2007

Memory Wax (SE)
Desert & The Quiet Agreement

Memory Wax was founded 2004 by the dancers Johanna Jonasson and Miguel Azcue.

Desert starts with simple dance movements and the search for contact, reunion and freedom. Miguel Azcue won the choreographic competition Certament Coreografico de Galicia in Spain 2005 with Desert and was also chosen for Aerowaves in London in January 2005.

The quite agreement deals with teamwork between people. To see yourself in others, relations and meetings which mirrors, questions and complements your own self.

Dessert & The Quite Agreement was performed in Stockholm, Linköping, Jönköping and Umeå.

Virpi Pahkinen (SE)
Sal Mirabile

Virpi Pahkinen is one of Sweden’s most enthralling choreographers and dancers, and fascinated audiences and press all over the world with her personal and intensive dance language. Her source of inspiration is in part mysticism and oriental religion which often mirrors her performances. She has won numbers of prizes and awards and has taken part in numbers of Ingmar Bergman’s productions at Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern

Salt is the starting-point in Sal Mirabile. The artist and stage-designer Lovisa Johansson’s installation Exsaltorium is on stage. Exsaltorium was exhibited at Skulpturens Hus 2005.

Sal Mirabile was performed in Halmstad, Uddevalla, Jönköping and Umeå.

Örjan Andersson/ Andersson Dance (SE)
We Dream of Simple Lives

Örjan Adersson’s choreography comes from his education, his dancing career and his long career as a choreographer. He works as a choreographer with his own dance company and for some of the world’s leading companies. Örjan Anderson is sometimes described as a modern classicist. The choreographic material is often technically arduous with full speed, rhythm and musicality as a base.

We Dream of Simple Lives is an abstract, poetic, dreamlike creation, where movements flow and formations replace each other, quickly and without interruptions.

Örjan Andersson reads music and breaks down his choreography in mathematical parts and by so doing he, together with five female and one male dancer, create a sparkling, powerful and poetic dance.

We Dream of Simple Lives was performed in Västerås, Gävle, Sundsvall and Linköping.

Via Katlehong Dance (ZA)
NKULULEKO

Via Katlehong Dance takes the hip hop-like local dance style pantsula and blends it with a range of other styles such as gumboots and tap dance. Pantsula is a nickname for the rebellious youth culture in the townships. It includes fashion, music, and dance — but above all, it’s a lifestyle. Young people in each neighborhood took pride in representing their local pantsula culture.

Gumboots was originally danced by miners in South Africa’s gold mines. They worked in rubber boots and developed a way to communicate by stomping, slapping their boots, and rattling their ankle chains. Via Katlehong has succeeded in modernizing gumboots and fusing it with tap dance, steps, and pantsula. All the dancers perform on stage simultaneously, using their own rhythms.

NKULULEKO was performed in Stockholm, Gävle, Umeåk, Sundsvall, Linköping, Jönköping, Varberg, Göteborg, Vara, Uddevalla and Västerås.

StopGAP (GB)
Le Picnic, Portfolio selection

StopGAP Dance Company is a British dance company which challenge the accepted rules of the traditional dance form. Two of the four dancers are disabled and two are non-disabled, but all four dancers perform on same terms. StopGAP works with the dancers’ individual capacities and challenging limits. The company works with different choreographers and strive to create entertaining performances but also to make the audience rethink. Leading in their field of dance the company is engaged with and takes part in national debates concerning dance and disabilities. Le Picnic was created as a work in residence at teaterföreningen (Theatre Association) in Vilhelmina.

Le Picnic, Portfolio selection was, apart from Vilhelmina, performed in Umeå, Stockholm, Linköping, Göteborg, Huskvarna, Västerås, Gävle and Kungsbacka.

Livekonstkollektivet MELO (SE)
c/o

The Live art collective MELO, based in Stockholm, consists of ten people; dancers, musicians, light designers, architects and designers. The style is punky, poetic and sensual.

In C/O the audience meet five people, number of instruments, cables, fluorescent lamps and a gang of mini loudspeakers; scaled and personal. A broken story without action. A soft, warm and personal image in contrast to an empty cold room. Live music takes over the room and the audience is on a journey from the small, brittle and intimate to an embrace of the whole place. Flickering moments appear in the dark, beautiful but at the same time unpleasant.

C/O was performed in Linköping, Umeå and Örnsköldsvik.

Rasmus Ölme (SE)
On Three

On three was Dansnät Sverige’s residence and hosted by Dansstationen in Malmö.

Rasmus Ölme is educated in the Belgian dance tradition (where one gladly mixes different forms of dance expression), and has danced in Wim Vandekeybus’s famous dance company Ultima Vez. Rasmus Ölme is nowadays the driving force behind REFUG, and this production is his fifth production since his breakthrough with “This is not a test” 2001. His signum is a floating and physical choreography – wrapped in an unsophisticated and undramatic style –  accompanied by newly written music.

In On Three five dancers are on stage ready to defy gravitation, shake up the audience perceptions and play with scenic rules. Jean-Louis Huhta has composed the new, groovy electronic-acoustic music.

On Three was performed in Malmö, Lund, Jönköping, Linköping, Falkenberg, Stockholm, Västerås, Umeå, Härnösand, Gävle and Göteborg.

Björn Elisson (SE)
Aurum

Aurum discusses the alchemic transformation-symbolic and delivers a poetic concentrate of humans and butterflies, but also aspects of man and female – disturbing ambivalences and fusions. Marianne Linder’s poem forms the foundation of Aurum’s choreography, in which Elisson combines text-image-rhythm-movements to an art/dance installation form which the audience is transferred to.

Aurum is the Latin name for gold, and the gold – the precious metal, solidified light – also represents fusion to unity. From a chaotic atmosphere of darkness, the performance stretches towards a zone of gold. In Aurum Elisson continue to collaborate with the dancer Anja Birnbaum and poet Marianne Linder.

Aurum was performed in Linköping, Jönköping, Malmö, Uddevalla, Vara and Umeå (2008)