Choreographer Claire Parsons and her company present innovative, high-quality performance art for young audiences. The work is acclaimed for its stunning visuals, exquisite performers and perfectly balanced interaction with the spectators. With playful elegance, humour, and warmth, audiences are invited into exciting new worlds together with the performers.
In 2018, Claire Parsons received the prestigious Cullberg Award from the City of Stockholm, including a prize sum of 100.000 SEK. The Cullberg Prize is awarded to a choreographer, dancer, or dance company who has creatively contributed to the development within the field of Dance.
Claire Parsons Co. is supported by The Swedish Arts Council, The City of Stockholm Cultural Council and Cultural Region of Stockholm.
AVAILABLE WORKS 2026-2027
IS : GRAVEL
We are building/placing a line of stones / creating a grain of gravel / in the sand. Is : Gravel builds clues and travels through a small space in the large grain of sand of the universe. Dance, juggling, and shadow play are games with micro and macro perspectives, similarities, and opposites. Which stone is the right one?
A co-production between Claire Parsons Co. and ZebraDans. Premiere September 20, 2025.
I´M THINKING ABOUT
Join us for an exciting moment of dance and music in the middle of the exhibition about the Swedish Ballet, “If you don’t like it, you can go to hell” at the Dance Museum in Stockholm (SE). Here, anything can happen! We travel near and far, through past and present – in a place where the music swings, where we encounter a pair of fake mustaches and, if we want, try some dance moves. I’m Thinking About is a tribute to the iconic Ballets Suédois, the Swedish Ballet, a dance company active in Paris from 1920–25. I’m Thinking About is a traveling dance story – a dance performance that is a guided tour through the museum exhibition.
DUST
DUST is a fictional tale in a playful mix of memory and tactility, magical realism, soft circus, and acrobatics, in an upside and sometimes sideways-viewed space. Three performers travel through a world where something has happened; objects move and music dances in an adventure that transfers in delightfully strange and wondrous ways.
GRASS
GRASS premiered in 2016 and is the first collaboration between Claire Parsons Co. and the Marionett Theater/City Theater in Stockholm – an inventive and marvelous tale of friendship, dreams and visual magic. The stage is covered with grass, and a car is about to enter the stage! Two red-headed figures show up together with a neighbor who really wants to have coffee. GRASS is dance and music, puppetry, and soft circus in a poetic piece about being and seeing. For everyone from 4 years.
LITTLE SWAN LAKE
Claire Parson´s performance LITTLE SWAN LAKE was created in 2018 and commissioned by The Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm (SE). Instead of the gracious swans, we might be expecting from this classical ballet, some other figures appear on stage, ready to spread their wings, dance on a silver lake and find the right steps for birds in formation. LITTLE SWAN LAKE is a highly wilful take for young audiences, a dance and circus performance about performing in Swan Lake in a new version.
LITTLE SWAN LAKE is available for touring fall 2021 and onwards. From 4 years and up/family audiences.
MARMALADE
The company’s signature work MARMALADE (for audiences from 2 years) is a delicate, sensory, and tactile piece about meeting and mixing, sensing and seeing. MARMALADE has performed over 350 shows in Sweden and internationally, including De Betovering Festival in Holland, Festival d’Hiver Domaine D’O in France, Kids Festival in Italy, Summer Stage in New York and Act3 Festival in Singapore.