Sa 14.6.2025, 13:00-15:30, Meeting point: MDT entrance
Su 15.6.2025, 13:00-15:30, Meeting point: MDT entrance
City Horses is a city choreography where fifteen female dancers take to the streets in full gallop – this time around Skeppsholmen. The work is a living commentary on the unyielding monuments we see in our cities, where men on horseback dominate public space. In City Horses, the power structures are disrupted as wild horses take over streets and squares, creating an immaterial, moving monument that unfolds over the course of three hours.
At the Lustholmen Festival, the piece becomes an invitation to re-code the island’s military history. The horse, once tamed and used for warfare, is here transformed into a symbol of freedom. The dancers become a herd of wild horses, moving freely across Skeppsholmen, venturing into the Nationalmuseum and continuing to the bronze horses of Blasieholmen.
It is a choreography about power, existence, and the female body in public space – a gallop through the city’s memories and futures, a living monument in constant motion.
Children's workshop
Byström Källblad hosts a workshop for children, who get invited to be horses – giving the next generation a chance to explore movement in public space.
On Sunday, the 15th of June, 2025, at the Public Art Agency Sweden – Svensksundsvägen 11 A. Free of charge.
This performance is a part of the Island Dialogues section of the festival, presented in collaboration with Public Art Agency Sweden.
The Swedish duo Byström Källblad makes work for the stage, the gallery and the public space. Artist Helena Byström and choreographer Anna Källblad share a desire to tell stories from and based in collaboration and exchange with specific places and its people. Through choreography and bodies in motion they create work that spans across dance and fine art. Fearlessly with both seriousness and humor Byström Källblad develops concepts inspired by challenges in society today and seek to express its complexities.
Byström is a visual artist from the north, working mainly with film and sculpture, Källblad is a choreographer from the south, who returned to Sweden after ten years divided between London, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Byström and Källblad work locally, nationally and internationally and have shown work in places like a sports arena, a nuclear power plant, Shibuya Crossing Tokyo, Sakakini Art Centre Ramallah, Stockholm City Hall, Uppsala Cathedral, Kulturhuset, Dansens hus, The Royal Dramatic Theatre and the Modern Museum in Stockholm. 2024 they premiered Calling we are here and January 2025 A third possibility and since the premiere at Dansens Hus Stockholm toured the perfomance City Horses all over Europe as selected artists and part of Big Pulse Dance Alliance as well as i Australia and Mexico.Their work has attracted wide media attention and is referred to in academic papers.
Byström Källblad are supported by the Swedish Arts Council, Region Västmanland, Region Stockholm and Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Performance by
Dancers
Josephine Auffray
,Hedvig Edvall Bons
,Giorgia Calliari
,Hui-Han Hu Gustavsson
,Tea Harryson
,Dana Hamburgo Hernandez
,Aurora Itland
,Torill Kolsrud
,Qadira Oechsle-Ali
,Sanna Söderholm
,Moa Westerlund
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