Lisa Janbell
A choreographic soundscape in which movement and sound merge to create a sensual, ever-changing atmosphere.
LISA JANBELL
DEAP LEAP
Studio presentation as part of the ‘36 Hours of Dance’ event on 24 October, 10.00–14.00
Deep Leap invites the audience into a choreographic soundscape where movement and sound merge to create a sensual, constantly shifting atmosphere. Using body-worn microphones and video mapping 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 physical, and explores how choreography can create sound within a landscape in a state of constant transformation, where figures, energies and states appear, dissolve and begin anew.
Deep Leap aims to offer a hypnotic and somatic experience in which listening becomes a physical sensation and perception is gently unsettled. A shared space for presence, resonance and imagination that navigates our technological present without losing sight of the human, the physical or the spiritual.
About Lisa Janbell
Lisa Janbell is an artist, choreographer and dancer based in Stockholm.
Her practice is based on many years of dedication to ceremonial and ritual performance, rooted in collective processes. Janbell’s work transcends genres, shifting between contexts and collaborations, and draws on the principles of social dance from the techno subculture as well as ceremonial practices.
Using the body as a vessel for ritual and collective memory, she seeks to use choreography and performance to open pathways to the transcendental and devotional, to the mysteries and the divinatory – spaces where the interplay between the individual and the collective is both unfolding and dissolving.
She invites audiences into provisional spaces she herself longs to inhabit, where a sense of belonging is sought rather than granted, and where bodies might rest, be seen, and come together in a shared presence – at once vulnerable and unyielding, meditative and intense.
In recent years, Janbell’s artistic trajectory has shifted from techno-driven ritual formats in underground and club settings towards somatic dance practices interwoven with sound technology and live electroacoustic music.
Her works have been performed across Sweden, Europe and Cuba, at venues including MDT, Dansens Hus, Riksteatern, the Norberg Festival, the 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 piece in which movement generates live sound via body-worn technology and microphones on stage, DEVOTED (2024), a collaboration with composer Dijle Neva Yigitbas that bridges live music and choreography through a devotional practice, and SWEET & STICKY (2023), a site-specific choreographic work featuring live electroacoustic music created in collaboration with architect Jelena Mijanovic.
Janbell studied Cuban folk dance at El Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, went on to study dance further 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, which form the foundation of her work.
Janbell produces one or two dance productions a year.
In October 2024, Lisa was awarded a ten-year working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Credits for Deap Leap
Collaborating dancers: Cajsa Godée & Rebecca Livaniou
Sound design and composition: Adde Huumonen
Artistic sound engineer: Sade Kasiri
Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo
Costume: Amanda Hedström
Dramaturgical and artistic adviser: Karina Sarkissova
Manufacturer: Puma Lagos
Consultancy and distribution: Magnus Nordberg
Co-production: Lisa Janbell’s company, Dansens Hus, Dansinitiativet, MARC, MDT and Riksteatern. With support from the Swedish Arts Council and the City of Stockholm.