Arkeolog 8
Lucy
It the performance
Lucy we get to know, well Lucy who is fragile, strong and proud. There is more to her than what you see at first glance. The struggles inside and thoughts on her mind is slowly exposed and loses up boundaries between reality, perception and fiction. Who is she, and what is her story?
Lucy was performed in Västervik, Karlskrona, Växjö, Ljungby, Slite, Linköping, Piteå, Mellerud and Uddevalla.
Erik Linghede
HOLD
HOLD, a fine-tuned and raw duet, sets out from the aesthetics of hip-hop to explore the yearning for intimacy and the human urge to construct meaningfulness. An exploration of the improvised, the moments created and the decisions made.
HOLD was performed in Gävle, Umeå, Vara, Linköping, Visby, Jönköping and Göteborg.
Skånes Dansteater
M&M&M
The performance M&M&M is full of questions. How much can one trust one’s memories? Why do we so often hide our natural instincts? And why is life only the understudy for death at a funeral? With a playful disrespect for symbolism and order three young, awarded and internationally renowned choreographers, Marina Mascarell, Marcos Morau and Martin Forsberg turn our perception of reality upside down in three original works created for Skånes Dansteater.
M&M&M was performed in Stockholm, Halmstad, Växjö, Säffle and Borås.
Kenneth Kvarnström
Sofa(r)
Kenneth Kvarnström is one of Scandinavia’s foremost choreographers in contemporary dance. Swedish lutenist and guitarist Jonas Nordberg belongs to the new generation of exciting musicians in the field of plucked instruments. His repertoire ranges from early renaissance lute music to contemporary soundscape explorations. The working relationship between Kenneth Kvarnström and Jonas Nordberg has evolved over a couple of years and resulted in several performances.
Sofa(r) was performed in Jönköping, Västerås, Umeå, Vara and Säffle.
winterguests
Flawed
With self-hatred as a jumping-off point,
Flawed looks at the contemptuous and critical dialogue which has become an everyday part of how we relate to each other. Using dance, drag, violent text and video as their armoury of weapons, Alan Øyen and, former Batcheva dancer, Léo Lérus explore the terrifying brutalities and unnerving subtleties of racism, sexism… any-ism, and the fury that’s inherent within all of us.
Flawed was performed in Västerås, Kungsbacka and Malmö.
Shake it Collaboration
Roses and Beans
Roses and Beans is a social event and a performance on how love is organized and lived. With rosy cheeks, flirty bodies and occasional love songs sung to the rhythm of a strict march, the performers bang their heads into the kitchen sink meanwhile they investigate the couple relationship as an institution and the template of success.
Roses and beans was performed in Piteå, Gävle and Malmö
Adrien M / Claire B
Hakanai
In Japanese, the word Hakanaï is used to define the ephemeral, the fragile, the transitory and the intangible nature of matter. This words together with the tulle covered cube covered with live projections, create the starting point for this solo piece. Hakanaï place the human body at the heart of technological and artistic challenges and adapt today’s technological tools to create a timeless poetry through a visual language based on playing and enjoyment.
Hakanai was performed in Kungsbacka, Visby, Växjö and Umeå.
Andersson Dance & Scottish Ensemble
Goldberg Variations
Bach’s Goldberg Variations from 1741 is not only one of the most well known and appreciated works ever composed, but also one of the most interpreted. Almost 275 years later, the choreographer Örjan Andersson and Jonathan Morton, artistic director of the Scottish Ensemble do their own interpretation: eleven musicians and five dancers perform the Goldberg Variations as equal partners – a seamless experience where musicians and dancers expressions merge into a unit.
Goldberg Variations was performed in Jönköping, Gävle, Västerås, Kungsbacka, Vara and Umeå.
James Wilton
Last Man Standing
This first full length work by James Wilton Dance explores the desire to survive and the fragility of our existence, the hard-wired human drive to stay alive despite the inevitability of our ultimate conclusion.
Last Man Standing was performed in Gävle, Borås, Halmstad, Malmö and Karlstad.
Jeanette Langert
Jean
“Tonight is Miss Julie crazy again, absolutely crazy!” The opening line said by the servant Jean in August Strindberg’s classic work
Miss Julie, has inspired the choreographer Jeanette Langert to work with Jean as a starting point in her project
Jean.
Jean is the first work created within Dansnät Sverige’s new national co-production model and will do an eleven week tour in Sweden this autumn. Langert works with the local context by staging the work in different rooms that can be symbolise the stables, the kitchen and the manor in Strindberg’s play. We will meet the complexity of the power hierarchies of today in the show, in various talks and at different geographic rooms, from the Piteå in the north to Malmö in the south.
Jean was performed in Umeå, Piteå, Jönköping, Kungsbacka, Stockholm, Borås, Malmö, Västerås, Kalmar, Gävle and Linköping.
Memory Wax
Possible Impossible
Possible Impossible plays with our perceptions of the world around us. Through a kaleidoscope of images, digital effects and associations we as an audience shift our points of view. Eight explosive dancers from the Cuban Danza Teatro Retazos meet the melancholy expression from Memory Wax and the result is pure mind blowing.
Possible Impossible was performed in Vara, Jönköping, Västerås and Falkenberg.
Spitfire Company
One Step Before the Fall
A hypnotic wave of voice and sound by Lenka Dusilová and power dance by Markéta Vacovská converge in a single moment in the boxing ring. This multi-genre project by the acclaimed Spitfire Company deals with the themes of fighting, exhaustion, the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, and collapse.
One Step Before the Fall was performed in Lund, Malmö, Jönköping, Stockholm, Umeå, Falkenberg and Uddevalla.
Tentacle Tribe
Nobody Likes a Pixelated Squid
With harmonic hip-hop and geometrical contemporary dance, Tentacle Tribe creates an intricate interplay with poetic movement patterns, inspired by a fluid in motion – fluent, flowing, easy. As an organism in the depths of the sea, or like a foundation that gives way and falters. With virtuosity and youthful energy, Tentacle Tribe shows a sample of a polished and magnetic duo with physical choreography and acrobatic elements.
Nobody Likes a Pixelated Squid was performed in Visby, Göteborg, Vara, Umeå, Kiruna, Karlstad and Linköping.
