2026

Charlotta Öfverholm (SE)
In a cage of light

Öfverholm begins on a trapeze, tipping herself backwards down onto the stage, while singing Sinatra’s That’s Life, and then throwing herself into combative choreography with fellow performer Jordi Cortes. An intimate duet ensues, in which the limitations of the body and the fragility of life come into play. These two form the heart of the performance quartet, while Lauri Antila playing his raspy double bass and Tobias Hallgren as an angel-of-death-type figure with whip create a dramatic counterpoint.

In a cage of light performed in Falun, Västerås, Piteå and Luleå.

Jefta van Dinther (SE)
Mercury rising

Mercury Rising emerges from a phenomenological excavation of language. Created in collaboration with and performed by Dawn Jani Birley, Rita Mazza, and Lukas Malkowski, the performance charts both ancient and future non-linear languages, navigating the terrain between communication, gesture, agency, and physicality.

Mercury rising performed in Umeå, Kungsbacka, Örebro, Knivsta, Jönköping and Malmö.

Erik Eriksson (SE)
Knoster

On a darkened stage, a large pendulum swings with a steady rhythm, as if measuring time itself. Interacting with this motion, choreographer and dancer Erik Eriksson enters a world in which his body navigates between acceleration and deceleration, light and shade. In his hand, a sledgehammer – a tool whose history and weight shape the dynamics and movement of the dance. Beneath him – thin streaks of light, around him – the sound of delicate piano notes, as if someone were trying to gently soothe the weight itself.

Knoster performed in Stockholm, Linköping, Säter, Vara and Alingsås.

Gunilla Heilborn (SE)
Verk och dagar

In Verk och dagar (Works and Days), experiences from a journey to ancient Greece are interwoven with fragments from a fifteen-year-old performance. With both humor and gravity, Gunilla Heilborn attempts to make sense of the disjointed episodes she has collected and to explore whether reading both The Iliad and The Odyssey can truly help us understand the world better.

Verk och dagar performed in Umeå, Skellefteå, Stockholm and Malmö.

Iker Karrera (ES)
The room where it happens

The Room Where It Happens is a work that depicts our modernday fear of emptiness and the insatiable need to fill every moment with activity. Our accelerated lifestyle, our dependence on digital devices and the constant need to be connected are recreated here. Alongside this, another aspect is portrayed – an inner life in which we search for something beyond all external distractions, fighting to preserve our true identity.

The room where it happens performed in Västerås, Vara, Piteå and Luleå.

Oulouy (ES)
Black

Black is a choreographic confrontation with the violence and struggle that characterise black lives in today’s society. His work examines how the black body is viewed, defined and challenged – how it is rife with stereotypes, desires and fear. A body that bears both history and the present, that is both oppressed and celebrated, and that provokes reactions simply by existing.

Black performed in Falun, Säter, Malmö, Halmstad, Knivsta, Gävle, Göteborg, Linköping, Luleå and Stockholm.

Paradox-Sal (FR)
Woman

French dance collective Paradox-Sal celebrates twelve years of sisterhood with WOMAN – a choreographic declaration of love for the women they have been, are and will become. House and hip hop fuse together into a pulsating universe in which every step tells of the group’s shared identity. Bodies that remember, move on and make a statement.

Woman performed in Knivsta, Gävle, Göteborg, Piteå, Luleå, Stockholm, Huskvarna, Örebro and Umeå.

Land before time (SE)
Waterkind

Land Before Time is an artist-driven duo of Joanna Holewa Chrona and Yared Tilahun Cederlund. With their roots in street dance, their collaboration has evolved into a fluid and unique dance practice, deeply inspired by the rhythm and movement of water.

Waterkind performed in Finspång, Linköping, Malmö, Halmstad, Jönköping, Uddevalla, Vännäs, Skellefteå, Umeå, Älvdalen and Orsa.

Leïla Ka (FR)
Maldonne

In the performance Maldonne, Leïla Ka creates a physical and visual reckoning with gendered expectations. With five dancers and forty second-hand dresses, movements drawn from domestic and everyday choreography are transformed into a bodily protest against the impossible demands placed on the female role.

Maldonne performed in Umeå, Västerås, Vara and Luleå.

Art of Spectra (SE)
Skuggor

With its distinctive style—raw, poetic, and visually driven—Art of Spectra invites the audience into a place where every individual carries their shadow as an outward proof of an inner state. In Shadows, it is the void between light and darkness that speaks. It is not the light that defines the figure, but the space the shadow leaves behind. The shadows are not merely visual—they are emotional and contain what we carry within us. They are what we do not remember, never said, or choose to forget. They are bodily memories, identity, and belonging.

Skuggor performed in Piteå, Luleå, Falkenberg, Göteborg, Vara, Säter, Jönköping and Gävle.

Helena Franzén (SE)
Here- Us- Now- second

With Here-Us-Now second, Helena Franzén opens the door to her choreographic archive of memory—a work that encapsulates over 30 years of artistic practice. Franzén, one of Sweden’s most influential choreographers in contemporary dance, has since the 1990s developed a unique and precise movement language marked by exceptional intensity and presence.

Here- Us- Now- second performed in Gävle, Uddevalla, Örebro, Linköping and Jönköping.

Israel Galván (ES)
La Edad de Oro

In La Edad de Oro, Galván is not merely searching for flamenco’s roots – he exposes them. Together with singer María Marín and musician Rafael Rodríguez, Galván establishes a stage dynamic that deepens the work’s austere character. By stripping away the decorative and focusing on the essential, a raw presence emerges where body, voice, and strings interact in an unfiltered expression. The performance is not nostalgic, but a contemporary response to a lost form – a flamenco that burns, breaks, and moves.

La Edad de Oro performed in Malmö, Falun, Knivsta, Luleå and Stockholm.

Hagar Malin Hellkvist Sellén (SE)
Driv Hunger

Driv Hunger is an independent continuation of The time it takes from 2023. As with that work, Hellkvist Sellén once again lets the creative process begin with movement, to see where it leads. An intuitive practice where the floor becomes a site for physical and philosophical inquiry — a tribute to the choreographic and dancing craft.

Driv Hunger performed in Umeå, Malmö, Alingsås, Skellefteå and Stockholm (in Stockholm during spring 2027).

Mari Raudsepp (SE/ZA)
Groove

In the performance Groove, choreographer Mari Raudsepp joins forces with three South African dancers. With them, they bring gqom – a powerful and uncompromising dance style rooted in Durban’s street and club culture, where men typically dominate the scene. Expect synchronized movements, fast footwork, and facial expressions you didn’t know existed. This is a celebration of gqom’s raw energy and distinctiveness, allowing each dancer’s creativity and personality to shine.

Groove performed in Piteå, Örebro, Uppsala, Säter, Västerås and Oslo.