MELO Collective MELOrum 19 March 2021

Programme

During MELO Collective's residency at Dansens Hus, they will develop their forthcoming work MELOrum - a living installation of dance, interactive objects, song and live music. In MELOrum, the visitors, together with the artists, move freely in a changing space and can easily trigger expressions of music, light and movement. As a visitor, you find yourself in the middle of the event and the boundary between stage and audience is blurred, the dance and music are close and enable an intimate performing arts experience. MELOrum experiments with sensory experiences and physical interaction, human and technical and artistic interactions, and the movement of the audience and performers in the space.

"Our wish is to give the audience the feeling of being part of an artistic creation, while being surrounded by a changing but safe world."

With MELOrum, the collective wants to create a work that is accessible to non-normative people who have difficulty absorbing or following what is happening in a performance in a traditional format. They create the work based on different target groups, which also means that different versions of the work are created and then adapted to the audience.

In the residency at Dansens Hus, MELO will start exploring how the work can be accessible to people with visual and hearing impairments, as well as deafblind people.

In MELOrum, MELO collaborates with designer Amanda Emricson and composer Ulf Klarström. Amanda and Ulf run the duo 'What you sense' together and create audiovisual objects that emit music and light when touched.

The MELOrum also features singers Vilma Ogenblad and Julia Fischler from the Improvisation group Format. The work will be performed for both specific audiences and the general public. The premiere is planned for autumn 2021.