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SKÅNES DANSTEATER
– A poetic journey in the footsteps of Tibetan poet and environmental activist
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photo: Tobias Pettersson
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Springing from the creative minds of choreographer duo Danae & Dionysios, based in Athens, Greece, comes a contemporary dance piece interlacing creatures and concepts of our inner and outer worlds. Unraveling itself within a dreamlike space inspired by Tibetan poet and environmental activist Kawa Niangji, IN WIND OR DUST is a poetic journey in and out of the vibrant images of his poetry. The urgency and need for human connection within a reality that keeps collapsing, the nostalgia of a past world, and the instinctive strive for hopefulness are just some of the main axes of this young poet's craft.
IN WIND OR DUST premieres 29 Feb 2024 at Skånes Dansteater, Malmö (SE). The show is touring in the south of Sweden.
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photo: Antero Hein
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The film DUELS will have its first screening at AchtBerlin on 18 Feb 2024. Further, the film has been selected for the Special Screenings at the Avant Première Music + Media Market on 19 Feb 2024, organized by IMZ International Music + Media Centre. Watch a trailer here.
DUELS is a dance film by the renowned Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund. It is based on Nagelhus Schia Productions’ successful dance performance choreographed by Damien Jalet and Erna Omarsdottir first presented at The Vigeland Museum in Oslo in 2020. Artistic Directors Guro Nagelhus Schia and Vebjørn Sundby will attend the screenings in Berlin together with special guests Jonas Åkerlund, Damien Jalet and Erna Omarsdottir. More screenings to be announced soon!
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photo: Lia Jacobi
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In Liz Kinoshita's work, it is impossible to avoid the enticing pulse and rhythm that both occupy and surround the room. MIDNIGHT OIL is an offering to anyone who may feel like they are running on fumes, keeping up with the pace of ambitions for oneself or one's loved ones.
It is a moment to reflect on the drive that comes at night, the questions, the confrontations, on how this world was formed when burning one's last reserves of fuel... And it is a celebration of resiliency, of being able to hold one another through the dark times, of gratitude for playfully pushing each other past boundaries that hurt no one, of cultivating justified fury, with grace.
MIDNIGHT OILworld premieres on 29 Feb 2024 at Härnösand Theater, followed by a tour 29 Feb-17 April 2024 in the North of Sweden and to Nacka just outside Stockholm (SE).
Learn more about Norrdans at madeintheweb.com. | |
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photo: Fofo Altinell
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Art of Spectra's upcoming work DISORDER is soon premiering at Vara Consert house in Vara (SE). The premiere is also the start of the tour with Dancenet Sweden in March 2024. Watch a teaser here.
Tour dates: 11 March 2024 at Vara Konserthus Black box in Vara (SE), 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 short film RUM 444 was Official Winner via ARFF Berlin // International Awards 2023 in the category "Best Experimental Film". Texts by Lars Norén and Falk Richter. Director, choreographer: Peter Svenzon. RUM 444 won over 40 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.
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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.
Learn more about Stina Nyberg here. | |
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photo: Sjur Pollen
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Carte Blanche is restaging BUT THEN, WE'LL DISAPPEAR (I'D PREFER NOT TO) from 2021 with showings in Bergen (NO) 22-24 Feb 2024, and with further stops in Vestland County in early April, culminating with three performances at Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona (ES) 19-21 April 2024. RETRO CAT by Tori Wrånes will have its world premiere at the Bergen International Festival. Performance dates: 23–25 May 2024 (family show on the 25th) & 28 May-2 June 2024. Tickets and dates are available from carteblanche.no.
The company currently has the following position available with a deadline for applications on 4 March 2024: Rehearsal Director (Full-time position). The rehearsal director is part of the company's leader group team and producer team. The rehearsal director has personnel responsibility for the company's 14 dancers and serves as the artistic deputy for the Artistic Director. More info about the position and how to apply here.
Find out more about Carte Blanche at madeintheweb.com | |
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photo: Jenny Vinterqvist
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The CITY HORSES film is awarded Best Experimental at the LA Independent Women Film Awards 2024 and selected for live screening at the Beirut International Women Film Festival on 14-19 April 2024. Read more here.
Byström Källblad are holding auditions and workshops for dancers for their new work CALLING WE ARE HERE 13-14 Feb 2024 at Hallen Farsta in Stockholm (SE) and at Dansalliansen Nacka (SE) 12-13 Mar 2024. CALLING WE ARE HERE draws from experiences of touring CITY HORSES and working with over a hundred dancers across Europe, Mexico, and Australia, exploring the topic of the female body concerning power, place, and representation in history and the present.
Find out more about Byström Källblad at madeintheweb.com
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photo: Bradley Waller
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The starting point for the creation of the work MONGREL was ”the Janteloven”, where the fictitious code of behavior is presented as part of the Scandinavian identity. A behavior that choreographer and Danish Dance Theatre's new artistic director Marina Mascarell recognizes from her own Spanish culture.
MONGREL shows a closed community formed by individuals who, in their loneliness, dream of being liberated from the invisible border and suffocating homogeneity. An explosive release of repressed emotions fighting against an oppressive culture and mediocrity.
The music is an original composition by Spanish composer and cello player Yamila Ríos. The strings of the cello, along with a prominent percussion and electronic sound, are the protagonists of this composition. MONGREL was nominated by the Barcelona Critics' Awards 2016 for Best International Performance, Best Choreography and Best Set Design. With support from Grete og Sigurd Pedersens Fond, William Demant Fond. Tour dates: 21 feb 2024 Vordingborg Teater (DK), 23 Feb 2024 Rønne Theater, Bornholm (DK), 11 March 2024 Aalborg Teater (DK), 13 March 2024 Det Musiske Hus, Frederikshavn (DK), 17 March 2024 Stadttheater Flensburg (DK).
Learn more about Dansk Danseteater here. | |
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photo: Håkan Jelk
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BRYTPUNKT/ BREAKING POINT is an exhibition and a dance performance. Its world premiere is 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: 13, 14, 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.
Find out more about Helena Franzén at madeintheweb.com.
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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) on 11 April 2024 and 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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photo: Gunilla Heilborn
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In early March, Gunilla Heilborn premieres her new piece DANTE at Dansens Hus in Stockholm. In this work, we meet three lost souls in an indecisive comedy of constant wandering and unreliable guides. Like all comedies, DANTE starts badly but ends well. We will hear music and songs composed by Kim Hiorthøy, a long-time collaborator of Heilborn. On stage, we will see Ludvig Daae and Kristiina Viiala, both of whom have been performing in several of Heilborn's pieces, as well as a new collaborator; Ida Wigdel.
Past and present meet in a highly speculative reading of Dante's eternal questions in a brand new work for three lost souls. Wandering in a constant fog of uncertainty, no answers are revealed, but plenty of questions that alternate between classic Heilborn humour and seriousness.
Find out more about Gunilla Heilborn at madeintheweb.com. | |
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photo: Sören Vilks, Marc Davin.
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In February, Claire Parsons Co. visits Jönköping County (SE) for performances of LITTLE SWAN LAKE. The company performs for school audiences at Aneby Concert Hall, and for the public on 25 Feb 2024 at SPIRA Culture House in Jönköping (SE). LITTLE SWAN LAKE is a performance created by Claire Parsons for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm (SE).
March and April see a renewed performance period for I'M THINKING ABOUT at the Dance Museum in Stockholm (SE). Tickets for public performances can be booked through the Dance Museum.
Learn more about Claire Parsons Co. at madeintheweb.com | |
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photo: José Figueroa
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I'M THINKING OF YOU has been selected for Bibu – Sweden's largest performing arts festival for the young audience, taking place in Helsingborg 15-18 May 2024. I'M THINKING OF YOU (for ages 10 and up) is a participatory work that takes place in libraries. "The performance is a celebration of reading and libraries as defenders of democratic values and freedom of expression. Libraries as meeting places all over the world - a cultural policy statement" – The Bibu jury
THE CHOREOGRAPHY is invited to the festival Spleen*graz in Graz, Austria on 21-22 April 2024. The company is also concluding the final shows of a six-week stay at Kulturhuset Barbacka, where THE CHOREOGRAPHY has performed for every 6th grader in all of Kristianstad (SE). THE CHOREOGRAPHY is a participatory performance based entirely on audience participation. By following instructions through headphones, it's the audience that together creates THE CHOREOGRAPHY. With imaginary hamsters, confetti, and bold movements, the work explores how the way we move can affect what we think and feel.
Find out more about Johanssons pelargoner och dans at madeintheweb.com | |
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photo: Fabian Kriese
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IN A CAGE OF LIGHT will be performed at Elixir Festival Sadlers Wells 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.
DICK SO SO premieres on 5 April 2024 at Dalateatern in Falun (SE) and will be showing at Elverket / Dansens hus Stockholm (SE) on 6-8 Nov 2024. Humor and sarcasm in a dance theatre piece about gender identity, power structures, the patriarchy, and finding back to oneself. Choreographer Charlotta Öfverholm and her dance collective Jus de la Vie are thrilled to share the next stage of their journey when they approach their 30th anniversary. Join us, as we say goodbye to dance performances and a great big Swedish Hej! to the world of motivational seminars. Would you like to earn more money? Have a better sex life? Have thicker, glossier hair? Come join Dick So-So, Scandinavia’s leading women’s empowerment specialist, and be re-born as the YOU you were always meant to be. Learn how to finally take control of your life!
Learn more about Charlotta Öfverholm at madeintheweb.com
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photo: Daniel Andersson
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A performance about the most important thing. The dance performance HONEY HONEY steps down into the micro world of insects. With newly composed music and inspiration from swarms, drones, and bee dances, it targets us humans and the society we create. How do we treat and communicate with each other? In the world of nature, can we find respect for the small being and its importance for the entire ecosystem? A Charlotte Engelkes performance with the choreography by Sofia Södergård. For children 9-12 years. For full credits go here. Premiered at Regionteater Väst in Borås (SE) 26 Jan 2024 – now on tour, read more here.
Read more about Charlotte Engelkes at madeintheweb.com | |
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photo: Märta Thisner
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AND SO WE'RE GONE is performing at Atalante in Göteborg (SE) on 1-2 Mar 2024. Ingenious math, existential march, and nostalgic intensities are set in motion in choreographer Björn Säfsten's work. The work emerges out of intricate spatial patterns of walking where different equations are layered upon each other, forming a detailed and fascinating web of movements. Memories occur between these mathematical and patterned states – or are they fantasies? Animated and dreamlike situations from a life lived and a life lost?
Björn Säfsten continues to challenge the abstract and the concrete at the heart of the movement in a work that wants to explore our sensible experience of time.
The work premiered at Dansens Hus in October 2023 and is made possible with support from the Swedish Arts Council, the City of Stockholm, and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. For full credits list and additional information, go here.
Find out more about Björn Säfsten at madeinthewweb.com | |
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photo: MärtaThisner
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BamBam Frost's IMMORTAL SUMMIT with Lydia Östberg Diakité plays at Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform in Oslo (NO) on 16 Feb 2024. IMMORTAL SUMMIT is a performance that stretches between ideas of greatness and delusions of grandeur. Two characters are bound to an immortal fate and trapped in an ambivalent reality where remembrance of humanity's excessive behaviors is put on display. In IMMORTAL SUMMIT Lydia Östberg Diakité and BamBam Frost work with materials inspired by sports, gods, and popular cultural icons. Studying the phenomena of iconization and the canonization of performance abilities, where impossible levels and high expectations are the new standard.
Read more about BamBamFrost here. | |
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photo: Korda
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KORDA Art in Motion and Culture Center Matsesgarden Stigsbo are planning the new season in 2024. New collaborations, a new dance piece for the theatre, an art exhibition in Gallery Klingbyggningen, dance performances in The Garden, new plants to the Forest Garden, and residences for dance artists and visual artists at Matsesgarden Stigsbo. An international art exhibition in Gallery Klingbyggningen, opens on 7 July 2024, Finissage on 1 Sep 2024. Dance performance in The Garden at Matsesgarden premieres on 26 July 2024 with performances 27 July-18 Aug 2024.
Find out more about KORDA Art in Motion Dance Company at madeintheweb.com | |
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photo: Mathieu Verreault
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RADIO III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is an indigenous futuristic concert, a beautiful and uncomfortable dance performance, and a perverse triangle of shifting power that seeks to be unfaithful to both minimalism and postmodern dance's so-called "neutrality." This choreography haunts the recognizable toolbox of abstraction, form, repetition, and pattern by striving to make visible that which has been kept invisible and illegible in colonial systems of aesthetics. Read more about the artists Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, and Elisa Harkins here.
Zoë Poluch has a pitch presenting RADIO III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ as part of the More More More programme at ICE HOT, the biggest dance platform for Nordic contemporary dance, that takes place in Oslo (NO this year.
More info here.
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photo: Annika B. Lewis
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THE SOUL CATCHER is a seductive and deeply disturbing performance about psychological and physical abuse, manipulation, and power - in a powerful mix of performance, dance, spoken word, and electronic music.
Tourdates: 1-4 May 2024, San Francisco International Arts Festival, San Francisco, US. "As an audience, it's like a ride in a roller coaster. Huge experience and mood fluctuations. From joy to discomfort. From comedy to seduction. From chaos to laughter. From safety to confusion. All in a total jumble that can change over time, down to a few minutes, or just seconds! Like the psychopath's actions and appearances, this performance is extremely unpredictable and strikes at the same time a powerful contemporary beat to enlighten and prevent the encounter with a psychopath. Watch out!” - XQ28 (DK) THE SOUL CATCHER is produced by Kassandra Production in a co-production with theatre Bora Bora. Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, The City of Aarhus, Knud Højgaards Fond,William Demant Fonden and DMF .
Read more about Kassandra Production at madeintheweb.com
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