WonderWaves is both an installation and a choreographic work at the intersection of dance, sculpture, and sound. Inspired by the formats of social dance floors and passing on as a speculative practice, the work explores how embodied experiences emerge, are shared, and transform over time.
The installation consists of a fragmented wooden floor and three suspended speaker elements that together form a dance floor, a sculpture, and a place for visitors to sit. Over the course of six months, the space is repeatedly activated by dancers Viktor Fröjd and Jon Bugge Mariussen, sound artist Elize Arvefjord and musician Olof Misgeld.
From the beat that emerges between the dancers’ bodies, sound and movement are repeated, transformed, and interwoven. A collective and rhythmic work in which forms emerge, shift, and dissolve, while meanings drift apart and seep across genres.
As a visitor to WonderWaves, you become part of the work: welcome to step onto the floor, sit down, listen, or simply pass through – surrounded by the traces of dancing bodies and alongside others.
In Anna Öberg’s artistic practice, rhythm becomes an exploration of bodily togetherness – deeply rooted in folk tradition while at the same time shaped by a strongly experimental approach.
Photo: Jean - Baptiste Béranger
“One of the best is WonderWaves, a collaboration between choreographer Anna Öberg, sound artist Elize Arvefjord, and dancers Jon Bugge Mariussen and Viktor Fröjd.... Try to time your visit to coincide with one of these performances, because that is when the entire gallery truly comes alive...Everything unfolds in a fluid interplay between the dancers and Arvefjord, who gradually alters the pulsating soundscape. It is a fascinating display of responsiveness, improvisation, and rhythmic variation.”
“The passing on, attunement and attentive listening to each other are also central to choreographer Anna Öberg’s and musician Elize Arvefjord’s work WonderWaves, a continuation of the dance piece Landscapes, which premiered in spring 2025. The dancers Jon Bugge Mariussen and Viktor Fröjd, who met in that earlier work, are also part of the new piece, which literally becomes the beating heart of the exhibition The Owl of Minerva — even when they are not present.”
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”The Owl of Minerva”, Accelerator
The exhibition is, in fact, highly consistent, free of informative texts in the exhibition space, and formally cohesive...On the other hand, it is difficult to understand anything about this exhibition. And that is its greatest strength, entirely in keeping with its claims to a lived, intuitive, rhythmic, and silent form of knowledge...The improvisational, exploratory, and slightly transgressive quality of the dialogue (in Sina Fors The Nutcracker) creates a sense of tension and unpredictability that also emerges in the performance (WonderWaves) presented during the exhibition period.”
WonderWaves takes as its starting point the practice developed for Landscapes (2025).
Premiere @ Accelerator, Stockholm Sept 12th 2026 as part of the group exhibition The Owl of Minerva 12 Sept - 14 Feb 2027.
In addition to the permanent installation, the live version of the work will be presented between 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM on selected dates 2026-2027:
September 12 & 24
October 14 & 16
November 11 & 13
December 9 & 12
January 16 & 20
February 13
Read more about the exhibition: https://acceleratorsu.art/utstallning/the-owl-of-minerva/
CREDITS
CONCEPT AND IDEA Anna Öberg/Elize Arvefjord
CHOREOGRAPHER Anna Öberg
SOUND ARTIST AND COMPOSER Elize Arvefjord
CO CREATING DANCERS Viktor Fröjd, Jon Bugge Mariussen
WOOD CONSTRUCTION Max Landegren
MUSIC Olof Misgeld
ASSOCIATE SOUNDDESIGER Johannes Burström
SPATIAL ADVICE Sofia Romberg
TECHNICAL SUPPORT Christian Farcher
PRODUCTION Anna Öberg/Nordberg Movement
PHOTO FROM EXHIBITION Jean - Baptiste Béranger
CO PRODUCTION Accelerator, Anna Öberg Dans
SUPPORTED BY Swedish Arts Council, Stockholms Stad