On May 31st, the culture festival Gränslandet (Borderlands) takes place at Göteborgs Litteraturhus. Gränslandet is a culture festival about the body’s encounter with places, identities and taboos, organized by students from Cultural Studies at the University of Gothenburg. Spinn’s dancer Emila Wärff and SpinnUnga’s director Anna Bergström has been invited to present the company and what we do.

About Gränslandet
By asking questions about society’s norms, this festival addresses mankind’s various limitations and possibilities in this world. The body becomes a focal point for how people can live their lives. We address these limitations that, in some way or another, dictates what’s ok and what’s not, and in what way these limitations affect mankind’s existence, mentally and physically. We want to open up for conversations, explore questions and stimulate reflection on the borderlands we live in.

Program and participants
– Danskompaniet Spinn – Emilia Wärff and Anna Bergström presents the company
– Azizullah & Ulla Mogren (artist) – film project about being a young asylum seeker in Sweden
– Mostafa Hosseini – psychologist from Rädda barnen about youth refugees
– The Bookhouse Boys (improv-theatre group)
– MShop – home party and conversation about sexual taboo’s and female masturbation
– Jovanna Radic Eriksson – body activist and artist
– Short film screening about taboos
+ additional participants

Gränslandet starts at noon and ends at 10 pm and throughout the day there will be workshops, exhibitions quiz and films. There will also be Biosaurus crisps from Mclloyd and other snacks.

The whole day is free of charge, so bring your friends and learn something new!

Date
May 31 2017

Time
at 12.00-22.00

Place
Göteborgs Litteraturhus
Heurlins plats 1, Göteborg

Read more about it here.

On Saturday May 27th we close the spring term for SpinnVäxa and SpinnUnga with a dazzling dance exhibition for both children and grownups at Världskulturmuseet in Gothenburg!

Between 13.30-15.00 our dance groups will be sharing all the amazing things that has happened in the studio during spring. SpinnUnga will also do an excerpt from the piece Rätt att ta plats choreographed by SpinnUnga’s director Anna Bergström.

The museum is open as usual so take the opportunity to have a look at the exhibitions and have a fika in their cozy café before or after the dance performances.

Free admission!

Welcome!

We are incredibly happy to announce that on Saturday June 3 we will present the performance Trippel at Dance Week Festival in the Croatian capital of Zagreb!

Dance Week festival was started in 1982 and has since then presented over 500 international performances with, amongst others, Israeli company Batsheva Dance Company, choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown, Wayne McGregor’s company Random Dance and Candoco Dance Company, to name a few. The festival is organized by the Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance, who is also one of the partners in the EU project Moving Beyond Inclusion.

Trippel is a performance in three parts, created by the dancers themselves, consisting of Kurvatur, Solo and Trio. In Kurvatur, the two dancers challenge the balance point between themselves. Curves, lines, arcs, distances and encounters – everything exists in this winding asymmetric duet. In Solo, Spinn’s dancer Aloun Marchal plays with both the wheelchair and our perceptions of what it is and how it can be used and in Trio, the dancers enter into a game in which they continuously reinvent their identities in relation to each other.

This will be Spinn’s first visit to Croatia and we’re beyond stoked to meet the audience in Zagreb.

Read more about the festival at www.danceweekfestival.com

We first met English choreographer Fin Walker when she participated in Uddevalla Choreographic Lab in Uddevalla last autumn. The lab was part of the EU project Moving Beyond Inclusion and Fin was invited as one of three choreographers who worked with the participants of the project during a weeks time.

Kulturakademin Trappan, in collaboration with Dansalliansen and us in Spinn, has now invited Fin Walker to Gothenburg and Spinnstudion to present the course Delve Deeper on June 7-9. Delve Deeper is, according to Fin herself, an “opportunity to step into your body and inhabit it more fully in the moment of being. You will journey deeper into the self to realise your full potential using movement as an entry point and the voice to support the process of ’opening’. You will come into awareness of where you ’hold’ in your system and look at how you can get out of your own way for expression to be effortless.”

Delve Deeper is held in English and takes place on June 7-9. The course is open to dancers and choreographers with and without disabilities.

Please note – last day to register is Wednesday May 17th.
Registration is made at www.kulturakademintrappan.se

Read more about the course here.

This course is organized by Kulturakademin Trappan in collaboration with Dansalliansen and Danskompaniet Spinn.

On Monday May 8th, we start the first production period of what’s to become our next performance called Skirtpower, choreographed by the amazing and wonderful Carl Olof Berg!

The first time we worked with Carl Olof was during the EU project Moving Beyond Inclusion in Uddevalla last autumn. And right there and then we decided we wanted to work with him for our next production.

Carl Olof is a choreographer working with themes like masculinity and prestige. He works with movement, voice, eye contact, singing and narrative traditions as part of his artistic practice, often using gender theory, queer activism and feministic theory as starting points. He has a background as a choreographer with aesthetic and physical practices from dance, theatre, pop music, opera and contemporary art. Carl Olof is a person who is constantly raising questions about norm and normality.

Skirtpower is using the skirt as a power garment as its starting point. It’s about how the skirt choreographs our bodies and identities. About how one can choreograph the movements of the skirt. Historically, the skirt was a garment used to express masculinity and power, from the pharaohs, kings, religious leaders and rock icons. Why has it become such an exclusively female garment in modern culture? What are the forbidden bodies and movements in skirt today?

The Skirtpower ensemble consists of Spinn’s own dancers Emilia Wärff and Soledad Howe. And for this production we have also chosen to invite Italian dancer Aristide Rontini, whom we first met during Moving Beyond Inclusion in Uddevalla during autumn 2016. The ensemble also consist of Gothenburg based saxophone player, musician and composer Lisen Rylander Löve. Lisen was previously one half of now defunct electronica duo Midaircondo and has toured with Cirkus Cirkör and New Opera Co amongst others, played at internationally renowned festivals like Sónar and Molde Jazzfestival and played concerts in countries like Morocco, Mexico, USA and large parts of Europe. Costume and lighting design for Skirtpower will be created by Tove Berglund.

Work on Skirtpower will start on Monday May 8th in Spinnstudion in Gothenburg and be continued at Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts in Tanumshede on May 16-20.

During the production week in Spinnstudion, May 9-12 and May 15, Carl Olof and Spinn opens up the studio for daily morning training between 09.00-10.00 am. The morning training is open for everyone, regardless of disabilities, but please note that you have to register in advance!

Register by e-mailing: veera@danskompanietspinn.se