Guest performance: Ghost Dances – Ellen Söderhult.

Dance steps haunt Ellen Söderhult; Ellen Söderhult haunts the stage. In Ghost Dances Fauns, suitors, opera demons and their aunt are invited to a medley of dance ghosts.

Choreography invokes history and allows that which is past to be resurrected and made present again. Hence, in it we find questionable dance ghosts littered around and running rampant. We find that dances echo their performers and performers echo dances; choreography is revealed to be a haunted art form.

Ghost Dances does not adhere to a strict definition of what is ghostly. It embraces the idea of the ghost as something that is simultaneously absent and present in order to delve into the relationship between the dancer and the dance, the self and the environment. Ghost Dances is a solo in which the dancer summons her ghosts, danced by her own dance phantom with forces acting at a distance. Time is out of joint and the body is the caretaker of a collection of dances.

In 2022, Ellen Söderhult was awarded the Birgit Cullberg scholarship by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee with the motivation: ”Ellen Söderhult is one of our times’ strong voices and practitioners in contemporary dance in Sweden. With great passion, Ellen pursues her work to broaden the view of the art of dance.”

DANCE & CHOREOGRAPHY Ellen Söderhult
COSTUME & SET DESIGN Tove Dreiman
LIGHT DESIGN Christoffer Lloyd
MIXNING Hara Alonso
MUSIC KABLAM & Sonja Tofik amongst others
PRODUCER Unn Faleide (MDT)
THANK YOU TO Derrida & Yari Stilo
CO-PRODUCTION MDT Moderna Dansteatern & Slingan Tre Scener (Atalante, Dansstationen, MDT)

This production is a part of Life Long Burning – Futures lost and found (2023-2026) – a project supported by The European Union’s Creative Europe-program. Opinions that are expressed are the ones of the author/creator and don’t necessarily reflect those held by the European Union or The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither The European Union or EACEA can be held responsible for them.