Th 13.3.2025, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Fr 14.3.2025, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Sa 15.3.2025, 18:00-19:00, MDT
Su 16.3.2025, 15:00-16:00, MDT
a pregnant silence
a collection of sexy things
moss
pine
rapids
people
(is it lust? or is it comfort?)
Sex and Tornedalen is an in between
shifting between insider and outsider
Sex and Tornedalen embodies a disrespect towards tradition as it simultaneously asks, lovingly, to be part of the community.
Tornedalen is a border region in northern Sweden and has a unique Meänkieli culture and beautiful natural landscapes along the Torne River. The region is also shaped by issues of identity and tensions surrounding language and cultural belonging, particularly linked to the historical suppression of Meänkieli. Marcus Baldemar, who grew up in Tornedalen, often draws inspiration from queer history and storytelling, with the ambition to “queer” both history and its narratives. Baldemar has previously presented works such as GALDR, Polari Speaking Sex, and Finally Fantastic at MDT.
Marcus Baldemar is a dancer and choreographer originally from Kiruna in the north of Sweden. After many years in Brussels, Belgium he is now based in Stockholm where he makes work, dances in other people’s work as well as teaches dance and choreography.
Marcus’ work wants to communicate a non-hierarchy between the emotional, the physical and the intellectual. One recurring interest is to find and/or create connections between a poetic/political language and a poetic/political body. This as an open, ever changing, question that accompanies him in the work. Author Leslie Feinberg once said “gender is the poetry we make of the language we are taught". In Marcus’ work he also sees movement and body as the poetry we make of the language we learn. He often works with text but in the end the dancing body is the main communicator.
His starting point is often queer history and storytelling as well as the ambition to queer history and storytelling.
In his solo GALDR (2019) he looked at nordic mythology through a queer lens and danced/told an alternative story based on the Norse god Odin. With Polari Speaking Sex (2021) Marcus was inspired by a secretive language spoken amongst homosexual men in England from the beginning of the 20th century until the mid 1960s. Together with his collaborators they worked on the idea of a secret mode for communication that made possible to safely live and share queer joy, pleasure and intimacy in public. In the same year, together with Finnish dancer/choreographer Eliisa Erävalo, he created his first ever piece for children (ages 4-7). The work is bilingual (Finnish and Swedish) and is called Markus Lär Sig Finska (Markus Learns Finnish). Finally Fantastic (2022) shows a togetherness that leads all the way to death. How dying coexists with the imaginative, the joyful and the intimate. The piece can be seen as a meeting place and communal burial ground where a collection of people of different generations do and die together.
Choreography, concept, idea, costume, text
Art
Text, translation
Meri Alarcón
Music
(Lune)
Lighting Design
Artistic advice
Photo, trailer, documentation
Production
Co-production
Galleri Syster, MDT-Moderna Dansteatern
Support
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, The Swedish Arts Council
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