How does time feel in the body and how does the body feel with time? Knoster is a reflection on how time at work works on us over time.
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40 minutes
11 Feb
19:00
12 Feb
19:00
When neither sun nor moon testify to its passage, time flows along other channels. In Knoster we enter a space where time is felt, rather than measured. Where dance emerges from the oscillation between counterweight and concession - between weight and weightlessness. Where the weight of labour becomes a path to the lightness of dance. A listening to the rhythm of the body and the sound of the movements.
Knoster explores time as a physical experience. Using a knot as a dance partner and sounding board, Erik Eriksson lets the body respond to the imprint of history. The sense of duration and change seems to slow down, speed up and remain constant in a space both in and beyond time.
As screens and information feeds consume our waking hours, Knoster recalls a different kind of temporality - one that is felt in the body, rather than measured by machines. Stillness, silence and the breath of labour tell their own stories in a swirling dance. A contemplative experience to step into, like a forest, or settle down by, like a fire.
Touring with Dansnät Sweden in spring 2026.

About Erik Eriksson
In addition to his own projects, Erik mainly collaborates with Ieva Gaurilčikaitė (LV), Krišjānis Sants (LT), Daniella Eriksson, Anika Edström Kawaji and Robin Haghi.
He studied for four years at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels and is based in Falun.
"My work focuses on sharing tactile sensation and the feeling of being in motion. It stems from a fascination with phenomena that when experienced tend to set body and mind in motion;
A pendulum charms with its swing.
The play of light in the water draws the eye ever deeper.
A complex landscape invites you to wander through it.
With such elements as dance partners, I aim to generate performance worlds that invite the audience into the experience of being in the dance, rather than watching it."
Erik's work has been shown at LIFT (UK), Plartforma & Contempo (LV), Homo Novus (LT), HOROS (LT), Sansusi (LT), LÓKAL (IS), Brådjupa, FLOCK, Are you kid-ing, Dalateatern, Teater an Zee (BE) and he is touring 2025 & 2026 with Dansnät Sweden.
Choreographer and dancer Erik Eriksson talks to Eleanor Bauer, choreographer, performer, postdoc and lecturer in contemporary dance and choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts.
Choreography, dance, stage design & music
Erik Eriksson
Assistant choreographer
Mr Mikael Marklund
Light design
Tanja Jörgensen & Erik Eriksson
Studio production
Mārtiņš Miļevskis
Set mechanics
Johannes Fäst
Photography
Kate Rudzinska & Anton Höjer
Film
Kate Rudzinska & Anton Höjer
Production
Erik Eriksson, STEGEN & Dalateatern
Co-funding
Swedish Arts Council Swedish Arts Grants Committee IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee´s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts, Region Dalarna, Tuvumi, HOROS residency festival, Helge Ax:son, Johnsons stiftelse,Sweden-Latvia cooperation fund STEGEN
Thanks to
Dansens Hus,