Cullbergbaletten celebrates 50 years of extraordinary ground breaking contemporary dance in 2017. For the anniversary, the company presented a unique encounter between two monumental works that were created for and with the company: Eurydice is Dead (1968) by Birgit Cullberg and Protagonist (2016) by Jefta van Dinther. The celebration program was presented at Dansens Hus, Stockholm 27-29 April 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are delighted and excited to present Eurydice is Dead and to show it alongside our latest creation Protagonist by Jefta van Dinther. Both pieces explore the need for, and the aftermath of a revolution. To present these two art works on the same stage on one evening is more than just a way of connecting the past with the present. From this encounter of two monumental choreographies from Cullbergbaletten\u2019s repertoire a new energy will emerge that allows us to see the intrinsic artistic quality of each work\u201d, says Gabriel Smeets, artistic director.<\/p>\n
Eurydice is Dead<\/em> premiered in January 1968. A political creation at the time, the piece focused on the individual\u2019s fight against power and oppression, inspired by the movie Battle of Algiers (directed by Gillo Pontecorvo) and the Greek mythology. Protagonist by Jefta van Dinther was created with fourteen dancers from the company and premiered at Julidans in Amsterdam in the summer of 2016.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jubilee program, Dansens Hus, Stockholm 27-29 April 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n Eurydice is Dead\u00a0and\u00a0Protagonist, Dansens Hus, 27-29 April<\/strong> Protagonist<\/strong> Where does the dance go when it is danced? –\u00a0<\/strong>A seminar on dance, memories, legacy and archives.<\/strong><\/p>\n The ephemeral is one of the core characteristics of the art form called dance. Dance happens in space and time, in a limited encounter of dancers and audience. \u00a0Dance can hardly be caught in a material form to be preserved to survive. Yes, we have videos, films, notes, notation forms; they are an attempt to capture the movement. But the movement itself, in that space and that time, is gone forever. As Marina Abramovic recently said about restaging performances \u201cIt is a living art. If you don\u2019t re-perform that, it becomes a photograph in a book or a bad video\u201d.<\/p>\n The ephemeral quality makes it impossible to put the dance in an archive box and bring it back in the moment someone wants to experience it again. The dance, after it is danced, is taken home by the audience. Becomes part of memories, mixed with imagination, projection, deformation. In the dancers body the dance lives on as a body memory. What is it that we need to do with a choreographers\u2019 legacy? Restaging the choreographies? Cherishing the essence of the choreographers\u2019 views on dance? \u00a0Researching and studying them and projecting a path into the future with new works, with new dance?<\/p>\n This seminar will focus on these questions and try to find answers.<\/p>\n Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:00-9:45 Registration 10:30-12:00 Panel I. Moderator: Anna Efraimsson (Senior Lecturer in Choreography DOCH, Producer\/Curator). With: Salomon Bausch (Executive Director Pina Bausch Foundation), Mats Ek (Choreographer\/Director)<\/p>\n 12:00-13:15 Lunch<\/p>\n 13:15-14:15 Panel II. Moderator: Magnus Nordberg (General Manager\/Producer, Nordberg Movement). With: Susan Kozel (Professor of new media, Malm\u00f6 University), Agnieszka Sj\u00f6kvist Dlugoszewska (Dancer, Cullbergbaletten), Rani Nair (Dancer\/Choreographer).<\/p>\n 14:15-14:30 Break<\/p>\n 14:30-16:00 Panel III. Moderator: Sandra Noeth (Dramaturge\/Curator and senior lecturer at DOCH). With: Manuel Pelmus (Choreographer), Zo\u00eb Poluch (Choreographer), Eike Wittrock (Curator\/Dance Historian, University of Hildesheim)<\/p>\n 16:00-16:30 Wrap Up by Gabriel Smeets + further Q&A<\/p>\n 3 x Birgit, S\u00f6dra Teatern 20-21 May<\/strong> Video competition<\/strong> Cullbergbaletten celebrates 50 years of extraordinary ground breaking contemporary dance in 2017. For the anniversary, the company presented a unique encounter between two monumental works that were created for and with the company: Eurydice is Dead (1968) by Birgit Cullberg and Protagonist (2016) by Jefta van Dinther. The celebration program was presented at Dansens Hus, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-15476","archived_performance","type-archived_performance","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archived_performance\/15476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archived_performance"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/archived_performance"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/em>Eurydice is Dead<\/strong>
\nChoreography Birgit Cullberg
\nRestaging Mats Ek and Ana Laguna
\nOriginal costume and set design Eva Ek-Schaeffer
\nCostume Mylla Ek
\nLighting design Martin S\u00e4fstr\u00f6m
\nWith 14 dancers.<\/p>\n
\nChoreography and direction Jefta van Dinther
\nMusic and sound design David Kiers
\nLighting design Minna Tiikkainen
\nSet design SIMKA
\nSong and voice ELIAS
\nWith 14 dancers.
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\nSeminar 27 April, Dansens Hus, Lilla scen<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n9:45-10:00 Introduction by Gabriel Smeets (Artistic Director, Cullbergbaletten).
\n10:00-10:30 Keynote by Thomas Thorausch (Tanzarchiv Deutschland)<\/p>\n
\nA personal conversation about the legacies of Birgit Cullberg and Pina Bausch visiting memories, family matters and responsibility, state affairs, organization of the future and more.<\/p>\n
\nWe reflect on the dancer as a bearer of a personal movement archive, derived from work with one or many choreographers. This panel will offer reflections on how this view on the individual performer as an archive relates to legacy, both for the dancers and for the sector in large.<\/p>\n
\nPiercing through and knitting together past, present and futures, archives are both: always already there, always yet to come. The panel will question how our archives are potential ways of world-making: how they normalize, legitimize and aesthetize gestures, movements and bodies; how they are giving visibility to some bodies while leaving others in absence. In dialogue, we will investigate the role of projection and speculation in archival practice: the queer potential of the past, immaterial histories and imaginary bodies.<\/p>\n
\nCullbergbaletten’s dancers Adam Sch\u00fctt, Eva Mohn and Daniel Sj\u00f6kvist create choreographies inspired by or based on Birgit Cullberg\u2019s works. These unique interpretations are Cullbergbaletten’s birthday gift to the audience and will be presented at S\u00f6dra Teatern. FREE ADMISSION!<\/p>\n
\nCullbergbaletten invites everybody between 13 and 18 years to create short films inspired by Birgit Cullberg’s life and work. The winners will be presented at Dansens Hus, in the intermission, 27 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"