Le Patin Libre
Vertical influences

Vertical Influences can simply be described as contemporary dance on skates or ice dance, free from sequins and technique points. A quintet consisting of earlier professional figure skaters invite the audience to a unique experience in two parts. Together they show proof of a footwork that cuts and slices the ice underneath them. Their choreographic formations are a liberating and breath-taking experience – performed in a surrounding of frozen clouds. You will never experience something similar again, neither on ice or on stage.

Vertical Influences toured to Hallstahammar, Älmhult, Kungsbacka, Umeå and Jönköping

Jesús Rubio Gamo
Bolero / Now, Before we get too Old

Experience an evening with two performances signed by the Spaniard Jesús Rubio Gamo. Both pieces deal with the transience of time, but their tempos and expressions are totally different.  Be prepared to experience an exhausting duet performed to Ravel’s Bolero and although you have been sitting still trough out the performance your muscles are exhausted. On the other-hand you are invited to enjoy a more deliberative state of mind in the solo number Now, before we get too old and to capture the movements of dance. It will be an hour filled with ecstasy, exhaustion and reflection – the art of dance at its very best.

Bolero / Now, before we get too old toured to Stockholm, Vara, Uppsala, Linköping, Malmö and Falkenberg

Cie Dyptik
Dans L’Engrenage

Dans L’Engrenage’s performance starts with a woman who has, through her own determination, conquered power. She is strong and has seized her natural space.  A group of six figures appear in the darkness and together they create a street-inspired choreography reflecting rebellion and revolt. Inspired by traditional dance and Arabian rhythm the group mould people’s need to climb in status and reach success. The performance is described as a hard uppercut with hip-hop on high voltage level.

Dans L’Engrenage toured to Gävle, Piteå, Luleå, Umeå, Göteborg, Jönköping and Uddevalla

Andersson Dance / Scottish Ensemble
Prelude – Skydiving from a Dream

The Andersson Dance and Scottish Ensemble made a great success with their interpretation of the Goldberg variations in 2015. With thirteen musicians and three dancers they now continue with their successful interaction and take on the task of Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge in combination with the music of Lutoslawski and Bach. In this generous dance-concert one experiences a mixture of diverse music and dance, creating a suggestive and irrational dream world. In Prelude – skydiving from a dream one experiences music never earlier seen and dance never earlier heard.

Prelude – skydiving from a dream toured to Malmö, Kungsbacka, Stockholm, Vara and Västerås

Helena Franzén is a choreographer who has, through more than 70 pieces, devoted herself to the endless abundance of variations of movements. In Extended she enters the stage in her own solo piece. Surrounded by projections of vulnerable, barren regions Franzén moves with precision and wit. To a melancholic audio landscape created by Jukka Rintamäki, she creates a pensive choreography with nerve and presence. Extended is a performance which offers a spiracle in everyday life. A space where a meditative state is made and memories are muddled and re-interpreted.

Extended toured to Jönköping, Söderhamn, Falkenberg and Umeå

Less Aggressive Clappers (L.A.C.) is a sassy, all-female dance crew who delivers groove and succulent choreography. The performance starts severe and tough, in a futuristic aesthetic in which the perfect surface is the desirable. With street-dance as the starting point the five dancers move from being controlled towards liberation. L.A.C. creates an ingenuous flow to energetic beats and heavy bass and lands in a rigorous empowerment!

In Store toured to Göteborg, Ljusdal, Borås, Sorsele, Västerås and Linköping

Silvia Gribaudi
R.OSA 10 Exercises for new Virtuosities

R.OSA 10 Exercises For New Virtuosities is a warm and humorous one woman show inspired by Jane Fonda in the ‘80s. The irresistible and very charming Claudia Marsicano, dressed in a bright blue gym suit carries out a performance consisting of 10 exercises in virtuosity. A discussion concerning bodily expressions, women and the social part attributed to them is orchestrated with a bewildering irony. R.OSA creates an understanding of our own prejudices, how we see others and what we expect of them.

R.OSA 10 Exercises For New Virtuosities toured to Skellefteå, Umeå, Malmö, Borås, Uddevalla and Sandviken

Anna Öberg
SOLITUDE

With a vision of creating something new, Anna Öberg together with Dannät Sverige, created a performance with strong focus on national traditions placed in our time. Solitude is a piece that touches the conflicts between the collective and the individual in a society in which human beings are required to be independent, but at the same time are destroyed by loneliness. The four dancers, together with two of Sweden’s most well-renowned folk musicians, create a performance with both groove and vibration using pulse and rhythm as a driving force.

Solitude was Dansnät Sverige’s co-production for 2018 – 2019.

Solitude toured to Västerås, Umeå, Vara, Malmö, Stockholm, Linköping, Falkenberg, Kungsbacka, Värnamo, Jönköping and Uppsala

Cie Massala
Näss

With one foot in Morocco and the other in the Parisian suburb Val-de-Marne, Cie Massala uses expressions from hip-hop, contemporary dance and new circus. Moroccan folk dances have also formed a base of inspiration in creating Näss. The work includes war-dances such as taskiouine and reggada, with their rhythmic drum-beats and ahidous, and a festive dance with tambourines and collective hand clasps. The seven dancers’ energy and their bodies tie-up these separate dance styles when they meet, play and become one with the Parisian suburbs’ hip-hop. They use high technical skills and lets us understand the forces and conflicts when coming together.

NÄSS toured to Umeå, Luleå, Kalmar, Stockholm, Malmö, Falkenberg, Uppsala, Jönköping, Gävle, Karlshamn, Vara, Borås, Växjö, Västerås and Uddevalla

Aloun Marchal & Henrique Furtado
Bibi ha bibi

Bibi ha Bibi is a hyper vent performance, which combines a broad spectrum of manliness – from overtone sounds to ritual dances and wrestling. Sounds and movements, stylistically collide with each other, are explored: from martial arts to annoying infantile play, from overtone chanting to goodnight songs and from relaxed breathing to bestial howls. With listening, inhibition and interchange of movements as a fundamental base Bibi ha Bibi’s pas de deux slides from controlled violence to sensuality.

Bibi Ha Bibi toured to Vara, Karlshamn, Växjö and Moskosel

Dotdotdot dance
In body

In Body is a clapping, singing, dance evening containing three short performances. Each performance emanates from exploring different traditional flamenco-styles, turned and twisted from historical and contemporary perspectives. In the three dance acts one experiences a unique dance world, with song, music, electronic sound images and spoken word. The members of the company, choreographers as well as dancers, have a background in different dance genres, such as jazz, ballet, contemporary and Afro-Cuban dance. This contributes to the nuances and shapes in the performances. You will experience a flamenco which lets the audience come closer to its power and beauty.

Inxi & Sasha
Conflict

After having seen numbers of Kung Fu films Inxi and Sasha decided to travel to Hongkong to gain knowledge from Kung Fu masters. With their great experience within Hip-Hop, popping and several years of battle they were ready to cultivate the South China Kung-Fu style Wing Chun. The common purposes of Kung-Fu and battles are the skills and constant ambitions of becoming better. To meet and conquer an opponent without violence. This is what inspired the creating of Konflikt – a violence preventive duo where the participants use physical conversation, and answer to impulses and sharp electric frictions on the dance floor.

Konflikt toured to Stockholm, Uppsala, Västerås, Kungsbacka and Vara

Malin Hellkvist Sellén
Flottarkärlek

The choreographer Hagar Malin Hellkvist Sellén/MHS´s performance Flottarkärlek conveys an almost lost era in the Swedish working life – log-driving. She has searched for information in archives and documents to find traces of queer expressions in the log-drivers backbreaking, and many times dangerous work on rivers, creeks and streams. This profession has been romanticized and MHS will with the performance give the log-driver a face beyond the myth. Flottarkärlek is a raw physical and poetic impersonation of a heritage from northern Sweden. A memorial over those who transported timber from forests to lumber mills along the coast. A performance of manual labour, romance, natural forces, sweat, moisture and reeking intimacy, as well as pain, fear and death. The dreams of liberty and spring flood which kept calling the log-drivers.

Flottarkärlek toured to Umeå, Göteborg and Malmö

Robin Jonsson
The Most Human

Our relationship to robots has altered radically during past years. They carry out more and more assignments for us and take a larger space in the community, from being a companion to elderly at a retirement home, to being part of an art project – but where does one draw the line before they become humans? Ludvig Daae is a human Norwegian dancer, born and bred in Norway and Alex is a humanoid robot-dancer born and bred at IDA, Linköping University. They are presented as equals according to their own unique preconditions in a performance conducted by the choreographer Robin Jonsson, exploring what is human, what is presence and what is authenticity. With The Most Human Robin continues his earlier projects where virtual bodies from video-games are simulated by human dancers. Senses, movements, nature, attributes and popular culture are the reoccurring themes in Robin Jonsson’s work.

The Most Human toured to Gävle, Falkenberg, Linköping, Jönköping, Borås and Gnosjö

Charlotte Engelkes
Lohengrin Dreams

Charlotte Engelkes continues to explore Richard Wagner’s world of opera– playful, deadly serious and totally bonkers. After the success with Miss Very Wagner and Siegfried – the Very Wagner Hero Hour it’s time for the Lohengrin Dreams– a piece about standing up for your dreams, then giving in to pressure and finally finding yourself asking the one question you have sworn never to ask: “Where do you come from?” With three dancers, two acrobats and one opera singer, Engelkes presents her latest epic performance. The Lohengrin Dreams deals with the struggle between belief and doubt, fairy tale and sink realism, wrapped in wondrous and quaint aesthetic, to new written music and Wagner. Will the swan-borne hero ever show up? And from where? Could popping the question rather connect us than separate us?

Lohengrin Dreams toured to Umeå, Stockholm, Jönköping, Kalmar, Växjö, Karlshamn and Malmö