Maison Ouverte (Open House)
On November 18 and 19, Maison de la Danse’s doors are wide open!
During the two days of Maison Ouverte, not only we open our doors to you and invite you to dive into our work from different angles (watching us perform for you, dancing with us or watching us rehearse) but we also open our doors to other artists, whose work you will be able to witness as well. For the first edition of Maison Ouverte, we invite Malmö based Elise Brewer, who is also part of Dance is ancient’s team and Anna Pehrson, who is currently in residence at MARC. On day 2, we will also have the pleasure to welcome Ulf Eriksson, in collaboration with Kontra Musik, who will DJ for our technosomatics session.
You are free to make your own programme, come whenever and come and go as you wish (please not that for the technosomatics session, doors will close after the start of the workshop). If you choose to stay for long: there will be some snacks!
Dates & Times
Sat. 18 November 2023 from 14.00 to 22.00
Sun. 19 November 2023 from 11.00 to 19.00
Note: Activities and performances all weekend: come and go as you wish. Detailed schedule below.
Price: free
DETAILED PROGRAMME
Day 1: Saturday Nov. 18
14.00 · Open training with Dance is ancient’s team
Frédéric Gies will give a dance class, open to all levels (even if you don’t have any dance practice, that is possible), which combines a technique class (with a couple of ballet elements) and a somatic approach of movement. It is all about developing bodily awareness, effortlessness and ease in movement, not about looking good in relation to an impossible ideal.
15.00 · Open rehearsals
Dance is ancient’s team invites you to witness their rehearsal process and dive into the meticulous work of preparing for showing a dance to a public.
16.00 · Dance is ancient dances Dance is ancient’s dances #1
We have compiled for you a programme of dances from our repertoire, which we will present in their original form or remix in unexpected way. It will be a different programme of dances each time we will do it during the weekend. Except voluptuous, bold and queer dances, to infectious techno beats!
Dances choreographed by Frédéric Gies / Danced by Elise Brewer, Disa Krosness and Frédéric Gies / Music: Fiedel / Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
16.30 · Anna Pehrsson presents Excavation Series I
In the first part of three, Excavation Series I, Choreographer and Dancer Anna Pehrsson, sources movement as mass - hot liquid rock lurking around the corner - a comet’s tail blasting through the skies - or a thin layer of evaporated water reaching the pores.
Choreography and Dance: Anna Pehrsson / Music: Alva Noto
17.30 · Elise Brewer presents You might plant a rose bush under your bedroom window
You might plant a rose bush under your bedroom window is a walk through the landscape of bushes and railway tracks. A sequence of desires and needs unfolding alongside the trail. A dance of repetitive riffs that hits tenderly.
Dance & choreography: Elise Brewer
18.30 · Dance is ancient dances Dance is ancient’s dances #2
In Dance is ancient dances Dances is ancient dances, we compiled for you a programme of dances from our repertoire, which we will present in their original form or remix in unexpected way. It will be a different programme of dances each time we will do it during the weekend. Except voluptuous, bold and queer dances, to infectious techno beats!
Dances choreographed by Frédéric Gies / Danced by Elise Brewer, Disa Krosness and Frédéric Gies / Music: Fiedel / Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
19.00 · Dance is ancient dances Dance is ancient’s dances #3
In Dance is ancient dances Dances is ancient dances, we compiled for you a programme of dances from our repertoire, which we will present in their original form or remix in unexpected way. It will be a different programme of dances each time we will do it during the weekend. Except voluptuous, bold and queer dances, to infectious techno beats!
Dances choreographed by Frédéric Gies / Danced by Elise Brewer, Disa Krosness and Frédéric Gies / Music: Fiedel / Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
Please note: Due to a last minute contretemps, Alma Söderberg's performance originally planned at 19.00 had to be cancelled. Dance is ancient dances Dance is ancient's dance #3 will therefore start at 19.00 instead and is extended into a 2-hour program of dance, covering 10 years of work and various collaborations! Opening unexpected doors for the future and joyfully and too briefly inviting you into what dance and dancing can encompass, as the poetry of movement, as a labour, as a speech, as a train of thought, as a point of view, as a meaning, as a feeling, as a sensation, as a political stand…
21.00 · After work
You are invited to mingle, meet and talk with us
Doors close at 22.00
Day 2: Sunday Nov. 19
11.00 · Open training with Dance is Ancient’s team
Frédéric Gies will give a dance class, open to all levels (even if you don’t have any dance practice, that is possible), which combines a technique class (with a couple of ballet elements) and a somatic approach of movement. It is all about developing bodily awareness, effortlessness and ease in movement, not about looking good in relation to an impossible ideal.
12.00 · Open rehearsals
Dance is ancient team invites you to witness their rehearsal process and dive into the meticulous work of preparing for showing a dance to a public.
13.00 · Techno lunch
Skip food, come to our dance floor and dance!
14.00 · Dance is ancient dances Dance is ancient’s dances #4
In Dance is ancient dances Dances is ancient dances, we compiled for you a programme of dances from our repertoire, which we will present in their original form or remix in unexpected way. It will be a different programme of dances each time we will do it during the weekend. Except voluptuous, bold and queer dances, to infectious techno beats!
Dances choreographed by Frédéric Gies / Danced by Elise Brewer, Disa Krosness and Frédéric Gies / Music: Fiedel / Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
15.00 · Technosomatics Live
Technosomatics is Frédéric Gies’ movement practice. It is toured internationally in festivals and dance theaters and shared with dance students and professionals around the world. Frédéric Gies and Elise Brewer will guide you through a 3-hour Technosomatics workshop, which will culminate with a one hour session with Ulf Eriksson DJing for us. This live session is organized in collaboration with Kontra-musik.
18.00 · After work
You are invited to mingle, meet and talk with us
Doors close at 19.00
Photography: Thomas Zamolo
ABOUT OUR GUEST ARTISTS
Anna Pehrsson
Photo: Thomas Zamolo
Anna Pehrsson, born in Boliden, Sweden, is a dancer and choreographer working in the intersection of dance, choreography and visual arts. She has danced with Alias Compagnie, Corpus/ Royal Danish Ballet, and Cullbergbaletten, and has since her debut as a choreographer in 2016, created a wide range of works for stage and art galleries, as well as a number of commissioned works. Pehrsson is one of Weld's associate choreographers, and has an MFA in Choreography from DOCH and a post master accreditation from KKH. Since her debut at Tjörnedala Konsthall in 2021, she is also active as a visual artist. During 2023, she participates as a choreographer and dancer in the EU project Rail2Dance and develops the site-specific project Danser för Bruket in collaboration with Region Uppsala. www.annapehrsson.com
Alma Söderberg - cancelled
Alma Söderberg is a choreographer and performer that works with music and dance. She uses her voice and body to play space as if it was an instrument. Her ongoing research deals with how we listen as we look; the relation between the ear and the eye. She has grounded her practice in a number of solo performances, Deep Etude, Nadita en more. She has also created the trio Entangled phrases and made two pieces for the dance company Cullberg. She has an ongoing collaboration with sound artist deHendrik lechat Willekens and has made a film, La mano que canta, together with visual artist Alex Reynolds.
Elise Brewer
Photo: Thomas Zamolo
Elise Brewer works as a freelance dancer and is currently based in-between Stockholm and Sätaröd, Sweden. She holds a BA in Dance and Performance from Stockholm University of the Arts (2012-2015).
Her artistic work and practice consists of a hybrid of doing, thinking, reading, writing and discussing and takes shape through collaborations with other artists and through the development of her own projects. Her own work often takes place in public urban spaces where the interest lies in investigating performative aspects of those specific sites to give resonance to the multitude of desires, values and needs that they hold and that could unfold. She is currently studying the post-master course Tusen kulturhus at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Together with choreographer Sanna Blennow she is part of the duo Brewer & Blennow. Their work often takes place at public libraries.
Elise has ongoing long term collaborations together with choreographer Malin Elgán and choreographer Frédéric Gies.
Disa Krosness
Photo: Thomas Zamolo
Disa is educated at The Danish National School of Performing Arts but is now based in Stockholm. She has worked as freelance dancer, choreographer and producer since 2011 and is now expanding into social work at Marie Cederschiölds Högskola. Disa has worked with contemporary dance, opera, theatre, dance theatre and more. She has been part of many different constellations, amongst others Weld Company 2015-2022. She performed in Barricades and Legacies, Tribute and Warriors.
Ulf Eriksson
Eriksson runs Kontra-Musik, a techno label based in Malmö, Sweden’s southernmost city. Eriksson was a musician and DJ long before launching the label in 2006, and is getting well-deserved recognition as Kontra’s profile continues to rise.
Kontra’s carefully curated catalogue and divergent aesthetic is having an increasingly significant influence on electronic music internationally. Kontra Musik is a label that fully embrace today’s radically open aesthetic. Its artists include: Frak, Mokira, Jonsson/Alter, Jason Fine, Rivet, and more. A labour of love, the label has flourished and boosted the profile of all the artists involved including Eriksson himself. Eriksson has recently become more visible as a DJ outside Sweden, holding many live dates. His dj-set is a reflection of the label output, blending styles with ease, mixing with personality and an open mind. Ulf also has several mixes out on respected mixes on curated podcast series’ including Modyfier (2011), mnml ssgs (2011), Smoke Machine (2012) and RBMA.
www.kontra-musik.com
Ulf Eriksson. Photo: Camilla Rehnstrand