Malin Elgán returns to Dansens Hus.

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Venue

Blackbox, Barnhusgatan 12-14

Duration

80 minutes

13 Nov

19:00

14 Nov

19:00

15 Nov

19:00

A number of dancers operate through simplicity. To walk. To stand. Sitting. Rolling on the floor. Light and music evolve into darkness and silence and vice versa, in phase and out of phase. Anteckningar. Bara vara varat is a process in which movement is translated into open images, which revolve around existence and the common spaces we share. The indeterminacy of the situation concerns our understanding and perception of it. About our existence in general.

The work is co-produced by Dansens Hus.

About Malin Elgán

Malin Elgán is a choreographer, based in Stockholm and internationally active. Elgán is interested in art beyond the genre-specific and operates through an expanded choreographic practice - via various expressions, formats and media. She does not allow dance to be limited to certain movements and places, but takes it out of its usual contexts to enable new meanings. Elgán creates and performs works on theatre stages, art galleries, museums and the internet.

Her most recent works were Med till hälften. En halv provokation (2024) at MDT in Stockholm and Barnformen (2023) at Moderna Museet Malmö. This was a work in which movements shifted from adult dancers to children, as four children aged 11 performed a choreography from Elgán's earlier work Formen sa: gör (2007).

"Med till hälften..." was part of the series "Delar" which previously took place at Ställbergs gruva in Bergslagen, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus and Hallen in Farsta. Delar (and also Med till hälften. En halv provokation) were a series of live performances and simultaneous film recordings, which in turn resulted in installations and video works. Barnformen has also taken place at Kalmar Art Museum.

Elgán's works have previously been presented at Dansens Hus, Kulturhuset, MDT, Moderna Museet, Nationalmuseum and Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, as well as at Göteborgs konsthall, Nasjonalmuseet and Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Poppositions in Brussels, Ausland in Berlin and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

Elgán has also been a guest editor of the arts magazine Paletten, then called Baletten, and her choreographic practice has been honoured with the Birgit Cullberg Scholarship.

Elgán has previously performed at Dansens Hus: Då säger vi så (2004), Prata lite, så kollar vi (2013) and På spel (2015).

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After-call 14/11

Choreographer Malin Elgán talks to Josefine Wikström after the performance.

Josefine Wikström is a researcher and critic living in Gothenburg. She holds a PhD in philosophy and works as a lecturer at the University of Music and Drama in Gothenburg and as a lecturer in aesthetics at Södertörn University. She has been published in Radical Philosophy, among others, and regularly writes dance criticism for Dagens Nyheter and art criticism for Kunstkritikk.

Dance circle 15/11

After this performance, you have the opportunity to participate in a dance circle where you, together with other interested people, discuss what you have just seen. The dance circle is led by Myra Nilson and is free. If you want to go, you will gather in Café Markelius after the performance.