Movers Signum #5 9-10 October 2024

Programme

Adam Seid Tahir & Amina Seid Tahir

Adam Seid Tahir (they/them) is a choreographer and creative technologist. Their two roles involve crafting performative work and designing/developing websites. These practices also merge and expand into writing texts, making video installations, 3D animation and crafting sensor-based instruments. Adam uses speculative imagination as a tool of resistance and centres their work around creating loud and immersive black queer fiction. They are interested in mythological figures, daydreaming and crafting affective machines. These interests often intersect through water, where they take the shape of sirens, waterfalls and submerged transatlantic communication cables. They have presented their work in contexts including: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (BE), MDT (SE), Kampnagel Summer Festival (DE), Rakete Festival @ Tanzquartier (AT), Emergentia (CH), Batard (BE) and My Wild Flag (SE). They have worked with other artists including: Amina Seid Tahir, Lydia Östberg Diakité and Meleat Fredriksson.

Website: adamseidtahir.xy

Amina Seid Tahir (she/her) is a Swedish/Eritrean visual artist and choreographer.
She works with imagination as a tool for black queer resistance and repair. Braiding together her interests in ancestral knowledge, oral traditions and myths she creates immersive fictional universes. These interests currently intersect through crafting watery practices of homemaking as well as sonic practices of resting. Taking shapes into rituals, lullabies, dream portals and spells. Seid Tahir has presented work in contexts including: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (BE), MDT (SE), Kampnagel Summer Festival (DE), Rakete Festival @Tanzquartier (AT), New Sh*t @ Dansehallerne (DK), Emergentia (CH), Batard (BE), Botkyrka Konsthall (SE) and My Wild Flag (SE). Her work is grounded in community and would not be possible without the conversations or collaborations with her communities, including people as: Adam Seid Tahir, Ailin Mirlashari, Mini Davarasl, Rebecca Beyene, Lina Alarabi, Nora Seid Tahir, Sara Rad, Dina Said and many many more.

Photo: Bea Borgers

Excerpt from the performance "several attempts at braiding my way home"
Choreographers: Amina Seid Tahir & Adam Seid Tahir
Initiated and performed by: Adam Seid Tahir
Dramaturge: Lydia Östberg Diakité
Music: Crystallmess
Hair-costume: Malcolm Marquez
Costume: Amina Seid Tahir
Light: Jonatan Winbo
Tour producers: Johnson & Bergsmark

Supported by the Swedish Arts Council, Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation, MARC, Swedish National Theatre Production Residence for Dance 2021

Gunilla Heilborn

Gunilla Heilborn (1964) is a choreographer and filmmaker, based in Stockholm. She is obsessed with research and spends most of her time reading, about memory techniques, medieval cities or ancient oracles. She is interested in history and how it speaks to us, but also in the individual versus the collective, grand ideas that fail, and the humour that arises from imperfection and failure. Doubt and uncertainty can take place in her work, alongside trust in the universal validity of one's own interests in stage form. By combining text, movement, video and images, Heilborn creates a fascinating and captivating expression - always seasoned with humour - that both entertains and challenges his audience.

Heilborn has achieved great success in both performing arts and film. Her artistic career began with studies in radio and film, as well as choreography at DOCH in Stockholm and for Anna Halprin at the San Francisco Dancers workshop. Examples of some of Heilborn's most prominent productions are the critically acclaimed stage works Potato country (2007), This is Not a Love Story (2011), and The Wonderful and The Ordinary (2017), as well as the (award-winning) films How to do (2007), created together with Mårten Nilsson and Kim Hiorthøy, and This is Alaska (2009) with Mårten Nilsson.

Photo: Märta Thisner

Website: https://gunillaheilborn.se/

Yared Tilahun Cederlund

Yared Tilahun Cederlund, is a dancer, choreographer, composer and DJ. Tilahun Cederlund is active in the Streetdance scene and in other performing arts spaces. You can also see him in IT IS CONTAINED IN  by Yared Tilahun Cederlund and Joanna Holewa Chrona (Riksteatern - Tour 2025).

Photo: Erik Linghede

Johanssons Pelargoner och dans

Johanssons Pelargoner och dans (JPOD), consisting of Annica Styrke and Karin Wiklund, has over 15 years of experience in artistic and dance educational work for and with children and young people. They are interested in engaging the audience physically in their works, which in different ways tackle questions about the body in relation to society and the individual's participation in it. JPOD explores the intersections between, and pushes the boundaries of, what performing arts can be, who is invited to participate in it, in what places it can take place and what it can accomplish. JPOD is a business with a wide range of ongoing projects and producers. They continuously create new works, tour extensively with existing works and carry out development projects and promotional work related to participation and young people's right to culture.

JPOD has, among other things, created the performance Choreographer (2016), which played over 700 times both nationally and internationally and was selected for Bibu 2018 as well as Ice hot, Swedish Dance at Tanzmesse and Young Swedstage 2022. In relation to the performance, the method development the cultural projects "Koreografin - interaktivitet, språk och interaction" (Choreography - interactivity, language and interaction) and "Koreografin på minoritetsspårk" (Choreography on minority language) where the performance was translated into 15 languages. The project also published the book "Antologi för en flerspråkig scenkonst" (Anthology for a multilingual performing arts) (ed. Haglund, Styrke & Wiklund 2020) - a collection of newly written texts about multilingualism, translation, power, identity and participatory performing arts. Johansson's Pelargoner were the 2021 performing arts residents at Södertörn University.

Photo: Pär Olofsson

Website: https://en.pelargonerochdans.se/

Lisa Janbell

Lisa Janbell is a Stockholm-based dancer and choreographer. With an education in Cuban folkdance, el Instituto Superior de Arte, Cuba and a dance education from Brazil as well as anthropology studies at Stockholm University, Lisa's practice and choreographic work is specialised in ritualistic performance and ceremonial practices. Her research lies in the relationship between the collective body and the subconscious mind, tuning into spirits and spirituality. The work is developed through proposals, with the aim of sharing and finding an opening to the transcendental.

Through a feministic and intersectional perspective, elevating emotional work and soft values Lisa guides the audience into a caring space in which performers embody non-western witchcraft practices.This artistic strategy is manifested in warm and welcoming spaces where the audience can rest and recover while experiencing detailed textures and carefully elaborated danceworks.

Lisa's desire is to propose collective utopias as a form of critical practice has so far manifested in works such as Trans[e]ición (2015), Trans[e]ición club edition (2016) Studio Barnhus A/V show (2018) CONTACT US (2020) Lead us (2021) SEARCH (2022) SWEET & STICKY (2023) Another Spell (2024).

Since 2010 and 2012 respectively, Lisa has been part of the performance duo Dos Oké in collaboration with Camilla Sivam, as well as artistic director of the Swedish-Cuban dance collective SOMOS.

Lisa's work has toured extensively through Sweden, Europe and Cuba. Lisa has also developed commissioned works, for instance as choreographer for the Studio Barnhus A/V show that played at Sonár (Barcelona) Way Out West (Gothenburg) and Cirkus (Stockholm).

Lisa creates 1-2 dance productions per year.

Photo: Angelina Bergenwall

Website: https://lisajanbell.com/

Pontus Pettersson

Pontus Pettersson is a Swedish artist, choreographer, dancer and curator based in Stockholm, working in the expanded field of choreography, visual arts and contemporary dance.

Pettersson's unique style is always a mix of practices and genres, where text, objects, sculptures, and choreographic instructions are always a part of the whole piece. The work ranges from fortune telling, cat practicing, writing poetry, making festivals to dancing. It is a love for dancing and movement with a particular interest in made and found objects that create choreographies in between subject and object, spectator and performer, where hospitality and temporality can be seen as two major choreographic and artistic principles, as well as more open fields of study such as poetry and water.

Working professionally as a dancer since his graduation from the Danish National School of Contemporary Dance in Copenhagen 2007, Pontus embarked on a diverse and spread out career working with world class choreographers such as Ohad Naharin and Deborah hay to name a few. Very early he started making his own work and has continuously shifted between roles inside of the larger spectrum of arts, dancing, creating, organising, writing, teaching etc. Among his latest work you find the auto-fictive accordion solo A Dog Called Drama (Weld, 2022), the choreographic installation Pancor Poetics (Shedhalle 2023) The dance performance MOPA - The Last Stand (Sky) (MDT 2023) and his longer research project on water, All Departures Are Waves, that he has been conducting since 2018.

Pontus has throughout his career worked on situations where inviting other artists has been a crucial aspect of understanding his work in a greater whole as well as working for a broader field of expressions and inclusion. Projects like the dance and performance festival My Wild Flag and his latest workshop project Delta , hospitality being one of his main conceptual concerns, seen as a choreographic principal for dance/art to emerge. Pontus holds two masters, one in choreography from SKH, and one in visual arts at Konstfack

Currently Petterssons is working to go on tour with his choreographic installation Pancor Poetics that will be part of this year's Moving in November in Helsinki, Finland.

Photo: Tyra Wigg

Website: www.mynameisocean.com

Claire Parsons

Claire Parsons Co. creates innovative and keen performances, with dance, mime, acrobatics and soft circus as primary expressions. Sharing the performance experience with the audience is essential for the company's richly manifested and highly visual work.

Claire Parsons has received the prestigious Theatre Critics' Dance Prize for her innovative work. She has been awarded a 10-year working grant from the Swedish Arts Council, as well as the Cullberg Prize from the City of Stockholm.

The company is a spearhead in developing innovative and high quality performing arts for young audiences in Sweden and internationally. Claire Parsons Co. is scenic art that invites you in, challenges and surprises in captivating experiences.

Photo: Tina Axelsson

Philip Berlin

Philip Berlin works with contemporary dance and choreography. His choreographic work revolves around concepts such as unproductive waste and intensity. He usually works in a choreographic method that originates in Cunningham's software program (Danceforms) as a way to generate complex movement sequences - however, the method is applied entirely analogically.

Berlin was born in 1991 and grew up at Asköviken-Tidö outside Västerås, now he lives in Stockholm. Berlin has previously shown choreographic works at, among others, Théâtre de la ville, the Oslo Opera House, Dansens hus, Dansstationen as well as at the Moderna Museet and MDT - Moderna Dansteatern, then together with Louise Dahl. Berlin has also choreographed "Life and death Strömquist" at Dramaten together with Ada Berger.

Berlin has worked with ccap/Cristina Caprioli, Björn Säfsten, Frédéric Gies, Mats Ek, Mårten Spångberg and Cullberg/Riksteatern, etc. Berlin has also worked for the CCN Ballet de Lorraine in France, dancing in works by Merce Cunningham, Mathilde Monnier, William Forsythe, Tero Saarinen, Faustin Linekula and Maria La Ribot, among others.

Furthermore, Berlin has collaborated with Gisèle Vienne (FR), and toured internationally with the performance Crowd.

2014-2019, he initiated with Ulrika Berg, Cristina Caprioli and Anna Grip the project SUNDAY RUN UP - a context that brought together artists working in literature, choreography, music and art. A project that was founded in a desire to prepare space for artistic practices and social processes. He has therefore his interest in these processes also participated in a series of symposia in contemporary political theory and artistic practice at, for example, the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Salka Ardal Rosengren

Salka Ardal Rosengren works with dance and performance. She was born and raised in Stockholm but moved to Brussels where she studied at P.A.R.T.S. (2006-2010). Salka has created works together with Mikko Hyvönen (Trash Talk), Nicholas Hoffman (The Thing with a Hook) and Andrew Hardwidge (SubbodybodysubAs a dancer, she has worked and toured works internationally with, among others: Ezster Salamon, Xavier Le Roy, Boris Charmatz, Daniel Linehan, Sarah Vanhee, Tino Sehgal, Gunilla Heilborn, Malin Élgan, Rosalind Goldberg, Liz Kinoshita and Salva Sanchis. In the spring of 2021, she took a master's in New performative practices at Stockholm's Konstnärliga Högskola. After her master's, she created Lasting Figures, which has been played at Weld, Flockfestivalen, Atalante and will go on tour in the fall of 2025.