DANS I HALL

Välkomna till DANS I HALL, en dansweekend i Hallen

4 okt  18.00-21.00

Medverkande

18.00 -18.20 ​Hana L. Erdman, Louise Dahl m.fl/ Companion XL

18.45 - 19.30 ​Dario Barreto Damas/PHANTOM

19.45 – 20.00​Tilman O’Donnell/ NOT QUITE

20.15 – 21.00​Aleksandar Georgiev/ATRÁS

5 okt 16.00-19.00

Medverkande

16.00 -16.20 ​Hana L. Erdman, Louise Dahl m.fl/ Companion XL

16.45 - 17.30 ​Dario Barreto Damas/PHANTOM

17.45 – 18.00​Tilman O’Donnell/ NOT QUITE

18.15 – 19.00​Aleksandar Georgiev/ATRÁS

Mycket dans och så lite dryck och snacks

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Welcome to DANS I HALL, a dance weekend in Hallen

4 oct 18.00-21.00

Artists

18.00 -18.20 ​Hana Erdman, Louise Dahl a.o/ Companion XL

18.45 - 19.30 ​Dario Barreto Damas/PHANTOM

19.45 – 20.00​Tilman O’Donnell/ NOT QUITE

20.15 – 21.00​Aleksandar Georgiev/ATRÁS

5 oct 16.00-19.00

16.00 -16.20 ​Hana Erdman, Louise Dahl m.fl/ Companion XL

16.45 - 17.30 ​Dario Barreto Damas/PHANTOM

17.45 – 18.00​Tilman O’Donnell/NOT QUITE

18.15 – 19.00​Aleksandar Georgiev/ATRÁS

A lot of dancing and a little bit of drinks and snacks

Title: Companion XLCompanion XL is a 20-minute study reworking Companion for a larger ensemble. The pieceexplores how bodies attune to forces both hidden and immense—vibrations that shapeperception, currents of thought and attention, and planetary or cosmic energies that ripplethrough human and more-than-human worlds. The dancers navigate edges where self meetsother, tracing how collective bodies can reshape space like shifting constellations. Audiencesmay sit or drift through the room, engaging with choreography as an inquiry into howrelations are sensed, unsettled, and reimagined.

performers:Elinor Tollerz BrattebyMikael MarklundUlrika BergRebecka BerchtoldMaja GrimstedSalka Ardal RosengrenSigrid SjöholmStina EhnHana Lee ErdmanLouise DahlKatie JacobsonAnna FitousiBiosHana Lee Erdman is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher working across dance, music, and visual art. Her practice explores modes of relation—between humans, more-than-humans, and environments—through embodied research, performance, and collaboration. Originally from the United States, Erdman moved to Europe in 2007 to work as a dancer. While based in Berlin, she completed her MA in Dance and Choreography at the University of the Arts. Sheis currently based between Stockholm and Berlin. Her works span contexts and formats ranging from galleries, forests, and churches to stages, publications, and recordings. Erdman has collaborated and performed with Cristina Caprioli, Mårten Spångberg, Keith Hennessy, Jeanine Durning, Isabelle Schad, Sara Shelton Mann, Tilman O’Donnell, and Jess Curtis among others. Since 2016, Erdman has collaborated closely with Louise Dahl, with whom shedevelops choreographic works and research into dance as a practice of attunement to unseenforces—exploring the interplay of body, consciousness, relationality, and presence in dance. As an educator, Erdman teaches regularly in both academic and professional settings, including as a guest teacher at Stockholm University for the Arts, University of Art Berlin (HZT), and Ballet Akademien in Stockholm.

Louise Dahl is a choreographer and dancer based in Stockholm. Her practice exploresmovement as a place of inquiry into perception, presence, and the infinite realities that emergethrough imaginative and embodied engagement. Dahl holds a Bachelor’s in Dance and Performance from Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and has worked extensively bothin Sweden and internationally. From 2020 to 2023, she was a member of the Cullberg Ensemble, performing works by Jefta van Dinther, Deborah Hay, and Alma Söderberg. Shehas an ongoing collaboration with Hana Lee Erdman, developing choreographic works and research into movement as a practice of attunement to subtle forces and relationality. Theircollaborations have been presented at the Berlin Biennale, Tanzfabrik Berlin, MDT, Weld, and CounterPulse. Dahl has also collaborated and performed with Cristina Caprioli, Jefta van Dinther, Jeannine Durning, Philip Berlin, Frédéric Gies, Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Pontus Pettersson, Mårten Spångberg, and others.

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Sinopsis:

PHANTASMAGORIA is the title of a research project by Darío Barreto Damas that focuses on the relationship between the figure of the ghost and politics of disidentification, following the lines of work of the projects seguir moviendo and ES UN NO PARAR, which study the catalysts of a dance that exceeds the body that dances it (rhythm, repetition, feedback, archive, gaze, and voice, among others).

Playing with different beats and melodies of music together with a DJ set, and the overlay of shadows and lights, the work is situated at the intersection of dance, music, and visual experience, constructing a common ghostly body that fades away, making room for everything to dance. Underpinning the entire research, the pleasure of dancing plays a fundamental role.

Credits:

Creation and Performance: Darío Barreto DamasDJ Set: Juana la Cubana.Lighting: Grace Morales. Dramaturgy: Aleksandar Georgiev.Support: Auditorio de Tenerife, Cabildo de Tenerife, Government of the Canary Islands, La Caldera Barcelona, National Cultural Fund of Bulgaria, Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria

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Atrás

- Choreographic solo work -

Aleksandar Georgiev  

Synopsis:

“If I were to do it, I would rather do it bareback... no protection, from the back, from behind, until it brings out the narratives from the back—the back archive, the back histories, the desires from the back, the back frontality, the back kinetics, the aesthetics from the back, until it dismantles the dogmas and constructs of shame, blame, and censorship, so we can smooth out, emancipate, and fall in love with the back, all over again”

This choreographic solo focuses on the back of the body from a decolonial and anti-capitalist perspective, both artistically and narratively. It is a choreographic work that begins by observing the body and its phenomenology from its "back side," exploring how it relates to this not-so-prominent body perspective. Within the Western European choreographic and dance context, historically, the back of the body, while being one of the fundamental parts of the corpus, has, however, been little explored and little exposed since, (apparently), it is not as expressive due to not containing identity marks such as a face. The back is usually left without prominence, drawing a parallel between this artistic and movement reality and the behind areas of our history and society.

Dominant thought and narratives also shape aesthetic and artistic languages. In this sense, "Atrás" highlights the rear perspective in contrast to the dominant front vision, where hegemonic narratives reside—such as those of reproductive logic and the perpetual forward-looking gaze. This work challenges the avoidance of looking back at the past and acknowledges what sustains or has sustained us.

Aleksandar's work in “Atrás” continues the themes from his previous projects, "The Power of S" and "Echoes of S," which explored “anal body and politics" and their potentiality. Now, he expands this exploration to the back of the body.

Choreographer and performer: Aleksandar Georgiev

Music and sound design: Tsvetan Momchilov

Light design: Pete Ayres

Graphic design: Asiria Álvarez

Image adaptation: Fernando Montiel

Production: Beatriz Bello

Thanks to Dario Barreto Damas for backing up the work

This work was realized with the support of LAV (Laboratorio de Artes Vivas y Ciudadanía), ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center), Garage Collective, Cultural-Social Space Jadro, Konstnärsnämnden (Swedish Arts Grants Committee), Gobierno de Canarias (ICDC), Funds European Union Next Generation EU (Support for Cultural Accelerators), Cabildo de Tenerife, Teatro Victoria, Central Eletrican, Culture Moves Europe, Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria and Toplocentrala.