Amanda Apetrea

Halla Ólafsdóttir

DEAD by Beauty and the Beast

Two women with full face black and white makeup and blood running from their mouths

Photo: Märta Thisner.

Ti 25.4.2017, 20:00-21:00, MDT

On 26.4.2017, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Fr 28.4.2017, 20:00-21:00, MDT

There is a story that tells of Beauty and the Beast’s fascination with their own shadow. They kept looking at it, scratching it, pecking at it, fisting it, burning it, licking it, until their shadow woke up, became alive and ate them. Beauty and the Beast are now “DEAD”.

For more than two decades the duo Beauty and the Beast, Amanda Apetrea and Halla Ólafsdóttir have remained a mythical force in dance and have created new lyrical expressions with their gravelly voices and poetic dances – musing over love, heartbreaks, friendship and togetherness, war, death and sex.

Their new show, "DEAD", is a pornographic and dystopian dance performance that merges dance, poetry, music, the beauty of darkness and the in between, seeing inner and outer realities. Exploring expressions of sexuality, body and gender flirting with the power of horniness and lust. A power that they believe can move mountains.

The show will be performed under consent in agreement with its audience, which means that anyone who enters agrees to what ever will happened during the show. It also means that anyone can leave at any time. As always it is about you and them and all the love in between.

Amanda Apetrea

Amanda Apetrea (born in 1981 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a performer and choreographer based in Stockholm. In her work she integrates political theories such as feminism, sexpositivism, body positivism and queerutopism. Apetrea went to Ballet Academy in Stockholm and has a masters degree in choreography from DOCH (University College of Dance and Circus), Stockholm. 

Her works are marked by her feminist point of view, calling into question larger power structures of the modern world through the performance of western classical and cultural dance, spectacle and conceptual performance. Her current works challenge structures that restrain and inhibit the microcosm of the choreographic field as a reflection of society at large.

As Apetrea has continued to critically examine, integrate and inhabit the above mentioned overlapping politically radical theoretical concepts, her work has significantly hinged on the collaborative process and ethos fostered with the ÖFA-collective that Apetrea co-founded in 2004, as well as Samlingen started in 2014. Some of these collaboratively authored works are: I Ass Jazz with Emma Tolander and Lisen Rosell, EDIE&EDIE with Emma Tolander, Beauty and the Beast with Halla Ólafsdóttir featuring Lisen Rosell and Chrisander Brun (jardin d’europe 2013 prize winner), DEAD with Ólafsdóttir, Samlingen - en danshistoria (Riksteatern) with Nadja Hjorton, Zoë Poluch, Stina Nyberg and Halla Ólafsdóttir, I’m a Very Understanding Woman, SPRINGITME and There Will Be Men with Mica Sigourney (SF, USA). Grottbjörnens Folk with Nadja Hjorton and Lisen Rosell and Stolthet och fördom with Lisen Rosell.

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Halla Ólafsdóttir

Halla Ólafsdóttir är koreograf och dansare som gick Balettakademien i Stockholm och Masterprogrammet i koreografi på SKH. Hon arbetar alltid kollektivt i olika konstellationer med ambitionen att vidga begreppen koreografi och dans. En stor del av hennes praktik utgår från igenkännbart material från konst och populärkultur där hon undersöker vad som händer när det sätts i en annan kontext. Hon använder sig ofta av konventioner och klichéer och försöker hitta arbetsmetoder som bryter och suddar ut dem.

Tillsammans med Amanda Apetrea har hon skapat och turnerat föreställningarna Sälkvinnorna (2023), DEAD (2017) och Beauty and the Beast (2011) som vann priset Prix Jardin d’Europe Awards 2013. Halla och Eliisa Erävalo har skapat föreställningarna Granddaughters (2022), Bitch (2021) och BITCHCRAFT (2017). Tillsammans med Erna Ómarsdóttir har Halla skapat Julia & Romeo (2024), The Juliet Duet (2022) och Romeo <3 Juliet (2018) som var nominerad till DER FAUST priset 2019. Halla hade premiär på verket Sylph (2023) med Cullberg på Dansens Hus.

Halla har koreograferad för flera danskompanier som Cullberg (SE), Iceland Dance Company (IS), Böler Samvirkelag (NO), Gärtnerplatztheater company (DE) och Ballet Basel (CH). Som dansare har hon arbetat och samarbetat med koreografer och kollektiv som till exempel; Samlingen, Dorte Olesen, Inpex, mychoreography, Nadja Hjorton och The Knife. Halla experimenterar gärna med olika uttryck och format i sitt arbete och har skådespelat I filmer av Ester Martin Bergsmark, Sidney Leoni och Joachim Koester.

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MDT, Atalante, Dansstationen and BUDA Art Center.

Supported by

The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, The City of Stockholm and Swedish Arts Council. This presentation is part of the project [DNA] Departures and Arrivals, which is co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission.

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