Lisa Janbell (she) is a dancer and choreographer. Her practice and choreographic work specialize in ritualistic performance and ceremonial practices. With an education in Cuban folk dance from el Instituto Superior de Arte, Cuba, and a dance education from Brazil, as well as anthropology studies at Stockholm University, her research lies in the relationship between the collective body, affinity, and the subconscious mind, tuning into spirits and spirituality. The work is developed through proposals, aiming to share and find an opening to the transcendental. Through a feminist and intersectional perspective, elevating emotional work and soft values, Lisa’s work guides the audience into a caring space in which performers embody non-western witchcraft practices. This artistic strategy is manifested in warm and welcoming spaces where the audience can rest and recover while experiencing detailed textures and carefully elaborated dance works.

Lisa’s desire is to propose collective utopias as a form of critical practice, and so far it has manifested in works such as Trans[e]ición (2015), Trans[e]ición C edition (2016), Studio Barnhus A/V show (2018), KONTAKT (2020), Lead us (2021), SEARCH (2022), SWEET & STICKY (2023), and Another spell (2024). Since 2010 and 2012, respectively, Lisa has been part of the performance duo Dos Oké in collaboration with Camilla Sivam, as well as the artistic director of the Swedish-Cuban dance collective SOMOS. Lisa’s work has toured extensively through Sweden, Europe, and Cuba, at places like Inkonst, MDT, Norbergfestival, Augenblick Mal festival-Berlin, and Teatro Raquel Revuelta-Havanna. Lisa has also developed commissioned works, for instance, as choreographer for the Studio Barnhus A/V show that played at Sonár (Barcelona), Way Out West (Gothenburg), and Cirkus (Stockholm).

www.lisajanbell.com

Dijle Neva Yigitbas, also known as Neva Deelay, is a versatile artist and musician active in performing arts and film. Since 2007, she has established herself as a unique and innovative creator in audiovisual art and composition. As the founder of the independent label Abow Production, she highlights creative and norm-breaking talents in the media industry.

Dijle is a dedicated meditator and keeps her artistic and spiritual practices closely intertwined as she wants to invite the recipient to a curious inner exploration through her works. She combines norm-critical questions with her characteristic and musical expressionism and weaves dreamlike worlds that challenge the boundaries between sound and image, fantasy and everyday life, idealism and reality.

In 2019, Dijle debuted her self-produced audiovisual project Galax-Ma - a conceptual feminist utopia that wants to go beyond the limits of what we think is possible (released as film and vinyl) which marked the beginning of a new era of integrating music, film and performance in their works. Since then, she has, among other things, released “Queens Date Themselves” - a hybrid of music video, mockumentary and art film in three parts which, with an ecofeminist eye, intends to make visible the connection between the oppression of women and the oppression of the earth. She is current working  with DEVOTED in collaboration with Lisa Janbell and continues to give life to new, and ancient, worlds where the woman has the main role.

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