Taneli Törmä – LOCATION X is an award-winning choreographer and performing artist, with international and interdisciplinary experience. As a teacher, performer, fundraiser, idea maker and curator, he focuses on developing the performing arts towards a more diverse, intercultural, multi-perspectial and innovative form. Taneli Törmä’s/LOCATION X’s works have been shown in more than 20 countries. They …
Simone Grøtte is a contemporary choreographer from Lakselv in Northern Norway. Her work is strongly influenced by her indigenous Sami background and living and working in the arctic region, where these elements are woven into a modern expression in the theme, scenography and music. Her projects explore questions revolving around identity and belonging, with an approach …
winter guests is an international touring company performing works by Alan Lucien Øyen. They uniquely create a range of pure theatre works, dance works and hybrid pieces – all layered with a cinematic overtone enriched by stunning singular scenography. The works are based on real life experiences, sourcing material from interactions with strangers, personal anecdotes, …
ICE HOT Reykjavík, Nordic Dance Platform, will be held December 12th – 16th 2018. This is the fifth ICE HOT platform. This biannual networking and showcase event has been held in four of the Nordic capitals, starting in Stockholm in 2010, then Helsinki 2012, Oslo 2014 and last in Copenhagen 2016. Only Reykjavík remains to …
ULF is a dance company led by Ulf Nilseng, that emerged from the former TOYBOYS. With «Performance on Falling» (2015) and «Be-longing» (2016), at Dansens Hus Oslo, ULF started off a work to broaden the concept of queer, bringing forth a personal, imaginative and physical dance that investigates power, language, prejudice and the experience of …
H2DANCE is choreographer/ performer duo Hanna Gillgren (SE) and Heidi Rustgaard (NO). Their work sits in between performance and dance and can be characterized as interdisciplinary, often taking a humorous approach to serious subject matters. Recurring themes in their choreography are group behaviour, conformity, power balance and manipulation. The notion of the group versus the …
Sparrow Dance, led by choreographer and dancer Esther Wrobel, creates performances that combine aerial dance with dance, acrobatics and a playful approach towards our perception of reality. Fly Trap A pyjama drama for the whole family, created as a tribute to play and fantasy. It’s a magical and surreal world of aerial dance, video animations …
Lidia Woś is a Polish-Swedish choreographer and dancer based in Malmö. As a choreographer Lidia has a natural and organic way of creating movements even though she often add an extra twist. Her choreographies are full of fantasy where new body angles and positions are suddenly revealed. But for her choreography is not only about …
Disa Krosness is a freelance choreographer and dance artist based in Stockholm. Humour, musicality and accessibility defines her work, and she often collaborates with other artists in different artistic fields. Empathy is an important ingredient in her work. By creating strong visual images, using references to pop-culture and adding a touch of nostalgia, Disa conveys …
Choreographer and dancer Virpi Pahkinen’s works are full of secrets; she can be a warrior of the spirit, a spectral gardener or a shaman in metamorphosis. She offers dance as an incantation and creates a meditative atmosphere with her original choreography. She is well known for her stunningly chiselled shapes and almost otherworldly moves. Pahkinen has been …
