Jubilee Performance with free admission.
In 2017, Cullberg celebrated 50 years of continual presentation of ground breaking contemporary dance with a jubilee performance that took place at Södra Teatern on the 20th and 21st of May. Three of the company’s dancers presented their own pieces, inspired by the founder Birgit Cullberg’s life and work. The unique works were chosen by a jury made up of Mats Ek, Ana Laguna, Cristina Caprioli, Stina Nyberg and Jefta van Dinther.
Det kändes som det var min
By Eva Mohn
Det kändes som det var min is a collaborative dance sourced and composed from memories, impressions, fragments and poetry of a dancer’s processes and experiences. We interviewed two dancers, Siv Ander and Karin Thulin, who worked with Cullberg Ballet from its inception in 1967. In the interviews they shared their stories, their histories, their memories of dances, and dance experiences. From this material we developed a dance built from these memories, stories and fantasies of our predecessors, as well as revealing and sharing our own. We did this as a way to honor a great story teller and women of rich fantasy, Birgit Cullberg. This is our way of using dance as story, poetry, and fantasy, and building a choreography that feels like it is our own: “just like this, exactly like this, like this.”
Dance and music: Eva Mohn, Eszter Czédulás, Eleanor Campbell
Musician: Erik Nilsson
Set design: Eva Mohn, Mirko Guido
Lighting design: Mirko Guido
Momen
By Daniel Sjökvist
In his new piece Momen, Daniel Sjökvist is inspired by Birgit Cullberg’s Romeo and Juliet. Sergei Prokofiev’s famous music is deconstructed.
Dancers: Katie Jacobson, Ninna Oom, Patricia Saliba
Lighting design and rehearsal director: Thomas Zamolo
Sound design: Camille Prieux
Re: Birgit
Av Adam Schütt
Watching the labour of exquisite dancing and hearing that subject expressing sincere and personal statements and questions, seems to me an extension of Birgit’s legacy. Is choreography just physical labour? How many narratives can be expressed by the body at the same time? What happens when Ireenact Birgit’s work and express my own view at the same time? – Adam Schütt
With: Adam Schütt, Anand Bolder, Samuel Draper, Vincent Van der Plas
Lighting design: Adam Schütt
Set design: Gian Monti, Felix Breitholtz and Nytorgsverkstaden
Choreographic assistant: Mirko Guido