A Safe Place To Die
Lotta Melin/Agrare
Foto Tekla Bertha Melin
Lotta Melin last performed at Dansens Hus in 2007 with the critically acclaimed work Behind Beyond. A member of the performance art trio Agrare, she is now presenting the premiere of a newly created dance and electronic experiment on the Main stage. A Safe Place To Die takes the audience in to the universe of Jules Vernes with sounds, light, volcanoes, octopuses, fossils, and more. Here choreography is blended with electronic and acoustic live music, visual art, animation and video projections. Also on stage is the artist Jan Håfström, in the middle of his own world of imagery. Melin and Håfström have collaborated before, among others at the opening of the Biennale in Venice and in the popular performance Regarding Diana Palmer’s disappearance at Liljevalchs in April 2009.
Agrare consists of the Stockholm-based choreographer and dancer Lotta Melin, and the Norwegian noise-musicians Hild Sofie Tafjord and Maja Ratkje—world famous in their genre. The trio has a series of successful dance concerts behind them.
16 February - 18 February
16 February at 19.00
18 February at 19.00
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
foto Roland Aalto