After Easter we start the rehearsals of our coming production Skirtpower in Spinnstudion in Gothenburg! Finally we are gathered again to start work on this amazing performance along with choreographer Carl Olof Berg. Skirtpower premieres on April 28, and tickets for the premiere can be bought by clicking here!

Click here to watch the trailer for Skirtpower.

Morning warm-up with Carl Olof Berg
Together with Carl Olof we have decided to open up our morning warm-up sessions during our rehearsals in Gothenburg. Our warm-ups takes place at Spinnstudion (Järntorget 7, 1st floor) and will consist of anything form regular warm-up excercises, to improvisation and Danceaoke!

Dates and times
Tuesday to Friday, April 3-6 at 09.00-09.45
Monday to Friday, April 9-13 at 09.00-09.45
Monday to Tuesday, April 16-17 at 09.00-09.45

No registration required, just come and dance with us!

Saturday April 28th at 19.00 marks the premiere for Spinn’s new production Skirtpower, choreographed by Stockholm based choreographer Carl Olof Berg and tickets are now available!

We’ve chosen to have the premiere of Skirtpower at Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts for the simple reason that last May, when the ensemble was there working, they fell head over heels in love with the place. And who can blame them really? Anyone who’s been there know what we’re talking about, and for those of you who are yet to visit: congratulations, you still have that sweet bon-bon left!

Tickets
Tickets cost 150 kr (without dance bus) or 250 kr (with dance bus) plus service charge. Tickets can be bought at Kulturpunkten.nu
where you can choose whether to purchase just the premiere ticket or the ticket including the bus fare.

Do you want to take the dance bus to Vitlycke?
We’ve rented a bus that departs from Hotel Post at Drottningtorget in Gothenburg at 16.00, stopping at Bohusläns Museum in Uddevalla at 17.00.
The bus arrives at Vitlycke at around 18.00 and then departs for Uddevalla and Gothenburg again at 21.00.

The bus is included in the price if you choose the ticket that includes the dance bus fro 250 kr. Please note that there is a limited capacity on the bus, so first come first served!

Arrangement for the evening
18.00 – mingle with some bubbles and some snacks
19.00 – performance
20.00 – post-show hangout

There will be drinks and some finger food available for purchase and we accept both cash and card!

Skirtpower is a study on forbidden bodies and movements in skirt, about sexuality and power. The starting point for the performance is the notion of the skirt as an ambiguous symbol of our society’s view on our bodies. About different codes for masculinity and femininity and expressions of sexuality. That the skirt, throughout history, has been a garment communicating masculinity and power, but how today it’s so clearly a feminine garment.

“I want to talk about how the skirt choreographs our bodies, but also about our gaze on those who wear it. About the power it holds to take place, limit, expose and hide. And the desire to choreograph the skirt.” – Carl Olof Berg, choreographer

The cast consist of Spinn’s dancer Emilia Wärff, dancer Izabell Makiela and Italian dancer Aristide Rontini. The cast also consists of musician and composer Lisen Rylander Löve who has written the music and who is also performing live.

Click here to purchase your ticket.
Read more about the performance here.
Click here to watch the trailer for Skirtpower.

Next week, Veera Suvalo Grimberg from Spinn and Malin Enberg from Producentbyrån are going to London to visit Candoco Dance Company in order to attend the last network meeting for the EU-project Moving Beyond Inclusion. The meeting in London is about looking back at the project as a whole and of course to start preparing the final presentation of the Moving Beyond Inclusion project.

Already now we can see that Moving Beyond Inclusion has lead to shorter routes between us in Spinn and a number of European performing arts organizations. The network that the project partners constitute has become incredibly important, not least in regards to each partner’s extended network, which has very generously been shared with the other partners in the project.

The ongoing discussions that has been an integral part of the project has touched on subjects such as artistic choices, touring possibilities and the unique problems that integrated dance companies of then face. It has also become clear that, although the projects partners differ quite a lot from each other, we all face similar problems. This ahs enabled us to all function as resources for each other, and we are incredibly happy to have been a part of this very exciting and rewarding project!

Read more about Moving Beyond Inclusion here.

This Friday, march 9 we have the great pleasure of once again presenting the performance Garden of Trees, choreographed by Tanja Eloranta when we have been invited to Dansfiket at Gottsunda Dans & Teater!

Garden of Trees is about living together and about growing old together. About getting closer to another human being and sharing your loneliness. To live without judgment and learning to accept both each other and yourself. But how do you do that? With a bittersweet humor and a mix between physical theatre and dance, Finnish choreographer Tanja Eloranta takes on aging and old age.

Dansfiket is a concept where contemporary dance meet the Swedish fika. Both nationally and internationally established choreographers and dance artists share their work through work-in-progress showings, parts of finished pieces, full performances, film or improvisation. The audience is also invited to a talk about choreographic and artistic practices. All of this is carried out in dialogue with the audience and in an intimate and welcoming environment.

Garden of Trees is presented this Friday, March 9 at 19.00 at Gottsunda Dans & Teater. The performance is free of charge, but you have to reserve a ticket to make sure you get a seat. Reserve your ticket right here.

Read more in the facebook event here.
Read more about the performance here.