Lisa Janbell
Dos Oké
September Sessions: SWEET & STICKY
EVENING’S SCHEDULE
19.30-22.15 September Sessions, Echoes Performance programme at Boat M/S Mälar Victoria
22:30 SWEET & STICKY, MDT
23:30 DJ sets by Suze Ijó and The Neighbourhood Character
September Sessions “Echoes” performance programme ticket holders have first priority to this event. Other visitors; first come fist serve. Limited access, free entrance.
Sa 23.9.2023, 22:30-23:30, MDT
For the inaugural September Sessions MDT Moderna Dansteatern presents "SWEET & STICKY" by choreographer Lisa Janbell, with a ritual led by the performance duo Dos Oké.
Honey, let "SWEET & STICKY" sweeten your lips, wet your skin, then move you slow and fast into the underworld. Three dancers will move in slow flow, where freshwater slips through their veins in symbiosis with a live electronic landscape.
"SWEET & STICKY" is a dance, a ritual and a state that seductively licks your wounds and vulnerabilities, where performers and audiences enter a site of pleasure together, through tension and seduction. Like buds on trees in the spring, they open their fertile wishes to the singing of larks, into a dance that will move through and with spaces.
September Sessions is an initiative by Mint and Index including a performance and music program curated by Cathrin Mayer. A Contemporary Art Festival in Stockholm is launching its first edition this autumn with a four-day programme spread over various art organizations (Accelerator, coyote, Filmform, Index, Konsthall C, Liljevalchs, MDT, Mint and Tensta konsthall) in the city as well as public spaces in Stockholm. It hosts exhibitions, performances, concerts, film screenings, IASPIS Open Studios, readings, and social gatherings. We want to consciously celebrate the diversity of the Stockholm art scene to highlight local artistic productions in an international discourse.
More information about September Sessions can be found here: https://septembersessions.se/
Tickets for Echoes performance programme at M/S Mälar Victoria can be found here: https://secure.tickster.com/sv/tktxulmn1kfmjyc/products
Lisa Janbell
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).
Dos Oké
The Stockholm-based performance duo and band Dos Oké, is composed of the dancers and choreographers Lisa Janbell and Camilla Sivam. Drawing on the power of twinship-sisterhood as their creative force, Dos Óke creates sacred electronic prayers through intuitive unified movements and sound.
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Co creating dancers
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