Dansens Hus
Three Sweden-based choreographers will be awarded a technical residency in 2024-2025. The residency can be used both for the finalisation of a new work, or as an artistic lab to develop new ideas. The space can be used in a variety of ways and does not have to be used in a stage/salon format.
In this work, Adam Seid Tahir delves into fictional artefacts from queer Afro-Nordic folklore, exploring what defines home and identity and what ancestry, myths and artefacts it creates. In his work, Seid Tahir is interested in exploring how archaeological fragments can create dramaturgy. During the residency, Seid Tahir wants to experiment spatially with sound, light and scenography to create the space where the performance will take place.
I Landscapes choreographer Anna Öberg draws inspiration from couple dance as a phenomenon and pulse as a medium to explore how similarities and differences can be traded between the two dancers Viktor Fröjd (SV/house) and Jon Bugge Mariussen (NO/folk dance) in encounter with sound designer Elize Arvefjord, thereby shaping new and ephemeral landscapes of craft and experience. During the residency at Dansens Hus, Öberg will work on the final technical phase of Landscapes. This means finalising and rehearsing the work in full scale with sound, light and set design in focus.
The project centres on how today's information flows overload our bodies and easily lead to sensory overstimulation and passivity. As a basic theme in the work, Augot wants to investigate the relationship between physical isolation and psychological escapism. The aim is to use the body as a starting point to find ways of understanding how our nervous systems and movement patterns are affected in such an interaction. In the choreographic work and at the residency at Dansens Hus with Kiddo Augot wants to integrate the various dramaturgical parameters of the work, such as sound, lighting and set design, at an early stage in the process.