Accessible dance art, reaching a broad audience Maria Naidu wants dance to provoke, stimulate and inform rather than just entertain. She explores the social, emotional, and spiritual dimensions that dance generates. The starting point is the power of dance to communicate directly, across all kinds of boundaries, and its ability to deeply touch people. Maria’s …
The duo Byström Källblad makes performance, film, and installation work for public space, stages, and galleries. Visual artist Helena Byström and choreographer Anna Källblad share a desire to tell stories based on collaborations and specific places. Fearlessly with both seriousness and humor they develop concepts inspired by challenges in society today and seek to express …
ccap is an independent site for sustainment of choreography directed by Cristina Caprioli. ccap produces performances, installations, workshops, seminars, films, publications, and cross-disciplinary projects such as WEAVING POLITICS symposium and CHOREO_DRIFT. Cristina Caprioli began to choreograph in the mid 90’s. In 1998, she founded the independent dance company ccap for which she has produced over …
DRIFT or drive photographer: Per Morten Abrahamsen Mellemrum #1 photographer: Per Morten Abrahamsen POST NO BILLS photographer: Per Morten Abrahamsen FORUM HUMANUM photographer: Per Morten Abrahamsen DRIFT or Drive photographer: Per Morten Abrahamsen Stigma photographer: James Quah The Magical Sound Circus photographer: Per Morten Abrahamsen Rankefod photographer: Per Morten Abrahamsen “Streamlined, balanced, evocative – you …
”Brutal and beautiful, raw and sublime”. These are the words often used to describe the work of SU-EN Butoh Company. The company was founded in Tokyo in 1992 by Swedish choreographer and dancer SU-EN. Since 1994 the company is based in Sweden, in an old village school in the forest outside Uppsala. SU-EN Butoh Company …
Roses and Beans MISS U My Own Bodies Shake it Collaborations (SiC) is a Stockholm based, internationally working company operating in the fields of performance, dance, theatre and opera. Shake it Collaborations functions as a platform to share artistic ideas and it also provides means for research and a creative context for invited collaborators through …
Malin Hellkvist Sellén (MHS) works with the expanded field of choreography. Her work explores choreography as a physical and linguistic practice and the ideas are sparked by the need for a conversation with Malin herself, with the performers, with a contemporary dance context, with the audience, and in particular with the general public. MHS is …
Life Hacking photographer: Allan Lauridsen Displacement photographer: Annika B Lewis photographer: Jens Peter Engedal Annika B. Lewis creates innovative contemporary performing arts at the intersection of dance, theatre, and performance art. She challenges theatre concepts and creates work distinguished by strong conceptual and visual elements – mixing the trivial with the philosophical. Her work is …
“Physical theatre at its very best: daring, dark, unpredictable and charged with compressed intensity.” The Guardian “Expertly straddles the fragile line between humor and horror.” New York Times Jo Strømgren Kompani (JSK) is an acclaimed Norwegian repertory company with large global distribution. Over one hundred shows are performed worldwide every year, both in large national …
Since its foundation in 1992, Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt has presented some of the most remarkable productions in Norwegian contemporary dance. Ingun Bjørnsgaard’s style and vocabulary derives from her close cooperation with her dancers. Their technical skill, areas of specialization, personal expression, and creativity are vital resources in the development of the choreography and dramaturgy of …
