Ellen Söderhult

Shane et al.

Four people in a dark space, walking in a row, wearing white shirts and veils

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”.

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.

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Choreography and direction

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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