Fredrik Benke Rydman Stop. Play. Rewind - The Monopoly Game 29 November 2014 - 25 January 2015

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After the street dance success Swan Lake Fredrik Benke Rydman is back with a new dance performance. Stop. Play. Rewind - The Monopoly Game.

I "Stop. Play. Rewind - The Monopoly Game", one of the country's most acclaimed choreographers creates a visually effective show with a mix of street dance and modern dance and with specially written music by Andreas Kleerup and Mando Diao, among others. The show is about friendship, affirmation and what people are willing to do to reach the top. In "Stop. Play. Rewind - The Monopoly Game" the dancers play a game where they build up everything from an empty and naked stage until it explodes in a visual crescendo. Over the course of the performance, the decor, lighting and set design are put in place by the dancers. One by one, the dancers leave and are forced to look after those who remain. Everything changes when the audience enters the game and votes for a winner of "The Monopoly Game."

- We want better all the time and we live in a reality defined by consumption. We make things that have a shorter lifespan to keep the economic wheels turning. I feel like I live my life that way, even though part of me doesn't want to. When we are on our deathbed, our loved ones are the only thing that matters. Why would we rather work an extra hour than go home to our family or call our mum? asks Fredrik Benke Rydman

Just like in the big hit "Swan Lake", Fredrik Benke Rydman uses "Stop. Play. Rewind - The Monopoly Game', Fredrik Benke Rydman uses modern, specially written music and clever solutions to enhance the dancers' expressions on stage. This time he has enlisted the help of popular artists Andreas Kleerup. The mix of styles has become one of Fredrik Benke Rydman's trademarks, and the choreography includes both modern and street dance.

- When you work with specially written music, you can create exactly the drama that makes the performance the best. The fact that the dance and music develop in symbiosis is an incredibly fun and exciting process," says Fredrik Benke Rydman.

About Fredrik Benke Rydman

Fredrik Benke Rydman has put Sweden on the international dance map with several of his projects. He co-founded the acclaimed and pioneering dance company Bounce in the 1990s, which for over ten years toured Sweden and Europe with various performances such as "The Score" and "The Cuckoo's Nest". In 2006, Bounce was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Opera Prize and in 2010 they sold out Globen five times with the magnificent final performance "The Last Bounce".

After Bounce's dissolution, Fredrik Benke Rydman created a modern street dance version of the classic 'Swan Lake' in 2011. The show was hailed in the media, became a huge success and toured all over Europe.

In the spring of 2013, Fredrik Benke Rydman was hired to perform interludes and opening numbers in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 for over 170 million viewers worldwide. Just over six months later, his version of Shakespeare's classic 'MacBeth' premiered at the Stadsteatern in Stockholm. The 70s-style dance and theatre performance featured funk, lockstep and soul music and ran through the winter of 2013-2014.

Fredrik Benke Rydman has also worked with several major Swedish artists such as Robyn, Eric Saade, Darin, Martin Stenmarck, Lena Philipsson and Janet Leon. In addition, together with his colleagues at Bounce, he created the great flashmob success and Michael Jackson tribute at Sergels torg in 2009, which has been seen by over 12 million people on Youtube.

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