Choreography, Dance, Music, Image, and Film productions
Linda Forsman, Lou T Lundqvist, and Håkan Blomkvist established KORDA Art in Motion in Stockholm in 1987. Since 2013, the home base has been deep in the forest in southeast Dalarna, close to the region of Gävleborg (SE).
KORDA creates dance pieces for site-specific theatres and galleries, in a flow of dance, music, image, and film relating to objects, visual art, nature, text, and in one with the audience.
Linda Forsman: Choreographer / Dancer
Lou T Lundqvist: Set/Lightdesigner/Composer/Visual Artist
Kerstin Abrahamsson: Dancer
Jimmie Larsson: Dancer
Matilda Bilberg: Dancer
Rebecka Carlsson: Dancer
Musician: Markus Lindmark – Piano
KORDA started a new and exciting journey in 2023 — a successful collaboration with Brandon Collwes, dancer, choreographer, and visual artist. Brandon Collwes was a dancer at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and is now choreographing his pieces and teaching the Cunningham technique.
KORDA continues the international perspective with new collaborations with Julyen Hamilton, who is highly appreciated and in demand for his inspiring work and teaching.
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee supports both artistic exchanges.
CURRENT REPERTOIRE:
SOLO BIRD II
A solo by Linda Forsman, which starts with a film from the forest, where Linda is dancing among firs, pines, larches, ferns, and moss. The film continues into the Garden, followed by the solo live on stage.
The dance performance is a tribute to Nature and is about the forest, the water, the mountains, the Garden, and thoughts about life. Coming home. Being yourself. Part of the whole.
MENHIR II
New piece in collaboration with Julyen Hamilton. I four parts. Solos, Duet and Trio.
Choreography: Julyen Hamilton, Linda Forsman.
Electroacoustic music: Lou T Lundqvist
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Julyen Hamilton, Eleni Pantazatou.
Text/poetry: Julyen Hamilton
Voice: Julyen Hamilton, Eleni Pantazatou
GUEST APPEARANCE WITH JULYEN HAMILTON 2024 – 2026
Linda Forsman and Lou T Lundqvist (KORDA Art) are thrilled to present the dancer, choreographer, poet, teacher, and musician, Julyen Hamilton, at Matsesgården Stigsbo (SE). Julyen Hamilton (UK) has been making and performing dances worldwide for 45 years. He has made over 100 solos as well as 20 years of Company pieces and numerous collaborations with dancers, musicians, and theatre performers. The collaboration between Julyen Hamilton, Linda Forsman, and Lou T Lundqvist will continue during 2026.
Julyen Hamilton has been making and performing dances for 45 years worldwide. He has made over 100 solos as well as 20 years of Company pieces and numerous collaborations with dancers, musicians, and theatre performers.
Born and brought up in England, he trained in London in the 1970s, a time of radical experimentation, and he has been an exponent of innovative performance since that time.
His work is mostly improvised: he composes dance works instantly as well as the texts which often accompany them. His work with text is unique. It fuses naturally his long-term writing practice with his refined skills in dancing. When working with his company ALLEN’S LINE he directs dancers and lighting designers to make and perform work through this same immediacy. Since the 80’s he has performed constantly in close collaboration with many of the highest-quality musicians from all over Europe. It is with some of these musicians that he gives readings of his poetry.
www.julyenhamilton.com
www.allensline.com
www.bluedogpublishing.net
ART EXHIBITION AT CULTURE CENTER MATSESGARDEN, STIGSBO:
In Gallery Klingbyggningen
13th of July 2025 – 31 of August 2025
Open Wednesday – Sunday 13.00 – 16.00
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DANCEWORKS CREATED AT CULTURE CENTER MATSESGARDEN, STIGSBO:
GAVIA ARCTICA 2024
KORDA created Gavia Arctica, a dance & movement piece and site-specific performance art in three parts. We work with ecology, nature, and dance as an art form, all related to the environment, the place, and its audience. The piece is inspired by the fantastic bird Gavia Arctica, which we see calmly sliding forward through the water of the lake Grycken outside our windows. It also honors this bird with its many sounds. It is part of the Gavia family where 4 of the 5 worldwide species can be found in our nearby area.
Choreography: Linda Forsman.
Electroacoustic music: Lou T Lundqvist
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Kerstin Abrahamsson, Rebecka Carlsson.
QUINTAL II 2023
A piece in collaboration with choreographer/dancer Brandon Collwes, New York.
(Brandon Collwes is a former Merce Cunningham dancer).
Choreography : Brandon Collwes and Linda Forsman
Electroacoustic music: Lou T Lundqvist:
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Brandon Collwes, Hanna Becker,
Rannhvi Mebius Jormin, Tobias Sköld
Musician Live: Conny Laxell – Percussion
The Child – Choreographed Book 2021 – 2022
A collaboration with Lena de Veen, author, and journalist. Dance piece based on her début novel ”This short moment”. A co-production with Lena de Veen.
Premiere: 2021-10–21 in Folkets Hus, in Hofors, Dalarna, toured Sandviken and Stockholm – in Sweden.
Solos for Grand Piano 2022 – 2023
A collaboration with Elise Einarsdotter Composer /Musician.
Linda Forsman: Choreographer / Dancer
Lou T Lundqvist: Set/Lightdesigner
Elise Einarsdotter: Composer /Musician
Premiere: 2022-10–27 in The Peoples House, Theatre, Hofors
Touring premiere: 2023-02-16 Gävle Theatre
TIME DANCES 2022
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Lou T Lundqvist: Setdesigner
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Elisabeth Christine Holt, Hanna Röckner
Musician: Markus Lindmark – Piano
Musician: Emelie Sjöström – Percussion
Musician: Johannes Bergmark – Own invented instruments
HIRUNDO – 2021
HIRUNDO is the swallow’s specific name and in the performance swallows, tilia cordata, grass, trees, hummingbirds, foxes, climate changes, and life experiences give information to the piece.
Choreography in three parts by Linda Forsman.
Part One – Energy and Power
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Solo Jonathan D Sikell
Duo Kerstin Abrahamsson and Jonathan D Sikell.
Electro Acoustic music / Set design: Lou T Lundqvist
Part Two – Silence – Trees
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Kerstin Abrahamsson and Jonathan D Sikell
Setdesign: Lou T Lundqvist
Part Three – Joy – Meetings
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Kerstin Abrahamsson,
Jonathan D Sikell.
Music live on piano: Andreas Wartel.
HABIBI-HABIBTI-AZIZAM – my love – 2015
The dance is like the ocean, the wood, our friendship, the garden, Earth – our earth, the only earth we have – suddenly everything can be lost.
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Matilda Bilberg, Jimmie Larsson
Electro Acoustic music / Setdesign: Lou T Lundqvist
STRAHERE – Moving with Nature – Dancefilm – 2019
STRAHERE – Artwork by Lou T Lundqvist
Artwork from inside the physical experience, where movements, dance, and choreography streams, falling, rolling, catching…
STRAHERE – gets its information from the body, nature, animals, silence, trees, the garden, the waterfall,- vertical, horizontal, close to the earth, in the air…
Electro Acoustic Music / Visual Art / Photo: Lou T Lundqvist
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Dancers: Matilda Bilberg, Jimmie Larsson