Maison de la Danse
is an independent platform for dance, organized and curated by Dance is Ancient. We are based in Malmö-SE, but currently mobile in the city!
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2024 fall program
Dear dance and
dance floor lovers,
Two years, two fall editions, and two spring editions have passed since the first Maison de la Danse, our program of public events where we, together with you, our dear public, re-imagine what a house for dance could be. We are thrilled to invite you to the fall 2024 edition, featuring a vibrant program of dance performances, conversations, workshops, and dance floors infused with techno beats.
This fall edition will be very special, not only due to its international dimension, as we welcome many guest artists, but also because of the richness, diversity, and relevance of the presented forms of expression and the topics that will be addressed. Tributes to the dance floor and ecstatic bodily states,dance and choreography as political action, queer perspectives and intersectional feminist approaches translated into movement, words that dance, collective memory and collective ways of working, the future of nursing and care for dance... This is just a glimpse of what we will treat you to this fall! We look forward to the exhilarating contributions of the guest artists who will temporarily take over, together with you and us, Barbro and the beautiful Festsalen at Ungdomens Hus.
After launching the season with a series of Technosomatics workshops, we are excited to introduce our first guest artist: Berlin-based choreographer Ania Nowak. Ania’s work, which has been showcased in renowned art spaces and theaters, reimagines what bodies and words can or cannot do while exploring binary-free ways of living. She will join me for our first Maison Ouverte event, where we will spotlight the intersection of the poetic and the political.
Queerness and the political will definitely spill over from our first event to the second: we invite the new generation of choreographers and artists of the Copenhagen’s artist-led platform Dance Cooperative for a carte blanche. They will share with us their freshest works and practices.
To close the season, we are thrilled to host another international choreographer from Berlin, Thiago Granato. His work has toured to numerous countries, including his 2016 piece Trança, part of his project Choreoversations, which imagines collaborations between himself and deceased, living or future choreographers.
As always, our program also provides space for reflection and dialogue, thanks to collaborations with August Norborg from PAGE 28, Rachel Tess, the director of Milvus Artistic Research Center (MARC), and Rebecca Yates, artistic director of Dans i Blekinge. And of course, we will celebrate dance in the best possible way—on the dance floor, to the beats of surprise DJs!
All events are free of charge, but you can support us with a donation if you wish. However, the greatest support you can give us is simply your presence.
Come and dance!
Come and watch dance!
Come and discuss dance!
With love,
Frédéric Gies
Artistic Director of Dance is Ancient
FALL 2024
FALL 2024
WORKSHOPS
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Dates: Mondays 9/9, 23/9, 7/10, 21/10, 11/11, 25/11 + Saturday 7/12
Time Mondays: 19.00-21.15
Time Saturday 7/12: 15.00-17.00
Place: Ungdomens Hus, (Teater Barbro)
All levels.
Technosomatics is a unique dance practice that delves into the connection between club dancing to techno music and the body's chakras and endocrine glands. Developed and shared globally by Frédéric Gies since 2014, this practice offers a transformative experience. Each session will be dedicated to a specific focus and theme. -
Date: Saturday 9 November
Time: 14.30-15.30
Place: Ungdomens Hus
All levels
In this workshop for everyone, regardless of skill levels, Ania Nowak shares aspects of her practice that explores the interplay between body and language.
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Date: Saturday 9 November
Time: 16.00-17.00
Place: Ungdomens Hus
All levels
Frédéric Gies shares their practice of using ballet movement vocabulary as a means of exploring and embodying anatomical structures.
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PERFORMANCES
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Date: Saturday 9 November
Time: 14.00-21.30
Place: Ungdomens Hus (Teater Barbro + Festsalen)Our first open house of the season will feature Berlin-based artist Ania Nowak and Dance is ancient’s artistic director Frédéric Gies. The event will present a thoughtfully curated program of performances, workshops, and conversations that are both poetic and political, and resolutely queer.
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Date: Saturday 7 December
Time: 15.00-21.30 + party
Place: Ungdomens Hus (Festsalen + Teater Barbro) + place to be revealedFeaturing Brazilian artist Thiago Granato and the collaboration between Dance is ancient, Milvus Artistic Research Center and Dans i Blekinge, the program for our last event of the season, from dance practice to performance, conversations and party, is an invitation to delve into how we care for dance and the poetics of trance.
OTHER EVENTS
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Date: Saturday 7 December
Time: 22.00-late
Place: to be revealedCelebrate the end of the season of of the year with our closing party ! Lineup to be announced.
All info HERE
Upcoming Editions
SPRING 2025
More artists, international choreographers and access to behind the stage.
More info in 2025.
About
MAISON de la DANSE
MAISON de la DANSE is an independent platform for dance, organised and curated by Dance is Ancient in Malmö, SE. MAISON de la DANSE is at the moment mobile in the city. We welcome all audiences to a broad range of activities, including performances, workshops, works-in-progress, conversation and open house days.
Previous Editions
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Under construction
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Workshops & classes:
Technosomatics
Technosomatics live (collaboration with Kontra-musik/Ulf Eriksson)
Open training with Dance is ancient’s team
Open classes——
Performances:Many wild times (work-in-progress)
An investigation of the overlaps between hetereocis-normative sociability and climate collapse.
Presented in the frame of the programme evening #ONE (A danceaafter a dance after another dance - 2023).
Dance & choreography: Andreas HaglundChiron in Aries (excerpts and remixes)
Selected duos and solos from the 7-piece cycle Chiron in Aries. Uniquely revisited with group dances danced as solos and/or solos as duos. After the Spring edition revisiting Brittanie Brown and Elisa Brewer’s solos, the fall edition makes us rediscover the cycle through the prism of dancers Declan Whitaker, Andreas Haglund and Frédéric Gies.
Choreography: Frédéric Gies / Dance: Frédéric Gies, Declan Whitaker, Andreas Haglund / Music: Fiedel / Costumes: Grzegorz MatlagDance is ancient dances Dance is ancient’s dance #1, #2, #3 and #4
6 different compilation of dances from our repertoire, presented in their original form or remixed in unexpected way.
Presented it the frame of our Open House Maison Ouverte.
Choreography: Frédéric Gies / Dancers: Elise Brewer, Disa Krosness, Anna Pehrsson and Frédéric Gies / Music: Fiedel / Costumes: Grzegorz MatlagExcavation 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.
Presented it the frame of our Open House Maison Ouverte.
Choreography and Dance: Anna Pehrsson / Music: Alva NotoYou might plant a rose bush under your bedroom window
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.
Presented it the frame of our Open House Maison Ouverte.
Dance & choreography: Elise Brewer#TWO (A dance after a dance after another dance – 2023)
A special programme, navigating between Frédéric Gies’ classics and the forgotten corners of their work, in a poetic yet humorous journey. Choreography and dance: Frédéric Gies / Artist talk led by Skånes konstförening.Penumbral dances
Performance for one spectator at a time, in an intimate setting.
Choeography and dance: Frédéric GiesTilt to turn
In 2021, the possibilities of meeting and playing live were uncertain. Intonal Festival decided to do little guerrilla actions where they would crash various locations around Malmö, without notice or announcement, and just create what they loved. No crowd or anything, just them, the artists and their creativity. They invited Frédéric Gies and Rivet, which collaboration gave birth to Tilt to turn.
Presented live for the first time, in the frame of the performance evening #THREE (A dance after a dance after another dance - 2023).
Dance and choeography: Frédéric Gies / Music (live): RivetManifesto 1
A new solo, which will be part of the upcoming piece “Manifestos: Chiron in Aries, Recital #5 and #6”, which will premiere in the fall 2025. It is part of a series of solos, which in their turn are part of the Chiron in Aries cycle, crafted specifically for the dancers who perform them. In this solo, Elise Brewer’s dance oscillate between fierceness and vulnerability, relentlessness and tenderness.
Presented in the frame of the performance evening #THREE (A dance after a dance after another dance).
Choreography: Frédéric Gies / Dance: Elise Brewer / Music: Fiedel / Costume: Grzegorz Matlag——
Club:
#THE PARTY
A party to celebrate a year of dancing, with Rivet & Berghain resident Fiedel.——
Other:Open rehearsals
Techno lunch
Afterworks
Artist talks——
Partners (curating) : MARC, Kontra-musik
Partners (venues) : Ungdomens Hus, Skåne konstförening
With the support of : Kulturrådet, Malmö stad, Region Skåne -
First edition of Maison de la Danse as we know it today!
Workshops: Technosomatics Regular, Technosomatics Intensive & Ribbon Dance workshop
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Performances:
The Last
A celebration of dancing, dancers, and personal dance histories. It will premiere in August 2023 in Knislinge, with 7 dancers, each presenting a solo. For La Maison de la Danse, Rachel Tess gives a world preview of this work and dances her own solo from the piece.
Dance, concept and Choreography: Rachel Tess / Sound: Uli RuchlinskiLittle did I know that I, ere or since, ever should speak mouthless
Little did I know that I, ere or since, ever should speak mouthless (2011) examines the possibilities of dealing with politics in an artistic work.
Choreography and Dance: Frédéric Gies / Music: Daniel JenatschDance concert #1
Compilation of different programs of bold, tender and virtuosic dances extracted from our recent performances for the stage: “Constellations and Alliances”, “Warriors” and “Terpsichore in Scorpio”.
Choreography: Frédéric Gies / Dance: Frédéric Gies, Andreas Haglund / Music: FiedelDance concert #2 Compilation of different programs of bold, tender and virtuosic dances extracted from our recent performances for the stage: “Constellations and Alliances” and “Barricades and Legacies”.
Choreography: Frédéric Gies / Dance: Brittanie Brown, Elise Brewer / Music: FiedelDance concert #3
Compilation of different programs of bold, tender and virtuosic dances extracted from our recent performances for the stage: “Penumbral dances”, “Constellations and Alliances” and “Barricades and Legacies”.
Choreography: Frédéric Gies / Dance: Brittanie Brown, Frédéric Gies / Music: FiedelUnclouded Dances
Performance/ritual for one spectator at a time, in an intimate setting. It addresses the spiritual dimension of dance and its relationship to healing.
Choreography and Dance: Frédéric Gies / Music: Fiedel——
Other: Techno Breakafsts, Open Movement Research
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Partners (venues): Ungdomens Hus
With the support of: Kulturrådet. Malmö stad, Region Skåne -
First Malmö base edition in 2022 under the previous name “ Context”.
Workshops: Technosomatics.
Performances: Good girls go to Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere - Unclouded Dances - Walk + Talk - Ribbon DanceDance: Frédéric Gies
Music: Fiedel
Partners (venues): Ungdomens Hus, Teaterhögskolan
With the support of: Kulturrådet. Malmö stad, Region Skåne