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 …
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Working in collaborative partnerships my aim is to develop the arts! That happens through production of concrete cultural projects, distribution of performances and development of artist. Lene Bang Henningsen (DK) is a creative producer and senior advisor working from the recently established platform Lene Bang org. Her passion and curiosity has led to various partnerships …
From her childhood in former Zaire, Josefsson possesses an incomparable sense of rhythm and music. She crosses borders between different art forms, focusing on the meetings created between artists of different backgrounds. Since the very beginning, the company has attracted attention for its wide range of innovative performances. Their pieces have been adored by the …
Christina Tingskog’s performances are appreciated for their wit, warmth, audience interaction and compelling physicality. She challenges her young audiences with topics beyond the usual, for example quantum mechanics, astrophysics and ways of logical thinking transformed into poetic, humorous, expressive dance. Starting 2018 she works with norm creative themes and formats for young audiences as another …
Tero Saarinen’s works have captivated audiences and critics in 40 countries, including at BAM & The Joyce (New York), Chaillot & Châtelet (Paris), Southbank Centre (London), Movimentos Festival (Germany), New Zealand International Arts Festival, Saitama Arts Theater (Japan Place des Arts (Montreal) and in commissions for e.g. NDT1, Batsheva, Lyon Opéra Ballet, the National Dance Company …
Marika Hedemyr is a Swedish artist combining choreography and philosophy in the context of public spaces: in other words she works with bodies, ideas and our contemporary urban society. Her work is characterized by mundane situations in a twisted reality, precision, humour and physicality. Hedemyr’s current focus is to create performative art in public spaces, …
WE GO is a band and dance company founded in 2004 by choreographer/dancer Kirstine Kyhl Andersen and composer/guitarist Niels Bjerg with an international ensemble of seven musicians and dancers. They investigate possibilities of embodying musical functions and transform them into unique experiences of choreographed concert-performances. Their dancing concerts have been presented at both theatres and …
“After 25 years they have nothing more to prove. Only the strong longing to be themselves, to mold what means the most to shake the world wordlessly, bottomless and carefree”. Raw physical dance theatre with depth, irony, brutality and humor. Since 1995 Charlotta Öfverholm has creates over 30 production, which have toured all over the …
Ingrid Olterman Dans was established in 1999 by choreographer and artistic leader Ingrid Olterman. The company creates dance performances where the audience plays an integral role and with an interest in creating multi-sensory stage works. Significant for the artistic work is the fine balance between humour, warmth, musicality and creativity. Each performance piece is developed …
