Nagelhus Schia Productions was founded in 2017 as one of the three Norwegian dance companies with permanent public funding. Founder and Artistic Director Guro Nagelhus Schia and Assistant Artistic Director Vebjørn Sundby have a long track record as dancers, choreographers, and actors. Over the past two decades, they have toured nationally and internationally, working with …
Taneli Törmä – LOCATION X is an award-winning choreographer and performing artist, with international and interdisciplinary experience. As a teacher, performer, fundraiser, idea maker and curator, he focuses on developing the performing arts towards a more diverse, intercultural, multi-perspectial and innovative form. Taneli Törmä’s/LOCATION X’s works have been shown in more than 20 countries. They …
Simone Grøtte is a contemporary choreographer from Lakselv in Northern Norway. Her work is strongly influenced by her indigenous Sami background and living and working in the arctic region, where these elements are woven into a modern expression in the theme, scenography and music. Her projects explore questions revolving around identity and belonging, with an approach …
winter guests is an international touring company performing works by Alan Lucien Øyen. They uniquely create a range of pure theatre works, dance works and hybrid pieces – all layered with a cinematic overtone enriched by stunning singular scenography. The works are based on real life experiences, sourcing material from interactions with strangers, personal anecdotes, …
Since 1996, the Cinnober Teater company has been introducing new drama text and new musical theatre pieces to the west of Sweden.In 2010, Cinnober opened a new venue on the west coast capital Gothenburg. There, Cinnober programme international, as well as national and local works.Cinnober Teater perform plays which are believed to add to the …
ULF is a dance company led by Ulf Nilseng, that emerged from the former TOYBOYS. With «Performance on Falling» (2015) and «Be-longing» (2016), at Dansens Hus Oslo, ULF started off a work to broaden the concept of queer, bringing forth a personal, imaginative and physical dance that investigates power, language, prejudice and the experience of …
CirkusPerspektiv is a contemporary circus company based in Stockholm, Sweden. The work of the company focuses on circus expression. Artistic director, Marie-Andrée Robitaille, originally from Québec, Canada, now living in Sweden, started to tour in 1998 with pioneer company Cirkus Cirkör, for whom she introduced her work on the Chinese pole, a discipline that was …
H2DANCE is choreographer/ performer duo Hanna Gillgren (SE) and Heidi Rustgaard (NO). Their work sits in between performance and dance and can be characterized as interdisciplinary, often taking a humorous approach to serious subject matters. Recurring themes in their choreography are group behaviour, conformity, power balance and manipulation. The notion of the group versus the …
Sparrow Dance, led by choreographer and dancer Esther Wrobel, creates performances that combine aerial dance with dance, acrobatics and a playful approach towards our perception of reality. Fly Trap A pyjama drama for the whole family, created as a tribute to play and fantasy. It’s a magical and surreal world of aerial dance, video animations …
Lidia Woś is a Polish-Swedish choreographer and dancer based in Malmö. As a choreographer Lidia has a natural and organic way of creating movements even though she often add an extra twist. Her choreographies are full of fantasy where new body angles and positions are suddenly revealed. But for her choreography is not only about …
