Anna Öberg (SWE)
Landscapes
23-25 April 2025
Programme
Through pulsating couple dance, changing landscapes of movement and sound are traced.
TicketsVenue
Duration
50 minutes
23 Apr
19:00
Tickets will be released on 28/11 at 11:00
24 Apr
19:00
Tickets will be released on 28/11 at 11:00
25 Apr
19:00
Tickets will be released on 28/11 at 11:00
In a captivating and immersive work, choreographer Anna Öberg draws inspiration from couple dance as a phenomenon and pulse as a medium in the meeting between dancers Viktor Fröjd and Jon Bugge Mariussen, with backgrounds in house and folk dance respectively.
Central to Anna Öberg's work is a strong, improvised connection between music and movement, often manifested through live musicians on stage. ILandscapesÖberg invites his long-time collaborator sound designer Elize Arvefjord. Together, and based on the sounds generated by the dancers' movements in real time, they create a sound design that enhances, distorts and adds to what the dancers do. A sound design with clear influences from musique concrete, which, like tradering, both emphasises and distorts what lies behind the obvious.
About Anna Öberg
Anna Öberg is a dancer and choreographer active in the contemporary dance and performance scene. Her artistic practice is based on her background in Swedish folk dance, and she is interested in how the genre's physical and social processes can be communicated and understood through the elevated space offered by art, beyond the simplified stereotypes and external attributes with which the genre is often associated. The improvisational interplay between music and dance has always been central to Öberg's work and in recent years she has often returned to pulse as a driving force, tradering as a concept and the interactive, multi-sensory interaction between audience and work as part of the choreographic material.
In 2015, Öberg graduated with a master's degree in choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) as the first ever folk dancer. Her work has been presented at Riksteatern, Dalateatern, Scenkonst Sörmland, Moderna Dansteatern, Moderna Museet, Dansens Hus, Riksscenen Oslo, Dansehallerne Copenhagen, Brut Wien to name a few.
Choreographer Anna Öberg talks after the performance Landscapes with an invited guest.