Next week, Saturday October 6, it’s time for Relaxed Performance at Göteborgs Konserthus! Relaxed Performance is a concert format where everyone is welcome to enjoy the music in any way they want. Featuring musicians from the Gothenburg Symphony and dancers from Danskompaniet Spinn, here you can move around, dance, sing or just listen.

”Relaxed Performance is a first step in a dedicated development work where we are looking for a new type of concert situation, where everyone can feel comfortable and welcome. The issue of accessibility to arts and its basic conditions pose a number of questions, but fail to deliver any conclusive answers. Relaxed Performance is a way of addressing this issue. Perhaps it could be a laboratory, where we use the possibilities of art as the starting point to create more rooms, different rooms where we meet and consume symphonic music in a variety of ways, in different ways. We have to strive for a reality where alienation is minimized and where the norm is broadened. We have to be bold enough to challenge convention and the traditional form. I believe this leads to evolution. For those of us who choose to be present in the concert hall. For the way we present and perform. For art itself.” – Petra Kloo Vik, Head of educational department at the Gothenburg Concert Hall

The seats are unnumbered. Row two is reserved for visually impaired and row one for wheelchair users and accompaniers. All accompaniers go free of charge – tickets can be booked at biljett@gso.se or by phone +46 31-726 53 00

The concert is audio described using Tecken som stöd (TSS).
Before the concert there will be a audio described introduction, starting at 14.20.

Price: 120 sek
Student: 60 sek
Children: 60 sek

You can read more about Relaxed Performance over at the Gothenburg Symphony website.

On September 27 at 19.00 we’re visiting Akvarellmuseet in Skärhamn to present the performances Kurvatur and Solo!

A place, a stage, a Thursday evening at 19.00 – and perhaps something to drink as well? En s(c)en torsdag is a concept produced by Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Vatten Restaurang & Kafé and Tjörns kultur- och teaterförening who wants to turn Thursday evenings into an occasion to meet and share cultural experiences.

Ticket prize
150 sek, 100 sek for members/Scenpass, 100 sek for ages below 25

Tickets are bought at www.tjorn.riksteatern.se
Read more at www.tjorn.se

Watch a trailer for Kurvatur here.

The Arvsfond project years with SpinnVäxa & SpinnUnga ended this spring and will now continue as Dansutbildningen Språng. The close collaboration with Danskompaniet Spinn will continue in various forms and together we’ll work, side by side to create a more inclusive and norm-breaking dance world!

This autumns classes at Dansutbildningen Språng starts week 37. Read more about these and about Språng over at their website www.dusprang.se and through their social media:

Instagram – dansutbildningensprang
Facebook – www.facebook.com/dusprang

Please share Dansutbildningen Språng’s posts and suggest their social media channels to friends and acquaintances. The more visibility their activities get, the more norms and stereotypes are challenged and the idea about who is allowed to take part and contribute to our shared cultural life is broadened!

Between 2016-2018, Spinn and Producentbyrån have been part of the EU project Moving Moving Beyond Inclusion. The aim of the project has been to display diversity and create equal opportunities for everybody in practicing the art of dance. It has been about creating a supporting network of companies, artists and programmers, with a long-term aim of broadening the European work force and the artistic work. At the core it’s been about the development of professional performing arts both in terms of dancers, choreographers and audiences.

The project officially ended on June 29, and during the year Spinn and Producentbyrån have labored intensively with reporting what we’ve done and achieved within Moving Beyond Inclusion. And as part of this, the project lead part Candoco Dance Company in collaboration with the rest of the project partners, have created an Artistic Resource, explaining more about the project itself. But it also gives some insights into the participating artists view on Moving Beyond Inclusion as a whole, and offers some personal reflections on this amazing project.

Moving Beyond Inclusion – An Artistic Resource can be downloaded here!