Inxi & Sasha + Hanna Jansson (SWE)
Conflict + Soul Work
25-26 October 2019
Programme
Two legends of the battle scene clash in a heroic fight fuelled by battle and kung fu.
Tickets25 Oct
18:00
26 Oct
18:00
CONFLICT
After studying numerous kung fu films, Ida "Inxi" Holmlund and Alexandr "Sashdilla" Antochvili travelled to Hong Kong to learn from the masters themselves. With hip-hop, popping and years of experience in battles already under their belts, it was now time to perfect the southern Chinese kung fu style of Wing Chun.
What kung fu and battles have in common is determination, skill and a constant striving for improvement. Facing an opponent to be defeated without violence. It is from this inspiration that the work conflictwas created - a violence prevention duet and bodily conversation where participants respond to each other's impulses and create eclectic friction on the dance floor.
In autumn 2019, "Konflikt" will go on tour with Dansnet Sweden.
Soul Work
Hanna Jansson makes her solo debut at Dansens Hus with a "Soul Work".
Many people probably recognise Hanna Jansson from Fredrik Rydman's great audience successes "The Nutcracker" at Dansens Hus and "The Rite of Spring" at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. Now she is coming to Dansens Hus for the first time as a solo dancer in her first own work "Soul Work - or it´s a fucking dance solo".
"My mental world is a beautiful mess. It is an endless conversation. It is a clutter of information and emotion, passing through non stop. It's exhausting. My mess is my strength and my weakness at the same time. This work is a study on what shape that mindspace has. It is a study on how to embody a mindfuck. The mess will dissolve and unwind. It will translate emotional discharge into physical form."
About the choreographer
Inxi & Sasha
Ida "Inxi" Holmlund is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. She started her dance career in 2009 at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki and the following year she became top five in the Finnish TV version of the dance competition "So you think you can dance".
Inxi is well known in the vogue and ballroom scene and as a member of the vogue house Prodigy, she has participated in both Vogue's events and the Balmain × H&M fashion show in New York. She judges and participates in dance battles and has won battles such as Womens Vogue at the Latex Ball in New York (2015 and 2017) and Juste Debout in Paris.
Inxi has danced for choreographers Mari Carrasco, Erik Linghede and Örjan Andersson. And has previously toured with Dansnät Sweden in Andersson Dances performances. Alae (2017) and Prelude - skydiving from a dream (2019)
Alexandr "Sashadilla" Antochvili has been involved in the Swedish hip-hop scene for over 10 years. With a foundation in musicality and high technical ability, he has a curiosity for movement and different sources of inspiration that enriches his way of expression. Sasha developed his street dance skills at the Broadway Dance Centre in New York in 2009. Some of the battle titles he has won in hip hop include Hyper Week (Italy), Urban Moves (Norway) and Hiphop Revolution, Solo Kingz and Battle Bad in Sweden.
In 2009, Sasha became a member of the Gothenburg-based Octagon Crew, which won the Scandinavian Breakdance Championships that same year. He has also participated in productions such as King's Farm at the Folkteatern in Gothenburg (2011) and the Eurovision Song Contest in Fredrik "Benke" Rydman's Grey People (2016). And as a member of Ambra Succi's company Diambra C.A.M., he participated in the show Striving to achieve at Dansens Hus in Stockholm (2017).
Hanna Jansson
Hanna Jansson is active primarily as a dancer and has in recent years worked in a number of productions both in Sweden and abroad. In 2017 and 2018 she participated in the Fredrik Rydmans productions "The Nutcracker" at Dansens Hus and "Spring victims" at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
She is co-creator of the performance BASTANT with dancers and choreographers. Nicole NeidertThe project had an 'artist in residence' at Dansens hus in autumn 2016.
She has also worked as an assistant choreographer alongside the Emelie Enlund in the project "We Love Holocene" at Dansens Hus and been a dancer in several other productions by Emelie Enlund.
As a dancer and choreographer, her main focus is dance and body expression. The physical quality, the dynamics and the dancing feeling always come first.