Ellen Söderhult
Ghost dances / Spökdanser
Photo: Tove Dreiman
We 29.5.2024, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Th 30.5.2024, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Sa 1.6.2024, 18:00-19:00, MDT
Su 2.6.2024, 15:00-16:00, MDT
Dance steps haunt Ellen Söderhult; Ellen Söderhult haunts MDT. In Ghost Dances Fauns, suitors, opera demons and their aunt are invited to a medley of dance ghosts.
Choreography invokes history and allows that which is past to be resurrected and made present again. Hence, in it we find questionable dance ghosts littered around and running rampant. We find that dances echo their performers and performers echo dances; choreography is revealed to be a haunted art form.
Ghost Dances does not adhere to a strict definition of what is ghostly. It embraces the idea of the ghost as something that is simultaneously absent and present in order to delve into the relationship between the dancer and the dance, the self and the environment. Ghost Dances is a solo in which the dancer summons her ghosts, danced by her own dance phantom with forces acting at a distance. Time is out of joint and the body is the caretaker of a collection of dances.
The performance contains theater smoke, nudity & loud sounds.
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Ellen Söderhult
Ellen Söderhult is a dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm. Her choreographic works have often taken on the collective as protagonist (Rudy, Shane et al, How to do things with Romance: a prologue, DUNKA DUNKA), but also explored monstrous emotions and textures in sweet-bitter love (GROV) and the ghostly in the relationship between dancer and dance (Spökdanser, Blessika).
With a background in choral singing and sports, she often works with voice, enveloping soundscapes and big leaps. Ellen has worked with choreographers such as Iki Gonzalez Magnusson, Sorour Darabi, Anna Källblad, Nikima Jagudajev, Sindri Runudde, Nadja Hjorton, Marvil Iglesias and Catarina Zarazua Mujo, and as a musician with composer Hara Alonso. Ellen is educated at Bollnäs Folk High School's music line and on the bachelor's programmes in contemporary dance and circus at DOCH / Stockholm University of the Arts.
Choreography
Costume Design and Scenography
Light Design
Sound mixing
Music by amongst others
KABLAM and Sonja Tofik.
Producer and outside eye
Unn Faleide (MDT)
Thank you to
Derrida and Yari Stilo.
Co-production
MDT Moderna Dansteatern
,Slingan Tre Scener (Atalante, Dansstationen, MDT)
,This production is part of Life Long Burning – Futures lost and found project (2023-2026) supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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