and magical dance performance; BIG DOT, LITTLE DOT. Together we discover the small in the big and the big in the small. We dare to step into the unknown where creativity and play are our lifelines. They take us forward, backward, inward, and outward. We get to know ourselves and our surrounding world, our own fantastic universe. In collaboration with Svedala municipality’s libraries and their project ”Read with all senses”. A project that stimulates language learning with experiences through different art forms. The performance is available on tour 2024/25.
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photo: Fofo Altinell
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Art of Spectra's upcoming work DISORDER is in research through residencies and meetings nationally and internationally. The work tours with Dancenet Sweden in March 2024. Watch a teaser here.
DISORDER premieres on 11 March 2024 at Vara Konserthus Black box in Vara (SE). The tour continues to: 13 Mar 2024 Stora teatern, Göteborg (SE), 17 Mar 2023 Studio Acusticum, Piteå (SE), 19 Mar 2024 Kulturens hus, Luleå (SE), 21 Mar 2024 Gävle teater (SE), 25 Mar 2024 Uppsala konsert & congress (SE), 27 Mar 2024 Västerås konserthus.
The dance film RUM 444 by Art of Spectra´s artistic director Peter Svenzon was one of 6 films running for the best experimental film of the year at the Las Vegas Movie Awards at the end of September. The film is selected by the Amsterdam Independent Film Festival. RUM 444 won over 30 awards for best experimental, original score, sound design, and more at festivals in London, New York, Los Angeles, Brussels, München, Stockholm, Singapore, Florens, Paris, Amsterdam, and more..Watch a trailer here.
See a list of current works here. Films are available on request, contact Art of Spectra here.
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photo Lou T Lundqvist
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KORDA Art in Motion and Culture Center Matsesgarden Stigsbo are planning the season 2024. New collaborations, a new dance piece for the theatre, an art exhibition in the gallery Klingbyggningen,
dance performances in The Garden, new plants to the Forest Garden, and residences for dance artists and visual artists at Matsesgarden Stigsbo (- perhaps for the dancers in the photo; Kerstin Abrahamsson och Matilda Bilberg). More information in January 2024!
Find out more about KORDA Art in Motion Dance Company at madeintheweb.com | |
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illustration: Eero Lampinen
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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 is under development throughout 2023 and will premiere at Inkonst, Malmö (SE) in April 2024. Performances at Dansens Hus in Stockholm (SE): 16-18 May 2024. Tickets here.
Co-production: Dansens Hus, Norrlandsoperan and Inkonst. Supported by: Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Nordisk Kulturfond, and Region Skåne. For full credits list and additional information
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illustration: Agnes Florin
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OR/ELLER tours to Kalundborg, Denmark with school performances of NET presented by KORA / Dansehallarne.
Performances in Kalundborg (DK): 17-31 Jan 2024
NET is a dance performance that you get to be part of, together with three dancers. A web moves into your school, spreading out in the gym hall. Departing from the web, we build a wavy landscape that opens doors to new imaginative spaces, with dance as the vehicle. Together, we create a choreographic kaleidoscope. Concept and choreography by OR/ELLER – Anja Arnquist and Madeleine Lindh. Co produktion: Dansehallerne and Norrlandsoperan in collaboration with Dansens Hus Stockholm.
Read more here.
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photo: José Figueroa
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In 2023 CHANGE premiered in the spring at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm (SE) to great reviews. In the autumn Virpi has been touring the region of Stockholm with WIND VIGIL. Virpi and cellist Jakob Koranyi performed at The Baltic Sea Festival with SEPT PAPILLONS by the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, and the new short film METEOR had its world premiere at the International Short Film Festival in Trieste (IT).
The company has exciting collaborations and news in the pipeline for 2025 when Virpi Pahkinen will celebrate 40 years on stage as a dancer and choreographer. We´ll let you know more in the coming months! More info here.
Learn more about Virpi Pahkinen at madeintheweb.com | | All the best from the team at MADEIN-THEWEB.COM and all our joint members. |
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