Christina Tingskog
PERFECT or Join My Picnic
Christina Tingskogs performances have attracted attention for its wit and humor. The performances can be seen as a “sort of” dance theater which combines high and low to reflect something of the deeply human.
PERFECT or Join My Picnic will be performed by an integrated ensemble, ie dancers with and without disabilities, exploring exciting new opportunities to develop dance movements and theatrical expression.
PERFECT or Join My Picnic was performed in Falkenberg, Västerås, Kalmar and Malmö.
Björn Säfsten
Display
Choreographer Bjorn Säfsten lives in Stockholm but has his background in Umeå. His work has been shown both internationally and throughout Sweden and has attracted much attention in recent years. He had residences in Dansnät Sverige 2008, and this is his third tour with the network.
In “Display”, Bjorn Säfsten asks more questions than he gives answers. How do we create meaning of signals and symbols in the performativity space and how is this interpreted by the viewer? With intricate humor and an eye for details will “Display” transforms to a unique place for choreography.
Display was performed in Linköping, Halmstad, Karlskrona and Malmö.
Erik Kaiel
No Man is an Island och My True North
The, in Amsterdam living, Lebanese-American choreographer Erik Kaiel, has visited Sweden a few times before, but it’s the first time he goes on a long tour. With the performances “no man is an island” and “my true north he” he will visit the forests of deepest Småland and the wuthering high of the north.
”no man is an island” is a comical, engaging, and extremely challenging duet for two dancers, one large and one small, including choreographer Erik Kaiel himself. The large one is like an island. The smaller one dances like a master acrobat on the body of the big one, and does everything he can not to touch the ground. Meanwhile in “my true north” Erik Kaiel displays the beauty and intensity of relentless engagement. What begins as an intimate duet ends in a shared struggle in which the pair need each other to survive.
my true north and
no man is an island was performed in Västervik, Vimmerby, Ljungby, Växjö, Linköping, Jönköping, Göteborg, Malmö and Piteå.
Colin Dunne
Out of Time
Out of Time is a solo performance by the internationally celebrated Irish step dancer Colin Dunne. Best known for his performances and choreography in Riverdance, Dunne has been on an artistic journey since completing an MA in Contemporary Dance in 2002. In Out of Time he integrates movement, film, and spoken commentary to choreograph a provocative dialogue between his traditional roots and modernity.
Out of Time was performed in Borås, Uddevalla, Kungsbacka, Växjö, Gävle, Umeå and Västerås.
Susanna Leinonen
Blinded Mind
With her unique and articulate choreographic style, Susanna Leinonen combines classical know-how with contemporary movement thinking.
Blinded Mind is a dance work that plays with contrasts and oppositions. Its powerful visual elements and sound world tells the story of one individual’s bravery in swimming against the stream and the unavoidable consequences that follow. Dreamlike sensitivity is combined with stark reality.
Blinded Mind was performed in Gävle, Umeå, Göteborg and Kungsbacka.
Marco Flores
Tránsito
The Spanish flamenco dancer Marco Flores tries to bring together his personal and professional experience in a search for his own, unique creative discourse. In this process, he takes a look at his past work, reviewing it now in order to continue dancing his way to his next creation. Life as a challenge and Marco Flores’ meeting with his own artistic identity make his “baile” be in constant transition.
Tránsito was performed in Umeå, Jönköping, Piteå, Luleå and Halmstad.
MaudsArt
Les trois femmes
With an altogether dance experience of 120 years, Maud Karlsson, Siv Ander and Helena Högberg takes the stage in possession. Playfulness, change, tenderness, longing, death, high heels, barefoot, Chanel dresses, plastic skirts, modern, contemporary, past time dances… nothing is too big, small, superficial or deep in
Les trois femmes.
MaudsArt is founded by Maud Karsson, who has worked as a freelance dance artist for the last 30 years, both in Sweden and in New York. In
Les trois femmes she is working with Siv Ander, one of Sweden’s first jazz dancers and also a dancer in the Cullberg Ballet for 17 years, and Helena Högberg, dancer and choreographer whose been working with the Cramér Ballet and Birgitta Egerbladh among others.
Les trois femmes was performed in Malmö, Karlskrona, Borås, Kungsbacka, Växjö and Linköping.
Vanilton Lakka
Is the Body The Media of Dance? OTHERS PARTS
Is the Body The Media of Dance? OTHERS PARTS is a multimedia project in which the audience takes part of through the Internet, telephones and on stage. The Brazilian choreographer Vanilton Lakka is in this project researching the creation, analysis and composition of movements in different media, and gives the audience the opportunity to ask them self the question: what body can produce dance today? In what medium?
Vanilton Lakka is Master in Arts at the Federal University of Uberlândia with the research “For a City Habitat a Body”, and Graduated in Social Sciences by the same institution with the study “The Process of Transmition of The Breakdance”. He moves without borders between academical studies, street and contemporary dance.
Is the Body The Media of Dance? OTHERS PARTS was performed in Linköping, Västerås, Vara, Köping, Norberg, Borås, Göteborg, Gävle, Luleå, Piteå, Gällivare, Älvsbyn and Arvidsjaur.
Compagnie Ea Eo
m2
In the circus performance
m2 is four jugglers locked up on a stage that keeps getting smaller and smaller. When intimacy fades, the presence of the others can be both aggression and dependence. The four jugglers are violently and irreparably confronted with fear of lacking vital space.
The Belgian company ea eo was founded by the four jugglers Eric Longequel, Jordaan De Cuyper, Sander De Cuyper och Bram Dobbelaere. Their main essential language is juggling, permitting them to create and express themselves, it’s their own emotional language: fragility, rhythm, speed, impact, performance, suspension, balance, fall.
m2 was performed in Malmö, Skövde, Göteborg, Jönköping, Kungsbacka, Uddevalla, Vara and Umeå.
Sun-a Lee
Waves
In Waves the South Korean choreographer Sun-a Lee is concerned with the micro-movements in the body. The hidden tiny movements that occur in our bodies, waiting for a rhythm that they can rebound. As they expand emit high energy literally exploding outside the body: the dance of “Waves”.
Waves was performed in Piteå, Gävle, Västerås, Malmö and Falkenberg.
Tabea Martin
Duet for Two Dancers
In Duet for Two Dancers takes the Swiss choreographer Tabea Martin in some way a humorous look at the anxiety of not living up to your own expectations, or those which your profession or society in general impose on you.
Duet for Two Dancers was performed in Västerås, Malmö and Falkenberg.
La Veronal
Moscow & Reykjavik
Siena
In the two pieces Moscow and Reykjavik is La Veronal presenting society from different perspective. Moscow proposes a speech about fear, presenting a series of pathetic situations in which it can appear. And in Reykjavik the focus is on the thought that the image on itself has become more important than the idea that it represents.
The Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau created the company La Veronal in 2005 at the age of 23 and have since then worked all over Europe. In December they performed Siena at Dansens Hus in Stockholm.
Moscow and
Reykjavik was performed in Jönköping.
Siena was performed in Stockholm.
