Lisen Ellard with Mira Mutka ^(SWE) S L O W I N G S 7-9 November 2024

Programme

Lisen Ellard

In spring 2024, Lisen Ellard will be presenting an exhibition of Dirgy Dancing at Art Lab Gnesta and Fullersta Farm. Dirgy Dancing could be seen at Dansens Hus in spring 2022. In spring 2025 she will tour DEATH with the National Theatre.

Mira Mutka

Mira Mutka is active in the field of dance and choreography by initiating, dialoguing, producing and sharing public works, performative practices and teaching. Her longstanding interests and reference points are slowness, walks, black holes and structural events. She has a master in choreography from Nya performativa praktiker/ SKH. Collaborations over the years with independent artists such as Hagar Malin Hellkvist Sellén, Lisen Ellard, Jannine Rivel, pavleheidler and institutions such as Scenkonst Sörmland, Cullberg, Riksteatern.

Maia Means

Stockholm-based freelance dancer who works with performance, text and organisational practices. In recent years she has worked with choreographers such as Oda Brekke, Sindri Runudde, Björn Säfsten, Lisen Ellard and Mette Ingvartsen. Together with Max Wallmeier she has created two books and the performance "fictions, stitched" Means is part of running "höjden", a self-organised space for artists in Stockholm.

Majula Drammeh

Works interdisciplinary in dance and performance. She tends to work with interactive and somatic practices to explore how these can act as a bridge for people to co-discover themselves in an open, permissive and inclusive way. In the interpersonal. She has participated in works by, among others. Poste restante, Simone Forti, Khamlane Halsackda and Ina Dokmo. Majula also works as a dramaturge.

Photo: Graham Adey

Mira Svanberg

Mira has a master's degree in Architectural Lighting Design from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a bachelor's degree in lighting design for the stage from SKH. Mira has worked in the field for over ten years and has lit about fifty productions around Sweden. She is part of the performing arts collective K-polyfon and has worked with independent groups and institutions such as Dramaten, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö city theatres. She also makes her own projects and installations.

Petter Granberg

Vilma Sohlberg

Freelance performing arts producer who believes in the role of performing arts as a democratic tool and the mimetic power of movement on the audience experience. Vilma has a special interest in the possibilities and challenges of archives in the performing arts, especially in the field of independent dance.

Studied Theatre Studies with a specialisation in dramaturgy and performing arts criticism at Stockholm University and is now doing his master's degree in Archival Science at Uppsala University.

Previously worked with choreographers Hagar Malin Hellkvist Sellén and Björn Säfsten as well as with the producer duo Johnson & Bergsmark and at MDT - Moderna dansteatern in Stockholm.

Image cred: Sofia Runarsdotter