Northern dance ^(SWE) Crowds & Power 9-10 May 2025

Programme

About Martin Forsberg

Martin Forsberg, trained in choreography at the Danish School of Performing Arts and artistic director of Norrdans, is an internationally active choreographer who creates energetic and idiosyncratic scenic worlds. By exploring everyday phenomena and situations, he transforms them into complex artistic expressions that challenge conventions and prejudices. His work is characterised by a holistic view of the dancer's virtuosity and a deep dialogue with the artists he collaborates with.

Forsberg's art has a strong contemporary feel and endeavours to both comfort and provoke. In 2017, he received the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's Birgit Cullberg Scholarship, where he was honoured for his ability to create a vivid, complex experience that reflects human existence. With a constant awareness of the audience's experience, his works are always engaging and never indifferent, making them relevant in our time.

About Anna Sóley Tryggvadóttir

Anna Sóley Tryggvadóttir is a composer and sound designer based in Stockholm. She graduated from the Dramatic Institute in 2010 and has worked in theatre, dance, television, radio, commercials, music and art installations. During the period after her graduation, she has written music and sound design for a large number of performances around Sweden, Norway and Germany at institutions such as the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Norrdans, Riksteatern, Örebro Länsteater, Cullbergbaletten, Moderna Dansteatern, Malmö Stadsteater, Riksteatret in Norway, Gothenburg City Theatre and Swedish Radio, etc.

She has long been interested in listening, and in implementing the human, the raw, the fragile, the broken in music. In her work she often looks for a kind of dissonance and sound worlds that both ask and raise questions.

Tryggvadóttir has previously created the music for Norrdans community project Poor.resilient (2020).

David Gehrt

David Gehrt is a Danish set and costume designer, based in Copenhagen. He trained in set and costume design at Den Danske Scenekunstskole in Copenhagen and holds a bachelor's degree in textile design from Designskolen Kolding. Between 2017 and 2022, Gehrt worked as a house stage designer at Aarhus Theatre, before going freelance in 2022.

In 2017, Gehrt, together with fellow set designer Ida Grarup, received the Reumert Award for Best Set Design for their work on Christian Lollike's production of Erasmus Montanus. The show was also hailed as the best of the year and was performed at the Bergen International Festival in 2021. In 2020, Gehrt was nominated for another Reumert for the set design for Ordet, by Kaj Munk, and the show won the award for best production of the year. In 2022, he was nominated again, this time for his set design for Dracula at Aarhus Theatre, which won the award for best musical theatre of the year.

David Gehrt has worked on a wide range of productions including new writing, classical works, opera and dance, and his work has been seen on stages in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Gehrt has previously created the costume design for Norrdans' acclaimed Cave (2022).

About Mads Lindegaard

Mads Lindegaard is a lighting designer who graduated from Den Danske Scenekunstskole in 2008. He lives in Copenhagen and works as a freelance lighting designer in Denmark and Sweden within dance, music and theatre.

Some of the productions he has worked on are Reumert-winning Beton at Aalborg Theatre, Vildanden og Med Sne at Det Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen, Clusterfuck at Göteborgsoperan, Yahya Hassan's poems at Mungo Park, Babettes Gæstebud at Østerbro Theatre and Dylansällskapet and Svek at Malmö Stadsteater.