A Safe Place To Die

Lotta Melin/Agrare

Foto: The ensemble

Foto Tekla Bertha Melin

The performance trio Agrare premiered A Safe Place To Die, at Dansens Hus in Stockholm in february 2010. Agrare consist of Lotta Melin and the Norwegian composer and noise-musicians Hild Sofie Tafjord and Maja Ratkje - world famous in their genre. The trio has made several internationally acclaimed works imbued with electronic music and a large dose of experimentation.

This choreography takes the audience on adizzying plunge into the writer Jules Verne's universe of sound, light, volcanoes, octopuses, and other fossils. The choreography is blended with electronic and acoustic live music, visual arts, animation and videoprojections.

Set design by international known Swedish artist JanHåfström.

Melin and Håfström have worked together before,notably during the opening of the Venice Biennale in 2009 and in the popularnotion Regarding Diana Palmer's disappearance at Liljevalchs Art Gallery inspring 2009.

Lotta Melin CV

Lotta Melin isa choreographer, dancer and performance artist, based in Stockholm but istouring all around the world. Lotta Melin, who works in the dynamics between sound and movement, often uses herself as an "instruments".

Press Quotes

A magnificent, violently imaginative, ingeniously designed, performance, or rather a multi artwork.

Örjan Arbrahamsson , DN

A safe place to die is nevertheless an experience unlike any other…

Anna Ångström, SvD

One of this spring most original dance works

Lena Andrén, Nummer

Friday 3rd 19:00 Dansens Hus, Main stage

Nordic Dance Platform

www.nordicdanceplatform.com

The ensemble

Choreography Lotta Melin in collaboration with the ensemble
Set design Jan Håfström
Costumes Johanna Mårtensson
Light Anton Sjöstedt
Music Agrare Live-musik by Maja Ratkje, Hild Sofie Tafjord
Dancers Anna Ehnberg, Henrietta Wallberg, Fanny Kivimäki
Animation Tekla Berthas Melin
With support from Kulturrådet, Konstnärsnämnden and Det Norske Komponistfond.

Biennale di Venezia - June 4, 5 , 6, 7

Performances at the Arsenale

Destruction of Africa

Performances at the Arsenale in Jan Håfström's installation "The Eternal Return"

June 4+5 at 14.00, June 6 at 12.00
Three noisy women in "Destruction of Africa".
Choreography: Lotta Melin in co with the dancers
Dancers: Katarin, Eriksson, Anna Westberg, Lotta Melin
Light, video: Daniel Andersson
Sound: Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Tom Bugs (sound costume)

La Buena Muerte

Performance followed by artist talk with Jan Håfström and Steven H Madoff at Teatro Piccolo, Arsenale June 7 at 14.00
Coreography Lotta Melin in co with the dancers

Dancers: Katarina Eriksson, Anna Westberg, Lotta Melin

Scenography: Jan Håfström, Rickard Svensson
Light, video: Daniel Andersson
Sound: Carl Michael Hausswolff, Lotta Melin, Tom Bugs (sound costume)Planned improvised performance included in Jan Håfström's exhibition.

Performers: Jan Håfström, Daniel Andersson and friends

No answer from Polar station Zebra

Contemporary on ice, Kungsträdgården 12-14 februari 2009

foto Roland Aalto