Skånes Dansteater
Spirits

Three choreographers meet and share an evening at Skånes Dansteater.

Inspired by the Egyptian mythology Virpi Pahkinen created Nehebkau for Skånes Dasteater.

Marie Brolin-Tani presented her piece Searching inspired by the story of Jeanne d’Arc. Searching is not a biography but is based on a human theme, relating to the difficult choices people are faced with. Marie Brolin-Tani was during this period temporary Artistic Director for Skånes Dansteater.

Tender Hooks is created by the Dutch choreographer Didy Veldman. As starting-point she has taken the atmosphere round the vacant space one sometimes is left in when trying to communicate but not necessarily succeeds. The performance had its first opening night in Portugal at Ballet Gulbenkian 2003.

Spirits was performed in Västerås, Säffle, Jönköping and Varberg.

Maria Clara Villa-Lobos
XL, Because Size Does Matter

XL, Because Size Does Matter is the Brazilian, now living in Belgium, choreographer Maria Clara Villa-Lobos’ first group choreography. The 30 minutes long opening scene takes place in an interactive fast food restaurant where the audience have the possibility to choose from the menu a Double De Keybus or a Trish & chips. After the visit to the restaurant Maria Clara Villa-Lobos performs her own choreography in a factory-look-alike environment where she alternates between production line work, showbiz, strip-tease and shopping trolley dance. With irony and a great deal of humour XL, because size does matter gives a critical view on society’s mass consumption.

XL, Because Size Does Matter was performed in Karlstad, Skellefteå, Umeå, Halmstad, Jönköping, Linköping, Västerås, Sundsvall, Gävle and Stockholm.

Helena Franzén
Delicious Liquids – About Changing the Way Things Change

The dance and the musical body is in focus in Helena Franzén’s performance. Uncertain feelings and disorientations drives the dancers to irrational actions, which sometimes entices them to become someone else, somewhere else. Video projections show deep-diving body details, displacements and distortions.

Delicious Liquids – About Changing the Way Things Change was performed in Linköping, Jönköping, Härnösand and Gävle.

Gunilla Heilborn
Åtjärn Stories

Åtjärn is a small muddy pond situated in the woods of Bergslagen. This is where a small group of humans remained. This performance is about them.

The Åtjärn Stories is a funny and thought-provoking performance/dance about telling stories – with body, words and images. About trying to communicate but mostly failing to do so.

Gunilla Heilborn works with performance, dance, text and film. Many of her short movies have been Guldbagge-nominated. Åtjärn Stories is a continuation of her work with the short movie Sportstugan.

Åtjärn Stories was performed in Linköping, Falkenberg, Umeå and Karlstad.

Tommi Kitti
Leap & Spiral

Tommy Kitti started his career at the beginning of the 70s. He worked as a dancer and choreograph inter alia with Cullbergbaletten and the Finnish Nationalbaletten. Tommy Kitti & Co.was founded in 2000 and Tommy Kitti has received number of awards in Finland.

In Leap he collaborates with the Finnish jazz pianist Iro Rantala who is famous for his participation in Trio Töykeät, and who have taken part in thousands of concerts round the world.

Leap & Spiral was performed in Stockholm, Jönköping, Västerås, Linköping, Gävle, Umeå and Varberg.

Carte Blanche
Naharin & Eyal

Carte Blanch is Norway’s national contemporary dance company. The company was founded in Oslo 1984 and has since 1989 its base in Bergen. Carte Blanche presents a performance with works by the Israeli choreographers Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal.

Ohad Naharin is art director of the Israeli company Batsheva Dance Company and has since the 1990s brought the company to the absolute top of the world. His musical talent is universally acknowledged and the choreographies are performed to Strauss, Elvis Presley or his own compositions. Ohad Naharin has a long and successful career behind him and is today thought of as one of the world’s leading choreographer in contemporary dance.

Sharon Eyal, a successful Israeli choreographer on the march, created Love for the Batsheva Dance Company. A work with elements of folkloristic chain dance and layers and layers to uncover, against a blood red floor.

Naharin & Eyal was performed in Skövde, Linköping, Umeå and Gävle.

Dorte Olesen
Ful flicka

Dorte Olesen originates from Denmark and has been working in Sweden since 1992 as a choreographer. Dorte Olesen creates without any respect for scenic conventions a mixed form of dance, images and theatre. Her focus is on the inherent possibilities of the human body, and to convey both physical and psychical manifestos, by using improvisation and rhythm as tools to create human behaviours.

Dorte Olesen places in her dance performance Ful flicka the body’s possibilities to communicate in the centre on a physical and psychical level. She comments and interprets human behaviours by reflecting the world she experiences around her. She is eager to raise the vulnerable society, and with focus on the unhappy children who are becoming more violent, who refuse to be responsible for their actions but who in reality hunger for love.

Ful flicka was performed in Stockholm, Göteborg, Jönköping, Linköping, Västerås, Sundsvall and Umeå.

Malin Hellkvist Sellén
Better People

Norrlandsoperan/Västerbottensmusiken i Umeå.

Malin Hellkvist Sellén was educated in choreography at Danshögskolan 1998-2001. Body, identity, sexuality and gender are strong themes in her creations. Her work and treatment of a theme is usually developed through her political engagement and standpoint. Her choreographic creations contain both an abstract and story-telling idiom. Malin Hellkvist Sellén analysis the world around her with clarity and creates dance with space for nuances, deviations and broken norms and her work is applauded by the critics.

Bättre folk is a work about power, massive movements and those who pass over the boarders.

Bättre folk was performed in Umeå, Gävle, Härnösand, Stockholm, Falkenberg, Västerås, Linköping, Jönköping and Uddevalla.