Club Fisk
Forestillinger

Forestillinger consists of two dancers, two dress changes, two marker pens, one writing pad and an illustrated explanation of the work and its structure. What happens to us, our experiences and interpretations of the work, when everything is visual and explained in advance? With great sense of humour invites the Danish choreographer Kasper Daugaard Poulsen us to get a glimpse of the dance-composition and the result becomes both rational and vivid. Here he co-operates with the dancers and the two choreographers Mari Matre and Anette Asp Christensen.

Forestillinger was performed in Vara, Linköping, Jönköping and Halmstad.

Robin Jonsson
I Believe I Can See the Future

Where does one draw the line between virtual reality and physical? And the line between the actor and her acting part? These questions occupied Robin Jonsson, one of Sweden’s new international dance stars. He grew up with tv- and computer games and is one of the first from the Playstation-generation who seriously uses his experiences in his work. In the dance-performance I Believe I Can See the Future the two worlds are totally joined together. That is if one can talk about two worlds to begin with. He was educated at Kungliga Svenska Balettskolan.

Robin Jonsson created I Believe I Can See the Future at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels in 2008. I Believe I Can See the Future is performed together with three other students from P.A.R.T.S.

I Believe I Can See the Future was performed in Vara, Linköping, Jönköping and Halmstad.

Liquid Loft
Running Sushi

Running Sushi consists of twelve scenes performed in a new order in each new performance, all depending on which sushi the audience choose at random. Each time the storyboard becomes different and the history must find its form in the audience imagination. Running Sushi takes up questions such as the way dance is precepted today and how communication becomes more and more superficially two dimensional.

The performance has a relationship to the Japanese Manga which is present both in its context and movement.

Liquid Loft was established 2005 by Chris Haring choreographer, Andreas Berger musician, Stephanie Cumming dancer and Thomas Jelinek dramaturg. With their performances/installations they have placed contemporary dance in a broader context to other contemporary art-forms. They have received international fame through their specific metaphor-loaded and strong expressional form combined with special acoustic stage work and skilful dance.

Running Sushi was performed in Stockholm, Umeå and Malmö.

Virpi Pahkinen
Morpho Z

Virpi Pahkinen is one of the Nordic Countries most embraced choreographer and solo dancer. She has toured 40 countries and constantly wins the public and the critics appreciations for her original, beautiful and dynamic performances. Virpi Pahkinen has created dance for film and tv as well as been commissioned work for other dance companies. The first performance of Morpho Z was held at Dansens Hus in Spring 2008. In Morpho Z she includes four young dancers into her glimmering colourful world. A world of sculptural and exquisite flexible quality of movements and with the sound composition of percussion instruments and Japanese koto.

Morpho Z was performed in Växjö, Jönköping, Umeå, Göteborg, Kungsbacka, Härnösand, Gävle, Linköping, Vara, Uddevalla and Borås.

Martin Forsberg
Рабóта (Rabota)

A creation for four Russian dancers and four Russian babusjkas. Robota moves within a limited suspense – visualizing Soviet statues and making tea. Our existence is exposed in the space between the ordinary and the equilibristic. The performance does not wish to recount Russian history, only the wish to show eight Russians sharing time and space.

Martin Forsberg completed his choreographic studies at the Danish National School of Contemporary Dance 2005 and has since then worked in a broad field and in number of countries.

Robota was performed in Kramfors, Örnsköldsvik, Umeå, Göteborg, Jönköping, Falkenberg, Malmö, Gävle and Västerås

Dorte Olesen /DOP
Orena tankar

Orena tankar is Dansnät Sverige’s residence performance 2010 and was hosted by NorrlandsOperan in Umeå. In her new creation Dorte Olesent invites the public into an adventure in to the subconscious, to investigate what is going on in the head of an adult persons. Five dancers scrutinize closely forbidden thoughts. By tooth and nail they defend their rights to think freely and to have strong feelings.

Orena tankar was performed in Umeå, Sundsvall, Gävle, Stockholm, Linköping; Jönköping, Göteborg, Helsingborg, Malmö, Lund, Halmstad, Karlskrona, Vara and Västerås.

Gunilla Witt
Victorias nej

Viktorias nej is a dance-solo about Victoria Benedictsson and forms the second part of the trilogy Döda diktare dansar, which opens with Karin’s krig (2007) about the Swedish poet Karin Boye. In 2008 Dansnät Sverige toured Karins krig. The trilogy is planned to end with Sonjas ungar about Sonja Åkesson’s life.

We meet Victoria Benedictsson at Hotell Leopold in Copenhagen an evening in February. The year is 1888. She has left the postmaster’s home in Hörby. She is at last a free author! Victoria is in her room writing and listening. Listening after sounds of footsteps in the corridor. Footsteps from George Brandes, Europe’s major critic. He who must arrive.

Gunilla Witt has, together with the dancer Janni Groenwold Tschanz, created a strange and strong portrait of one of Sweden’s most important authors and dramatist at the turn of the last century. The performance mixes total stillness and calm with strong passion and desperation. A choreographic quotation from Birgit Cullberg’s Fröken Julie is found, as well as a stylistic step-choreography.

Victorias nej was performed n Malmö, Uddevalla, Varberg and Vänersborg.

C/Ompany
=Equal

Explosives and balance are share in the collective C/Ompany’s performance =Equal. Shintaro Oue and Satoshi Kudo who are both Japanese and resident in Sweden, together with Swedish Piotr Giro, invites us to see a glimpse of the Japanese way of conduct and aesthetic movements. The work is in parts slowly meditative, and in parts dizzy acrobatic- and is continuously charged with an enormous dose of humour and warmth.

=Equal was performed in Linköping, Falkenberg, Heslingborg, Malmö, Borås and Göteborg