Anna Öberg 2024

Long-awaited stage comeback

After a few years working behind the scenes, Anna Öberg is back in the spotlight. With a background in Swedish folk dance and acclaimed for her innovative approach to the genre, she takes us on a feel-good performance filled with rhythm and community. 

In Incus, Öberg returns to the core of her practice – listening and moving in and through rhythm. Joining her on stage are musicians Olof Misgeld and Johannes Burström – three voices that collide and argue, cheekily and playfully.

The interplay between music and dance has always played a central role in Anna Öberg’s works, as has the relationship between audience and artist, as seen in previous works toured by Dansnät Sverige, such as Solitude (2019) and Spår (2012).

Anna Öberg

Choreographer

Anna Öberg is a contemporary dancer and choreographer with a background in Swedish folk dance. Trained at the Stockholm University of the Arts, she has interest in the bodily and social processes of folk dance, as well as the external attributes often associated with the genre. She prefers to work in intimate formats and is guided by pulse and groove. Her works have been presented through venues such as Riksteatern, Dalateatern, Stockholm City Theatre, Modern Art Museum, Dansens Hus, Riksscenen Oslo, Dansehallerne Copenhagen, and Brut Wien, to name a few. In 2019, she created the piece Solitude commissioned by Dansnät Sverige’s co-production model.

Olof Misgeld

Musician

Olof Misgeld trained at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm where he is now a lecturer in folk music theory at the Department of Folk Music. As a fiddler, he is strongly influenced by traditional playing styles and improvisation. Misgeld is a sought-after dance musician and has broad experience as a musician in various ensembles and stage-based contexts.

Johannes Burström

Musician

Born in Umeå, Johannes Burström works as a double bassist and composer. With a master’s degree in electro-acoustic music from the Royal College of Music, he is interested in composition and sound design for stage and film. Burström plays a so-called feedback-double bass – an electronically modified double bass with self-resonating strings.