Ellen Söderhult
Shane et al.
Th 27.9.2018, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Fr 28.9.2018, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Shane is a character in a TV series that is about a girl gang that hangs out a lot. It doesn’t really have a main character but the main character is sort of the gang. Et al.indicates “and others”.
The choir has a history of backing up a soloist, but to sing in a choir can also be to temporarily submit to or acknowledge being a part of a collective protagonist. With the choir as a temporary singing- and dancing group, dances and songs are activated, recycled and composted as collective- and group-self expressions.
Scenography shifts from background to foreground when the choir’s collected forces embrace the mountain with singing. This will be an attempt to create a sort of danced IMAX with sung verses like “bright horizon stand above the earth’s stormy night”. Welcome to a take on a sort of “fulldome dance and singing concert”.
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Ellen Söderhult
Ellen Söderhult is a dancer and choreographer living in Stockholm. Her most recent piece GROV (ROUGH) deals with the monstrous feelings and textures of bittersweet love. Previous choreographic works have often concerned the collective as a protagonist and texture in sound and movement. As in the team-sporty punk ballet How to do things and with Romance and Rudy, as well as in pieces where choir singing and vibrating base has been central elements such as Shane et al and DUNKA DUNKA.
Her work has been shown at venues such as Heizhaus (Berlin), Black Box (Oslo), Dansehallerne, Danseatelier (Copenhagen), Bastun och Båthuspaviljongen (Mariehamn), Ateneum (Helsinki), Dansstationen (Malmö), Dansmässan/Scenkonstmuséet, MDT, Weld, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus (Stockholm), DansPlats Skog (Stråtjära), Dansinitiativet (Luleå) and Massmanska kvarnen (Ronneby).
Ellen performs for and collaborates with others, such as Marvil Iglesias and Catarina Zarazua Mujo, Sindri Runudde, Iki Gonzalez Magnusson, Johanssons Pelargoner och Dans, Stina Nyberg, Nadja Hjorton and Sorour Darabi. In 2015 she initiated an open source platform for exchange within artistic practices called Nobody’s Business together with Eleanor Bauer and Alice Chauchat. Ellen is educated at DOCH/SKH and received the Cullberg award in 2022.
Choreography and direction
Performed by and made in collaboration with
During the process the interns Andreas Haglund, Hannah Krebs and Corinne Mustonen have contributed to the project.
Scenography and costume
Sound Design
Supported by
Kulturrådet, Konstnärsnämnden and Stockholms stad.
Co-production
Köttinspektionen Dans, Dans i Blekinge and MDT.
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