Category: SWEDEN

Weld Company

Weld Weld, an artist-run, experimental platform in Stockholm, initiated Weld Company in 2013 – running three months per year. Weld Company is aiming to rediscover and re-valuate the old institution of a dance company and is updating the company form through a collective work conducted by one of Weld’s clearly given structures, with room for …

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SU EN Butoh Company

”Brutal and beautiful, raw and sublime”. These are the words often used to describe the work of SU-EN Butoh Company. The company was founded in Tokyo in 1992 by Swedish choreographer and dancer SU-EN. Since 1994 the company is based in Sweden, in an old village school in the forest outside Uppsala. SU-EN Butoh Company …

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Shake It Collaborations

Roses and Beans MISS U My Own Bodies Shake it Collaborations (SiC) is a Stockholm based, internationally working company operating in the fields of performance, dance, theatre and opera. Shake it Collaborations functions as a platform to share artistic ideas and it also provides means for research and a creative context for invited collaborators through …

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Malin Hellkvist Sellén

Malin Hellkvist Sellén (MHS) works with the expanded field of choreography. Her work explores choreography as a physical and linguistic practice and the ideas are sparked by the need for a conversation with Malin herself, with the performers, with a contemporary dance context, with the audience, and in particular with the general public. MHS is …

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Gunilla Heilborn

This is not a love story photographer: Stefan Bohlin Gorkij Park 2 photographer: Stefan Bohlin Gunilla Heilborn touches the minds and hearts of her audiences. With cinematic timing and dry humour, she shows us the extraordinary by presenting the ordinary. Her interest lies in themes such as collectivity, self-inflicted alienation, idealism, nonsense philosophy, and the …

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Art of Spectra

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Since its inception in 1998 Peter Svenzon has created over 30 works and collaborated with a substantial number of artists, musicians, directors and actors from many differing theatrical genres. His own musical compositions, often electronic in form, provide the basis onto which invited musicians can play in real time. Peter Svenzon and artist Ulriqa Fernqvist, …

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Andersson Dance

Triptych photographer: Göran Hallberg Meet the choreographer Andersson Dance is an alternating constellation of artists in the field of dance collaborating with choreographer Örjan Andersson, based in Stockholm, Sweden.  Andersson Dance collaborates with venues and organizers nationally and internationally and invite artists from all over the world to collaborate in new and older creations. Andersson …

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Loco World

Loco World is a production office working with international development and touring. Artists associated with Loco World over the 2014-2015 season are Gunilla Heilborn, Pontus Lidberg Dance, ccap / Cristina Caprioli and Stockholms Musikteater. Loco World’s aim is to strengthen the role of Sweden and the Nordic countries as an attractive region known for performing …

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Skånes Dansteater

the feeling of going photographer: Malin Arnesson DOUBLEtake photographer: Jeffery Richt And To Dust You Shall Return photographer: Malin Arnesson Svart. Blå photographer: Malin Arnesson Sånger från en inställd skilsmässa photographer: Jeffrey Richt the feeling of going photographer: Malin Arnesson Since its start in 1995, Skånes Dansteater in Malmö (SE) has created relevant and engaging …

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Björn Säfsten

Fictional Copies photographer: Björn Säfsten Lecture Performance Introduction photographer: Idiots Björn Säfsten is a Swedish choreographer based in Stockholm. He created his first work “The adaption” in 2006 and has since continued to create choreographic concepts in various contexts, through Säfsten Production, and through commissions. In the work and practice of choreographer Björn Säfsten, the …

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