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MDT Presents ‘Another Fine Selection’

words by daniela trujillo EVB

I have been going to festivals for as long as I can remember… music festivals that is.

I was never involved with any sports growing up. I was the choir, theatre and dance kinda kid from elementary all the way through to my final semester of university.

The amount of dance academies, training and performances that go on in Stockholm are abundant and are unfortunately, most of them go completely unnoticed.

Here at Totally Stockholm we want to and are changing that.

We proudly announce and remind all Stockholmers of the upcoming, MDT dance festival.

That’s right. Three days. Seven different shows. Several performances and an official after-party where the other kinds of dance moves reign, this week is undoubtedly going to be filled with movement, expression, music and dance.

See you there, Stockholm.

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TOVE SALMGREN – I PRETEND THAT YOU SPEAK (S)

Salmgren is a dancer, currently student at the Masters education New Performative Practices in DOCH and has a very long list of works she has been a part of. This is the first one she has signed as her own piece. MDT has worked out a deal with Salmgren. She will work in residencies and show the result every now and then. I pretend that yo u speak was presented as a showing. Audience gets to play an important part in a fictional debate. Salmgren moderates. All involved agreed. It’s a piece. (A great one.)

MANON SANTKIN – UNEXPLAINED DANCES (BE)

Santkin from Brussels is a performer and maker with an impressive résumé. Unexplained Dances is a project that deals with the critical eye, critical discourse and how to involve that into the dance. It is a part of her master studies in Stockholm New Performative Practices. Santkin presented one version of this ongoing project in DOCH and this will be herfirst official showing of the work. (First Time Ever.)

STINA NYBERG – SPLENDOUR (S)

Stina Nyberg has since she graduated from the Choreography Master in DOCH a few years back presented two pieces in MDT, plus one at the Opera and one created with the Cullberg Ballet. And that’s not all. She has also worked with the amazing pop duo The Knife and the collectives Samlingen and the Future (So true). We wanted badly to show this piece. SPLENDOUR is based on THE WAY SOUNDS ATTACK that started it all. A techno album. Sounds that move.

ALMA SÖDERBERG & HENDRIK WILLEKENS – IDIOTER (S/NL/BE)

We show everything Söderberg does. She is a choreographer and dancer, trained in Spain and Holland, who uses her body, including her voice to shake your brain. This time she attempts to unlock the mind and make herself, and perhaps also you, into idiots. Hendrik Willekens, her partner in crime, is an artist that paints and draws with everything, also sounds. (Fucked up, in a good, awsome way.)

JULI REINARTZ – ATLANTIC (S/DE)

Juli Reinartz fell for Black Atlantic, a liberating jazz movement from the 1950–60s. Anti-racist free jazz gone mad. Reinartz is a choreographer from Germany, educated in Stockholm and Berlin. Atlantic is solo performance focusing on the lead singer. It is part of a series of works, including WE ARE NOT IN THIS TOGETHER YET and REALLY GOOD MUSIC, working on the physical kinesthetics of the live concert. (And that’s far cooler than it sounds.)

LUDVIG DAAE – FUN, LAUGHS, GOOD TIME (S/NO)

Dancer and choreographer Ludvig Daae makes some of the cutest performances on the planet. Neon colored fashion, dance moves and pop music in a mix. All with a razor sharp edge. Daae is educated in the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm and P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, comes from Norway and has most of his life here in Stockholm; if we exclude the extensive touring he does with his works.

ERNA ÓMARSDÓTTIR & VALDIMAR JÓHANNSSON – LAZYBLOOD (IS)

We know we used the words “crazy” and “mad” often enough, and now we have to invent new words to describe this loving couple from Iceland. Ómarsdóttir & Jóhannsson are perhaps the hardest workers in the business, the CV is so long we won’t bother, but we need to mention that Ómarsdóttir is choreographer, dancer and appointed director of the Icelandic Dance Company and she just finished choreographing Björk’s new art video. Never ever has anybody head-banged even nearly as well as these two. (Did we say they are Icelandic?)

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