Here-Us-Now post performance conversation

After Here-Us-Now on Sunday 20 October 2024, Celine Orman, project leader of Bevara Rörelse at Skånes Dansteater, will talk to choreographer Helena Franzén and Anna Efraimsson, theatre director at MDT.

Celine Orman runs the project Bevara Rörelse at Skånes Dansteater. She has a master's degree in ABM (archival science, library and information science and museology), and has previously studied literature, photography and film. Celine has a background as a dancer and has since 2010 engaged in somatic practices, leading courses in the movement practice Authentic Movement. Her work is driven by finding bridges between the silent body experience and the cognitive verbal language and how together they can contribute to the development of both the individual and the collective. With a listening approach, she works to preserve the dance experience in a unique and living archival format to promote the relevance, research and heritage of dance.

Helena Franzén is a choreographer with more than 35 years of practice as a dancer and with choreographic work. She has created close to 100 pieces for the stage, which have toured nationally and internationally both as projects of her own and as commissions for institutions like: Skånes Dansteater, Göteborgsoperans danskompani, Norrdans, The Edge, Nytt Dansk Dansteater. Helena Franzén is a sought-after teacher and mentor and she regularly teaches at a large variety of dance institutions around the world. 

In 2019-2020 Helena Franzén presented a comprehensive retrospective exhibition at Dansmuseet in Stockholm - Mitt dansande liv. The exhibition included films, photographs, photo books, interviews with experts from the dance field, two publications by Cecilia Malmström Olsson and Sinikka Neuhaus, and excerpts from Franzéns 30 years of artistic work. 

For the past ten years, Helena Franzén has created dance films together with the photographer and filmmaker Håkan Jelk. Their films have been presented at several international dance film festivals. During recent years, Helena has created work for other settings and rooms and her solo, Reverberate 2022, at Norrköpings konstmuseum is the latest in this series of collaborations. In 2024, she is collaborating with Uppsala konstmuseum in Brytpunkt, a spatial installation and live performance. Helena Franzén was awarded with DANSPRISET 2024 for her, among other things, being idiomatically uncompromising and consistent in her dance vocabulary throughout her long career.

Anna Efraimsson is the theater director of MDT Moderna Dansteatern. She has shifted between roles as curator, producer, administrator, teacher and dramaturge. She is senior lecturer in choreography with a focus on curatorial practices, and was the head of department at the Department of Dance at DOCH/Stockholm University of the Arts. Since 2014, she also runs the experimental business The Blob.

Efraimsson is educated at the Department of Cultural Studies at Stockholm University, Études théatrâles at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Icpp, Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University in the USA. She has previously worked at The Kitchen, Kulturhuset, Konstnärsnämnden's international dance program, Moss exhibitions, Perfect Performance and more. She has also started the feminist network W.I.S.P. with Sandra Medina, Tove Sahlin and Johanna Skobe.