To dancers. One dance floor.
In a captivating and immersive work, choreographer Anna Öberg draws inspiration from couple dance as a phenomenon and pulse as a medium in the meeting between dancers Viktor Fröjd and Jon Bugge Mariussen, with backgrounds in house and folk dance respectively. Through that, the work explores how similarities and differences can be passed on between the dancers in order to create new and fleeting landscapes of crafts and experiences.
Central to Öberg's practice is a strong, improvised connection between music and movement, often manifested through live musicians on stage. In Landscapes, she has invited her long-time collaborator sound artist Elize Arvefjord, who uses the sounds generated by the dancers' movements to create a real-time sound design that enhances, distorts and adds to what the dancers do.
“Because with Anna Öberg something else arises, through how the choreography and the space is created the senses are sharpened so that every detail, sound fragment or movement appears significant to the whole. /.../
It is noticeable that something is at stake in Landscapes.”
Premiere at Dansens hus, Stockholm April 23-25 2025. Will also be performed at Rosendal Teater, Trondheim 2-3 of May 2025 and CiK Knivsta 25th of September 2025 and touring through Dalateatern, Falun (Landscapes Behind the Scene) Sept 22-23 2025.
The dance film Landscapes in Process was shown at Oslo Pix Film Festival/ SHORTS: Exhibition Program // Pix on Art at Dansens Hus Oslo in 2024.
CREDITS
CHOREOGRAPHER Anna Öberg
CO CREATING DANCERS Viktor Fröjd, Jon Bugge Mariussen
SOUND DESIGN AND COMPOSITION Elize Arvefjord
LIGHT DESIGN Maja Lindström
MUSIC Olof Misgeld
SCENOGRAPHY Anna Öberg with support by Jenny Nordberg
WOOD CONSTRUCTION Max Landegren
COSTUME Pia Gyll
DRAMATURG Bodil Persson
STILLS/VIDEO Milja Rossi
PRODUCTION Anna Öberg/Nordberg Movement
CO PRODUCTION DansiT Koreografisk senter, Trondheim, Dansens Hus Stockholm
SUPPORTED BY Swedish Arts Council, Stockholms Stad and Region Stockholm
DURATION ca 45 min