Category: UNGDOM/VUXNA

The Figure
”Because no matter what one does, there is no way to flee from it.” – Girl; 14-18 years old, on the beauty ideals of modern society.

Maria Naidu’s The Figure is a powerful choreographed work which visualises the relationship of young people to the beauty ideals of modern society. The performance content is based on conversations with girls aged 14 – 18. The artistic work is solely based on their perspective and thoughts on this topic.

The Figure is a storytelling choreographic work for 10 female stage performers of different ages, where movement and text take turns in embodying the strength of the message conveyed.

Young people meet a social context that is markedly different from that of adults. Being young and forming one’s personality in the midst of society’s buzz is a form of vulnerability, treading a thin line of social acceptability and status.  How is your value as a person established and what role does appearance have in this evaluation?

During the Autumn of 2017 ten girls aged 14-18 met every week for two months to read selected sections of the book” The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women” by Naomi Wolf, published in 1990. Then the group reflected freely on the different definitions, possibilities for individualism and relation to one’s own body. The conversations were recorded, transcribed and re-worked by dramatist Helena Röhr to form a rough script that became the basis of the performance.

”…Or if you don’t fit into ‘one size’ you become… That is to say, then you fit… That is to say, you get a really odd self-image, and you hear yourself say, OK, this will fit. Like, ““one size fits all”, but “no”, it doesn’t actually.”
 – Girl; 14-18 years old.

Open rehearsal of Under the Full Moon

One week before the premiere of Under the Full Moon, Moomsteatern opens their doors during Malmö Scenfest and welcomes the public to an open rehearsal.

Directors Rikard Lekander and Cecilia Milocco transform Lisa Förare’s book Under the Full Moon into a visual masterpiece which will play on all your feelings and senses. During the open rehearsal you have the chance to work the ongoing work process.

Under the Full Moon takes place one night at Cissi’s Café.  Ali is cleaning up when suddenly there is a knock at the door. Outside stands a mysterious creature bathed in moonlight. It is Mona, who is going to come inside and bake. Ali thinks this is a little odd, but somehow it feels quite natural and familiar all the same. As if it were something that just slipped his mind. The same way he has forgotten where he comes from.

Mona is expecting visitors to the café and one by one they turn up throughout the night. All of those who cannot sleep. All those who are grieving, aching and losing their footing. Those who need Mona. Without having even looked for the café, they end up there anyway. Magnus who has been left alone with a dog he does not want. Kristin who takes care of the children at home and patients at work, but not of herself. Åke who will soon die, but who nevertheless does not want to live. Linnea who wants to live in the dark and in a fantasy world, so no one will see how ugly she is.

Under the Full Moon is a story full of heart-breaking reality and inspirational, hopeful magic. A place where raw reality meets mystic fantasy. A fairy-tale for grownups.

Open rehearsal of Viktor Fröjds “SENSES”

Welcome to an open rehearsal of the performance Senses.

Senses is an ongoing work where Viktor Fröjd invites dancers to jointly uncover each others’ worlds – through movement and dialogue – in the moment. The piece uses these encounters as a starting point and what can be imagined to transpire from this exploration of each other’s senses.

Imagine a talk show, a dance warmup, an encounter and a performance all rolled into one. Viktor Fröjd’s new work is something in between. With a sense of the power of movement, the full potential of the senses is explored through unique encounters. In Senses we get to glimpse through the curtains, into the dancers’ own relationship with dance.

How receptive can a tongue be, that has tasted a thousand different flavours? Does an ear that has heard a million sounds need to rest? Can the eye which has seen so much, discover anything new? Is our own sense of being alive a sense in itself?

Meet the Ukrainian dancers and choreographers Viktoriia Khoroshylova and Viktoriia Sliptsova who have been in residency at Skånes Dansteater since autumn 2022. We invite you to an intimate conversation about work processes and projects they worked on. We will also show a short excerpt from the work TWO WALLS.

The conversation will be held in English and everyone is welcome to ask questions. We are in the dance studio at Skånes Dansteater.

We will show an excerpt from the work TWO WALLS:
On February 24th their lives turned upside down when Russia launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine. They fled to Malmö in June 2022. The performance is a peak into a personal, human perception of war, into people’s search for safety, connection, and normality in highly abnormal circumstances.

It is a story of the reality in the middle of the war, away from rationalized political conversations in TV studios and governmental halls. The reality where you still try to do your work, shop some groceries, wash your hair, and gather your family – behind ’Two Walls’ that would keep you safe in the middle of bombings.

About Viktoriia Khoroshylova
Viktoriia Khoroshylova  is a Ukranian dancer and choreographer who took up an artistic residency at Skånes Dansteater during 2022 and is currently working on several different projects this spring.

Viktoriia works among other things with issues regarding modern Ukranian society, issues connected to ecological strain, overconsumption and the destruction of architectural heritage. She is currently working with themes linked to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, on issues such as freedom, responsibility and the realisation of a person’s creative potential. She is particularly interested in cross-disciplinary projects that combine poetry and physical theatre, painting and movement, choreography and improvisation in different spaces (site-specific performance).

About Viktoriia Sliptsova
Dancer and dance pedagogue in modern dance, Kharkiv Regional Palace of Children and Youth Creativity. Viktoriia’s latest work includes choreography for several musicals such as ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ at Baza, the largest concert hall in Charkiv. Since 2010 she has been working as a pedagogue and ballet master in the national dance group “Happy Childhood” involving more than 300 participants.

2021 she founded a dance company beginning several productions in collaboration with several dancers, costume designers and composers. Due to the war the company was forced to close completely and cancel all plans.

Come and talk theatre with Teatercentrum

We who work at Teatercentrum Södra will be on hand to talk, answer questions and happily tell you about fringe and independent theatre, inform you about some of southern Sweden’s best theatre companies, as well as what we do at Teatercentrum.