Stuff in the Park

Experience contemporary dance in a nearby park. Norrdans collaborates with some of the Nordic region's most exciting choreographers in a format where the audience gets close to both grass and movement.


You arrive at a park. It is green and inviting. Summer has just arrived and the park feels like it's painted in neon. You are greeted by a group of dancers who guide you around to different corners of the park. There you get to experience four completely unique dance works by the Nordic countries' currently most interesting choreographers. Among budding flowers, fresh air and summer vibes, world-class dance and choreography arise.

 

Four Nordic choreographers in a pared down but blooming format.

Norwegian Ingrid Berger Myhre has made a name for herself as a consistent and playful choreographer. In the space between the constructions of language and the organizational system of choreography, she places her works. There will be dancing linguistic and semantic jumps when Berger Myhre creates intelligent and cheerful choreography.

The promising Swedish choreographer Philip Berlin creates extreme and articulated dances that draw the viewer into intense moments of complete concentration.

Danish artist Sigrid Stigsdotter creates emotional work where the dancers move between dream and reality. Her work almost feels like looking into something extremely private and often strange, it becomes soft and hard every other time.

Finnish Janina Rajakangas has worked a lot with amateurs in her artistry. It is political, humorous and norm-creative.

Foot Forward… is a game for three dancers moving progressively through the park. Each step depends on the previous and becomes the stepping stone for the next. Like this, the form is continuously negotiated by the three performers together – In real time.

What we see is a series of individual choices, but also one fleeting image in locomotion. Images appear as quickly as they disappear, in a choreography that is always on the move, constantly moving forward.

The choreography appears between the accumulation of moments and the sequences they build. The physical material is shaped by their capacity, creativity but also by their limitations. It embraces the random and spontaneous, the coherent and the contradicting, the pragmatic and the poetic. 

Each static moment constitutes a dynamic whole. If each component is a consequence of the previous one, what logical relationships do we see in this choreographic train of thought?

Alberte Buch Gøbel, Lander Casier, Damini Gairola, Sam Huczkowski, Kevin Julianto, Sierra Kellman Chang Liu, Fie Dam Mygind, Jonathan Starr