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Tension – what happens when we are restricted by our rooms? When our bodies are charged with energy and tension in relation to each other? How do we experience the relation between space and the body on a purely physical plane or through a philosophical perspective? What happens to that relationship in a social and political context? What is the conflict between the physical and the mental – does it exist?

 

Peter Svenzon and artist Ulriqa Fernqvist, both with backgrounds in music and dance, have with the formation of Art of Spectra 20 years ago, searched for an open multi-facetted form of expression where dance, theatre, music and graphic art become a new hybrid form of theatre with a quality almost within the realms of the cinematographic sphere.

 

Website: artofspectra.com

DO AS I SAY is a physical dance performance that wants to make our social behavior visible on issues of bullying and authority. Through abstract choreography and concrete stories, the audience is taken through an emotional and thought-provoking journey. The performance is interactive, with both the audience and dancers hearing instructions from a recorded voice, but who is actually in charge? 

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Bobbi Lo Produktion creates innovative art for children and youth that speaks to all senses and therefore becomes open and inclusive. Led by artistic directors Lava Markusson and Michael Tang, Bobbi Lo Produktion has its base in Malmö and has produced artistic works for stage, digital festivals and commissions.

 

Website: bobbiloproduktion.com

Join us outdoors for a moment of delicious dancing and music, with movement, juggling and a yellow companion in Claire Parsons Co’s new production Yellow. Yellow is an outdoor performance suitable for open spaces and public spaces, a park or a museum. Yellow suits audiences from 3 and up.

Three dancers show up at a place close to you. A yellow ball rolls across your space. A cone stands next door, red clubs fly by and a yellow companion appears.

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Claire Parsons Co. is an award-winning dance company creating clever and elegant performance art for children. Joyous movement and fanciful sightings of life around us make the performances unique to audiences worldwide. Claire Parsons Co. creates 1 – 2 new productions yearly and tour locally, nationally and internationally. 

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Website: claireparsons.com

Hannah Felicia is about sisterhood and the relationship between two people. Or are we perhaps merely seeing two sides of the same person? That longs to be seen, accepted and loved. You are welcome. Into a world that’s almost private, but one that we share together. Where the love between two people tells a story of rivalry, tenderness, fellowship and sensuality. About an invisible line between liking and desiring.

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Danskompaniet Spinn is a professional dance company that are passionate about the art of dance and challenging stereotypes regarding what dance is and can be. It is about different bodies and new ways of creating and presenting dance art. With us, everybody is welcome to experience our performances and take part in our workshops. 

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Website: danskompanietspinn.se

The Choreography is a performance filled with galloping horses, confetti, bold movements, imaginary hamsters, and dance. The piece explores the world through movement and examines how the way we move can affect our thoughts and what we see and feel. The Choreography is a participatory performance based entirely on the audience's participation. All participants receive a pair of headphones, and a guiding voice gives them instructions on how to relate to one's body and to one another.

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Johanssons pelargoner och dans (JPOD) is a performing arts company that create performances where the audience is involved physically. The work is usually aimed at children and young people. For Johanssons Pelargoner & Dans it is vital to create an inclusive, accessible and safe space in which the audience can explore. 

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Website: pelargonerochdans.se​

Golden (extended) serves up a cocktail of moving and grooving inspired by the 70s disco culture. A choreographic score by Malmö-based Maria Naidu performed by a cast of ten dancers. It is a selfstanding continuation and development of the solo Golden that premiered in November 2017. The work critically examines questions about representation on the Swedish dance scene today specifically related to ethnicity and is a tribute to all those who are rarely seen in great numbers on the Swedish stages.

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Maria Naidu strives to make dance accessible to a large audience. Her primary tool is movement but she also uses other artforms, often in collaboration with other artists, to find ways of expression that best communicate her ideas. The choreographic work is recognized as textural multitude combined with theatrical detail.

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Website: marianaidu.com

Determined yet tired, humoristic yet dark, visionary yet dystopian – the performance what comes through collects fragments, seeks contact and passes by. It's as much yours as it is ours together and through a setting of voluntary interactivity it is an intimate exploration of movement, sound, vision, objects and space. Movement travels through, and is made up by, different digital and analogue mediums that together form more or less consistent stories that are ongoing, multiple and enclosing. The choreographic material is created connecting to textures and shapes found in the different room(s) and environments of the process, physical and virtual.

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Anna Näsström and Johan Bandholtz form the choreography duo Ongoing Realities (OR), which explore dance and choreography in the context of digital technologies such as Motion Capture, animation, VR, AR, and AI. They create multi-sensory experiences for stage settings and other locations.

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Website: ongoingrealities.se

Virpi Pahkinen and three dancers journey into the hydrosphere, embodying transformations of water. Their movements may meander, as silent as snowfall or roar and flow before settling in the secretly structured, still clarity of a snow crystal. A collaboration with Sami artists, Wind Vigil features projections of artwork from Kristin Tårnesvik and poetry from Áillohas. We hear a broad range of multi-instrumentalist Roger Ludvigsen´s sounds, from music meditations gliding over the open landscape to electronic soundscapes and shamanistic five-beat rhythms.

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The works of Swedish/Finnish choreographer and dancer Virpi are full of secrets. Onstage, she sometimes bodies a spiritual warrior, a spectral gardener, or a shaman in metamorphosis. Pahkinen is well known for her stunningly chiseled shapes and almost otherworldly moves that act like an incantation – creating a mysterious, meditative atmosphere.

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Website: pahkinen.com