Tours 2022

Le Patin Libre  
Threshold

The Canadian group Le Patin Libre exploded onto the dance scene with their ice-bound choreography. With a modern twist on the conventional ice-skating show, the ensemble experiments with the choreographic possibilities of a no-friction environment. In Threshold, the shapes of graceful footwork are left carved into the ice beneath them. The patterns move backwards and forwards as the dancers glide, hypnotic as the pendulum swing of a pocket watch. With a combination of athletic virtuosity and gratifying physicality, they sail from breath to breath through frozen clouds of air. 

Threshold performed in Umeå, Lycksele, Gävle, Älmhult and Uddevalla. The performance was cancelled in Malå due to the pandemic.

Hagar Malin Hellkvist Sellén  
Bättre folk

Better People takes place in the borderlands where human values are negotiated. The work is a powerful confrontation with our notions of the possible. Over and over again the work keeps asking the serious question of where the boundaries are for what is possible, real and feasible. The choreographer Hagar Malin Hellkvist Sellén/MHS is not interested in stagings but rather making sure, that occurrences happen.Better people first premiered in 2006. A pioneering work which paved new grounds within the field of contemporary choreography in Sweden. Four irresistible characters floored the dance scene with their insistent humping disco dance, their boundary-crossing gender expressions and their deconstruction of the jump.

Better People performed in Umeå, Gävle, Jönköping and Malmö. The performance was cancelled in Linköping due to the pandemic.

Inés Belli
Postmodern Cool

Inés Belli’s Postmodern Cool deconstructs the iconic dance moves of the jazz dance repertoire, with five dancers applying unison movements and a good deal of humour to combine this commercial dance genre with postmodernist theories. In doing so, the work challenges established norms in both jazz dance and contemporary dance. Inés Belli sets out to make the legendary form and style of jazz dance relevant to today’s dance venues. And she has succeeded. Postmodern Cool is very much a contemporary dance piece with a tickling nostalgia that, as you sit in the stalls, has you secretly practicing your pas de bourrée.

Postmodern cool performed in Västerås, Skellefteå, Umeå and Stockholm. The performance was cancelled in Uppsala due to the pandemic.

Twisted Feet
5 Degrees

Twisted Feets performance 5 Degrees starts when humanity is heading for its doom. The climate threat has come true and there are fumes of gases and flares of smoke. Now, because of human recklessness, the earth trembles. Through Twisted Feets dance talent we will revel in this dystopian world. The audience is invited to an unforgettable evening with powerful dance numbers, dealing with our time’s most burning matter – the climate issue. It’s a fast-paced show taking steps towards a sustainable future – all packaged in a special form of performing arts, an art which Twisted Feets has become famous for. An artistic profile with a recognizable fusion between the theatrical stage language and the captivating visual power of street dance.

5 Degrees performed in Kungsbacka, Örebro, Piteå, Uddevalla and Vänersborg.

Akram Khan Company
Chotto Xenos

Chotto Xenos follows the experience of one man’s experience in a cacophony of gunpowder smelling mists, fired cannons and explosions that make the air shake. The production reveals the horrific nature of war; the destruction of humanity and fear, panic, and chaos of conflict. Chotto Xenos is an intriguing dance production, taking audiences back in time to explore the forgotten lives and destinies of colonial soldiers during World War I. It is a touching tribute to the millions who were mobilised to fight and those who never returned home. 

Chotto xenos performed in Stockholm, Kungsbacka, Västerås, Umeå, Luleå and Skellefteå.

Humans & Soil
of itself : in itself

Marit Shirin Carolasdotter’s first full-length work, of itself : in itself, is a personally charged performance featuring dance, music and a type of poetry slam. The contributions of spoken word artist Juvvá Pittja bolster the political weight of the show. Whilst his words highlight the Sami struggle, the dancers’ energy-intensive and ultimately exhausting choreography represent the pursuit of the right to their own bodies. A compelling piece unfolds as the dancer’s feet, on a stage submerged beneath 1,000 litres of soil, explore physical memories passed down from previous generations, mapping out the ancestral knowledge rooted within us, an echo of the oppression our forebears endured.

of itself : in itself performed in Stockholm, Malmö, Falun, Falkenberg and Kalmar.

Sofia Castro 
Impuro

Flamenco dancer and choreographer, Sofia Castro has unabashedly embraced the role as a trailblazer within the dance style. With cross-border collaborations and a sense of renewal, she actualises flamenco with groundbreaking rhythms and a hard stamp of her heel. Her style feels as provocative as it does innovative. A fresh voice in an otherwise traditional field. Her performance IMPURO is no exception. Castro’s wholly unique approach to flamenco shifts conventional perceptions of what we consider to be authentic, genuine, and pure. With projections, electronic music, and fascinating light displays, the piece becomes not only distinctive but a spectacle.

Impuro performed in Kiruna, Gävle, Örebro, Piteå, Vara, Jönköping, Västerås, Säter and Kungsbacka.

OR/ELLER
V/Web

The dynamic duo, OR/ELLER, create visually strong spaces whilst juggling their performance and installation format. The company’s choreographers Anja Arnquist and Madeleine Lindh are visionary collaborators and, through their productions, have succeeded in creating a new style of performing arts with remarkable results. In V, the audience gets a unique dance experience where the colossal scenography acts as a hollow nest for two peculiar characters. Entangled in a grid of interlacing ropes, in unison, they weave a style of performing arts with the use of sublime dance technique and hyper-constructed choreography.

V/WEB performed in Stockholm, Skellefteå and Umeå.

Wanjiru Kamuyu 
An Immigrant’s Story

In her solo work An Immigrant’s Story, Wanjiru Kamuyu explores an immigrant’s place and sense of belonging. She takes us on a personal journey with intimate stories of finding herself uprooted, being different to others and trying desperately to find her place. Like a crucible, she combines African, European and American influences in her work. Her nomadic body is an ever-changing map, stylised as something both assimilated and stigmatised: there is a satirical undertone to the performance that is compelling in its straightforwardness.

An immigrant’s story performed in Malmö, Stockholm and Umeå. The performance was cancelled in Skellefteå.

Silvia Gribaudi
Graces

Silvia Gribaudi is an exceptional artist who dares to be funny, irrelevant and empathetic at the same time. She keeps flowing boundlessly between dance, theatre and performance. Her-self elusive approach offers the audience both entertainment and enjoyment. Her irrepressible and honest approach engender afterthought both through the unconventional and the unexpected. Graces is a homage to the strength of human deficiency, a reminder that “beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder,” but it is foremost hearty performance which offers lots of laughter.

Graces performed in Falkenberg, Vara, Linköping, Skellefteå, Umeå, Jönköping, Gävle and Uppsala.

Salim Mzé Hamadi Moissi 
Massiva

In Massiwa (“The Islands” in Comorian), six dancers take us on the unusual journey through a volcanic archipelago in the Indian Ocean. With a portrait in four tableaux, Comorian life is presented through traditional dances and music, fusing the style with contemporary influences drawn from hip-hop and krumping. The marriage of imaginative hip-hop and native dances, such as wadaha and shigoma, are intertwined with warlike stomping sticks and expressive rhythms. The choreography spotlights the quintessential components of each style – the dynamics of African dance, the precision of classical hip-hop, and the expressiveness of krumping.

Massiwa performed in Göteborg, Umeå and Jönköping.

Hagar Malin Hellkvist Sellén
Kvinnor och skog

Kvinnor och skog is a work of contemporary choreography and an act of care. It is a work about loss and human existence – a requiem for a nation’s lost forests. In a duet between two women, dancers and forest lovers, we are reminded of the increasingly urgent need to rescue our forests. With the forest’s last conifer tree resting in the palm of our hand and a destroyed ecosystem on our conscience, this work takes us on a journey to our inner forest, the only place that hasn’t yet been felled.

Kvinnor och skog performed in Lycksele, Linköping, Gävle and Malmö.

Viktor Fröjd
Festen

When Viktor Fröjd invites you to Festen, the audience is welcome to participate in its own way, whether it’s snuggled on a sofa, sneaking stealthily around the room, or dancing right at the centre of the party. Located in the middle of the work, together with stage installations and three house dancers, you will be part of Festen – a house club disguised as a performance. With music by DJ Cheza and master of ceremonies Yared, this is a party you won’t soon forget.

Festen performed in Kalmar, Uppsala, Örebro, Falun, Umeå, Skellefteå and Falkenberg.

Andersson Dance & Jonathan Morton
Partita no. 2 – Sei Solo

Partita is created in cooperation with the violinist Johathan Morton, from the Scottish Ensemble in Glasgow, and the choreographer Örjan Andersson. With five specially chosen dancers, one of the foremost violinists of our time we take part of Örjan Andersson’s special ability to create dance and music into a sleepless body. 

Partita no. 2 – sei solo performed in Västerås, Uppsala, Kungsbacka and Falun.

Botis Seva / Far from the Norm
BLKDOG

BLKDOG takes us on a journey within the darkest areas of the psyche. A deep dive into an inner battlefield and the hopelessness and fear a young person experiences before meeting adulthood. With his razor-sharp choreography and fierce dancers, Botis Seva hits the audience with both fear and power. BLKDOG embodies the ultimate pursuit of acceptance, the dancers, dressed in padded hoods, tear round the stage with a robot-like timing and a breath-taking accuracy. Inspired by Torben Lars Sylvest’s thumping music, they seem digitally manipulated, caught in sudden still images or captured in fast-forward effects.

BLKDOG performed in Umeå, Skellefteå, Göteborg and Stockholm.

Uzumaki Company
Be.girl

With five hand-picked b-girls, the Uzumaki Company shakes up the masculine imagery of hip-hop. On the otherwise male-dominated breakdancing scene, Valentine’s choreographic research on being a b-girl is an exciting new perspective that succeeds in breaking new ground and challenging prevailing norms. Be.Girl is a work inspired by Asian traditions and European modernism. With feather-light downrocks and nimble six-steps, the dancers alternate flexibility with power, determination with gentleness, and energy with precision.

Be.girl performed in Vara, Kungsbacka, Askersund, Västerås, Jönköping and Säter.

Charlotte Engelkes
Transplantation

Transplantation is a life-affirming variety show about identity and existence, inspired by a bone marrow transplant. From this experience, Transplantation took shape; it is a rich gesamtkunstwerk in which philosophical thoughts about Engelkes’ new Y-chromosome are pondered by the performance artist herself, along with choreographer and drag king artist Sofia Södergård. Transplantation is a celebration of life – a brutal reality accompanied by musical history’s greatest love story, Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde.

Transplantation performed in Falkenberg, Vara, Uddevalla, Växjö, Karlshamn, Linköping, Uppsala, Malmö and Skellefteå.

Cherish Menzo
Jezebel

Daring and with refreshing clarity, Cherish Menzo dissects the misogyny of hip-hop culture and its legendary female icons – video vixen. The video vixen is a controversial stereotype – infamous, debated, almost iconic. In Cherish Menzo’s work Jezebel, we see her in the flesh, deconstructed in all her complexity, fairly and perceptively.

Jezebel performed in Malmö, Stockholm and Umeå.