Swedish Performing Arts for an International Audience 2013

Swedish
Performing
Arts for an
International
Audience
2013
Swedish Performing Arts for an International Audience is the result of the collaboration
between two government agencies – the Swedish Arts Council and Music Development
and Heritage Sweden to present a varied overview of current, internationally viable,
high quality music, dance, theatre, circus, and performance from Sweden.
The remit of the Swedish Arts Council and Music Development and Heritage Sweden
is to carry out and put into effect the cultural policy determined by the Swedish
government and parliament. According to the national cultural policy objectives,
culture should be a dynamic, challenging and independent force based on freedom of
expression. Everyone should be given the opportunity to participate in cultural life.
Creativity, diversity and artistic quality should be integral parts of the development
of society. To achieve these objectives, the agencies responsible for implementing
cultural policy promote international and intercultural exchange and cooperation in the
cultural sphere. This publication aims to give performing arts from Sweden increased
international visibility and encourage further international collaboration.
Music Development and Heritage Sweden is the government institution for the
independent music scene in Sweden coordinating and supporting collaborative projects
of high artistic quality and national interest. Projects involving collaborative partners
in other countries are also offered support. In addition, the institution is responsible for
preserving, promoting and making accessible our cultural heritage within the realms of
theatre, dance, and music.
The Swedish Arts Council is a government authority whose principal task is to promote
artistic development and access to culture, through allocation of funding, evaluation
and other activities. The Arts Council funds theatre, dance, music, literature, arts
periodicals and public libraries, visual arts, museums, and exhibitions.
The broad variety of offerings in this publication is a testimony to the diversity of
arts and culture in Sweden, and we warmly encourage you to browse the selection,
which ranges from contemporary electronic music to children’s theatre, from ballet to
performance.
Kennet Johansson
Director General
Swedish Arts Council
Stina Westerberg
Director General
Music Development and Heritage Sweden
About this publication
In 2012, the Swedish Arts Council and Music Development and Heritage Sweden
asked institutions, organizations, independent groups and individual performers based
in Sweden to submit information about plays and performances that would be suitable
for international touring during 2013. All groups, artists and institutions represented
in the publication have received funding from either the Swedish Arts Council, Music
Development and Heritage Sweden, the Arts Grants Committee or Kulturbryggan – the
four major Swedish government agencies that fund the performing arts. These agencies
all work with a peer-review system, which means that the groups or individuals funded
have all been reviewed by experts from the field and selected for support based on the
high artistic quality of their work.
Participation in the publication was free of charge and we chose to include all eligible
acts that submitted information in the publication. The aim of this publication is to
present a selection of the broad spectrum of performing arts produced in Sweden, but it
should by no means be seen as a complete overview.
The participating acts in this publication have themselves written and submitted the texts
and images of their works. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily
reflect those of the Swedish Arts Council or of Music Development and Heritage Sweden.
The Abjeez
The Abjeez – Persian slang for “sisters” – is led by Iranian sisters Safoura and Melody
Safavi. Born in Iran, raised in Sweden and drawing inspiration from their families’
ancient Persian lineage, the sisters have put together a kaleidoscope ensemble that
includes bassist Erland Hofgaard, flamenco guitarist Johan Moberg, drummer Robin
Cochran, keyboard player Nicolas Lazo Zubieta and the sister’s older brother and the
band’s sound engineer Sufi Safavi.
The Abjeez unique sound is influenced by a wide mix of styles like reggae, flamenco,
ska, rock and latino mastered to its’ own original melodies and songs. They have
performed in Europe and United States, including a live performance at the International
Film Festival Rotterdam and sold out concerts at The Great American Music Hall in San
Francisco and New York City’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and The Opera
House in Toronto.
Abjeez latest single and music video biyaa which was made in support of the current
peaceful “Green Freedom” movement in Iran drew enormous waves of attention to the
band and the YouTube video received close to 50.000 hits just within few days after
being posted online.
Contact
Safoura Safavi
abjeeloo@gmail.com
www.abjeez.com
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Photo: Erik Edlund.
Photo: Sanne Peper.
Alma Söderberg
Alma Söderberg works as a choreographer, performer and performer-musician after
having studied flamenco, contemporary dance and choreography. Alma Söderberg makes
performances where sound, movement and speech are equally important and in her
eclectic practice she is constantly re-discovering how intertwined the three are.
Travail is a solo performance where rhythm, song and dance create a wave of fresh air. A
performance that organically and precisely combines choreography and language.
A Talk (Sudermann & Söderberg). We talk every day about all sorts of things. A Talk is a
light but virtuoso game of word compositions and language improvisation.
Cosas. In a torrent of song, language, stamping feet and verbally punctuated gesture:
sound and movement become one.
John The Houseband. Create performance concerts, where nothing is taken for granted.
Contact
Alma Söderberg
almalangtborta@hotmail.com
www.almasoderberg.com
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Amanda Apetrea
& Halla Ólafsdóttir
Forget minimalism and everything you know about good taste. It is life and death. It is
love. It’s a place where beauty meets beast in a world where everything is possible. It is
not about what you see – but about what you experience. Forget Madonna, Prince, Elvis,
Beyoncé, Whitney and Britney. You’ll want to lean forward and then back in your chair.
You feel safe, but you know that you are part of something dangerous. It is about you and
us and all the love in between.
Beauty and the Beast is a dance performance that celebrates rock’n roll, freedom, dance,
love, lust and fear. There is far too much of everything and where anything can happen.
Come as you are and don´t let anybody tell you differently!
For each performance of Beauty and the Beast we will invite a local artist to be the
opening act for the show. The opening act is 5–7 minutes and is included in the duration
of the performance.
Contact
Lisen Rosell
lisen.rosell@gmail.com
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Photo: Märta Thisner.
Photo: Peter Lloyd.
Anders Hagberg
Anders Hagberg is a Swedish musician and composer who plays flutes and soprano
saxophone. He combines Nordic melodic lyricism with playful percussive flute rhythms,
influenced by collaborations with Indian and Japanese artists.
He has toured worldwide with groups like Mynta, Yggdrasil and New Jungle Orchestra
including Marilyn Mazur and John Tchicai. With several recordings to his name and two
grammy nominations, Anders Hagberg has also been commissioned to compose music for
several films and dance performances. In collaboration with visual artists he has made
performances in connection to exhibitions by Louise Bourgeois and Bill Viola.
Anders performs in various combinations from solo to quartet including the unique
Contrabass flute.
Contact
Anders Hagberg
anders@andershagberg.se
www.andershagberg.se
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Andersson Dance
/Örjan Andersson
Andersson Dance is an ever-changing 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 Dance is analogous to Örjan Andersson’s artistry and a language of derived
from vastly different experiences of creating choreographic works. This language and
his fascination with space have been and are still the main focus. Andersson Dance is
currently working on a new production with music by Hans Appelqvist for April 2013.
Name of the next song, created with four dancers and musician BJNilsen, opened at
Aarhus Teater in February 2012. Additionally, Andersson Dance tour with choreographic
concepts for gallery spaces, created in 2011.
All productions are available for touring on request.
Contact
Magnus Nordberg
magnus@nordbergmovement.se
www.anderssondance.com
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Photo: Rasmus Baaner.
Photo: Peter Knutson.
Anna Pettersson
Anna Pettersson is an actress, playwright and director. She has played several roles
on television and in movies and has written as well as directed several plays. The
latest being The Seagull by Tjechov at Malmö Stadsteater. She has been awarded two
scholarships from the Swedish Academy and she has received the Theatre critics Award
and the Thalia Award.
In Strindberg´s Miss Julie Anna Pettersson started out with the text; expanded, looped
and tried to peel away that which shadows the existential conditions shared by the
characters in the play. When all roles play out within one and the same person, power,
class and gender structure gain a new dimension. It is her hope that the audience will get
a chance to hear, sense and discover a new Miss Julie.
Miss Julie the cliché has become more potent than the drama itself. It is easy to
envisage Jean’s broad-legged stance in the black riding boots and just as easy to see
Julie’s manipulative and coquettish seductive moves or Kristin’s wholesome and rustic
appearance. But what are they actually saying?
Contact
Beata Bailey
beata.bailey@comhem.se
www.annapettersson.com
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Anne Pajunen
Anne Pajunen is a Stockholm based singer, performance artist, violist, composer and
director working solo as well as in international collaborations.
Kruingtjsen & other super hits is a solo performance, a musical dream play with
vocal sounds, fragments of familiar pictures, melancholic feedback melodies from a
coffeemaker, the world’s most analog sound processor, and much more…
This semi-improvised show presents Pajunen’s work mixed with vocal pieces by Aperghis,
Cage, Robair and some unpredictable improvisations. Live video, live electronics and
vintage sound equipment and a range of vocal expressions make Kruingtsjen & other
super hits a fantastic hybrid of (non-)opera, artist talk, theatre, performance art, and
a surreal concert with vocal surprises. The show includes travel gramophones, live
animation, audience-controlled sound effects, a head in a box, possible phone-in vocals,
and perhaps even a bit of dance.
Contact
Anne Pajunen
a@annepajunen.com
www.annepajunen.com
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Photo: Peter Ambroz.
Photo: Qes.
Art of Spectra
/Peter Svenzon
Choreographer and composer Peter Svenzon founded Art of Spectra in 1998. His
artistic expression is very significant and physical, which directly communicates with
an audience. His work with Art of Spectra has always pushed boundaries and his
background as a break-dancer is very evident in his work. The piece Boundaries toured
in the UK 2012, managed by Dep Arts Ltd.
In 2013 Art of Spectra works in residences around Europe with the research project –
I remember.
Peter Svenzon has created dance works for The Gothenburg Opera and Dansens Hus
among others. He also choreographed theatre with directors such as the prominent
playwright Lars Norén.
Contact
Ulriqa Fernqvist
ulriqa@artofspectra.com
www.artofspectra.com
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Backa Teater
Backa Teater explores and pushes the boundaries of what stage art for a young audience
can be. The theatre started in 1978 as an independent offshoot to Göteborgs Stadsteater.
Over the years, Backa Teater has produced and achieved success with both contemporary
and classical works for youth and adults. It has been honored with several awards,
national as well as international ones, for their pioneering way of making and performing
theatre. The company has also participated in different festivals all over Europe and
around the world.
Backa Teaters artistic director is highly acclaimed writer and director Mattias Andersson,
at the moment his latest performance UTOPIA 2012 is running. In this performance,
documentary interviews with young people about their drug use is clashed with Thomas
Mores classical book Utopia in a massive performance that is praised by critics and
audience alike. UTOPIA 2012 is available for guest performances.
Contact
Stefan Åkesson
stefan.akesson@stadsteatern.goteborg.se
www.backateater.se
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Photo: Ola Kjelbye.
Photo: Hans Falklind.
Birds
Birds is a synthesis between music, bird photography and birdsong. The unifying theme
is BirdLife International’s bird conservation work. Participants are Cecilia Ekmark –
flute, Roger Johansson – piano/composition, Ellen Lindquist – composition and Hans
Falklind – bird photography.
The task for the two composers was to integrate these three elements into a composition
for flute and piano. As part of the compositional process, we worked with improvisation
in combination with birdsong to create new sound-worlds through collaboration led by
American composer Ellen Lindquist. Glimpses from these work sessions, which are all
filmed and recorded, will be shown to the audience in a short film prior to the concert.
At the concerts the audience will experience the music and birdsong while seeing bird
photographs projected on a big screen. In addition to the new pieces by Ellen Lindquist
and Roger Johansson, there will be music by Olivier Messiaen, Takashi Yoshimatsu and
Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson.
Contact
Cecilia Ekmark
cecilia.ekmark@ekmarks.net
www.ekmarks.net/soundofaflute
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Björn Säfsten
Björn Säfsten deals with how our understanding of signs and symbols in gestures can
be questioned by transformations. He does so through small-scale and larger creations
for stage and through alternative concepts of choreography for various different contexts.
Today he runs Säfsten Produktion and is also creating commissions for other companies.
His well-known ability to, in close collaboration with his performers, create an aura of a
total, intense presence mixed with a precise movement vocabulary has garnered much
attention. Björn Säfsten’s body of work includes commissions for Skånes Dansteater and
the Cullberg Ballet as well as over 10 original creations created for his own shifting
ensemble.
Current available productions include the critically acclaimed Display (2011) and
Introduction (2012), both part of the series Attending presence. He is currently creating a
larger concept for gallery spaces entitled Fictional copies for six dancers, which opens in
the fall of 2013.
Contact
Magnus Nordberg
magnus@nordbergmovement.se
www.bjorn-safsten.com
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Photo: Nicklas Dennermalm.
Photo: Mats Bäcker.
Carl Olof Berg
Carl Olof Berg is a choreographer and performer working in a wide range of artistic fields
since his graduation from the choreography department at The University College of
Dance in Stockholm 1998. During the years, he has combined performing and touring
with his own dance productions as well as with art projects for museums and numerous
collaborations with directors in theatre and opera. He enjoys working with a diverse
variety of performers when creating a new piece. Old, young, professional, amateur,
genre-mixing backgrounds or sheer love for the stage are all characterizing features.
During 2013 he´s touring Hallå 42, a dance-adventure with numbers for five and six year
olds and the auto-biographical solo Carl Olof Berg Stand Up! dealing with the topic of
fear and growing up. Also touring is the folk-performance Dance with grown-ups for an
ensemble of five musicians and dancers bringing us the story about the Swedish heritage
of singing games and the thin line between lust and compulsion.
Contact
Lena Uhlander
lena.uhlander@gmail.com
www.carlolofberg.com
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Charlotte Engelkes
Charlotte Engelkes is a performer, choreographer and director with a solid background in
modern dance and theatre. She has created numerous productions for her own company
and collaborated with artists such as Heiner Goebbels, Ong Keng Sen, Raimund Hoghe
and Sasha Waltz.
Her ongoing project The Very Ring gathers heroes, heroines and Rhinemaidens
from Richard Wagner’s opera-cycle Niebelungens Ring in a playful experiment with
monumental myths. It investigates love, war, heaven and earth in a breathtakingly
intense, but also humorous collage of song, text and dance. The Very Ring consists of the
three performances Miss Very Wagner, a solitaire performance dealing with a handful
of Wagnerian heroines; Siegfried – The Very Wagner Hero Hour with Lindy Larsson
and Charlotte Engelkes and All Is Divine with performers from Sweden and Singapore,
opening during the Wagner year 2013.
Contact
Birgit Lindholm
info@charlotteengelkes.com
www.charlotteengelkes.com
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Photo: Mats Bäcker.
Video still. Photo: Sepidar Hosseini.
Cristina Caprioli/ccap
After more then two decades of continuously innovative work, Cristina has gained the
indisputable position as one of Sweden’s foremost choreographers. Her choreography
is marked by clarity, stringency and precision, but also by its complexity and strong
physicality. Cristina’s interest for theory and mediality marks all of her work, on stage
and beyond.
Since 2008 is she Professor of Choreography at the University of Dance and Circus in
Stockholm. In 2006 she was awarded with the Cullberg Prize.
In Writing three performers listen to and simultaneously rewrite a text. Moving clockwise
over the surface they leave traces with their left hands unable of seeing the result. While
the text retains its clarity through listening it fails to reproduce its full meaning. Writing is
a patient, focused and persistent movement. A horizontal calligraphy graffiti loop covering
the entire perimeter of the room. A text turned into a new text gradually re-describing the
boundaries of the space.
Contact
Cristina Caprioli
info@ccap.se
www.ccap.se
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Christina Tingskog
Christina Tingskog’s performances are appreciated for their wit, warmth and for their
audience interaction. Her works for young audiences are frequently invited to be
performed at dance festivals and dance biennials. Since 2011 she works with integrated
ensembles. Perfect or Join My Picnic with seven dancers has been widely recognized.
Stretch Time and Bend Space, an introduction to Einstein in the form of a dance musical
for children is touring extensively with the acclaim of audiences and critics. The work of
Christina Tingskog is often inspired by principles from theoretical physics.
Short Order Performance is an accommodating, opportunistic and audience interactive
project, that opens in March 2013. Perfect Boxes, a performance on categorizing, order
and chaos, a collaboration with composer Daniel Nelson and the Nordic Chamber
Orchestra, opens late 2013.
Contact
Christina Tingskog
info.tingskog@mac.com
www.christinatingskog.se
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Photo: Christina Tingskog.
Photo: Peter Lloyd.
Circus Glass Royale
Circus Glass Royale – Cirkus i Glasriket – is a company working with a fusion of
contemporary circus, music and glass art – hot and cold. The interdisciplinary approach
to art results in different activities and products such as performances, installations and
glass artifacts. The company is based in the “Kingdom of Crystal”, Sweden, and tour
internationally.
The performance Black Madonna portrays the creative process taking place when
designing and making art glass. The forces of creation are materialized in the glass
sculpture being made during the performance. The circus artist physically embodies the
transformation from hot to cold glass. The music is composed on glass instruments.
Circus Glass Royale has performed at Prague National Theatre and Ajeto Glassworks in
the Czech Republic and at Baltic Sea Glass in Denmark. They have also participated in
various symposia and scenography exhibitions.
Contact
Åsa Johannisson
info@cirkusiglasriket.se
www.cirkusiglasriket.se
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Cirkus Cirkör
Cirkus Cirkör is Sweden’s first and largest contemporary circus, founded in 1995.
Built upon art and pedagogy, Cirkus Cirkör has grown rapidly and today consists of
shows touring Sweden and the world, circus events, lectures, circus training and an
internationally renowned secondary school.
Over the years, over one million people have seen their shows. The artistic director Tilde
Björfors is the world’s first artistic professor of circus studies. Standing ovations have
met them at stages like BAM in New York, Montreal Complètement Cirque, Roundhouse
in London and Polo Circo in Buenos Aires. With two big shows touring the world and
another on the way, they are ready for new challenges.
Wear it like a crown – on tour since 2010. “A deep passion for their arts is apparent in
their joyously exhilarating performances.” Exeunt Magazine, after the premiere at
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music).
Undermän – on tour since 2011. “Touching and artfully simple” (Sideshow).
Knitting peace – premiere in Marseille January 2013.
Contact
Lars Wassrin
lars@cirkor.se
www.cirkor.se
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Photo: Mattias Edwall.
Photo: Bengt Wanselius.
Claire Parsons Co.
Claire Parsons is a choreographer and dancer creating tasty performance and dance with
a strong focus on visual art, philosophical physicality and delicious humor. With a degree
in anthropology and dance she returned to Sweden with wild outdoor performances as
well as large stage works. She creates stunning pieces for young audiences.
The company has performed around the world at numerous festivals and performances,
with master classes for Cirque de Soleil, collaborating with Russian avant-garde artists
and dancing with giant organza roses in gardens and palaces. She has presented several
pieces at the Museum of Modern art in Stockholm.
Touring 2013
Four Girls, a visually stunning and wild performance, based on a play by Pablo Picasso.
Whisked Away, an interactive dance experience with and for young audiences from 4
years and up.
Marmelade, a tasty performance exploring jam recipes in a variety of ways, expressions
and body actions.
Contact
Claire Parsons
dans@claireparsons.com
www.claireparsons.com
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Compagnie Jus de la Vie
/Charlotta Öfverholm
Charlotta Öfverholm, artistic leader, choreographer and performer has a long background
as dancer with DV8, Complexions, Bill T. Jones as well as The Royal Dramatic Theatre
in Stockholm among many others.
Compagnie Jus de la Vie creates raw physical dance theatre with depth, irony, brutality
and humor. They produce tour friendly productions with few, strong artists and creative
team since 1995, and have toured extensively internationally.
Repertory on tour 2013–2014:
Pas de deux sans toi. A burlesque compote inspired by Louise Bourgeoises poems and
installations. Circus, live music and raw physical dance by two very strong performers.
Antithesis. Opposition by choreographer Dwight Rhoden. The Royal Swedish Ballets
premiere dancer Jan Erik Wikström meets the contemporary dancer Charlotta
Öfverholm, both with 25 years of experiences on stage.
Youwilldieandu2. What happens after life here or maybe rather what is going on right
now? Dance, film, text, aerial and live music.
Contact
Charlotta Öfverholm
info@jusdelavie.org
www.jusdelavie.org
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Photo: Vojtech Brtnický.
Photo: Urban Jörén.
Cullbergbaletten
Cullberg Ballet was founded by Birgit Cullberg in 1967 under the auspices of
Riksteatern. The company currently has 16 dancers from nearly as many countries. Since
its inception, the stage personalities and technical strength of its dancers have been
Cullberg Ballet’s defining characteristics. Cullberg Ballet is part of Riksteatern.
Cullberg Ballet has performed all over the world and is an important element in the
international presentation of Swedish culture. The company also engages in national
outreach through its tours within Sweden. The company collaborates with a variety
of national and international choreographers and performing artists who create works
for large as well as small stages. Cullberg Ballet’s activities encompass projects and
productions including site specific appearances and collaboration with dance training
programs. Anna Grip is the company’s artistic director.
Contact
Monica Fredriksson
monica.fredriksson@cullbergbaletten.se
www.cullbergbaletten.se
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Daniel Berg
& Fredrik Duvling
Daniel Berg and Fredrik Duvling started playing together in 1992. They have focused
on presenting contemporary percussion music in a way that people of all ages can
understand and enjoy it. Their album, Rhythm Art Duo, was recorded in the new Radio/
TV building in Gothenburg, Sweden. It’s published by Phono Suecia (one of the leading
record labels for Swedish music).
Daniel Berg is a successful percussion soloist with the marimba as his main instrument.
He has made recordings for radio and television and recorded several CDs of music
for marimba and chamber music. Daniel teaches percussion and chamber music in the
Univesities of Örebro and Gothenburg.
Fredrik Duvling was employed by the Royal Kapel in Copenhagen 1998–2003 and has
since worked as a freelance musician both as orchestral and chamber musician at including
the Gothenburg Opera, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera in Stockholm,
Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Norway.
Contact
Daniel Berg
marimba.art@comhem.se
www.rhythmartduo.com
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Photo: Per Buhre.
Photo: Robert Carrithers.
David Eriksson
& Fouzia Rakez
The circus artists David Eriksson and Fouzia Rakez have for the past three years been
touring with Cirkus Cirkör´s Wear it like a crown all over the world. David and Fofo have
been working together for over ten years and their collective artistic portfolio is composed
of 2,000 intuitive acts which are specifically designed to use just about anything
including music, bodies and ping pong balls to give meaning to performance and to give
performance to meaning.
David and Fofo is their first own production where they aim to explore and vindicate the
blurry space between reality and the stage, absurd and mundane, complex and simple,
physical and abstract. Using the ageing process of the physical artist as an inspiration
David and Fofo is simply the story about us, about our lives. Get your ticket for a ride
through the boundary between documentary and fiction. A world full of circus, love,
sweat and honesty.
Contact
Josefin Lindberg
josefin@konfront.se
www.konfront.se
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Dockteatern Tittut
Dockteatern Tittut is a worldwide pioneer in the field of theatre for the very young audience,
addressing children from 2 years of age. Founded in 1977 and has as a touring theatre until
today produced 45 productions for more than 1,000 000 spectators. Dockteatern Tittut has
received numerous prizes and awards for groundbreaking artistic achievements, among
them The Swedish Government’s Grand Child and Youth Theatre Award and Prix d’Assitej.
The theatre has toured around the world in e.g. Bangladesh, Canada, Chuvash, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Karelia, Laos,
Morocco, Mexico, Norway, Russia, The Philippines, Tunis, USA and Zimbabwe. On tours
they have usually performed in English and French.
Dollans Daycare (2–6 years). Dollan should go to the daycare. The king has said so.
At the daycare Knutte and Raffe are waiting. But can you really play all three? By the
famous Swedish writer Barbro Lindgren.
Contact
Agneta Attling
info@dockteaterntittut.se
www.dockteatern-tittut.com
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Photo: Ivar Sviestins.
Photo: Anna Widoff.
Dorte Olesen
The work of choreographer Dorte Olesen’s can be expressed in one single statement – she
breaks all the rules. She stages productions that cause friction and challenge established
ideas. By literally poking them in the eye, Olesen provokes the audience to think again,
regardless of whether they do it from anger or delight.
She has created many outstanding works, among them Ful Flicka (2004), Pudel (2005)
and the large scale performance Women Chopping (2007), which has been performed in
Stockholm, Berlin, Malmö and Nancy in France. She has also made choreographies for
the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholms Stadsteater and Göteborgs Stadsteater.
In 2013–2014 she will direct and choreograph a new piece in collaboration with
Dansstationen and Månteatern in Malmö and a new work for The Royal Swedish Ballet in
Stockholm as well as touring with The Bad, the Good, the Ugly and Women Chopping.
Contact
Lena Uhlander
lena.uhlander@gmail.com
www.dorteolesen.se
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Duo Ego
Voice and percussion – a brilliant idea!
After working together for many years within opera and chamber music, singer Monica
Danielson and percussionist Per Sjögren decided to challenge existing ensemble forms
and to create a duo for voice and percussion. Since their first concert in 2001 Duo Ego
has established itself as a very exciting force which is, according to many, the most
interesting Swedish ensemble in contemporary music.
Duo Ego has toured Sweden, Ukraine, Lithuania and the US and was awarded the
Interpretation Prize from the Swedish Composers Society in 2010. Voice with percussion
is probably the oldest way to make music and communicate, but Duo Ego´s repertoire is
written the last decades. At their concerts music by composers such as John Cage and
Stuart Smith are performed together with the best Nordic contemporary composers.
Duo Ego with its unique, intimate timbre, creates a specially close relationship with its
audience. New compositions, written specifically for Monica and Per are continuously
increasing their repertoire.
Contact
Per Sjögren
info@duoego.se
www.duoego.se
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Photo: Kristin Lidell.
Photo: Tholle Gelland.
Duo Gelland
The Strad: scintillating virtuosity… fantastic sound worlds of the remarkable Gelland
Duo. Their artistic passion turned the sleeping 18th century concept of two violins into a
driving force of contemporary exploration. Each one of their many premieres speaks with
a voice of its own. All the revivals of gems from the golden age of violin duos breath deep
interest in period interpretation. In 2000 their recording of Allan Pettersson’s fiercely
demanding and dramatic cycle of Seven Sonatas launched an international recording
career.
James Dillon’s Traumwerk performed semi live as short film received prestigeous Annual
German Record Critics’ Award 2008. In 2003 and 2006 they performed in the halls of
Berliner Philharmonie with double concertos written for them. Between tours they guest
lecture recurrently at universities in Sweden, Germany and the US. As former artists-inresidence in North Sweden, meeting school children with new art music is one of their
greatest sources of inspiration.
Contact
Cecilia Gelland
gelland@telia.com
www.duogelland.com
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Duo Petrini + Jünger
Contrabass recorder and contrabass flute.
This is the encounter of two unusual instruments: the contrabass recorder and the
contrabass flute. These instruments offer an incredible mixture of sounds. Anna Petrini
from Stockholm and Fabrice Jünger from Lyon are developing a repertoire for instruments
whose uniqueness has appealed to composers worldwide. At the Warsaw Autumn Festival
2012 Petrini and Jünger premièred audio-visual works by Pierre Jodlowski, Kent Olofsson
and Aleksandra Gryka. Solos, audio-visual works and improvisations stand next to each
other in their performances.
Recorder player Anna Petrini performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician
and has been invited to festivals in Europe, North America and Asia.
Flautist Fabrice Jünger is a member of Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (director:
Daniel Kawka) based in Lyon. He has appeared as soloist in many countries of Europe
and Asia. In 2009 the CD with his interpretations of works by Hugues Dufourt received
the Diapason d’Or prize and was nominated for the Victoires de la Musique 2010 award.
Contact
Anna Petrini
annapetrini@tele2.se
www.annapetrini.com
www.fabricejunger.info
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Photo: Grzegorz Mart.
Photo: Ola Kjelbye.
Embla Dans & Teater
Embla Dans & Teater is a dance group formed in 1989, touring both Sweden and
internationally. In their performances they use a direct approach towards the audiences,
using humor and a playful attitude. In addition to their regular performances they
create outdoor performances and context specific performances such as Dansronden (for
children in hospitals) and Krashrum (for a classroom context). All of their performances
are accompanied by a dance workshop.
Bendabilities Possibilities is a bubbly dance performance set among arched blocks. It’s
a place where anything is possible. The story unfolds to form a rich foliage where dance,
singing and music meet. The dancers swing, balance and bounce up and down like
multi colored balls. Like tiny feathers they fall gently towards the ground. Shapes and
movement comes to life in the minds of the audience.
Contact
Malin Enberg
malin@producentbyran.se
www.embladans.se
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Faint Noise
Swedish musicians Karin Hellqvist (violin) and Anna Petrini (recorders) are both
internationally acclaimed. Hellqvist is a member of several ensembles, such as Cikada
Ensemble, Oslo Sinfonietta and Curious Chamber Players (Sweden). Petrini just made
her solo CD debut with works for the Paetzold contrabass recorder to critical acclaim. She
has performed at festivals such as Warsaw Autumn Festival, Other Minds Festival and
Journèes GRAME.
In the constellation Faint Noise Hellqvist and Petrini join forces and present Scandinavian
avant-garde as well as European composers. In their repertoire you will find composers
such as Malin Bång, Oscar Bianchi and Hanna Hartman.
Contact
Anna Petrini
annapetrini@tele2.se
www.annapetrini.com
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Photo: Freddie Sandström.
Photo: Ola Kjelbye.
Fia Adler Sandblad
/larssons & ADAS theatre
Fia Adler Sandblad combines the physical traditions, its presence and sensuality, with
literature and popular texts. As an actor she is working in a range from the intimate
to heightened expressions, seeking to articulate the invisible and explore the relation
audience and stage. She has been awarded several grants from the Swedish Arts Grants
Committee since 1995 for being a key element in Gothenburg culture.
Bertha – the other love story is a creation based on the 19th century novel Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë. Fia gives voice to the mad woman in the attic and to her love story
seldom heard. Bertha was performed at the House of Sweden in Washington DC and at
Cherry Lane Theatre in New York and is available for touring with other solo and group
works by Fia Adler Sandblad.
Contact
Fia Adler Sandblad
fia@konstepidemin.se
www.larssonsochadas.se
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40f
40f has been playing together since 2008. The group started a collaboration with the
electronica trio World Domination in 2012, and plan at least three premieres of new
works for flute quartet and electronics during 2013.
Four fantastic flutists – forty facile fingers!; An exciting recital program with music for all
senses. The flute quartet 40f, Ann Elkjär, Sareidah Hildebrand, Anna Svensdotter, and
Jill Widén, aims for new meeting points between its music and audience. Mixing music,
words, movement, and electronics – 40f has a unique sound and way of expression.
The repertoire, based on experimental music and improvisation, includes several
commissioned works by Swedish composers such as Mirjam Tally and Anna Eriksson,
as well as works by Yoshihisa Taïra and Sofia Gubaidulina.
Contact
Anna Svensdotter
a@annasvensdotter.com
www.musikcentrum.se/artist/40f
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Photo: Mattias Petersson.
Photo: Lina Ikse.
GEST (Gothenburg English
Studio Theatre)
GEST is the only professional English speaking theatre in Western Sweden. Celebrated
by audience and critics alike, GEST brings the very best of British contemporary drama
to Scandinavia. Writers such as Chloë Moss, Dennis Kelly, Marie Jones and Mike
Bartlett have had Swedish premieres with GEST.
Expectations by Kristina Brändén Whitaker is GEST’s first world premiere and has
toured Sweden, UK, Italy and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it won the coveted
Fringe Review Award for Outstanding Theatre.
Based on the author’s own experience, Expectations is a moving, frank and witty firsthand account of two couples, one English, one Swedish, preparing for the birth of their
child, only to discover that their child will be born disabled.
Expectations and other GEST productions are available for touring. GEST is always
striving to find new international collaborations and extend its international repertoire.
Contact
Amanda Wigand
info@gest.se
www.gest.se
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Giron Sámi Teáhter
Giron Sámi Teáhter has delivered sami theatre performances since 1992. Giron is the Sami
word for a bird that is common in the mountains. Giron is also a strong Sami symbol. Like
the Giron bird, we enjoy to lift our wings and fly away into new adventures. We tour in
Sápmi, the Sami land, with different and exciting stories for both children and adults.
There are three major Sami languages and a lot of variations. You understand the story with
a mix of these different languages and of course, the body expressions.
Sms från Soppero (Messages from Soppero) is a play that deals with identity, belonging,
language and love. It is also about those who brought with them the Sami language and
those who did not. The show contains a lot of music. Premiere autumn 2013.
Tjuvriesilpeh – Rövarsilvret. Have you heard about the hidden treasure of silver at
Aavnjuana? How a group of robbers struck terror in the Sami people in that area… The
show is based on a true story that took place in the South Sami mountains.
Contact
Lena Engqvist Forslund
lena@samiteahter.org
www.samiteahter.org
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Photo: Lars Thulin.
Photo: Nils Edström.
Gotlandsmusiken and the
County Theater on Gotland
Gotlandsmusiken and the County Theater on Gotland collaborate on the play Light.Gullin.,
a play about the Gotlandic baritone saxophonist Lars Gullin (1928–1976). The show is
about his life and times interspersed with his wonderful jazz music. Lars Gullin wrote
no lyrics to his songs but these have now become text, by the Swedish radio profile
Eva Sjöstrand and the lyrics is sung by the nationally recognized folk singer Gunnel
Mauritzson. The show toured in Sweden 2008/2009 and the lyrics has been translated
into English. Lars Gullin´s music is well known all over the world and this play presents
a new possibility for the world to reconnect with the Swedish saxophonist.
Contact
Marcus Grufstedt
trion@gotlandsmusiken.se
www.gotlandsmusiken.se
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Gun Lund/E=mc2 dance
Gun Lund is famous for grand scale site specifics and a wide range of works for the stage.
For more than 30 years she has been at the frontline of Swedish dance, changing the
perspectives of the audience and questioning the perception and reality we take for granted.
She was awarded the Dance Prize of Swedish Theatre Critics (2006), and she holds a
lifetime award for her “high quality and great importance in Swedish cultural life”.
Transmission – a vibrotactile experience is her latest creation (2012), a dance and
technology experiment focusing the sensory system. Letting the tactile take precedence
over the visible or audible, six dancers respond to electromagnetic impulses received
through electrodes attached to the body. Transmission is a dialogue between dancers and
external individuals communicating via remote controls. For both dancers and audiences
it makes for a thrilling, innovative experience.
Transmission and other solo and group works by Gun Lund are available for touring.
Contact
Anna Karlander
info@emc2dance.com
www.emc2dance.com
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Photo: Hannes Brandulv.
Photo: wiklundwiklund.
Gunilla Heilborn
In a delicate search for context and connections that always seem to be slightly beyond
our reach, Gunilla Heilborn touches the minds and hearts of her audiences. With
cinematic timing and dry humour, productions like Potato Country, Alaska and This is
not a love story have given Gunilla Heilborn her status as one of the most
acclaimed
artists from the Nordic countries. No matter what nationality, audiences seem to easily
identify themselves in her work. Her new production, Akademien, is about the most
human action of all – talking. It focuses on moderation, usefulness and other things we
rarely have time to think about. Collective dancing may occur.
On stage: her long time collaborators Kristiina Viiala and Johan Thelander,
complemented by Zoë Poluch and Ludvig Daae.
In 2014, a new production with the working title GP2 will premiere somewhere in
Europe. Do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to be part of that journey.
Contact
Åsa Edgren
asa.edgren@locoworld.se
www.locoworld.se
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Gunnar Källström
& Fridens liljer
Gunnar Källström and Fridens liljer formed on a sunny winter’s day in 2004 when seven
Gothenburg musicians got together with the desire to dip the Swedish song tradition in
French coffee.
The first cd became a film noir in the spirit of Django Reinhardt. The album was
recorded in accordance with good practice; a mono microphone crackling with 30s
noise that simmered between the songs. The second, third and fourth cds still reflect the
feeling of musical spontaneity; most of the music is recorded live with very little or no
additions, the story seeks its music and we are careful not to limit ourselves to a specific
genre. One minute it’s Finnish tango, the next Romani jolliness or a still Polska from the
mountain pastures. The orchestra is now about to enter a very exciting phase. Our sixth
album: Fåglar med höjdskräck (Birds with virtigo) will be released in January 2013,
followed by a series of concerts in Scandinavia.
Contact
Gunnar Källström
gunnar@gunnarkallstrom.se
www.gunnarkallstrom.se
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Photo: Håkan Ivarsson.
Photo: Lisen Ydring.
Gustaf Sjökvist’s
Chamber Choir
Gustaf Sjökvist’s Chamber Choir was founded in 1994 and has since then been a very active
part of Swedish musical life. The choir’s vast repertoire consists of contemporary music
(including world premieres of works by S-D Sandström, G Riedel and B Holten) as well as
more standard works such as Bach’s Mass in B-minor, Christmas Oratorio and Requiems by
Mozart, Verdi and Brahms. Throughout the years, various recordings have been made both
alone and in collaboration with soloists such as Malena Ernman and Nils Lindberg.
The choir has also collaborated with many different ensembles, including The Swedish
Radio Choir and The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Together with Barbara
Hendricks and The Real Group, the choir has toured many European countries, and has
also performed a cappella concerts further afield in countries such as the United States,
Taiwan and Hong Kong.
In the spring of 2013 the choir will perform music for choir and jazzquartet, a concert
consisting of music made by Swedish composers such as S-D Sandström, L J Werle, I
Lidholm, J Sandström and Swedish folk music, at the Nordic Cool Festival, Kennedy Center.
Contact
Erika Alfredsson Bohlin
erika.a.bohlin@gmail.com
www.gskk.com
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GöteborgsOperans
Danskompani
To reflect the contemporary repertoire, The Göteborg Ballet changed name in August 2012
to GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. It is an international, contemporary dance company
– one of the foremost in Europe and the biggest in the Nordic region, comprising dancers
from 16 countries. In recent years it has been experiencing increasing demands abroad.
Artistic director is Adolphe Binder.
The company attracts legendary artists as well as some of the most interesting young
choreographers, inspiring them to create ground-breaking works. Choreographers in
the repertoire include Sharon Eyal, Marie Chouinard, Franck Chartier, Guy Weizman,
Sasha Waltz, Wim Vandekeybus, Gunilla Heilborn, Mats Ek, Stijn Celis, Alexander
Ekman, Medhi Walerski, Jo Strømgren, Susanna Leinonen, Helena Franzén, Kenneth
Kvarnström, Örjan Andersson, Johan Inger.
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani tours the world and is invited to The Nordic Cool
Festival at Kennedy Center, Washington DC, in the spring of 2013.
Contact
Liselott Berg
liselott.berg@opera.se
www.opera.se
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Photo: Urban Jörén.
Photo: Karl-Magnus Fredriksson.
Haga Duo
The flutist, Sareidah Hildebrand and the guitarist, Joakim Lundström, have teamed
to form the Haga Duo. The duo is currently focused on classical works that reflect the
musical traditions of the countries in which they were composed. The intimate format
provided by the smallest of all chamber ensembles is especially well suited to this form
of music. The traditional inspiration that is carried forward into the Western chamber
context is typified by the work of composers such as Astor Piazzolla (Argentina – tango)
and Ravi Shankar (India – classical raga), and extends broadly into the various genres of
other countries.
Beyond their exploration of this international repertoire, Sareidah and Joakim work
actively to expand it with newly commissioned Swedish material highlighting the rich folk
tradition of their own country. This has also resulted in three new commissions for their
project Opposites attract with which Haga Duo will be touring in Australia and Sweden
2013–14.
Haga Duo has recently recorded their first CD Footprints, which illustrates their interest
in classical music with a traditional focus. The CD will be released in January 2013.
Contact
Joakim Lundström
joakim@hagamusikproduktion.se
www.hagamusikproduktion.se
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Helena Franzén
The Swedish choreographer Helena Franzén is known for creating dance works that are
fascinating and visually strong. Her movement language has a Scandinavian scent that is
very subtle and poetic.
Slipping Through My Fingers is a creation for five dancers, including the choreographer.
Also on stage are the musicians Jukka Rintamäki and Johan Skugge, who combine steel
guitar and piano with prerecorded sound.
As in all Franzén’s works, the choreography is characterized by strong musicality and
intense precision. The title Slipping Through My Fingers plays on occasions that literally
slip through your fingers – a highly present absence of something that could have been.
Slipping Through My Fingers is co-produced by Dansens Hus Stockholm within moduledance.
Press: “More and more, Helena Franzén is a choreographer who’s emerging as a physical
poet; she lets the essence of dance extend to existential reflections”. (Svenska Dagbladet)
Contact
Helena Franzén
producent@helenafranzen.se
www.helenafranzen.se
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Photo: Bengt Wanselius.
Photo: Alexa Gräfe.
Institutet
Institutet is a touring theatre group operating from Malmö and Berlin. The aim of
Institutet is to take part in international exchange of knowledge and experience in
the field of contemporary stage art and to explore new aesthetical strategies that
challenge both the audience and ourselves. The working method for Institutet is to build
international alliances between open minded and progressive agents and to claim space
for critical thinking and for artistic approaches to life.
Institutet’s latest touring productions are Conte d’Amour (2010) awarded “Best off theatre
production 2010” at Festival Impulse Dresden, We love Africa and Africa loves us (2012)
investigate the ideology of romantic love and the dark origins of the European middle
class family, and Woman (2012) is intended to open new ambivalence and opportunities
for the understanding of love and desire machinery. 2012 the Sauna on Wheels project
realized as a concept for enhanced visibility and as a tool for artistic and business
networking.
Contact
Alexa Graefe
alexa.graefe@institutet.eu
www.institutet.eu
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Iraqi Bodies
Iraqi Bodies is an Iraqi dance group active in Gothenburg, Sweden. The group was
formed in Baghdad in 2002 but was later forced to leave the country due to the escalating
violence and hatred against artists from various fundamental religious groups. In
exploring the connections between dance and physical theater, the group has gained
unanimous critical acclaim over the last couple of years. Their performances articulate
feelings of loss, frustration and isolation. Iraqi Bodies is run by choreographer and
dancer Anmar Taha.
The group’s latest piece Vowels is a performance existing in a perpetual now, somewhere
on the fringes of dance and physical theater. Taking inspiration from the Butoh tradition,
this is a piece where every empty movement lacking relation to the core ideas is stripped
away and what’s left is just the bare inner center of the performance.
Vowels and other performances are available for touring.
Contact
Anmar Taha
iraqibodies@gmail.com
www.iraqibodies.com
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Photo: Anmar Taha.
Photo: Jesper Torsson.
Jag är här nu!
Jag är här nu! Musical Theatre makes musical theatre for children. We have a special
interest in topics relating to gender, identity, self-esteem and musical experience. The
lyrics, music and script are written collaboratively by the group members. We use livelooping, guitar, bass, balafon, drums, saxophone, keyboard, percussion and singing.
Our first show Jag är här nu! (I am here now!) won the 2008 Barnteaterakademi
Script Prize. All shows are created in collaboration with Lars-Eric Brossner, director at
Folkteaterns children’s stage in Gothenburg.
Our latest performance pieces are:
Tantpresidenterna (Granny Presidents) – Through humour, musical storytelling and live
music they reflect on questions concerning identity, gender, feelings and relations. For
an audience aged 9 years and upwards.
Tänk Om… (What If…) – What makes up a concert? We can see that through the
combination of live music and theatre we open up many possibilities for innovation and
call into question what appears on-stage. From 10–15 years old and upwards, also adults.
Contact
Nadina Pundins
jagarharnu@gmail.com
www.jagarharnu.se
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Jeanette Langert
Jeanette Langert has been called one of Sweden’s most intriguing choreographers,
while the press has praised her unique, idiomatic style. Her uncompromising attitude
has expanded the boundaries of dance. Langert’s minimalist approach both moves and
startles her audiences.
Two solos are available on tour: Kopplad (Connected, 2012) continues Langert’s exploration
of the individual within the larger perspective, and vice versa. A chamber play of dance, it
is freely inspired by Tomas Tranströmer’s texts. In highly acclaimed Fröken (Miss, 2008)
the intimacy between performer and audience is fuelled by the theme circling August
Strindberg’s character Miss Julie.
With literary sources as initial inspiration Langert has also created choreographic
works out of texts by Michel Foucault and Elfriede Jelinek. All her productions are in
collaboration with Bente Lykke Møller, internationally renowned stage and costume
designer. Langert was awarded the 2011 Birgit Cullberg Award.
Contact
Anna Karlander
anna_karlander@hotmail.com
www.jeanettelangert.com
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Photo: Anna Hult.
Photo: Ivo Hofste.
Jefta van Dinther
Jefta van Dinther is a choreographer and dancer working between Stockholm and
Berlin. Jefta’s works are distinctly physical, and always imply a staged research of
movement itself. The subject matter is the conditioning of choreography, i.e. how
methods of working create specific bodies with specific organizations, different for
every performance. Systems, scores, practices and principles are fed with affect,
emotionality and imagination as well as vice versa. Processes exhibited live on stage
become performances. They often play with formats of presentation, always creating new
dispositifs of staging the relation between performers and audience.
He just premiered This is concrete, a collaboration with Thiago Granato. This
performance is touring as well as the previous Grind (2011), made in collaboration
with Minna Tiikkainen and David Kiers. His other works include The Blanket Dance
(2011), Kneeding, The Way Things Go and It’s in the air (2009). His next project entitled
Plateau Effect is made for the Cullberg Ballet with premiere in the summer of 2013.
Contact
Emelie Bergbohm
emelie@jeftavandinther.com
www.jeftavandinther.com
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Jonas Bohlin
A suggestive concert and radio production about death by the composers Jonas S Bohlin
and Johan Ullén, in association with the radio producer Lotta Erikson. Listen to a
musical and artistic version of the latest scientific discoveries on consciousness, death
and electrical cascades in the collapsing brain. Scientists are beginning to discern new
landscapes, and death no longer looks the same.
In this project, we explore the subject by approaching the world’s most prominent brain
scientists with the big questions: What is consciousness?, What happens to it when we
die?, How does modern brain research explain so-called near-death experiences?
The material from the interviews is edited by radio producer Lotta Erikson and she will
also recite her own text between the music movements in the concert. The concert form
an artistic totality on the subject, modern death.
The first performance will be at the Stockholm Concert Hall December, 2012. The
Swedish Radio’s P2 Live will record the concert for a subsequent broadcast.
Contact
Jonas S Bohlin
bohlin.jonas@gmail.com
www.jonasbohlin.se
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Photo: Moserobie Music Production.
Jonas Kullhammar Quartet
JKQ was founded in 1998 and has released 6 cd’s and an 8cd box set and tours around
the world. The band has been together for 15 years, and are considered one of Sweden’s
best jazz groups.
Jonas Kullhammar – Saxophone, Torbjörn Gulz – Piano, Torbjörn Zetterberg – Bass,
Jonas Holgersson – Drums
Jonas Kullhammar has passed over the Swedish jazz scene like a proverbial whirlwind.
He is a young, amazingly energetic saxophone player already a complete musician and
composer. For comparisons you have to go to Sonny Rollins, one of the giants of jazz.
Jonas prefers the same very rhythmically flowing and dense spirit. Jonas has been
a professional musician since 1997, and has participated on 150 cd’s. Awards: Jazz
musician of the year 2002 and 2003, Newcomer of the year 2000, Jazz Group of the year
2002, Django D’or 2004 and several Swedish Grammy nominations.
JKQ will perform in USA during the summer 2013, starting mid-June.
Contact
Jonas Kullhammar
jonas@kullhammar.com
www.kullhammar.com
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K. Kvarnström & Co
Kenneth Kvarnström has been working in the field of dance since 1990, mainly with his
own company K. Kvarnström & Co. His works have toured in most European countries
and also in Africa, Israel, Japan, Latin America and the US. Kenneth Kvarnström: “For
me choreography is finding the musicality in the movements.”
In Come back (to me) dark punk and early music from 17th century meets in this mixture
of longing, leaving and dancing. All artists give their special blend to the piece, creating
a poetic tread throughout the evening. Furious movements and emotions, fast steps,
fragile, longing, standing still, trust. We have all been left in one way or another. We have
all left. Will you come back, to me?
Both musicians Jonas Nordberg and Ola Hjelmberg perform live on stage, solo and
together creating a rich pattern of poetic soundscape, driving rhythms and acoustic
pearls. The dancers are chosen for their unique sense of movement quality and
personality. Jens Sethzman is the light magician.
Contact
Claudia Bauer
claudia.bauer@ecotopiadance.com
www.ecotopiadance.com
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Photo: Jens Sethzman.
Photo: Peter Lloyd.
Kaja
Klezmer and other Eastern European folk music is the foundation, adding layers of Swedish
folk music, film and contemporary music, classic chamber music and improvisation…
Since 2005, on three albums, Kaja have developed their own unique style of music
reflecting innovation as well as tradition. With a big heart in eastern European folk music
and a great experience of klezmer, tango, jazz, Swedish folk music and classical music,
Kaja compose music that finds a path and sound of its own. Glissandos, various grooves
and different ornaments reveal the members’ personal playing styles. The communication
between them on stage is allowing, expressive, playful, intimate and tight. They flirt with
a chamber musical expression without ever leaving the unpredictable spontaniousness of
folk music and improvisation.
Kaja has toured in Europe and Canada and they are releasing their next album in the
autumn 2013. They are currently looking for licenses and partners in management and
international booking. Contact
Livet Nord
livet@newtideorquesta.com
www.newtideorquesta.com
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Kongero & HiR
Two contemporary bands within Swedish traditional music meet in a production based
on poems by the northern Swedish poets Alan Kristensson and Elsa Wahlén. The title –
Vaerla vaken – is dialectal for “The world awakens”.
With a repertoire from the Swedish vocal and instrumental tradition, the vocal quartet
Kongero uses the possibilities of the human voice in their curious compositions.
In music that can be described as “dance music in a concert format” HiR explores its
dynamic range where improvisation plays an important role. It’s hard to sit still to their
swingy polskas and whirling waltzes.
In Vaerla vaken, the two bands qualities are bonded. Vocal and instrumental music meet
– an instrumental band interprets vocal music and vice versa. The production presents
new compositions and arrangements with a sounding board in the Nordic traditional
music.
Contact
Adrian Jones
adrian@adrianjones.se
www.kongero.se
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Photo: Patrik Muhr.
Photo: Lou T Lundqvist / KAIM 2012.
KORDA Art In Motion
KORDA Art In Motion consists of Choreographer/Dancer Linda Forsman, Set/Light
Designer/Visual Artist Lou T Lundqvist, the dancers Tara Motazed Kivani, Per Tillö,
David Price, Oskar Frisk, Madeleine Karlsson, Åsa N Åström. The group is famous
for their strong visual performances, site specific choreographies/installations in the
countryside, full scale dance productions and dance films for 35mm Cinemascope.
Linda Forsman and Lou T Lundqvist has developed the Korda Concept, based in several
fields of experimental art with dance and choreography at its core, where each integrated
art form has an equal worth in the final presented work. Since 1987 they are presenting
productions in Sweden and abroad. The expression of KORDA is powerful, energetic,
beautiful and poetic.
Their latest works X – Space part II and Solo Bird are inner landscapes of the bodies,
tone – poems and poetic realism. These pieces, the dance films Nadir and Nierika and
other works are available for touring.
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Linda Forsman
linda@korda.org
www.korda.org
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Lars Åkerlund
Lars Åkerlund is a composer, sound artist and performer of mainly electronic and electro
acoustic music. He is classically trained but also active in the underground scene, cofounding bands like P.I.T.T. (with Zbigniew Karkowski et al) and Lucky People Center
(with Johan Söderberg et al). Lars Åkerlund released records on labels like Radium
226.05, MNW Records, Firework Edition Rcords, Monotype Records and Fylkingen
Records. He performs live with computers, controllers and live electronic equipment,
such as amplified monochord. Musical collaborations include CM von Hausswolff, JeanLouis Huhta, Dror Feiler, Freddie Wadling, Leif Elggren, Kent Tankred, Flesh Quartet
and Kroumata.
Since the 1990:ies he makes music for contemporary dance with choreographers like Per
Jonsson, Björn Elisson, Johan Inger and Cristina Caprioli and companies like the Rambert
Dance Company (London) Finnish National Ballet (Helsinki) and the Gothenburg Opera
Ballet. Lars Åkerlund also made music for film director Jan Troell’s Il Capitano (Silver
Bear Award at the Berlin Int’l Film Festival 1992) and Their Frozen Dream (Awarded at
San Francisco Int’l Film Festival and Valladolid Int’l Film Festival 1999).
Contact
Lars Åkerlund
info@larsakerlund.com
www.larsakerlund.com
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Photo: Bengt Wanselius.
Photo: Miki Anagrius.
Lina Nyberg
In 2011 the Swedish composer and jazz singer Lina Nyberg released her 14th CD
– Palaver (Moserobie Records). The music is a blend of influences from Brazilian
Tropicalia, European Free form, modern classical composers, the American songbook
and old school jazz. The same year Lina Nyberg was awarded the prestigious Jazz
musician of the Year-prize by the Swedish Radio.
In 1993 Lina Nyberg released her debut album Close (Prophone records). Over the years
she has collaborated with various jazz musicians such as John Taylor, Anders Jormin,
Marilyn Crispell and Palle Danielsson and with late pianist Esbjörn Svensson. She has
toured in Scandinavia, Europe, Vietnam, Canada, Japan and Brazil.
Press about Palaver: “Swedish singer/composer Lina Nyberg is indeed a unique artist.
She has a vivid imagination, knows how to compose, arrange and perform a song-story,
and explore its dramatic elements by injecting the right dosage of pathos and humor –
and always with elegance and grace.” All About Jazz
Lina Nyberg Band line-up: Cecilia Persson, piano, David Stackenäs, guitar, Josef
Kallerdahl, bass and Peter Danemo, drums.
Contact
Lina Nyberg
info@linanyberg.se
www.linanyberg.se
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Lisa Östberg
& Kim Hiorthøy
Lisa Östberg is a dancer, choreographer, director and screenwriter. She was educated at
the Royal Swedish Ballet School. She wrote and starred in the feature film Certain People
that was screened at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.
Kim Hiorthøy is a Norwegian artist and musician, and recently graduated choreographer
from The University College of Dance in Stockholm. He is also an accomplished graphic
designer.
YOU is a piece with dance, text and music. YOU is a serious comedy. A television
documentary, the world’s longest ghostride, a neo classical ballet and an epic failure.
There is so much to do in life, but time is a problem, and we are learning how to play the
drums. YOU will inspire and at the same time make you question why you are doing what
you are doing.
Co-producers: MDT, Dansstationen and Atalante.
YOU premiered at Moderna Dansteatern in Stockholm 2012 and has toured in Sweden.
Contact
Emilia Mellberg
emilia.mellberg@gmail.com
www.youdoitwedonthavetime.se
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Photo: Tom Sachs.
Photo: Henrik Rylander.
Lotta Melin/M.A.P.
Melin Art Performance
Stockholm-based choreographer and artist Lotta Melin´s work floats freely, creatively and
naturally between dance, performance, experimental music, noise, art and new media.
Her art is suggestive, playful and dark (death is a returning theme) but not without
humor (and of course life itself). The works are solo, ensemble or bigger site-specific
performances and always with a deeply personal touch. For many years, Melin has been
exploring the body as an instrument and is interested in the connection between sound
and movement.
Track 10 was premiered in 2012. This is the first performance of the three-part work
Gare du Nord. It is about the melancholy and vulnerability that forces the traveler to
abandon his or her luggage.
Lotta Melin has participated in a number of festivals and has among others collaborated
with Jan Håfström, Ikue Mori, The Skull Defekts, Kim Gordon, Christina Kubisch, Lasse
Marhaug and Kathy Hinde.
Contact
Lotta Melin
lotta@lottamelin.com
www.lottamelin.com
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Lundahl & Seitl
Lundahl & Seitl is a trans-disciplinary duo.
Symphony of a Missing Room is since 2009 commissioned for a series of significant
museums in Europe; it is an artwork in a constant state of becoming.
Symphony of a Missing Room is an immaterial artwork taking place in the visitor’s
consciousness. Via wireless headphones, a voice takes visitors on an itinerary that
traverses layers of physical and imaginary architecture of the museum and its curatorial
space. With a reversed perception the voice gets embodied by the synchronized touch
of the hand from an unseen guide – the visitors find that what they imagine also gets
projected out onto the surrounding physical space.
By the use of multi-sensory illusions and binaural sound recordings the visitor’s attention
is steered away from the visible and tangible world and diverted into a virtual journey
into art history. A transformative experience reassessing the perception of the self, time
and space.
Technical needs and all audio equipment supplied by Lundahl & Seitl.
Contact
Christer Lundahl
christer@lundahl-seitl.com
www.lundahl-seitl.com
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Photo: Johan Gripenholm.
Photo: Alex Hinchliffe.
Magmanus
Magmanus was created in 2009 by Magnus Bjøru and Manu Tiger, both working
professionally as circus artists in the last 6 years. With their Magmanus Show they have
been touring in Scandinavia, Zimbabwe, Europe and China. The concept of audience
interaction, playfulness and improvisation are the key components of the show but also a
strong focus on high level circus skills. With Attached, Magmanus will take this concept
even further.
Attached – a circus show about holding on and letting go. This is a show about our
attachments, whether we like them or not. We all want to feel, and we want to feel free –
but can we ever feel unattached? We are two acrobats about to fly, you better be ready to
catch us!
Attached is an indoor show in the making by Magmanus. Premiere March 2013 in
Stockholm, Sweden.
Contact
Emily Thörling
emily@groundfloorab.se
www.magmanus.com
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