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MADE IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES 2014 Editor in Chief: Ă…sa Edgren Project Coordinator: Anna Diehl Controler: Carina Johansson/Akteau - www.akteau.se
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We have developed this communication tool to make it easier for you to find collaborators in the field of performing arts from our part of the world. Every company or institution listed in the catalogue has made a strategic decision to widen its horizons and harness the potential offered by the whole world as its stage. They are all striving to broaden their audiences and to develop even further artistically. They are therefore keen to work with international partners.
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Our hope is that you will keep this catalogue on your shelf and add it to your collection of recent editions. Whenever you get an urge or have a need to contact someone involved in the performing arts in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland or the Faroe Islands, our directory will guide you straight to the right place. The areas of contemporary dance, contemporary circus, theatre for adults and children, opera and musicals, puppetry and cross-genre performing arts all thrive in the Nordic countries and are well worth exploring.
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ARTISTS, COMPANIES & PROJECTS 12 - 158 Denmark Black Box Dance Company 12 dadadans 14 Danish Dance Theatre 16 Fors Works 18 Gazart 20 Glimt 22 Granhøj Dans 24 Hamletscenen 26 Den Jyske Opera | Danish National Opera 28 Kassandra Production 30 Kitt Johnson X-act 32 Laboratoriet 34 Mancopy Dansekompagni 36 Mungo Park 38 Mute Comp. Physical Theatre 40 Odin Teatret 42 Rapid Eye 44 Recoil Performance Group 46 Teater freezeProductions 48 Teater Hund 50 Teater Refleksion 52 Teater Viva 54
Teatret Får302 56 Teatret Gruppe 38 58 Teatret OM 60 Yossi Berg & Oded Graf 62 ZeBU: 64 The Faroe Islands Tvazz 66 Finland Alpo Aaltokoski Company Glims & Gloms K&C Kekäläinen & Company Satu Tuomisto Company Susanna Leinonen Tero Saarinen Zodiak - Center for New Dance
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Norway Berstad | Helgebostad | Wigdel 82 Carte Blanche 84 Company B Valiente 86 Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt 88 Jo Strømgren Kompani 90 Kari Hoaas Productions 92 Loop Loop Loop 94 PONR | Lisa Lie 96 NONcompany 98 Panta Rei Dance Theatre 100
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Sweden Örjan Andersson 110 Anna Källblad 112 Björn Säfsten 114 Cirkus Cirkör 116 Gun Lund | E = m2 Dance 118 Gunilla Heilborn 120 GöteborgsOperans Danskompani 122 Jeanette Langert 124 Kenneth Kvarnström 126 Charlotta Öfverholm/Compagnie Jus de la Vie 128 Malin Hellkvist Sellén 130 Marika Hedemyr / Crowd Company 132 Memory Wax 134 Minna Krook Dans 136 Norrdans 138 Olof Persson 140 Philippe Blanchard 142 Pontus Lidberg 144 Prospero - Performing Arts Center 146 Regionteater Väst 148 Skånes Dansteater 150 Stockholm 59° North 152 Stockholms Musikteater 154
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NORDIC DANCE PLATFORM Ice Hot
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PRODUCTION OFFICES 162 - 166 Loco World 162 Nordberg Movement 163 M-A-P 164 Produsentbyrået 165 Annika Ostwald 166 CONTACTS BY CATEGORY
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EYES ON DANCE 8NORDIC From left to right: Adolphe Binder, photographer: Joakim Roos, Bush Hartshorn, Bruno Heynderickx, Pirjetta Mulari, photographer: Petri Mulari
We have asked Bodil Persson to interview four highly respected Nordic dance personalities with different backgrounds. Four individuals that we believe can contribute with interesting thoughts about Nordic contemporary dance in relation to Europe and to the world.
ADOLPHE BINDER has been the artistic director of the GÜteborgsOperans DANSKOMPANI since 2011. Her previous roles have included Head of Dramaturgy of the Deutsche Oper ballet company in Berlin, curator and programmer for international dance festivals, and running her own production and consultancy company Binder + Partners Berlin, which has been active in the international contemporary dance arena. When describing the Nordic countries, Binder specifically mentions their global, international perspective. – What makes art and dance important and alive is their ability to respond and generate a sounding board for the 6
Adolphe Binder believes that this diversity is the strength in the dance she sees being produced here in the Nordic countries, a diversity reflected in the dancers’ varying training and cultural and linguistic backgrounds. All these factors collide and combine as part of the creative process. – We aren’t just influenced by the sociocultural aspect though, but by the landscape and our natural environment as well. Guest choreographers who come to the Nordic countries for creative projects are deeply affected by the marked change in seasons and that renowned ‘Nordic light’. Binder sees artists as vessels – vessels in which the artists’ entire surroundings collect and subsequently take shape. She believes that artistic creation here in the Nordic countries is clearly influenced by the fact that we live in one of the richest parts of the world. This allows us to dare to do things with art that others cannot. That is the precise idea behind subsidised, tax-financed arts programmes, says Adolphe Binder.
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reality in which they are created. I live and work in Gothenburg, a city of 180 nationalities. Nowadays,approximately 20 % of Swedish people were born outside Sweden. I am the head of a dance company that has members from 17 different countries. We see ourselves as a ‘global village’.
– Our high level of welfare means that we can take risks in our creative endeavours and not just produce ‘mainstream’ art, fulfil common expectations and maintain traditions. We can invent, and explore the unknown. The fact that we live in extreme wealth and welfare here in the Nordic countries also means that new and developing technologies form a natural part of the dance creation process – high tech in fascinating collisions with the lyricism of the natural surroundings. Diversity and cross-fertilisation/hybridity – two terms that Adolphe Binder wants to emphasise, which she believes show what potential lies in the future of artistic creation. – Whatever influences we are exposed to, we humans will undoubtedly keep undergoing change. We don’t stop developing.
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BUSH HARTSHORN has served as the Artistic Director of the Copenhagen Dansescenen (now Dansehallerne) since April 2011. Born and raised in Great Britain, his previous roles have included truck driver, performance artist, festival organiser and consultant.
After just two and a half years in Denmark, Hartshorn remains somewhat of an outsider. His view of the Nordic dance scene is both that of a ‘foreigner’ and of someone more ‘local’. He points out that, before becoming head of Dansescenen, he had very little knowledge of or contact with Nordic contemporary dance. His experience was limited to a small number of visits to dance platforms in a couple of countries. They did not inspire him. Luckily, Hartshorn’s first year as head of Dansescenen coincided with the establishment of the Nordic platform ICE HOT, of which Dansescenen is a collaborating partner. This collaboration has opened the door to the Nordic dance scene for him, and now he feels a great deal of confidence in how they work. When asked to characterise the ‘Nordic’, his response is emblematic:
– It has only taken me one winter here to discover for myself the importance of light in our lives. So much of it in summer and so little in winter, and I live in Copenhagen, the Latin south of the Nordic countries. So this dominance of light I see coming through in much of the work. There is very little Nordic work I see that does not have light design at the very heart of the work – it is not only there to support the dance but often has a central role in the performance. The clearest example for me has to be the piece Grind by Jefta van Dinther with fantastic design work by the Finnish light designer Minna Tiikkainen. In the Nordic countries, the arts and artists are heavily subsidised with tax money in comparison to many other parts of Europe. This greatly impacts artists’ situations and is generally very positive, says Bush Hartshorn, but not always harmless. He believes there is a risk that artists might start judging the worth of their own work on the basis of how much funding they get. In his experience, artists in Denmark who do not get granted funding do not realise their projects – they give up. That, says Hartshorn, is a risky, problematic step for an artist to take. And then the so talked about Nordic nature… Bush Hartshorn believes that the lack of big cities has an impact. The Nordic countries are sparsely populated and the natural surroundings are so tangible in people’s daily lives, and that is reflected in the art they create.
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has been the CEO and Artistic Director of the Bergen-based Carte Blanche, Norway’s key national contemporary dance company, for nearly six years. He will be moving on to a position as curator of the Hessisches Staatsballett Wiesbaden Darmstadt next summer. Heynderickx has focused on increasing Carte Blanche’s reputation outside Norway and bringing the company to a wider audience. Following an international career as a dancer for some of Europe’s renowned dance companies, Heynderickx has had many years of experience as a dance producer and agent, working on European co-productions and international cooperations alike. In his view, developments in the internet and other technologies are shaping the direction in which Nordic dance is heading.
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BRUNO HEYNDERICKX
– The Internet influences our daily lives more than we currently realise. Most of us use smartphones, and we can follow what is happening on the other side of the globe the very second it takes place. Nowadays, almost unlimited information available to us on the internet become references we can share with people around the world. However the context in which we live – cultural and economic – means that we interpret that flow of information differently. He believes that there is a young generation of artists and choreographers from whom living in this internetinfused age is a matter of course. The art they create is in constant dialogue with that world, they are inspired by it but also influencing it. – From an artistic point of view, we are seeing a young generation of choreographers emerging who are challenging both the process and the choreographed work. They are in search of new production situations and new platforms to interact with their audiences. Bruno Heynderickx believes that institutions have to be open to present-day society, highlighting the Cullberg Ballet and its former Artistic Director Anna Grip as an example. – They started a process of reinventing themselves and were daring enough to follow it through. Allowing scope for the truly contemporary, and patiently working to find an audience that dares to be challenged – that’s a brave move. As he sees it, the Cullberg Ballet is now in a position to reap the fruits of its efforts. BrunoHeynderickx finds the development during the last years in Norway’s arts policies and funding systems 9
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very positive - the long-term nature of the funding enables choreographers to improve their production planning, which allows more cooperation with institutions that schedule far in advance. -It remains to be seen how the new government in Norway will act in relation to funding and culture policy. He raises the question if different ways of distributing the funding among choreographers would not provide better results artistically. Would it not be better to invest in a smaller number of artists who then receive larger amounts of funding, enabling them to fully explore their artistic projects, have longer term perspectives? What we currently see is that awarding small amounts of production funding to lots of players leads to large number of production (positive) of which statistics here in Norway show they are merely shown three to four times on average (negative). – Contemporary dance in Norway has considerable growth potential as an art form. Carte Blanche is celebrating its 25-year anniversary and will be performing on the main stage of the Oslo opera house for the very first time. I view that as recognition that contemporary dance also has its place on the major stages in the country.
PIRJETTA MULARI has a background as a teacher and choreographer, and for the past 15 years has been prominent as a producer and festival organiser. She has worked as International Affairs Manager at Dance Info Finland since 2005. For a long time now, Mulari has followed and been involved in Nordic dance cooperations, for both international and inter-Nordic projects. This makes her the perfect person to ask what characterises Nordic dance now in comparison to 10-15 years ago. – Through different Nordic initiatives and funding schemes there are many more Nordic artistic collaborations taking place than for instance 10 years ago. Nordic dance professionals have definitely found more possibilities to collaborate artistically across borders. Nowadays Nordic artists study and work so much in Europe that the differences to the rest of Europe have decreased. The trends and development have followed the European 10
Pirjetta Mulari believes that there are choreographers out there whose work retains what could be termed their original ’roots’, even when they live abroad for many years. As many others have suggested, she also thinks that the relationship with the natural environment and, not least, with space and time are factors that Nordic artists are often seen to have in common. However, Mulari also sees differences between the Nordic countries. She has noticed that less international choreographers and artists seem to work in Finland than in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and she also points out how geographical factors influence the art created in the various countries. Finland and Iceland are more geographically isolated and thus perhaps less influenced by the outside world. When it comes to audience numbers, Pirjetta Mulari believes the Nordic countries are unique.
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path: there is much more conceptual and text-based work than before: also, the artists work within multiple genres, not remaining only within movement and dance.
– I think that the audience numbers in Nordic countries for art in general are exceptional: people are used to going to the theatre from a very young age. This is also thanks to our national cultural strategies in the Nordic countries that stress that everyone should have equal access to enjoy cultural activities. Mulari takes a positive view of the future of Nordic dance, particularly in relation to intra-Nordic cooperations. – In my work I often find that the further away from home we get, the more important the cooperation between the Nordic countries seems to become. Seen from other continents, the Nordic region appears to be a united entity and that is our strength: to be able to put our minds and resources together, and work towards common goals. What our artists really need is time to research and develop, not only produce. When they are granted that time we will see dozens of Nordic artists making original work that will speak to the rest of the world.
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is a dramaturg and culture journalist within the dance field. She is also a lecturer in great demand and connected to the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm. 11
Black Box Dance Company CONTACT Marie Brolin-Tani, artistic director PHONE +46 70 752 80 39 MAIL mbt@musikteatret.dk WEBSITE www.musikteatret.dk
Black Box Dance Company is part of the Black Box Theatre that was founded in 2010. In 2013 and 2014 we are touring with the performance Viva, Vive!, featuring young talented dancers from Europe and Brazil. Viva, Vive! consists of three emotional ballets. The first piece is called IMPROMPTU by Tindaro Silvano. The second piece is called BEING ME - BEING YOU and is a two-part choreography by Marie Brolin-Tani and Melody Putu. The last piece is called RITES by Alessandro S. Perreira.
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photographer: Paulo Lacerda
Four choreographers from Brazil, Denmark, Sweden and South Africa present their interpretation of powerful contemporary dance to the rhythms and tones of Egberto Gismonti, Arvo P채rt, Munch and Miriam Makeba.
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dadadans | Helle Bach CONTACT Helle Bach, artistic director & choreographer PHONE +45 28 14 73 13
MAIL dadadans@dadadans.dk WEBSITE www.dadadans.dk
dadadans is all about ‘the human condition’, the banal realities of life as well as its poetic beauty. Artistic director and choreographer Helle Bach creates a choreographic language that draws on diverse influences from abstract contemporary dance to the French cabaret tradition. The movements are dynamic, direct and inventive, underlined by a strong sense of rhythm and humour, which infuses the choreography with unexpected turns. This is a universe that mirrors the twisted, poetic and ironic that lives in us all. Founded in 2004, dadadans creates new stage performances annually. The other focus is multimedia interactions in site-specific projects and installations. dadadans is always curious, interested in dialogue and new partnerships.
“Helle Bach manages to entertain and interest – even beyond the narrow circle of dance nerds.”
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Repertoire 2014 and 2015: BUSY BODIES (2013) 75 mins, 6 dancers FEATHERS AND STILETTOS (2011) 55 mins, 1 dancer
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CONTACT Anne-Kari Ravn, business manager PHONE +45 33 69 22 01
– One of Northern Europe’s leading companies. Danish Dance Theatre was founded in 1981. Since 2001, Tim Rushton (MBE) has been the company’s Artistic Director and has successfully continued Danish Dance Theatre’s vision of combining the classical arts with the modern. Today, Danish Dance Theatre is the foremost contemporary dance company in Denmark. Danish Dance Theatre looks forward to presenting Tim Rushton’s new full evening piece Black Diamond from May 2014. And from September 2014, the solo The Diary of a Mad Man will be available for small venues. Black Diamond plans to tour to: Lithuania, Finland, Germany, Poland, South Korea, China and Australia in 2014 and 2015. Apart from the performances mentioned, we have an extremely varied repertory. Please contact Business Manager Anne-Kari Ravn for further information. BLACK DIAMOND Duration 90 minutes, 14 dancers (including intermission) DIARY OF A MADMAN Duration 60 minutes, 1 dancer.
MAIL anne-kari@danishdance.com WEBSITE www.danishdance.com
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Fors Works CONTACT Marie Schulz, manager PHONE +45 61 44 37 05
MAIL marie@forsworks.com WEBSITE www.forsworks.com
Fors Works is the project formed around the choreographic work of Martin Forsberg. The work spans from small-scale installations to big theatrical productions. The core of Forsberg’s work focuses on questioning topics, turned into choreography. Often with one foot in reality, the work tries to question dance as an art form, through dance. Whether it is investigating the relationship between dance and surgery (STITCH), the meeting between the Russian totalitarian body and contemporary male body (Rabota) or searching for the sensational pathos of gay cruising (In the Pretty Boy’s Mouth), the dance is always present and challenged. In 2014-2015, Fors Works will be exploring the notion of bad taste through the female tour de force Comic Sans and touring Europe with In the Pretty Boy’s Mouth. 18
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Gazart CONTACT Tali Rรกzga, artistic director PHONE +45 26 84 82 39
MAIL info@gazart.dk WEBSITE www.gazart.dk
Gazart creates critically acclaimed dance performances for an audience ranging from toddlers to teenagers and adults. The repertoire is charged with a sense of carefree playfulness, poetic sensitivity and raw energy. In SnowEyes (0-4 years), we imagine ourselves waking up one morning to a landscape covered in a white blanket of snow. The world is new, fresh and pure. Everything appears different, and the ambience is one of secret poetry. The poetic and playful DROPS (0-4 years) presents its audience to constantly changing and often strangely wonderful water, interpreted by two dancers and a musician.
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In April 2014, Gazart will be premiering the warm and playful yet somewhat absurd Apple App Zap (2-6 years). Like a game of hide and seek, associations try to catch up with one another. The imagination begins to freewheel when bodies, words and sounds are twisted and distorted into something new.
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CONTACT Lars Gregersen, artistic director PHONE +45 28 60 55 21
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GLiMT creates interdisciplinary stage art using contemporary circus, contemporary dance and physical theatre. We choose themes that raise important questions about our society, and express these through physical skills and an imaginative use of set design. GLiMT was founded in 2002 by Lars Gregersen and Camila Sarrazin, and has since then created thirteen performances of both small and big scale. With each process, GLiMT has found new tools and exercises to create original and touching scenic material. Performances on tour: ’Empty Steps’, ’Are you Us?’, ’Grotæstetik’, ’Sisyphus Ascending’. In creation: ’Rootless’ (premiere May 2014)
“World class contemporary circus” – Urban “Content, physical work and poetry combine into a higher unity” – Herning Folkeblad “The performance contains an illumination of life itself – existence – the world” – Kulturkongen 23
Granhøj Dans CONTACT Malco Oliveros, manager PHONE +45 61 60 50 53
MAIL malco@granhoj.dk WEBSITE www.granhoj.dk
Ongoing research in the performing arts. Danish choreographer Palle Granhøj has won international recognition for his unique stage language. Based on the Obstruction Technique, he reshapes the movements of the performers by means of hindering actions, revealing inner layers of their personality in the process, thus turning the spotlight on the human condition. Rather than showing choreographies, he wants to present human beings on stage, as complex as they can be. Throughout the years, Palle Granhøj, together with visual designer Per Victor and his collaborating performers, has created over 20 performances that have been staged around the world. Currently, the company is touring with seven of its latest productions, showing the very different directions of their pursuit, from two more ‘conventional’ dance performances through to a visual concert, a performative installation, and three performance-portraits, i.e.: RITE of SPRING – EXTENDED, MEN&MAHLER, 2men2mahler, Dance me to the end on/off love, W[doubleyou]-UNDERTOW, A Portrait of Anne Eisensee and Aline not Alone. 24
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CONTACT Karen Schjønning PHONE +45 49 21 69 79
MAIL info@hamletscenen.dk WEBSITE www.hamletscenen.dk
HamletScenen at Kronborg Castle, Scandinavia’s leading Shakespeare theatre, has a variety of activities, all based on Shakespeare’s universal drama about identity, existence and meaning. HamletScenen is uniquely situated on Hamlet’s Island with a view out to the world famous Renaissance castle which appears on UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites and is famous as Hamlet’s castle in Elsinore. In HamletScenen’s Hall of Fame, there are portraits of many of the greatest Shakespeare stars who have performed at Kronborg throughout the years: Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Sir Derek Jacobi, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Simon Russell Beale, David Dencik, Thure Lindhardt, Lars Eidinger, and Jude Law among others photographer: Arne Magnussen
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CONTACT Annilese Miskimmon, general and artistic director PHONE +45 89 40 91 10 MAIL info@jyske-opera.dk WEBSITE www.jyske-opera.dk
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Den Jyske Opera/Danish National Opera is Denmark’s national touring opera company. Funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture and proudly based in Aarhus, Denmark’s second city, it tours across the whole country with both traditional and innovative opera for all ages, tastes and experiences. It is a distinctive, pace-setting part of the Danish cultural scene and for decades has presented productions of the highest artistic quality. With a fulltime chorus as part of 65 artistic, administrative and technical staff, it performs regularly at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen and collaborates with five symphony orchestras including the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.
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Kassandra Production CONTACT Annika B. Lewis, artistic director & performance artist PHONE +45 21 63 46 59 MAIL annika@kassandra-production.dk WEBSITE www.kassandra-production.dk
Annika B. Lewis creates innovative contemporary performing arts at the intersection of dance, theatre and performance art. She challenges theatre concepts and creates work distinguished by strong conceptual and visual elements, mixing the trivial with the philosophical. Her work is characterised by skewed and humorous angles, often with multiple layers and the use of multimedia – in a boundary-defying and complex scenic expression. Lewis explores new performative spaces, places and concepts. In addition to traditional theatre venues, her performances have been staged at private apartments, caravans, fairs, abandoned factories and on the Internet. Lewis continues to tour the world, create international collaboration projects and be interested in new partnerships, touring opportunities and artist-in-residencies. Her LET’S GET PERSONAL, DISPLACEMENT, LIFE HACKING and COVER UP will be in the repertoire throughout the 2015 season. 30
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Kitt Johnson X-act CONTACT Jonas Schou Hansen, tour manager PHONE +45 29 91 87 13 MAIL tour@kittjohnson.dk WEBSITE www.kittjohnson.dk, www.mellemrum.info
“Streamlined, balanced, evocative – you know you are in the presence of a master” Plankmagazine, CA, N. Steinberg “Rare is the choreographer who can say a great deal with very little” New York Times, US, A. Kisselgoff
Kitt Johnson’s trademark choreographic style combines sublime body control with a unique sense for evocative scenic effects. This has placed her among the most respected Danish choreographers and earned her a range of prestigious awards.
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photographer: Per Morten Abrahamsen
Kitt Johnson X-act’s wide-ranging work includes extensive international touring with solo and ensemble performances (e.g. FORUM HUMANUM, a participative work with 52 performers on stage!), the site-specific biennial festival MELLEMRUM, teaching and New Circus.
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LABORATORIET CONTACT Barbara Simonsen, artistic director PHONE +45 28 74 05 35 MAIL laboratoriet@laboratoriet.org WEBSITE www.laboratoriet.org, www.rehearsalmatters.org
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LABORATORIET in Aarhus, Denmark, is a centre for performing arts research and development. A unique haven for professional artists who want to explore an idea, a question, or a method to inspire and qualify their creative work. The research is done in the form of practical experiments, and the results and reflections are shared with other artists and performing arts practitioners through our website. Our work also includes Rehearsal Matters, a collection of interviews in which 37 artists from 11 countries talk about their work methods, key experiences, and dreams for the rehearsal process.
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In 2014, we are launching RAPP – The Research in Artistic Practice Programme. An annual event, where artists from all over the world are invited to submit an idea for an experiment. RAPP consists of three in-depth and original experiments, international collaborations, and a conference celebrating the experiment process: Impossible endeavours and the search for new horizons!
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CONTACT Geoliane Arab, international project manager PHONE +45 27 11 69 91 MAIL ga@mancopy.dk WEBSITE www.facebook.com/mancopy
Founded in 2005 by artistic director and choreographer Jens Bjerregaard, Mancopy Dansekompagni has the human expression at the core of its creative work. Convinced that through international exchange, art finally becomes an instrument of free expression, the company quickly developed an unconventional mobile structure that can initiate, design and develop projects around the world. from Absolutes, photographer Jens Bjerregaard
From collaborations in China, to co-productions in Europe and outreach projects in the Middle East, Mancopy is one of the most internationally active Danish companies. Mancopy’s work has been presented in China, Japan, Singapore, USA, Hungary, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Morocco, Tanzania, Kenya, Cameroon, Germany, Canada, Poland, Sweden, and Bosnia and Herzegovina among others.
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Mungo Park CONTACT Anne Sophie Fogedby, International relations MAIL annesophie@mungopark.dk PHONE +45 48 13 13 00, +45 40 88 82 14 WEBSITE mungopark.dk
Mungo Park is an award-winning Danish repertory theatre located in the suburbs north of Copenhagen. Founded in 1992, it holds an important role in the development of modern Danish theatre. Mungo Park participates in Nordic and European collaborations, co-productions, stage swaps, and touring. The repertoire consists of new drama and unlikely classics with innovative staging. Examples: DIARY OF A SEDUCER, a dramatisation of Søren Kierkegaard’s world classic with new work by Danish music icon Anne Linnet. WOMAN KNOW YOUR BODY, a humorous and touching collage based on a classic feminist handbook. LECTURE, a tour de force of music and comedy aimed at teenagers. Seen by 80,000 people and performed in Danish, English, Swedish, and Norwegian. ORIGINS OF SPECIES, classic scientific literature gone eerily funny and choreographic by international director Jo Strømgren. 38
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Mute Comp. Physical Theatre CONTACT Ulla Katrine Friis, manager PHONE +45 29 89 40 21 MAIL info@mute-comp.dk WEBSITE www.mute-comp.dk
Mute Comp. has wowed Danish audiences with a fresh and accessible dance style that embraces all genres and moods – from slapstick comedy to dark melancholy. The company, which has already won a number of prizes, was founded in 1999 by choreographers/dancers/actors Jacob Stage and Kasper Ravnhøj.They work with urban themes and tendencies in an expressive physical context that contains elements of crash dance and live music.
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THE ILLEGAL TRILOGY is about the consequences of the biggest illegal markets in the world SEX, WEAPONS & DRUGS! It is based on in-depth research, real life stories and impressions from hotspots around the world. KNOCK ON UNPAINTED WOOD (2010) is about sex trafficking. Award-nominated dancers and live music by the Polish electronica band Pchelki. Site-specific and black box versions available. F.U.B.A.R - FUCKED UP BEYOND ANY RECOGNITION (2011) is about the fascination/consequences of guns. Live music by the American hillbilly – with a punk-attitude band Legendary Shack Shakers.50% dance & 50% rock concert set in a black box. BLACKOUT (2012): The last performance in the trilogy is about drugs. Features musicians from the Danish band “Blue Foundation” and others.
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CONTACT Anne Savage, tour manager PHONE +45 22 70 24 71
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ODIN TEATRET. Ensemble theatre. With a current repertoire of 26 productions, Odin Teatret travels worldwide (63 countries to date). Productions range from ensemble performances to solo performances and work demonstrations. THE CHRONIC LIFE, the latest ensemble performance directed by Eugenio Barba, has toured in Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Norway, Poland, Romania and Uruguay. All performance tours can include parallel activities. See website for further information.
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Rapid Eye CONTACT Samuel Gustavsson, artist PHONE +45 27 34 08 00 MAIL info@rapideye.dk WEBSITE www.rapideye.dk
The award-winning company Rapid Eye works within the field of contemporary circus, dance, and object theatre. Rapid Eye’s new performance, Kaspar, is based on the true story of Kaspar Hauser. Kaspar grew up imprisoned and isolated from human contact for 16 years. He entered society without a language or civilized behavior. Kaspar, the feral child, was socialized and educated with limited success by his carers. His life ended abruptly with a mysterious knife assault. Rapid Eye explores how lack of language can estrange the individual, in a performance based on classic drama, movement and artistry. Kaspar is created by an international cast, including the Hungarian choreographer Imre Vass, French scenographer Miguel Pelleterat and Samuel Gustavsson amongst others. Rapid Eye will be touring in 2014 with Kaspar and QUIPROQUO.
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Winner of the Danish Performing Arts Award 2010 & 2012 – Best Dance Performance of the Year (Reumert Awards) recoil’s performances are an aesthetic and highly visual journey, rooted in the exploration of the relational body as well as the ongoing cross-artistic collaboration between genres.
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The powerful duet TØRST deals with the ambiguity of human drive and survival. TØRST is the Danish word for THIRST, and the title itself provokes an almost physical sensation – a bodily urge fuelled by an essential need. Two male bodies find themselves in a place where strategic thinking has ceased and instinct has taken over. The dancers perform on burning hot, animated, desert sand! TØRST merges choreography and sophisticated interactive video scenography into the unique visual universe that characterises recoil performance group’s artwork, and has made the group critically acclaimed both in Denmark and abroad.
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Teater freezeProductions CONTACT Hanne Trap Friis artistic director PHONE +45 31 25 83 45 MAIL hanne@freezeproductions.dk WEBSITE www.freezeproductions.dk
Teater freezeProductions was founded in 2004 by director Hanne Trap Friis. The theatre presents new dramatic work in a beautiful, entertaining and thoughtprovoking way. Latest productions: 2013: STRØMSTEDER//SARFARTUUT, a co-production with The National Theatre of Greenland, is a filmic piece about the relationship between Denmark and Greenland, about the coloniser and the colonised, the children, the language and about belonging. On stage is Nukâka Coster-Waldau. Reviews said: “STRØMSTEDER// SARFARTUUT shows the relationship between Denmark and Greenland in a wise, loving, poetic and humoristic way.”
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2012: GLASPERLESPIL is about the pioneer, resistancemember and electronic composer Else Marie Pade, written by Suzanne Brøgger. Reviews said:
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Teater Hund CONTACT Kenneth Gall, managing director MAIL vov@teaterhund.dk
PHONE +45 26 16 14 10 WEBSITE www.teaterhund.dk
‘Teater Hund: Man’s Best Friend.’ This slogan perfectly describes the essence of this company. Inspired by research into philosophy, sociology and psychology, we present complex existential issues in a distilled and artistic form that both children and adults can identify with. The work often questions ‘truths’, trends and tastes, pointing to possibilities and choice rather than fixed answers. With shows that are artful, inventive and entertaining, we communicate on many levels and our physical performance style reaches a broad target group (from 5 years). As a means to express something meaningful, we take humour very seriously as a transforming power and an important social competence. Since we aim to hit a universal place in us all (both regarding humour and content), our shows are also very much appreciated by adults. Teater Hund’s shows can be performed in English and German. The company is funded by The Danish Arts Council. 50
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Teater Refleksion CONTACT Lisbeth El Jørgensen, producer PHONE +45 86 24 05 72 MAIL lisbeth@refleksion.dk WEBSITE www.refleksion.dk
Puppet and animation theatre for children and adults alike. Our aim is to create poetic and imaginative theatre experiences for all ages. Teater Refleksion animates puppets and brings stories to life that are open for interpretation. They invite the audience to engage in the performances and invest their own creative and storytelling powers. The performances are simple, magical and have a great sense of detail. Using little or no language at all, music and images convey the stories, and give the performances a truly universal appeal.
“Theatre at its most intense, magical and entertaining best, revolving around the greater things in life.”
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Shows like ‘Goodbye Mr. Muffin’ and ‘Songs from above’ have built Teater Refleksion an international reputation for high-quality theatre performances. Tours are made worldwide including to the USA, Japan, Australia, Brazil and most of Europe. Supported by the Danish Arts Council and the Municipality of Aarhus. 52
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CONTACT Katrine Faber, artistic director MAIL katrine@teaterviva.dk
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The performances of Teater Viva celebrate life.
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Danish performer, storyteller and singer Katrine Faber founded Teater Viva in 2007, and makes performances for people of all ages. Teater Viva explores the interaction between performer and public, space and body, silence and sound, and the use of the human voice in all possible and impossible ways in text, song, music and sound. It is a meeting between comedy and tragedy as well as between the language of word, gibberish, music and expressive physicality. The theatre strives to span various art forms, combining the archetypical with the innovative, exploring what it is to be human. The inspiration stems from myths, fairytales, literature and dreams. Creating cultural exchanges is an important task for the theatre.
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Award-winning Teater FÅR302 is passionate and poses political and critical questions. Our directive is to be ethical and provoke discussions. The drama is intelligent, the humour is serious and the perspectives are new. The theatre only seats 48 people, making it hard to hide in the crowd. This quality is exploited to the full in the artistic work. The unique sense of intimacy, closeness and empathy produces performances that stimulate thoughts, questions and dialogue. Teater Får302 has over the past 25 years been a place for development and renewal of performing arts. We have cultivated many rising stars actors, directors and writers - within theatre and film.
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The theatre is committed to touring in Denmark and internationally and we have a strong interest in collaborations across borders. Latest initiatives have been New Nordic Stage Art and Dialogue, Theatre Dialogue Øresund and ‘Bastard’ – Nordic Culture Funds stage event of the year 2012.
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Teatret Gruppe 38 CONTACT Jens Birkholm, manager PHONE +45 86 13 53 11 MAIL post@gruppe38.dk WEBSITE www.gruppe38.dk
The award-winning Danish theatre is famous for creating performances that can be seen and appreciated by both adults and children. Creating performances that often deal with big issues in small settings, the theatre tries to find the sophisticated and complex in the simple, thereby creating unpredictable experiences with few and simple tools. The theatre holds no bars in order to spare the audience – even if they are children. A story can be so cruel, so lethal and infinitely sad, as it claims to offer the strongest emotional experience. Teatret Gruppe 38 has an extensive tour programme, both in Denmark and abroad. In 2011, the theatre received the ‘ASSITEJ Honorary President Award for Artistic Excellence’.
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DANISH+ The biennial DANISH+ is initiated and organised by Teatret Gruppe 38. The festival is an opportunity for theatre representatives and presenters from around the world to see the very best of Danish performing arts for children and young people. The next DANISH+ will take place in 2014.
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CONTACT Annemarie Waagepetersen, international coordinator PHONE +45 51 24 57 78 MAIL annemarie@teatretom.dk WEBSITE www.teatretom.dk
Teatret OM – regional theatre in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality – is an international theatre company founded in 1989. The company consists of actors/musicians and has a resident set designer. The performances intertwine the actors’ physicality with images generated by the set and props, all set to live music. Teatret OM has toured productions and workshops in 19 countries around the world. In 2014/2015 Teatret OM will be offering three productions:
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79’FJORD Inspired by the Danish Danmark Expedition to NorthEast Greenland 1906-1908. Inside a giant igloo, featuring strong imagery, with masks, singing, music, shadow play and animation, the fateful expedition is elegantly interwoven with Greenlandic mythology. I MALTAGLIATI – TO SING A LIFE An old woman is standing in her kitchen making a pasta dish for a guest. During a morning, she remembers her life through song. THE WHALE Myths about the whale - of survival, creation and man’s relationship with nature. 61
Yossi Berg & Oded Graf CONTACT Yossi Berg MAIL butbergitellyou@hotmail.com WEBSITE www.yossioded.com
Choreographers Yossi Berg & Oded Graf started collaborating in 2005, and they have since built a reputation for work that is supremely physical, sometimes provocative, and by turns poignant and witty. Having performed with world-renowned troupes ranging from Batsheva Dance Company and DV8 Physical Theatre to others, they mix their masterful physicality with their dynamic research of theater, text, and voice, responding to the social and political realities of contemporary life.
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Yossi & Oded perform throughout the world, create for dance companies and opera houses internationally, and have won numerous choreography awards, honors, and grants. Besides maintaining a strong presence in Israel and Denmark, they have toured their works to prestigious festivals and theaters including Montpellier Danse, the American Dance Festival, Madrid En Danza, Stockholm’s Kultur Festival, the Place Theater in London, La MaMa in New York City, White Bird Dance in Portland, Sophiensaele in Berlin, Lausanne Danse in Switzerland, the Belgrade Dance Festival in Serbia and SIDance in South Korea, to name but a few. 62
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Our audience can expect everything from plays to dancing, from mime to musical shows, from puppet theatre to new circus performances. The idea is that children and young people should think that it is fun, cool and exciting to go to the theatre. And for them to feel the experience is worthwhile. We are thrilled to share a poetic, humorous, deep, wry, raw, wondrous and not least living theatre with our audiences all around the world. 65
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TVAZZ is an independent theatre company based in the Faroe Islands with collaborators from all over the Nordic countries. TVAZZ deals with theatre that is political, social and psychological in essence – always seeking hidden layers of human suffering, human taboos and human conditions. TVAZZ’s current production is touring Greenland and Denmark in 2013-2014: ‘Monsters’ by Niklas Rådström (Sweden) A controversial discussion about evil. On the basis of the James Bulger case, Liverpool, UK, 1993, the play discusses what evil is. photographer: Finnur Justinussen
What happens to society when unbearable acts of evil happen? How do we handle the fact that children can perform acts of evil and even murder? How do we as a society cope with situations like that? How can we deal with the unbearable? 67
Alpo Aaltokoski Company CONTACT Helmi Saksala, managing director PHONE +358 44 32 33 509 MAIL info@aaltokoskicompany.fi WEBSITE www.aaltokoskicompany.fi
Moving explorations at the core of human life, complete visual insights, flashes of the Finnish mindscape in modern dress and winding paths towards peace of mind. Alpo Aaltokoski Company is a contemporary dance company led by Helsinki-based dance artist and choreographer Alpo Aaltokoski, one of the key figures on the Finnish dance scene.
Alpo Aaltokoski Company was founded in 1995, and has been touring since in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America. In certain parts of Latin America, Aaltokoski has a reputation as a rock star of contemporary dance. Touring repertoire: Faux (2013, 6 dancers), Whirls (2011, 12 dancers), Together (2010, 2 dancers), Magician (2007, 1 dancer), Deep (2000, 1 dancer). 68
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Solidarity and joint responsibility are recurring themes in Aaltokoski’s works and at the core of the company’s philosophy. Pedagogic projects, workshops and cultural exchange have been carried out since 1994.
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Glims & Gloms Dance Theatre CONTACT Riitta Aittokallio, general manager PHONE +358 50 354 59 36 MAIL riitta.aittokallio@glimsgloms.com WEBSITE www.glimsgloms.com
Glims & Gloms is a Finnish award-winning dance theatre founded 1999 by the choreographers Simo Heiskanen and Tuomo Railo. Since then G&G has fascinated its audiences with the wide range of unique and surprising performances, that bring together many elements of the performing arts. G&G’s works are characterised by stylish and inventive visuals, brilliant, highly talented performers and inspiringly multifaceted themes. Glims & Gloms makes use of different genres and traditions dance and music theatre in an unbiased and versatile way. The theatre directs its repertory to the wide spectrum of audiences – children, youth and adults. Repertoire 2014-2015 Dance works: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps, Amateurs, Cabaret Nom de Plume, Sore Point, Ample Moon, Well Nourished Caucasian Male Performances for young audiences: Victor, his rooster Max and the secret of the music box, Parrots in Paris, Extended Family, Pessi and Illusia, Simon’s Cleanery 70
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K&C Kekäläinen & Company CONTACT Lilja Lehmuskallio managing director PHONE +358 50 353 51 41 MAIL kc@kekalainencompany.net WEBSITE www.kekalainencompany.net
The mission of K&C Kekäläinen & Company is to promote dance as an intellectual art form with strong emotional and political potential. The company was founded in 1996. K&C works at Cable Factory, Helsinki, where the company has a studio stage, K&C Space. Besides producing its own ensemble and solo works, K&C organises national and international guest performances. The company has toured extensively and has been recognised as highly artistic, courageous and outstanding around the world.
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The creator of the company is choreographer-dancer Sanna Kekäläinen, whose work expands the experience of a dance performance by combining poetical and conceptual thinking, philosophy and strongly physical and original movement language. Sanna Kekäläinen has been described as a provocateur, problem-setter, poet andpromoter of female existence.
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Satu Tuomisto + Comp. CONTACT Leena Erähalme, manager PHONE +358 45 311 97 37 MAIL info@satutuomisto.com WEBSITE www.satutuomisto.com
“Vimmaa is a seductive and provocative performance. This directness surprises, but at the same time it is most natural and beautiful.” – Theatre & Dance Magazine
Choreographer Satu Tuomisto loves sweaty physicality, explicit emotions and experimental choreographic challenges. Tuomisto worked in London for a decade before returning to Finland. As well as choreographing for her own company, Tuomisto has created for other companies, such as the Finnish National Ballet, and in 2011-13 acted as the Artistic Director for JoJo – Oulu Dance Centre and OuDance Festival. Tuomisto’s Vimmaa won The Jury’s First Prize in Germany in 2012 and is now touring in Asia and Europe. Tuomisto bravely marries contemporary dance with unusual partners and provides audiences with emotional and kinetic experiences. Available for touring in 2014-15: Vimmaa (‘Frenzy’, 2-4 dancers and a drummer on stage, 2012) and Riisuttuna (‘Bare’, 3 dancers and a musician on stage, 2013)
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CONTACT Timo Parkkonen, manager PHONE +358 45 138 03 36 MAIL timo@susannaleinonen.com WEBSITE www.susannaleinonen.com
Susanna Leinonen is one of the most internationally acclaimed Finnish choreographers. Her group, Susanna Leinonen Company, has toured in over 20 countries in several festivals and venues such as The Place, Julidans, Dance Biennale Tokyo and Beijing Dance Festival. Leinonen has also created commissioned works for major dance companies such as the GรถteborgsOperans Danskompani, the Finnish National Ballet and Danish Dance Theatre.
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Susanna Leinonen Company was formed in 2001. With her unique and articulate choreographic style, Susanna Leinonen combines contemporary dance with classical ballet, producing expressive and physical movement. Her works generate graphic and surrealistic visions, resulting in surprising and breath-taking dance experiences. Leinonen collaborates with composers and top video, light, set and costume designers, creating fascinating and synestethic theatre events. Susanna Leinonen Company is supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture and has been appointed as one of the Key Projects in Finnish Cultural Export. The company is available for touring with several pieces created for 1-7 dancers.
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CONTACT Johanna Rajamäki, head of international sales PHONE +358 9 68 13 18 81 MAIL johanna.rajamaki@terosaarinen.com WEBSITE www.terosaarinen.com, facebook.com/terosaarinencompany
Tero Saarinen’s works have captivated audiences and critics in nearly 40 countries, including at BAM & The Joyce (New York), Chaillot & Châtelet (Paris), Southbank Centre (London), Movimentos Festival (Germany), New Zealand International Arts Festival, and SIDance (South Korea), and in commissions such as NDT1, Batsheva & Lyon Opéra Ballet.
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Saarinen’s rich choreographic style uses his distinctive movement language and multifaceted artistry – expressive dancers, live music, and striking visuals.
“Mesmerizing” THE NEW YORK TIMES | “Majestic and revolutionary” LE FIGARO | “Richly original, scrupulously intelligent” THE GUARDIAN | “Supreme Artistry” THE AUSTRALIAN | “The decade’s best dance” VILLAGE VOICE
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Available for touring 2014-2015 & 2015-2016: New full-length work | Borrowed Light with The Boston Camerata | Gaspard & Saarinen’s solo Vox Balaenae with Ensemble InterContemporain. Workshops and other repertoire available on request.
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CONTACT Maija Eränen, producer PHONE +358 9 72 68 89 89 MAIL maija.eranen@zodiak.fi WEBSITE www.zodiak.fi
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Zodiak – Center for New Dance is a progressive dance organisation and Finland’s most significant contemporary dance production house with two stages and studios in Helsinki. Zodiak hosts Finnish independent dance artists by providing a joint, collegial platform for various artistic activities. For the audience, Zodiak offers a versatile repertoire of current contemporary dance, artists, phenomena, courses, discussions and events.
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Zodiak co-produces 15–20 new dance productions per year and organises the annual Side Step Festival in February. Zodiak is a member in several international networks and cooperates internationally in productions and tours as well as artist and teacher exchange. Zodiak’s outreach programme offers a wide range of workshops, projects and lectures that are open to everyone. For professional development, Zodiak arranges workshops and courses for dance artists. 81
Berstad | Helgebostad |Wigdel CONTACT Kristin Helgebostad dancer/choreographer PHONE +47 977 06 92 MAIL kristin.ryg.helgebostad@gmail.com
Berstad / Helgebostad / Wigdel has been defined as a powerful group with a strong artistic signature. The trio’s work is characterised by visually strong concepts, intense outbursts and withdrawal of energy, and a playful and experimental attitude towards performance art and dance. This up-and-coming trio creates performance art in dialogue with contemporary drama and dramatists. Their latest performance ‘Jordjenta’, which premiered at the Black Box Theatre in Oslo in September 2013, was inspired by Maria Tryti Vennerød’s new same-titled script. ‘Jordjenta’ has been described as a liberating contribution in terms of gender discourse. The group consists of performers and choreographers Ingeleiv Berstad, Kristin Helgebostad and Ida Wigdel. Berstad and Helgebostad’s collaboration started during their MA in Choreography studies at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, where they graduated in summer 2012. Wigdel has performed with the Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt Zero Visibility company and is one of the choreographers for The Line Dance Company. 82
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CONTACT Inga Moen Danielsen, production coordinator PHONE +47 55 30 86 82, + 47 98 49 25 14 MAIL inga@ncb.no WEBSITE www.carteblanche.no
Carte Blanche is The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance. The company’s repertoire includes creations by renowned Norwegian and international choreographers, and also focuses on commissioning new works by the younger generation of contemporary dance makers. This results in an eclectic, exciting and highquality repertoire that aims to achieve the company’s goal of being at the forefront of the creation, presentation and development of contemporary dance. from Not here/Not ever, photographer: Yaniv Cohen
The company produces two new programmes and performs on average four to six different productions annually. In addition to touring nationally, Carte Blanche has gained extensive international recognition in recent years, resulting in guest performances in the USA, Canada, Colombia, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, and Finland.
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CONTACT Jorunn Kjærsem Hildre, Gunhild Bjørnsgaard PHONE +47 99 23 53 45, +47 92 09 30 14 MAIL gun.bj@online.no WEBSITE www.bvaliente.com
”The combination of vocal, gestural and musical lines appear in pure virtuosity, so natural, in front of our eyes.” DANSER, Gérard Mayen.
”She has her own voice in the Norwegian dance landscape, an original vocabulary, never predictable.” CODA/Oslo Intern. Dance Festival, Lise Nordal
Company B Valiente was founded by Gunhild Bjørnsgaard, Marcelino Martin Valiente (1997/Oslo). In recent years, Bjørnsgaard has focused on strong musicians and dancers who share their techniques on stage and confront themselves to their own limits. Through virtuosity and excellence, the performers find a personal language into a musical architecture in space. The company has brought its art to theatres, but also jails, churches, galleries, military bases; not easily accessible and demanding an effort from the audience, away from their own socio-cultural origin. A remarkable physical dance based on resistance, release, contractions and ruptures appear – a dance that seeks, despite the limitations, a way out. Funds: Norwegian Arts Council and Fund for Composers
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Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt CONTACT Kirre Arneberg, managing director PHONE +47 92 83 00 31, +47 98 63 31 33 MAIL kirre@ingunbp.no, marianne@ingunbp.no WEBSITE www.ingunbp.no
Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt (IBP) was founded in 1992 by choreographer Ingun Bjørnsgaard. Over 22 years, the company has evolved into one of the definitive leadingedge dance companies in Norway. IBP is one of Norwegian dance’s most important export items, staging visiting performances at many important European dance theatres. Dance is and always has been a predominantly feminine art form, particularly in Scandinavia. IBP has, in many ways, taken this fact as a point of departure and transformed it into an aesthetic resource with ironic and poetic potential, succeeding in staging a distinctive form of androgyny and ambivalent femininity.
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In 2013-14, the company will be touring with three productions. Sjøen/The sea (2010), Omega and the Deer (2011) and Praeambulum (2013).
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Jo Strømgren Kompani CONTACT Sunniva Steine, managing director PHONE +47 41 31 82 32 MAIL sunniva@jskompani.no WEBSITE www.jskompani.no
“Physical theatre at its very best: daring, dark, unpredictable and charged with compressed intensity.” – The Guardian “Expertly straddles the fragile line between humor and horror.”
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Jo Strømgren Kompani (JSK) is a Norwegian repertory company with a large global distribution. Over one hundred shows are performed worldwide every year, both in large national theatres and small alternative venues. The overall touring list covers about fifty countries. JSK’s home stage in Oslo is the Norwegian Opera House in Bjørvika. The artistic style is a unique mix of dance and theatre, with puppet theatre, film, and live music often added. Another trademark is the extensive use of nonsensical languages and a distinct humoristic touch.
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For the 2014/2015 season, JSK will be offering eleven productions: A Dance Tribute to Ping Pong, The Painter, The Origin of Species, “40”, Domestic Music, The Society, The Border, The Convent, A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football, The Kitchen and The Writer. All productions are prepared for flexible touring.
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Kari Hoaas Productions CONTACT Annika Ostwald, producer PHONE +47 41 48 76 51 MAIL post@karihoaas.com WEBSITE www.karihoaas.com
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Kari Hoaas is a choreographer based in Oslo renowned for creating complex and engaging performances that allow for ambiguity and contradiction, while retaining a profoundly human expression that stays connected to the larger culture. Her work evolves in juxtaposition between abstract and literal dance, physicality and theatrical expression, and spans from intimate solos and larger group works to site-specific interdisciplinary projects. Her latest site-specific work, Livets dans, a commission by the National Museum for the Munch 150 exhibition, recently sold out the National Gallery in Oslo.
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As an artist, she works cyclically with themes and her three recent productions, currently available for touring, deal with issues of gender, relationships and community. Daybreak is constructed around two male/female duets, On the desperate edge of now is a physical work for five men that has gained wide acclaim and One is an intimate solo for a woman.
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CONTACT Laura Christina B Vallenes, artistic director PHONE +47 95 82 42 67 MAIL laura@looplooploop.no WEBSITE www.looplooploop.no, www.looplooploopbylaura.blogspot.com
LOOP LOOP LOOP works in the field of contemporary performing arts, mainly with site-specific and siteconscious theatre. Every performance is a result of close collaboration between skilled people in different disciplines such as music, literature, film and science.
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I want to explore the theatre form, and in every production a new examination takes place. The architecture and the tradition of the space become part of the performance. Collaboration with different disciplines is nescessary for the development of the dramaturgy and the visual design we seek. I want to create complex pictures from reality as well as from our dreams to produce a notion of something we already know but don’t always have the right words for.
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NONcompany CONTACT Tone Myklatun, administrator PHONE +47 91 55 36 62 MAIL tone@noncompany.no WEBSITE noncompany.no
NONcompany is a multidisciplinary performance group based in Bergen, Norway. Consisting of artists from different fields, the company works with a mix of theatre, music, film and visual art. The aesthetic elements are largely placed on an equal footing and NONcompany has often been described as technologically romantic. With a conceptual approach, it constantly explores new genre hybrids. With the visual and auditive Space Oddity, inspired by the Bowie song, the group worked with choreography and 1970s’ sci-fi aesthetics. Reconstructions was based on an original film script and performed on a floor consisting of 400 moving metal marbles. The latest project, the trilogy KAZAK (2011-2015) is co-produced by BIT Teatergarasjen and Teaterhuset Avantgarden. Part 2 opens in March 2014.
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“KAZAK: the expedition is a brilliant mixture of narrative and communicative techniques, presented in a playful, charmingly naïvist manner. ...eagerly awaiting what the next two productions will hold.” – Klassekampen
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CONTACT Annika Ostwald, international manager PHONE +47 41 48 76 51 MAIL produsent@pantareidanseteater.com WEBSITE www.pantareidanseteater.com
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Panta Rei Dance Theatre’s last production ’I Wish Her Well’ is an intricate performance, combining storytelling, high-tempo energy and an evocative sound score by British composer Nathaniel Reed that infuses the performance with melody and atmosphere. It is a captivating production that seeks to move and engage. Act one is based on the stories of four women who are closely related to the dancers, whilst act two is based on the diaries of a 16 year-old girl. She is now an 82 year-old woman who generously shared her thoughts and experiences with the choreographers and dancers.
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CONTACT Lisa Lie, artistic director PHONE +47 48 07 47 25 MAIL lisacblie@yahoo.no WEBSITE www.lisacblie.com
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“A humorous and cruel insight into a completely different reality.”
- Review of Blue Motell in Klassekampen
Lisa Lie examines escapism as a positive strategy and as a collective movement. Lie’s style is a choreographic and musical approach to composition, considered as a temporary sculpture or a body, where the audience becomes part of its cycle. Lie is a Norwegian actress, director, performance artist, playwright and author. Lie has had great success with her own work PONR and previously with the award-winning performance duo Sons of Liberty, which toured internationally. Lisa Lie studied acting at the Norwegian Theatre Academy, and the opera Ad Undas – Solaris Korrigert at The Norwegian National Opera was Lie’s diploma work in directing from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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The Line CONTACT Anne Cecilie Bodin Larsen, manager PHONE +47 93 23 07 96 MAIL olmaidka@gmail.com WEBSITE www.theline.no
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The Line is a satirical humour concept led by Ida Wigdel and Kristina Søetorp. They carelessly mix references from different dance genres, playing rudely around with clichés and hackneyed twists to highlight and comment on weaknesses and cultures in society. They are known for having a strong connection with the audience and how they intimately unveil their personalities within their concept. Their latest performance ’Near.Far.Wherever You Are’ had its premiere in spring 2013 on the main stage at Dance House Oslo with full houses. Their political undertone has caused a lot of engagement and discussion about how satirical dance can cause friction and question problematic subjects such as power structures and stereotypes surrounding gender. The company also works with film, and has produced the dance films ’BEyond’ and ’BEt(we)en’. ’BEyond’ has been shown at dance film festivals in Scandinavia, Belgium, China, South Africa, Lebanon and Mexico.
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Verk is one of Norway’s leading experimental theatre ensembles. They have gained extensive international recognition in recent years, having established a reputation nationally for epic and vaudevillian productions with a satirical and political edge. Their approach to theatre is to establish a strong connection with the audience with a solid sense of here and now, changing swiftly between storytelling, acting and improvisation. photographer: Kaja Bruskeland
Verk received the Norwegian Hedda ‘Best Performance of the Year’ Prize for The Eternal Smile in 2011 and Stalker in 2013. Stalker (2013), Build Me A Mountain (2011) and The Eternal Smile (2010) are available for touring. In November 2014, a new performance will premiere in Oslo.
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CONTACT Gunn Hernes, producer PHONE +47 95 90 65 51 MAIL producer@winterguests.com WEBSITE www.winterguests.com
Alan Øyen is one of the most exciting up-and-coming artists in Norway today. His work as playwright, director and choreographer is highly acclaimed, and he has won several awards. In 2006, he established winter guests, a producing and touring company based in Bergen, Norway. winter guests tell stories of the contemporary world by means of movement, text, video and music. What began as choreographic pieces, with the use of text, has fractioned into two parallel lines of work: staging plays with actors and choreographic work with dancers – and sometimes a mix of both.
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“Reminiscent of Robert Le Pages works, but in an unmistakable 2011 version. Would Ibsen have been writing like this today?”
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Zero Visibility Corp. | Ina Christel Johannessen CONTACT Lene Bang, international manager PHONE +45 22 56 02 69 MAIL lene@zerovisibility.no WEBSITE www.zerovisibility.no
zero visibility corp. and choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen offer some of the finest and most innovative in Norwegian dance. As members of the audience, we are thrown into the crossroads between aesthetic extremes in physically explicit and powerful expressions. We are united in a belief in dance as an art form. It is perhaps this insistence on concrete and physically demanding choreography that places ZVC in a theatrical dance tradition, creating their very own artistic profile. Since their international breakthrough in 2003, the company has created performances that have toured in more than 15 countries on three continents. Ina Christel Johannessen is a sought-after choreographer who has created works for companies like Ballet Monte Carlo, CCDC Hong Kong, Carte Blanche and Cullberg Ballet.
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“ICJ knows how to observe and draw the dance from the body, free, honest, and with formidable impact.�
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CONTACT Magnus Nordberg, manager PHONE +46 70 450 70 60 MAIL magnus@nordbergmovement.se WEBSITE www.anderssondance.com, www.nordbergmovement.se
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 is analogous to Örjan Andersson’s artistry and language derived from vastly different experiences of creating choreographic works. This language and his fascination with space and the amount we occupy has been and remains in focus. Whatever the context, this aspect of the choreographer has been the common denominator – movement in space and time. Recent Andersson Dance productions include ‘Name of the next song’, created to an electronic landscape by BJNilsen for four dancers, and ‘Karmer kring blå’, a contemporary take on movement material from Swedish folk dancing. During 2012-2013, Örjan Andersson created commissions for Bern:Ballett, The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Skånes Dansteater and Dansk Danseteater and will premiere a new creation for the Royal Ballet in Stockholm in February 2014.
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Choreographer Björn Säfsten’s work aims to suggest another dramaturgy in relation to how we view movement and the body, the individual and mass. In his work, he explores movement as a constructing element of meaning in our daily communication. Segments and phrases come from lengthy studio research, mixing acute details, stolen real-life positions and the individual dancers’ aura, face and gestures. His most recent work, ‘Fictional copies’, a performance installation for five dancers, opened in November 2013. This year, he will be opening ‘Idiots’ at Mdt in Stockholm in October. His latest creations include ‘Master Minds’, an interactive piece for Riksteatern in 2011, ‘Corduroy De-Constructed’ for the art venue Magasin 3 in Stockholm in 2011, ‘Introduction’, a critically acclaimed piece for two dancers from 2012 and ‘...AND...’, a commission for Skånes Dansteater in 2013.
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Cirkus Cirkör CONTACT Lars Wassrin, director international relations PHONE +46 70 564 65 50 MAIL lars@cirkor.se WEBSITE www.cirkor.se
CIRKUS CIRKÖR is Sweden’s first and largest contemporary circus, founded in 1995. Built upon art and an educational mission, Cirkus Cirkör has grown rapidly and today consists of shows touring Sweden and the world, circus events, circus training and an internationally renowned secondary school. Over the years, over one million people have seen our shows. Our artistic director, Tilde Björfors, is the world’s first artistic professor of circus studies. We have been greeted with standing ovations at stages like BAM in New York, Montreal Complètement Cirque, Roundhouse in London and Polo Circo in Buenos Aires. With two big shows currently touring the world and another on the way, we are ready for new challenges! KNITTING PEACE – on tour since January 2013
“Breakneck poetry in a homespun world /…/ a charming and sympathetic work where the whole trumps the individual efforts – like stitches in a knitted piece.” Örjan Abrahamsson, DN 17/2 2013
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
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Gun Lund | E=mc2 Dance CONTACT Anna Karlander, production manager PHONE +46 31 12 17 71 MAIL info@emc2dance.com WEBSITE www.emc2dance.com
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 forefront of Swedish dance, changing the perspectives of audiences and questioning the perception and reality we take for granted. She was awarded the Swedish Theatre Critics Dance Prize, and she holds a lifetime award for her “high quality and great importance in Swedish cultural life”.
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Transmission – a vibrotactile experience is one of her latest creations, a dance and technology experiment focusing on the sensory system. Letting the tactile take precedence over the visible or audible, six dancers respond to electromagnetic impulses received through vibrators attached to the body. Transmission is a dialogue between dancers and audiences communicating via remote controls. It makes for a thrilling, innovative experience.
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Gunilla Heilborn is a choreographer and film maker based in Stockholm, producing and touring nationally and internationally. Heilborns’ unique way of combining text, motion, video and images, always spiced with dry humor, has given her an indisputable position as one of Sweden’s most interesting performance artists and experimental film makers. In THIS IS NOT A LOVE STORY, Kristiina Viiala and Johan Thelander set out on a journey and a delicate search for context and connections. The story keeps starting over, again and again as in a road movie dance. The production will be on tour in Europe and Asia in the spring of 2014. GORKIJPARK2 will premiere at Göteborg Dans & Teaterfestival on May 15, 2014. Here the bitter cold and fading dreams of utopia play the leading roles, as well as hunting skills and simple decent humanity. Someone loses her skates and somebody else returns them.
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GöteborgsOperans DANSKOMPANI CONTACT Cecilia Selander Moss, project & planning coordinator PHONE +46 31 10 81 04 MAIL cecilia.selander-moss@opera.se WEBSITE www.opera.se/danskompani
Artistic Director Adolphe Binder GöteborgsOperans DANSKOMPANI is an international, contemporary dance company – one of the foremost in Europe and the biggest in the Nordic region. With a firm foundation in the here-and-now, the dancers inspire legendary choreographers, as well as some of the most interesting members of a new generation of dance artists, towards new expressions and art forms. GöteborgsOperans DANSKOMPANI has dancers from 17 countries and in recent years it has been experiencing increasing demand abroad. Under the artistic direction of Adolphe Binder, the dramaturgy for each dance season connects to themes reflecting the zeitgeist. Mind & Spirit is the overall theme for the 2013/2014 season.
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CONTACT Åsa Edgren, international manager MAIL asa.edgren@locoworld.se PHONE +46 73 324 11 14 WEBSITE www.jeanettelangert.com, www.locoworld.se
Jeanette Langert has been called one of Sweden’s most intriguing choreographers. With an uncompromising attitude, she is continuously expanding the boundaries of dance. Langert’s minimalist approach both moves and startles her audiences. Her unique, idiomatic style has been praised by both national and international press. New work for 2013: The Rite of Spring Premiere: 11 October 2013 at Dansens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Charlotta Öfverholm | Compagnie Jus de la Vie CONTACT Charlotta Öfverholm, choreographer PHONE +46 70 566 79 39
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Creates raw physical dance theatre with depth, irony, brutality and humour. Has been producing tour-friendly productions with a small cast of strong artists since 1995, and tours extensively internationally.
“Explosivity, absolute stage presence and fierce physical theatre power.” – dn.se
Repertory 2014 Antithesis
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LUCKY premieres May 2014, a one woman show about happiness and misfortune. Powerful movements in a mix of profundity, irony and humour accompanied with projections that puts you in heaven.
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A new guest performance venue with seven different stages. A dance company consisting of six dancers with two premieres every year and old stuff in new shapes. We add more audience-related works, installations and happenings. We also include live music and fashion and invite other dancers and choreographers as well. We cross borders and mix different art forms into new forms and shapes and we do it live. We think it’s time to try something different: Let’s move it! Dance productions by the company during 2014: sofa(r) by musician Jonas Nordberg and choreographer Kenneth Kvarnström YOUYOUYOU, six dancers and music by Ola Hjelmberg come back (to me), three dancers and live music by Ola Hjelmberg and Jonas Nordberg DOUBLEtake, 16 dancers and a symphony orchestra plus Jonas Nordberg goes solo with six dancers (coproduction with Skånes Dansteater)
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Malin Hellkvist Sellén is one of Sweden’s most questioning and intriguing choreographers, with pieces for both adults and children on her résumé. Often referring to her work as physical reflections on a specific theme or topic, she alternates between solo performances and larger group pieces. Her choreography is as expressly political and philosophical as it is sensuous, physical and emotional. Hellkvist Sellén examines choreography as a corporeal and linguistic practice. Her latest creations ’Within reasonable limits’ (2011) and ’Ongoing’ (2012) have both emanated from the diverse ways of including the general public in the creative process. 2014 Malin opens ’I remember you as you were then’, a piece that starts 2013 with the collection of stories from anyone interested in contributing about matters they can’t let go of.
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CONTACT Marika Hedemyr, artistic director PHONE +46 73 312 35 51 MAIL info@marikahedemyr.com WEBSITE www.marikahedemyr.com
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Marika Hedemyr is a Swedish artist combining choreography and philosophy in the context of public spaces: in other words, she works with bodies, ideas and our contemporary urban society. She creates work for public spaces, theatre stages and film. She divides her time between freelance engagements for theatre and dance companies, art venues, as well as own productions for Crowd Company where she is artistic director. Hedemyr’s work is characterised by mundane situations in a twisted reality, a high degree of identification, humour and physicality. At the same time, her works destabilise and question familiar situations. The sound elements in her stage productions are either new or rewritten works by contemporary composers. In her series of pop-up performances for public locations, she has developed a format that requires no technique, but creates strong situations through the performers’ and participators’ actions and choreography.
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Memory Wax CONTACT Alexandra Hill, manager PHONE +46 70 492 80 30
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Through simplicity we experience movement in a new perspective Memory Wax is a dance company with a strong visual expression and a naked theatrical language. The company was founded in 2004 by Miguel Azcue and Johanna Jonasson and is based in Malmรถ, Sweden. The repertoire contains performances for children, youth and adults, which are presented locally, nationally and internationally. Memory Wax constantly works on finding new meetings between audience and dance. This is reflected in the artistic creations and the arranging of site specific, outdoor events in collaboration with other artists and networks.
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In 2014, Memory Wax will present a new production, Possible Impossible, together with the Cuban dance company Danza Teatro Retazos from Havana, which will premiere at Inkonst, Malmรถ, Sweden in March. The two companies collaborate closely in developing a platform for international and cultural exchange.
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Minna Krook Dans CONTACT Minna Krook, choreographer PHONE +46 73 622 43 17 MAIL info@minnakrook.se WEBSITE www.minnakrook.se
MINNA KROOK DANS is a dance company that caters for both children and grown-ups. It was established in 1999 and is run by choreographer Minna Krook. Based in Stockholm, the company tours frequently in Sweden and is well-renowned and highly-appreciated throughout the country. The company has also made several guest appearances abroad.
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Minna Krook is one of the most well-established choreographers of dance performances for children. She created, among other things, the first dance performance in Sweden for babies, ‘Oh, Hello Baby’, with which the company received a lot of positive attention. Performed regularly since its premiere in 2004, her performance ‘ALL GONE!’ has been hailed by critics as ‘a classic’. The dance company’s productions are colourful, vibrant and unpredictable, combining dance, text, visual arts and specially composed music.
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CONTACT Mira Helenius Martinsson, artistic director PHONE +46 611 883 65 MAIL mira.helenius@norrdans.se WEBSITE www.norrdans.se
We constantly explore and develop our activities in order to create a variety of productions for many different types of venue, without losing the essence of the experience. Choreographers in the repertoire include Fernando Melo, Marcos Morau & La Veronal, Yossi Berg & Oded Graf, Thomas Noone and Ohad Naharin, among others.
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Norrland’s own dance company Norrdans in Härnösand aims to spread high quality modern dance through the four northernmost counties of Sweden. Norrdans was formed in 1995 and has since presented a wide variety of works to audiences of all ages, touring frequently. With artistic director Mira Helenius Martinsson, Norrdans continues to produce works by already established heavyweights of modern choreography as well as searching for new, fresh talent and possible collaborations.
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Olof Persson is an artist working with moving images in dance performances, installations and video. Within the transdisciplinary project team Olof Persson Projects, he collaborates with dancers, sound artists, fashion designers, light designers etc. based all over the world. The longterm work process is an important factor and the artistic idea is based on the body and the movement’s structure and complexity. Works have been presented at galleries, art centres, museums, stages and festivals in Gothenburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Paris, Düsseldorf, New York, Tokyo, Santiago de Chile and more.
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CONTACT Philippe Blanchard, choreographer MAIL philobill@gmail.com WEBSITE www.locoworld.se
French-born Philippe Blanchard has taken Sweden by surprise since 1993 with both independent and commissioned performances, his works developing into installationlike studies of human behaviour and relationships – witty, perceptive pieces that make room for personal interpretation and wonderment. For his latest production, he reunited with the Stifani Brothers who performed his international success story How about you?, a subtly humoristic and contemplative performance about the search for oneself through others. This time, they question the meaning we attach to appearances in a stripped down and thought-provoking piece that playfully invites spectators to explore the multiple layers of what is seen and heard, blurring a few lines along the way. Presented in autumn 2013 under its working title ‘Original Copy’, the performance will tour during 2014 as ‘This is that’. photographer: John FG Stead
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SNOW is a dance work by Swedish choreographer and filmmaker Pontus Lidberg that contrasts the fleeting and fragile human reality of existence with the enduring character of nature. The work was commissioned by NorrlandsOperan: The Opera House of Northern Sweden for its 2013 centenary presentation of Stravinsky’s score The Rite of Spring. Rather than focusing on the ritualistic elements embedded in the iconic music or paying homage to the European art movement known as Primitivism, Lidberg instead uses the wild, forceful season of the score as a counterpoint to his intimate choreography for four dancers and a bunraku-style puppet.
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Prospero Performing Arts Center CONTACT Jacques S. Matthiessen PHONE +45 20 94 86 89 MAIL ptp.jsm@gmail.com WEBSITE www.prosperoperformingartscenter.org
PROSPERO is a Nordic cooperation, working to establish a platform for international, cross-cultural performing arts for children and youth. We will create good and strong frameworks for co-productions. Promoters for PROSPERO Performing Arts Center are Passepartout Theatre Production/PTP v/Jacques S. Matthiessen in Denmark, Landskrona Teater/Stad in Sweden and Kilden Teater- og Koncerthus in Norway. PTP has been working with cross-cultural productions since 2007 and Landskrona Teater is a new residency for theatre projects and PROSPERO’s physical base. 146
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PROSPERO Performing Arts Center works globally to promote social and cultural understanding and equality across borders. We are convinced that theatre is a good tool to achieve our vision – both through the working process and the product: performing arts.
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Regionteater Väst CONTACT Ida Ivarsson, production manager PHONE +46 52 29 19 90 MAIL info@regionteatervast.se WEBSITE www.regionteatervast.se
Regionteater Väst is a producer of the performing arts for children and young people, as well as a touring company in the region of Västra Götaland, in the west of Sweden, which includes 49 municipalities. Due to this extensive area, we are one of the largest touring institutions and producers of the performing arts for a young audience in the whole of Sweden. We have two production centres: one in Borås where dance is produced and one in Uddevalla for theatre.
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Our aim is to provide a young audience with the opportunity of experiencing the kind of performing art which puts their own voices first. No matter where they live, where they are from or who they are, all children and young people should have the opportunity of experiencing the performing arts.
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Skånes Dansteater CONTACT Maria Schreiber, international touring PHONE +46 40 20 84 73 MAIL maria.schreiber@skanesdansteater.se WEBSITE www.skanesdansteater.se
Since it was established in 1995, Skånes Dansteater has presented relevant and engaging performances to a wide audience. From grand-scale events involving orchestras and choirs to small-scale, intimate, face-to-face and site-specific performances. The company puts on 80 performances annually, in its own venue, at the Malmö Opera and on tour.
In 2014, Skånes Dansteater will present new creations by Marcos Morau, Marina Mascarell, Martin Forsberg, Örjan Andersson and Kenneth Kvarnström as well as touring ’…AND…’ by Philippe Blanchard & Björn Säfsten (2013). The company consists of 16 dancers from 10 countries. Besides performances, the company is involved in different community projects and also organises an annual thematic festival. 150
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First-class dance is an enormously powerful art form and Stockholm 59° North aspires to move the audience by hitting precisely the right creative spot. Building on the strong technical and artistic backgrounds of dancers from the Royal Swedish Ballet, the company merges this quality with innovative work within choreography, music, film, light and design in its performances. The core of the company’s artistic direction is collaborations with young Swedish choreographers. Over the years, choreographers such as Örjan Andersson, Giovanni Bucchieri, Cristina Caprioli, Alexander Ekman, Kenneth Kvarnström and Pontus Lidberg have all made their mark on the company’s repertoire. The company tours internationally and has in recent years visited Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Finland, Hungary, Switzerland, Spain and USA. photographer: Carl Thorborg
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Poetry. Humour. Action. Music: Stockholms MusikTeater is the only independent group in Sweden that creates newly written musical theatre on a regular basis. SMT is now going abroad and first out in English is William the musical about Shakespeare. Awarded ‘Best Performance’ at the New York International Fringe Festival 2013. Shakespeare’s personal life is still a great mystery. Perhaps somewhere, buried deep within his 154 beloved sonnets, there are answers. Enter the world of William 1592: his struggle for success, the plague, and the dark triangle of lust and passion between him, the mysterious Dark Lady and the young Earl of Southhampton. Text/music Jan-Erik Sääf, directed by Andreas Boonstra. On stage: Jonas Nerbe and Shakespeare String Quartet.
”Passion and Playfulness” Musical Stages ”Avant-garde in nature. If this production isn’t the definition of rock opera, I dare you to show me what is”- nytheatre.com ”Mr. Nerbe shines in his portrayal of the Bard”
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The Weather Performance is a performing sculpture about the conflict between man and the weather. A battle that is escalating as the global temperature rises. We are midway between heaven and earth and we take the pulse of a burning topic that concerns us and our time with increasing intensity. The idea of controlling the weather is as old as humanity itself. Throughout history, humans have developed count less methods to predict shifts in weather. But these activities have intensified in recent years, as human impact on the global climate has become increasingly evident. The performance/installation is an extension of the film “the Weather War” from 2012 and aims to create a live situation that stems from the same research material as the film. The Weather Performance is a collaboration between the performance group Force Majeure and the artists Bigert & Bergström. Force Majeure has done performances and installations throughout Scandinavia since 1997. Bigert & Bergström have worked together since 1990, creating a vast number of exhibitions, documentary films and public art.
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CONTACT Cia Runesson, actress, artist, Force Majeure PHONE +46 76 174 43 70 MAIL ciarunesson@hotmail.com WEBSITE www.forcemajeure.nu, www.bigertbergstrom.com
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Weld Company CONTACT Magnus Nordberg, manager PHONE +46 70 450 70 60 MAIL magnus@nordbergmovement.se WEBSITE www.weld.se, www.nordbergmovement.se
Weld Company is a brand new company structure at the Weld venue in Stockholm, Sweden. Autumn 2013 was the first working period for the constellation, which will change in 2014. A period of 3-4 months’ work is planned for each year. Weld Company is rediscovering and reevaluating the ‘dance company’ format and is asking questions about dance and choreography today. Weld Company invites Swedish and international choreographers, creates its own production, organises events and dives deep down into Swedish dance history. In autumn 2013, the company, a very diverse group in terms of age and experience, premiered new creations by Rebecka Stillman (SE), Michael Kliën (IE/AT), Litó Walkey (DE) and Efva Lilja (SE) with simple rules – no talking, no props. The company was formed by choreographer Anna Koch, Artistic Director of Weld. 158
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ICE HOT 10 - 14 December 2014 CONTACT Kirre Arneberg, project manager PHONE +47 92 83 00 31 MAIL kirre@dansenshus.com WEBSITE www.icehotdance.com, www.dansenshus.com
Experience Nordic Dance at its best! ICE HOT Nordic Dance Platform presents the most interesting contemporary dance from throughout the Nordic countries, in performances for adults as well as ICE HOT KIDs. Here you will get acquainted with prominent dance companies and choreographers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Finland, and meet an international audience of producers, artistic directors, programmers and artists. ICE HOT Nordic Dance Platform is a biennial contemporary dance platform, hosted by the five Nordic countries. The partners are Dansens Hus (SE), Dance Info Finland (FI), Dansens Hus (NO), Dansehallerne (DK) and Performing Arts Iceland (IS). The first platform was organized in Stockholm in 2010 followed by Helsinki in 2012. The next platform will be held in Oslo in 2014. ICE HOT is open for all Nordic artists to apply. An international jury of experts selects the artists who will be presented.
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Loco World CONTACT Åsa Edgren, CEO & international manager PHONE +46 73 324 11 14 MAIL asa.edgren@locoworld.se WEBSITE www.locoworld.se
Loco World is a production office working with international development and touring. Artists associated with Loco World over the 2014-2015 season are Gunilla Heilborn, Pontus Lidberg Dance, Jeanette Langert, Stockholms Musikteater and ‘6 – the Sámi Chinese Project’. Loco World’s aim is to strengthen the role of Sweden and the Nordic countries as an attractive region known for performing arts of high artistic integrity and competitive quality. Projects initiated by the office include the MADE IN catalogue, Nordics Combined, Nordic Countries on Stage in New York and the 2015 ISPA Congress in Malmö. Akteau Kulturekonomi, a subsidiary of Loco World, provides accounting services for arts enterprises. The owner and Director of Loco World is Åsa Edgren, a lecturer who is an expert in internationalization issues and the Nordic performing arts scene. Åsa Edgren is a member of the ISPA executive board in 2013-2016.
CONTACT Magnus Nordberg, manager PHONE +46 70 450 70 60 MAIL magnus@nordbergmovement.se WEBSITE www.nordbergmovement.se
Nordberg Movement is a production, agency and development office focused on co-operation with a select group of independent choreographers and choreographic projects in Sweden. Through co-operations and co-productions, the main aim is to strengthen the position of the art form of choreography in relation to public spaces, audience encounters and modes of production. Nordberg Movement is owned and led by Magnus Nordberg, performing arts producer and manager, and features a team of associated artists working in fields such as artistic development, representation, project development/management, fundraising, distribution, administrative/financial management and touring management.
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M-A-P Management-Administration-Production CONTACT Gunn Hernes, manager PHONE +47 95 90 65 51 MAIL gunn@m-a-p.no WEBSITE www.m-a-p.no
M-A-P (Management-Administration-Production) offers services for companies and projects in the performing arts. M-A-P is run by Gunn Hernes from offices in the historical Bryggen area in Bergen, Norway. M-A-P offers a wide range of services on both a short-and long-term basis, including project management, administrative services and tour management. Gunn has worked with companies such as winter guests/ Alan Lucien Øyen, zero visibility corp/Ina Christel Johannessen, MaisonDahlBonnema/Hans Petter Dahl, The Line, Jo Strømgren Kompani and more. She also collaborates with Bergenfest and Bergen Live on various concert projects. Gunn Hernes also has experience as a guest speaker in collaborations with Cassiopée Office, BiT teatergarasjen, Proscen and others. M-A-P receives funding from the City of Bergen.
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CONTACT Pernille N Mogensen, manager PHONE +47 95 26 64 84 MAIL pernille@produsentbyraet.no WEBSITE www.produsentbyraet.no
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Produsentbyrået is a performing arts management agency based in Oslo, Norway. Consisting of people with different backgrounds, knowledge and experience, Produsentbyrået offers services such as production and project management, tour planning, administration and economy. Since the beginning in 2012 Produsentbyrået has worked with some of Norway’s most interesting artists and companies, both established and up-and-coming, including Verk Produksjoner, Vinge/ Müller, Ingri Fiksdal, Henriette Pedersen and Lisa Lie. Produsentbyrået works closely with all its artists to operate on the international arena. We at Produsentbyrået engage in international networks to ensure an ongoing flow of communication, information and collaborations with coproducers and other connections for our artists. We are always interested in new international contacts and in participating in exciting projects and collaborations.
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Annika Ostwald CONTACT Annika Ostwald, manager PHONE +47 41 48 76 51 MAIL annikaostwald@gmail.com WEBSITE www.annikaostwald.com
Annika Ostwald works as the producer/general manager for four Norwegian dance companies, and also for independent productions (currently two dance productions and one theatre production). Ostwald, who is based in Oslo (Norway), works both as a freelance producer and a dance artist. Ostwald’s main focus is within the field of contemporary dance. The dance companies she works for perform in the Nordic countries, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. At present theirproductions are also being promoted towards Central American audiences. Dance companies: AROUNIDANCE, KARI HOAAS PRODUCTIONS, PANTA REI DANSETEATER, SILJEHOLM/CHRISTOPHERSEN Independent productions: “I Vesterled” by Bjerkeskaug/Ostwald/Stene/Uvaas “Ned i mosen med deg, menneske!” by Marianne Skjeldal “Nok en same” by Håkon Mathias Vassvik / Ferske Scener
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DK INDEPENDENT CHOREOGRAPHERS/PROJECTS Black Box Dance Company - www.musikteatret.dk 4 dadadans - www.dadadans.dk 2 Fors Works - www.forsworks.com 1 Gazart - www.gazart.dk 1 Granhøj Dans- www.granhoj.dk 2 Kassandra Production - www.kassandra-production.dk 2 Kitt Johnson X-act - www.kittjohnson.dk 1 Mancopy Dansekompagni - www.mancopy.dk 1 Mungo Park - www.mungopark.dk 5 Mute Comp. Physical Theatre - www.mute-comp.dk 1 Recoil Performance Group - www.recoil-performance.org 1 Yossi Berg & Oded Graf - www.yossioded.com 1
INDEPENDENT THEATRES/PROJECTS Laboratoriet - www.laboratoriet.org 2 Odin Teatret - www.odinteatret.dk 4 Teater freezeProductions - www.freezeproductions.dk 2 Teater Hund - www.teaterhund.dk 1 Teater Refleksion - www.refleksion.dk 2 Teater Viva - www.teaterviva.dk 6 Teatret Får302 - www.faar302.dk 1 Teatret Gruppe 38 - www.gruppe38.dk 2 Teatret OM - www.teatretom.dk 7 ZeBU: - www.zebu.nu 1
INDEPENDENT CIRCUS/PROJECTS Glimt - www.glimt.info 1 Rapid Eye - www.rapideye.dk 1
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Danish Dance Theatre - www.danishdance.com 1 Den Jyske Opera/Danish National Opera - www.jyske-opera.dk 2
VENUES
Bora Bora - www.bora-bora.dk 2 CaféTeatret - www.cafeteatret.dk 1 Dansehallerne - www.dansehallerne.dk 1 Hamletscenen- www.hamletscenen.dk 3 Helsingør Teater - www.helsingor-teater.dk 3 Godsbanen.dk - www.godsbanen.dk 2 Mungo Park - www.mungopark.dk 5
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Aarhus Festival - www.aarhusfestuge.dk 2 Metropolis – Biennale - www.kit.dk 1 Contemporary Circus Festival - www.kit.dk 1 Waves - www.wavesfestival.dk 5 Mellemrum – Site specific performance festival - www.mellemrum.info 1 Fun for Fun Festival – international comedy festival - ww.paolonani.com 5 New Burlesque Festival - www.warehouse9.dk 1 Festival of Contemporary European Playwrigths - www.husetsteater.dk 1 Copenhagen Puppet Festival - www.puppetfestival.dk 1 Festival of Wonder - Silkeborg International Puppet Theatre Festival -
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FO INDEPENDENT THEATRES/PROJECTS TVAZZ - www.tvazz.com 8
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Please find information about the artists sorted by artistic category and country. Numbers marked in red refer to the map on page 171 where you can see their locations and how to get there.
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INDEPENDENT CHOREOGRAPHERS/PROJECTS Alpo Aaltokoski Company - www.aaltokoskicompany.fi 9 Glims & Gloms - www.glimsgloms.com 9 K&C Kekäläinen & Company - www.kekalainencompany.net 9 Satu Tuomisto + Comp - www.satutuomisto.com 10 Susanna Leinonen - www.susannaleinonen.com 9 Tero Saarinen - www.terosaarinen.com 9
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Kuopio Dance Festival, Kuopio - www.kuopiodancefestival.fi Full Moon Dance Festival, Pyhäjärvi - www.fullmoondance.fi Side Step Festival, Helsinki - www.sivuaskel.fi Moving in November, Helsinki - www.liikkeellamarraskuussa.fi 9 Helsinki Festival, Helsinki - www.helsinginjuhlaviikot.fi 9 Tampere Theatre Festival - www.teatterikesa.fi Baltic Circle, International Theatre Festival, Helsinki www.balticcircle.fi 9 Jyväskylä Festival - www.jyvaskylankesa.fi Cirko-festival, Helsinki - www.cirko.fi 9
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Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Helsinki - www.zodiak.fi 9 Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki - www.kiasma.fi 9 JoJo - Oulu Dance Center - www.jojo.fi 10
NO INDEPENDENT CHOREOGRAPHERS/PROJECTS Berstad/Helgebostad/Wigsel 11 Company B Valiente - www.bvaliente.com 11 Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt - www.ingunbp.no 11 Jo Strømgren Kompani - www.jskompani.no 11 Kari Hoaas Productions - www.karihoaas.com 11
Loop Loop Loop - www.looplooploop.no 11 Panta Rei Dance Theatre - www.pantareidanseteater.com 11 Winter Guests / Alan Lucien Øyen- www.winterguests.com 12 Zero Visibility Corp. - www.zerovisibility.no 11
INDEPENDENT THEATRE/PROJECTS NONCompany - www.noncompany.no 12 PONR | Lisa Lie - www.lisacblie.com 13 The Line - www.theline.no 11 Verk Produksjoner - www.verkproduksjoner.no 11
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Carte Blanche - www.carteblanche.no 12
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Black Box Teater (Oslo) - www.blackbox.no 11 BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen) - www.bit-teatergarasjen.no 12 Teaterhuset Avant Garden (Trondheim) - www.avantgarden.no 13 Dansens Hus (Oslo) - www.dansenshus.com 11 Bærum Kulturhus (Bærum) - www.baerumkulturhus.no
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Stamsund Internasjonale Teaterfestival -
www.stamsund-internasjonale.no CODA - www.codadancefest.no 11 METEOR - www.bit-teatergarasjen.no 11 Ibsenfestivalen - www.nationaltheatret.no 11 Oktoberdans - www.bit-teatergarasjen.no 12 Festspillene i Bergen - www.fib.no 12
Örjan Andersson - www.anderssondance.com 15 Anna Källblad - www.annakallblad.se 15 Björn Säfsten - www.bjorn-safsten.com 15 Gun Lund / E = m2 Dance - www.emc2dance.com 15 Gunilla Heilborn - www.locoworld.se, www.gunillaheilborn.se 15 Jeanette Langert - www.jeanettelangert.com, www.locoworld.se 15 Charlotta Öfverholm/Compagnie Jus de la Vie - www.jusdelavie.org 15 Kenneth Kvarnström - stadsteatern.stockholm.se 15 Malin Hellkvist Sellén - www.malinhellkvistsellen.se 15 Marika Hedemyr / Crowd Company - www.marikahedemyr.com,
www.crowdcompany.com 16 Memory Wax - www.memorywax.com 17 Minna Krook Dans - www.minnakrook.se 15 Olof Persson - www.olof.org 16 Philippe Blanchard - www.locoworld.se 15 Pontus Lidberg - www.locoworld.se 15 Weld Company - www.weld.se 15
INDEPENDENT THEATRES/PROJECTS Prospero - Performing Arts Center
www.proseproperformingartscenter.org 20 Stockholms Musikteater - www.stockholmsmusikteater.nu, www.locoworld.se 15 The Weather Performance - www.forcemajeure.nu, www.bigertbergstrom.com 15
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GöteborgsOperans DANSKOMPANI - www.opera.se/danskompani 16 Norrdans - www.norrdans.se 19 Skånes Dansteater - www.skanesdansteater.se 17 Stockholm 59° North - www.stockholm59north.com 15
INDEPENDENT CIRCUS Cirkus Cirkör - www.cirkor.se 15 Subtopia - www.subtopia.se 15
REGIONAL THEATRES
Regionteater Väst - www.regionteatervast.se 18
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Almost out of sight - www.weld.se 15 bibu.se - performing arts biennial for children and youth -
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Göteborgs Dans & Teaterfestival - www.festival.goteborg.se 16 MADE - www.made.se 15 Stockholms Kulturfestival - kulturfestivalen.stockholm.se 15
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Atalante - www.atalante.se 16 Dansens Hus - www.dansenshus.se 15 Inkonst - www.inkonst.se 17 MDT - www.mdt.se 15 Norrlandsoperan - www.norrlandsoperan.se 21 Dansstationen - www.dansstationen.nu 17 Stora Teatern - www.storateatern.se 16 Södra Teatern - www.sodrateatern.se 15
NORDIC PROJECTS & ORGANISATIONS Kulturkontakt Nord - www.kknord.org Keðja - www.kedja.net Ice Hot - www.nordicdanceplatform.com Nordic Circus - www.nordic-circus.org
NORDIC THEME FESTIVALS
Nordwind - www.nordwind-festival.de Les Boréales - www.crlbn.fr/les-boreales/
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NORDIC CITIES & HOW TO GET THERE View the locations of artists, companies, venues and festivals in CONTACTS BY CATEGORY, pages 174 - 177. They are marked with red numbers corresponding to the numbers in the map. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
COPENHAGEN Kastrup Airport AARHUS Aarhus Airport HELSINGØR Kastrup Airport & train HOLSTEBRO Karup Airport ALLERØD Kastrup Airport, Helsingør trains HJORTSHØJ Aarhus Airport RINGKØBING Karup Airport
8. KVÍVÍK Torshavn Airport Vagar Airport
9. HELSINKI Helsinki Airport 10. OULU Oulu Airport 11. OSLO Oslo Airport (Gardermoen) 12. BERGEN Bergen Airport 13. TRONDHEIM Trondheim Airport 14. KRISTIANSAND Kjevik Airport
15. STOCKHOLM Arlanda Airport, Bromma Airport Skavsta Airport (Nyköping) 16. GOTHENBURG Landvetter Airport 17. MALMÖ Malmö Airport, Kastrup Airport (Copenhagen) 18. UDDEVALLA Landvetter Airport (Gothenburg) Säve Airport (Gothenburg) Rygge Airport (Norway) 19. HÄRNÖSAND Sundsvall Härnösand Airport 20. LANDSKRONA Malmö Airport, Kastrup Airport (Copenhagen) 21. UMEÅ Umeå Airport 22. HELSINGBORG Malmö Airport, Kastrup Airport (Copenhagen)
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