Step into a world free from everyday life, filled with pulse, grooves and rhythm.

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Elverket, Linnégatan 69

Duration

45 minutes

3 Dec

20:30

4 Dec

18:00

29 Oct

19:00

30 Oct

19:00

Rooted in the house dance tradition, dancers Johanna Fröjd, Mona Namér and Fanni Ijäs together with DJ Nedda Sou create a space to explore the importance of a ritual in collective celebration and healing. If a ritual is extinguished in one place, it will emerge in another. The shift they examine what it means to come together, create symbols and celebrate life. Paying attention to detail and exploring the power of repetitive, seductive and sensual grooves, the band is about The shift about the sanctity of the body and mind as well as being able to transform the drama of man and the world.

Choreographer and dancer Johanna Fröjd is based in Stockholm. She is mainly inspired by house culture with its social and cultural context and aspect. The dancers, Mona Namér and Fanni Ijäs have long experience in the street dance field and are active in battle, club culture, performative contexts and teaching, which is what unites all three dancers in the work. DJ Nedda Sou is also a dancer, and it is from the club band at the House clubs in NYC that the exchange began.

Johanna Fröjd

Choreographer Johanna Fröjd is based in Stockholm. Above all, she is inspired by house culture with its social and cultural context and aspect. There she explores freestyle dance in different fields both on stage, in clubs, jams, battles and as a teacher.

Over the past year, her work has centred on the ritual, where dance takes place in the body, mind and soul, enabling change and development in the participant.

During the autumn, she participates as a dancer in the work Festen, by Viktor Fröjd and Figuren, by Maria Naidu. She also works as a teacher at Åsa Folk High School and is a member of the dance collective De La Vibe. 

Johanna studied at Åsa Folkhögskola and has a bachelor's degree in democracy and human rights from Enskilda högskolan in Stockholm. Read more about Johanna

Fanni Ijäs

Fanni Ijäs is a Finnish dancer, choreographer and dance teacher based in Stockholm. Her work focuses on club culture and social dance. She is inspired by the social and cultural context of street dance styles and how these can be used as a starting point for working in scenic and pedagogical contexts. She also works with issues of decentralisation and decolonisation of the performing arts field in order to create space for street dancers and street dance styles.

Her work in the dance field consists of working in performative contexts, teaching dance and dance education and organising and practicing house dance in clubs, jams and battles. Ijäs has a bachelor's degree in dance education from DOCH (Stockholm) and has studied at Ecole des Sables (Toubab Dialaw). She is an initiator and member of the house dance collective De La Vibe. Read more about Fanni

Mona Namér

Mona grew up in Gothenburg but is now based in Stockholm. She is a dancer and choreographer and a member of the dance company Twisted Feet. She trained at the Broadway Dance Centre in New York and has lived and worked in Paris, London and Johannesburg.

Mona's credits include collaborations with Little Dragon, Branko and Aurelia Dey. She has choreographed and danced in AFROPUNK Brooklyn, Kampnagel Live Art Festival Hamburg and Way Out Westand participated in "5 Degrees" at the Grand Theatre, Wall Street at the Gothenburg Opera and La Robe / The Dress at La Villette in Paris. Read more about Mona

Nedda Sou

Nedda Sou is an Amsterdam-based multidisciplinary creator with roots in Morocco. Her love for music and club culture started in her early teens. As a professional dancer, she always had a strong connection to music and started experimenting quite quickly. Ever since that moment, her love for the craft has grown. The atmosphere that music creates to tell a story and the desire that music gives her to dance are the driving forces behind her work. Read more about Nedda

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