Welcome to the Spring Season 2025 at MDT Moderna Dansteatern!

Welcome to the spring season of 2025 at MDT Moderna Dansteatern, featuring an impressive line–up of four Stockholm premieres and four world premieres! This season offers powerful choreographic works and gripping themes, exploring the contrasts of darkness and light in society and within ourselves. Through dance and choreography, these works delve into what it means to be human in an increasingly inhuman world. 

First on the programme is a Norwegian co-production with choreographer Rosalind Goldberg. “Dim” examines anaesthesia, or numbness, both as a consequence of the times we live in and as a coping mechanism for navigating this world. A state of numbness governs three dancers (Amie Mbye, Louis Shou-Hansen, Oda Olivia Øverbø Lindegård) shaping their relationships and paths, and influencing their care, violence, indifference, boundlessness, and desire.  

“YIELDING” is a group piece and the debut choreographic work of Escarleth Romo Pozo. Together with dancers Robert Malmborg, Victor Pérez Armero, and sound designer Adde Huumonen, they create an immersive dreamscape for the audience to step into—a world ravaged by hubris, where two figures wander the streets of forgotten places, seeking solace among the ruins we ourselves have created.  

“Night Shift” is Erik Linghede's fourth stage production and first solo performance, exploring the night, fear, trust, and guidance. The work acts as a standalone continuation of SUNRISE, a choreographed and composed sunrise performed one morning in June at Lustholmen in 2022.  

“UNTIL DEATH DO US PART” emerges from the shadowy realm of inner darkness. This is the latest chapter in Sanna Blennow’s ongoing solo project SOLO(W)NG—an experimental autobiography based on the true story of unfinished, kaleidoscopic life events.  

“Dawn” is the first piece in a series by Adam Seid Tahir, reinterpreting the oldest Nordic rune alphabet through a queer Afro-Nordic lens. This work draws inspiration from the rune "Dagaz," symbolising day, dawn, light, and hope.  

Several works also delve into identity and culture connected to place. The latest creation by Swedish-Chilean choreographer Ofelia Jarl Ortega, “Casino”, focuses on salsa dance. Together with dancers Nina Sandino from Nicaragua and Jao Moon from Colombia, they stage an imagined dance floor at a Latin American ballroom club, where their respective relationships to salsa resonate through their bodies in a repertoire of historical and personal memories from Latin America and/or the Latin American diaspora.  

In his solo “Sex och Tornedalen”, Marcus Baldemar continues his choreographic exploration, often bridging the poetic and political through body and language. With the aim to “queer” history and storytelling, Baldemar draws on his own upbringing in Tornedalen to weave between insider and outsider perspectives, blending irreverence for tradition with a heartfelt longing for community.  

MDT also continues its collaboration with the international choreographer Marikiscrycrycry. This spring, he choreographs a piece for Stockholm University of the Arts' Bachelor of Dance Performance programme’s graduating class. “BEND, UP, CHOKE” is built around themes of dark fantasy, Black cultural iconography, and horror.  

In May, we embark on our first collaboration with Konstmusiksystrar, an association of composers and sound artists who identify as women and trans people. Together, we will co-host an evening at Eric Ericsonhallen featuring dance, choreography, and choral work, including pieces by choreographer Ellen Söderhult and the choir Tusen Tungor.  

Last but not least, we conclude the spring with a vibrant festival on and around Skeppsholmen: Lustholmen! A celebration of dance, choreography, music, and art, this festival welcomes the summer with joy, life, and light. In 2025, the festival returns with a five-day programme, held both indoors and outdoors, in collaboration with neighboring organisations. This year, we reflect on the island's military history, a topic newly relevant in light of Sweden's current foreign policy. The programme will be released soon!

We continue our appreciated ticketing system where you pay what you can for your ticket.  

If that wasn’t enough, the season will also feature discussions, workshops, residency presentations, readings, and explorations of art and cultural politics—among much more!  

See you at MDT, welcome!  

Warm regards,  

Anna Efraimsson  

Theater Director

List of works

Rosalind Goldberg “Dim” 6-7/2

Sanna Blennow “UNTIL DEATH DO US PART” 14-15/2

Ofelia Jarl Ortega “Casino”  27-28/2+ 1-⅔

Marcus Baldemar “Sex och Tornedalen” 13-16/3

Escarleth Romo Pozo “YIELDING” 21-22/3

Erik Linghede  “Night Shift” 10-13/4

Marikiscrycrycry + graduating students of the Bachelor Programme in Dance Performance at Stockholm University of the Arts “BEND, UP, CHOKE” 2-3 / 5

Konstmusiksystrar + MDT samarrangemang i Eric Ericssonhallen med Tusen Tungor och “DUNKA DUNKA” av Ellen Söderhult 4/5

Adam Seid Tahir “Dawn” 15-18/5

Lustholmen Festival 11-15/6