Lisa Janbell
A choreographic soundscape where movement and sound merge into a sensual, constantly shifting atmosphere.
LISA JANBELL
DEAP LEAP
Studio presentation within 36 hours of dance October 24th 10.00–14.00
Deep Leap invites the audience into a choreographic soundscape where movement and sound merge into a sensual, constantly shifting atmosphere. With body-worn microphones and videomapping that captures the dancers’ movements, the dancers modulate and generate the soundscape in real time.
The work unfolds in a borderland between choreography and sound, between the digital and the bodily, and explores how choreography can create sound within a landscape in continuous transformation, where figures, energies and states appear, dissolve and begin again.
Deep Leap seeks to offer a hypnotic and somatic experience where listening becomes physical and perception is gently unsettled. A shared space for presence, resonance and imagination that navigates our technological present without losing the human, the bodily or the soulful.
About Lisa Janbell
Lisa Janbell is an artist, choreographer and dancer based in Stockholm.
Her practice rests upon many years of dedication to ceremonial and ritual performance, rooted in collective processes. Janbell’s work is genre transcending, shifting between contexts and collaborations, and draws knowledge from the social dance principles of the techno subculture alongside ceremonial practices.
Using the body as a vessel for ritual and collective memory, she seeks choreography and performance to open pathways to the transcendental and devotional, to the mysteries and divinatory, spaces where the negotiation between the individual and the collective is both unfolding and dissolving.
She invites audiences into provisional places she herself longs to inhabit, where belonging is desired rather than given, and where bodies might rest, be seen, and meet in shared presence, at once vulnerable and unyielding, meditative and intense.
In recent years Janbell’s trajectory has shifted from techno driven ritual formats in underground and club contexts toward somatic dance practices intertwined with sound technology and live electroacoustic music.
Her works have been presented across Sweden, Europe and Cuba, at venues including MDT, Dansens Hus, Riksteatern, Norbergfestival, Augenblick Mal Festival (Berlin), and Teatro Raquel Revuelta (Havana). She has also created commissioned works, such as choreography for the Studio Barnhus A/V show at Sonár (Barcelona) and Way Out West (Gothenburg).
Her latest projects include Deep Leap (2025–2026), a choreographic sound work where movement generates live sound through body worn technology and microphones on stage, DEVOTED (2024), a collaboration with composer Dijle Neva Yigitbas bridging live music and choreography through a devotional practice, and SWEET & STICKY (2023), a site specific choreographic work with live electroacoustic music created with architect Jelena Mijanovic.
Janbell studied Cuban folk dance at El Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, pursued further dance studies at UFBA in Brazil, and holds a degree in cultural anthropology from Stockholm University. Since 2010 Janbell has been part of the performance duo and music project Dos Oké with Camilla Sivam, creating electronic prayers in ritual formats, the cradle of her works.
Janbell creates 1-2 dance productions per year.
In October 2024 Lisa was granted a ten year working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Credits for Deap Leap
Medskapande dansare: Cajsa Godée & Rebecca Livaniou
Ljuddesign och komposition: Adde Huumonen
Artistic sound engineer: Sade Kasiri
Ljusdesign: Jonatan Winbo
Kostym: Amanda Hedström
Dramaturgisk och konstnärlig rådgivare: Karina Sarkissova
Producent: Puma Lagos
Konsultation och distribution: Magnus Nordberg
Samproduktion: Lisa Janbells verksamhet, Dansens Hus, Dansinitiativet, MARC, MDT och Riksteatern. Med stöd från Kulturrådet och Stockholms Stad.