What can dance do?

“2024: Here and Now / Här och Nu tour”

During March and June 2024 Jonsson, Harryson and Lakea toured in four different cities, namely Finspång, Norrköping, Linköping and Hästholmen, in Östergötland, adapted and performed the piece Here and Now in each city and held workshops for local communities, e.g. senior dance groups and upper secondary students.

“2023: Here and Now / Här och Nu & workshops”

During spring 2023 the group continued developing the performative materials from the previous year and created a new, wandering outdoor piece Here and Now, which they performed in Linköping in collaboration with Passagen. Later in the summer the piece was adapted to the center of Mjölby and performed twice in collaboration with Mjölby Kultur- och fritidsförvaltning. 

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In addition to creating the outdoor piece, the group organised a workshop for professional dancers in Linköping and held an open-level workshop for the general public and an advanced workshop for the dance group Unlimited in Mjölby.

“2022: Dansverk 22.01.22”

by Riikka Lakea, Tea Harryson & Vincent Jonsson.

“Dansverk 22.01.22” was the first public meeting with an audience in the first year of the project What can dance do? / Vad kan dans göra?, which is a regional, artistic and infrastructural development project that investigates dance, dance’s own logic and ability to move people, places and communities. The ongoing performance consists of five short pieces, as well as audience conversations about dance and experiences of dance. It was performed at Passagen, museum in Linköping the 22.01.2022. It was seen by 108 people that visited Passagen that day.

“The openness of the theme allowed me it to interpret what I saw in my own way”

“In the silence, I noticed the dance more, when it was allowed to be alone and the center of attention“

– Comments from the audience.