Tag: MADE IN the Nordic Countries 2017

ilDance

Forbidden Fruit photographer: JB Photography Catharses Forbidden Fuit ilDance is an independent and international contemporary dance company and a production coordinating collective based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Artistic directors, Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer, founded the company with a humble belief in diverse methods for the creation and production of meaningful contemporary dance and with great …

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Charlotte Engelkes Production

Miss Very Wagner photograph: Anna Diehl photograph: Mats Bäcker Kira – I huset där jag bor photograph: Performing Pictures Charlotte Engelkes is national and internationally active as a director, choreographer, and artist. Her repertoire covers dance, theatre, opera, and performance. Characterized by an unrestrained genre mix, a personal appeal, warm humour, and surprising conclusions. Engelkes …

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Cirkus Cirkör

Wear It Like A Crown photographer: Mats Bäcker photographer: Mats Bäcker Knitting Peace photographer: Mats Bäcker Cirkus Cirkör photograph: Mattias Edwall CIRKUS CIRKÖR is Sweden’s first and largest contemporary circus, founded in 1995. Built upon art and pedagogy, Cirkus Cirkör has grown rapidly and today consists of shows touring Sweden and the world, circus events, …

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Claire Parsons CO

Choreographer Claire Parsons and her company present innovative, high-quality performance art for young audiences. The work is acclaimed for its stunning visuals, exquisite performers and perfectly balanced interaction with the spectators. With playful elegance, humour and warmth, audiences are invited into exciting new worlds together with the performers. 2018 Claire Parsons received the prestigious Cullberg …

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Nordberg Movement

NORDBERG MOVEMENT

 works with a select group of independent choreographers and choreographic projects in Sweden. Through co-operations and co-productions the main aim is to strengthen the position of the artform in relation to public space, audience encounters and modes of production. We also work with domestic and international co-production projects, touring and pedagogical endeavours. Nordberg …

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Byström Källblad

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 …

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GöteborgsOperans Danskompani

GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. Reinventing the art of dance. GöteborgsOperans Danskompani makes daring and unexpected choices in our quest to create art as beautiful, challenging, and unpredictable as life itself. Uncompromising, bold, and ground-breaking dance art of absolute relevance with an expression that resonates throughout the international dance world. GöteborgsOperans Danskompani is one of Europe’s foremost contemporary …

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Kitt Johnson X-act

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 …

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Weld Company

Weld Weld, an artist-run, experimental platform in Stockholm, initiated Weld Company in 2013 – running three months per year. Weld Company is aiming to rediscover and re-valuate the old institution of a dance company and is updating the company form through a collective work conducted by one of Weld’s clearly given structures, with room for …

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SU EN Butoh Company

”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 …

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