My Wild Flag is an international dance and performance festival in Stockholm

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31 Aug

19:00

Ewa Dziarnowska "This resting, patience"

4 Sep

20:00

Vaginal Davis "Magnificent Product"

5 Sep

20:00

Tiran Wilhemse "Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3)"

7 Sep

20:00

Marga Alfeirão "LOUNGE"

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My Wild Flag is an international dance and performance festival in Stockholm featuring local and international works showcasing contemporary choreographic and artistic work. My Wild Flag is a meeting place for social choreographies  - and a place to participate in and take part in.

We are in times when the cultural field is undergoing changes, we need to collaborate vertically and horizontally to sustain and challenge our initiatives and structures. In a cultural climate that is constantly shrinking, artists, curators, institutions and audiences need to come together - Joining forces.

My Wild Flag is curated by Karina Sarkissova and Pontus Pettersson and co-organised by Dansens Hus, MDT, Moderna Museet and My Wild Flag.

My Wild Flag is an international dance and performance festival in Stockholm. Consisting of local and international acts and scenarios that propose contemporary choreographic and artistic work, bringing communities together and joining in social choreographies as well as works devoted for the stage. 

This very special year, we are joining forces together with Dansens Hus, MDT and Moderna Museet. We are in times where the cultural field is in a process of change, we need to collaborate vertically and horizontally in order to sustain our initiatives and structures. In a culture climate that is continually shrinking, artists, curators, institutions and audiences need to come together - Joining forces  

My Wild Flag is curated by Karina Sarkissova and Pontus Pettersson.

This year's edition of My Wild Flag is a collaboration between Dansens Hus, MDT and Moderna Museet.

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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
31 Aug: Ewa Dziarnowska This Resting, Patience
4 Sep: Vaginal Davis Magnificent Product "Cinerama Movie Experience" (in co-operation with Moderna Museet)
5 Sep: Tiran Willemse Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3) (in co-operation with Dansens Hus)
7 Sep: 17-19 hrs a guttering + MWF Talks
7 Sept: 20-21 pm Marga Alfeirão LOUNGE (in co-operation with Dansens Hus)

Tiran Willemse
Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3)

In "Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3)", South African-born, European-based choreographer Tiran Willemse evokes his own diverse dance histories through a kaleidoscope of 20th century ballet classics Giselle, Kuduro from Angola and the Nigerian genre Alanta. Tiran Willemse is a dancer and choreographer from South Africa, living in Zurich and Berlin. His investigative practice in the performing arts is rooted in close attention to space, imagination, gesture and sound, focusing on how they relate to the ways in which the construction of race and gender is performed, communicated and challenged. He has previously worked and collaborated with Trajal Harrell, Meg Stuart, Jerome Bel, Ligia Lewis, Eszter Salamon, Susanne Linke, Andros Zins-Browne and with Cullberg under the direction of Deborah Hay and Jefta Van Dither. His work has been shown at Arsenic Lausanne, Impulstanz Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, Gessnerallee Zürich, Sophiensaele Berlin, Palais de Tokyo Paris, Santarcanagelo Festival and MCBA in Lausanne, and continues to tour internationally.
The performance is organised by Dansens Hus in collaboration with MDT and My Wild Flag.

Marga Alfeirão
LOUNGE
Portuguese Marga Alfeirão (b. 1994) uses artistic media to create safe spaces for the exploration of sensuality and sexuality through dance and performance. She is influenced by dance genres and sound textures from the African diaspora, which came to her through the social context of Lisbon. Alfeirão has worked with choreographers such as Tamara Alegre, Antonja Livingstone, architect Afaina de Jong, and others. She is active in the Portuguese Ballroom scene as co-founder of Casa das Musas. The performance is organised by Dansens Hus in collaboration with MDT and My Wild Flag.

Vaginal Davis
Magnificent Product
During the summer and autumn of 2024, a whole series of different works by the award-winning artist, acclaimed writer and international blacktress Vaginal Davis will be shown around Stockholm. As part of the My Wild Flag festival, two films featuring Davis will be shown at MDT. Join Davis for a live-commented screening of Bob Fosse's All That Jazz and Miloš Formans Hair. The tours are organised by MDT and Moderna Museet, in collaboration with My Wild Flag.

a guttering investigates encounters around the dinner table in order to nurture queer community and our interdependence. The title is a word play on 'gathering', 'gut' and 'gutter'. The work is exploring and exploding the format of a dinner and its making. In this gathering, community meets fermentation meets queer meets somatic meets access needs meets food sovereignty meets working condition meets social choreographies meets decolonial practices meets storytelling. a guttering is founded in participatory practices and during My Wild Flag it will manifest as a collective food preparation and a shared dinner. The group works to uplift visibility of labour behind food production and the resources need it, by subverting traditional methods and values of the dinner table, in order to seed awareness

MWF Talks
My Wild Flag (Karina Sarkissova and Pontus Pettersson) have invited Runa Borsch Skolsteg from the new dance festIval in Oslo Mind Eater and Julia Celejewska from the queer feminist collective Kem in Warsaw to Stockholm. In conjunction with a guttering, we will continue to talk and share ideas, experiences, needs, and dreams. in a continuously shrinking cultural climate.

Ewa Dziarnowska
This resting, patience

Part ghostly repository of unconsumed sensuality, an installative kinetic fadeout, part somatic (strip)tease, This resting, patience addresses attraction, voluntary objectification, proximity and the aesthetics of bareness. Employing an experimental format, it upsets the passivity of installation and the time-delineation and dramaturgical resolution of performance and steps away from the tradition of viewing dance as an alienated spectacle to instead emphasise its immanent sociability. In its devotion to the body, This resting, patience proposes sensuousness and dancing as timeless and democratically available technologies of undoing the world and projecting the continuous present into a future that lasts; forever suspended and unfolding, quintessentially tender, infatuated, attentive.

 

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