POPDEATHPOWER POPDEATHPOWER POPDEATHPOWER by DANSEHALLERNE
X BETTY
Cutting-edge performances, talks & more
T HU N DERS T RUCK 01-02.04.22
by STINA NYBERG
KÆRE VEN AF DANSEN,
PROGRAM IN ENGLISH
April 2022
Hvor er vi glade for at have dig med os! Med programmet POPDEATHPOWER gentager vi Dansehallerne x Betty: Et strålende samarbejde, som roterer om vores fælles passion for dans og koreografi. Målet er at få dig og alle andre til at se (endnu) mere dans! Midlet er FANTASTISK dans. POPDEATHPOWER er således et præcist kurateret program, som for os repræsenterer det nyeste og cooleste. Fra Norge: Ultraskarpe Inés Belli, som kaster et feministisk blik på catwalken. Kraftfulde svensk-chilenske Ofelia Jarl Ortega: En taktfast tromme og en fordybelse i komplicerede magtdynamikker mellem mænd. Var 2Pac deprimeret? Sådan spørger den engelsk-amerikanske stjernekoreograf Malik Nashad Sharpe. Og så popper de to gigantiske superstjerner Beauty and the Beast aka argentinsk-svenske Amanda Apetrea og islandske Halla Ólafsdóttir forbi Edison for at præsentere en (på alle mulige måder) intim forestilling. Også det vanvittige geni Tesla er her. Hvis du ikke allerede ved det: Edison og Tesla lå i krig med hinanden. Vi har bedt den ligeledes geniale, svenske koreograf Stina Nyberg om at medbringe hans ånd. Lyn kommer til at brage. Alt dette + fjerde udgave af New Sh*t kurateret af dansk-honduranske og streetwise Liva Xamanek Lopez.
Vi har valgt forestillingerne med afsæt i vores fælles forkærlighed for værker, som er nødvendige, og som berører os uanset vores forskellige forudsætninger. For det kan dansen: Kommunikere umiddelbart og direkte fra krop til krop med et universelt sprog, som formidler følelser, stemninger og sætter os i forbindelse med noget, som vi husker eller genkender på et bevidst eller ubevidst plan. Fælles for de fem værker i dette års program er, at de tydeligt trækker på populærkulturen; flere af dem leger med døden; alle forhandler de køn, normer og magt. De VIL os noget, og så er de skabt af stærke koreografer, som aldrig tidligere har været præsenteret i Danmark! Vi supplerer forestillingsprogrammet med artist talks og topper op med DJ’s og sociale rum, hvor vi glæder os over endelig at være sammen – sammen om stor kunst, pop og party. Det er POPDEATHPOWER. Det er Dansehallerne x Betty. Varmt velkommen,
Elisa Kragerup Danjel Andersson Direktør/kunstnerisk leder, Direktør/kunstnerisk leder, Betty Nansen Teatret Dansehallerne
PART TIME ROBOT / Foto af Simone Ballan
THUNDERSTRUCK
En af mine yndlingskoreografer, Stina Nyberg, er i denne forestilling et medium. Hun er et kvindeligt geni. Og hun bærer ånden fra den serbisk-amerikanske, skøre, men fremragende og meget machoagtige videnskabsmand – Nikola Tesla – med på scenen. Her kontrolleres den lynproducerende Tesla-kugle af Stinas pansrede krop. Stå ikke for nær! Thomas Edison beviste, at kuglen kan og vil dræbe en elefant, hvis den rammes af kuglens lyn. Edison og Tesla var de store videnskabspersoner i deres tid. Men de var også rivaler. Og de hadede hinanden. Forvent torden, når Tesla-kuglen møder Edison-scenen. - Direktør for Dansehallerne, Danjel Andersson om Thunderstruck
Af Stina Nyberg
1.-2. april / 20.00 på Edison En del af programmet POPDEATHPOWER præsenteret af Dansehallerne x Betty
Gå ikke glip af: DJ Malika Mahmud + Spring Celebration indtil midnat den 1. april 25 min. artist talk med Stina Nyberg efter forestillingen den 2. april
Om Thunderstruck “Moderne videnskab tilsiger: Solen er fortiden, jordkloden er nutiden, månen er fremtiden. Ud af en hvidglødende masse er vi skabt, og til en frossen masse skal vi blive. Ubarmhjertig er naturens lov, og hurtigt og uimodståeligt drages vi mod vores endeligt. (…) I mellemtiden oplyser videnskabernes og kunstens muntre lys vores vej, og de vidundere, de afslører, og fornøjelserne, de tilbyder, gør os mærkbart glemsomme i forhold til vores dystre fremtid.” Nikola Tesla, “The problem of increasing human energy”, 1900
I fuld beskyttelsesdragt træder Stina Nyberg på scenen, hun sender et lyn fra sin langefinger og skaber et feministisk elektricitetsshow. THUNDERSTRUCK går i geniet og galningen Nikola Teslas fodspor. Sidst i det 19. århundrede bragte den serbisk-amerikanske opfinder os flere af århundredets vigtigste fornyelser inden for elektricitet og kommunikation. Han opfandt også Teslaspolen, et elektrisk resonanstransformerende kredsløb, som er i stand til at producere ekstremt høj spænding - en mekanisme, der producerer lyn, og som nu anvendes som underholdning.
Thunderstruck taget sit afsæt i et fænomen fra det 19. århundrede, hvor man turnerede med ”elektriske forestillinger” - således blev elektricitet i det 19. århundrede anvendt som et magisk indslag i offentlige optrædener. I dag fremstår forestillinger med Teslaspolens spektakulære lyd- og lyseffekter som en moderne arvtager til de magiske forestillinger, men oftest udspiller forestillingerne sig i et hypermaskulint, teknikonanerende og rock’n’roll-fetichistisk univers. I THUNDERSTRUCK vender Stina Nyberg tilbage til en tid, hvor kunstneren og videnskabspersonen troede på, at man kunne omdanne naturens kræfter til den slags kræfter, der driver samfundet fremad; at man kunne tæmme naturens energi og anvende den til at fremstille nærmest magiske apparater. Ved at skabe et alternativ til de eksisterende macho-spektakulære Teslaspole-forestillinger, sammenstiller THUNDERSTRUCK effektive tekniske nyskabelser med langsigtet forskning om videnskab og magi.
KREDITERING Koreografi og performance: Koreografisk støtte: Komposition og lyddesign: Teknisk supervisor og Teslaspole-operatør: Lysdesign og afvikler: Teslaspole: Højspændingskonsulent: Lysassistent: Research: Sceneassistent:
Stina Nyberg Andros Zins-Browne Maria W Horn Katti Alm Nicky Wahlström Finn Hammer Roya Nikjoo Axel Norén Sandra Linnell, Stina Nyberg, Zoë Poluch Danko Lekic
Terry Johnson, Magnus Nordberg/Nordberg Movement, Frida Tiger Co-produktion og residencies: MDT in Stockholm, Station in Belgrade, Riksteatern og residency-støtte fra C.off. Administration: Det kunstneriske kooperativ Interim kultur. Støttet af: Konstnärsnämnden, Kulturrådet, Kulturbryggan, Stockholms kommune, Stockholm County Council and [DNA] Departures and Arrivals-netværket, som medfinansieres af EU-kommissionens Creative Europe-program. Producenter:
Tak til:
David Choi hos makerspace Fat Cat Fat Lab NYC, Miroslav Kosanic og Nikola Milenic hos makerspace PRAKSA Belgrade, Erik Gabrielsson hos KTH Stockholm, Niklas Ren for assistance, Jan Ohlsson for opbevaring af Teslaspole og alle snoningerne på vejen.
Om Stina Nyberg Stina Nyberg bor i Stockholm og arbejder som danser og koreograf. I sin praksis anvender hun overbevisning og illusion for at skabe nye logiske systemer, der konstruerer verden anderledes og får kroppen til at handle i overensstemmelse hermed. Indimellem kalder hun denne performative kraft for magi, andre gange et håndværk, og til tider også en praksis. Hendes udgangspunkt er altid en feministisk tilgang til kroppen, dens sociale og politiske konstruktion og evnen til at bevæge sig. Hun har udviklet en serie af uafhængige værker i samarbejde med koreografer, musikere, visuelle kunstnere, teknikere og tryllekunstnere. Tesla-projektet, som blev skabt mellem 2016-2018 omfatter en solooptræden med en Teslaspole (THUNDERSTRUCK 2017), en performance lecture (THE WOMAN WHO LIT THE WORLD, 2018) og en live-koncert med musiker Maria W Horn (ALTERNATING CURRENTS, 2018) samt et samarbejde med Andros Zins-Browne og Diederik Peeters med titlen SPECTROPHILIA (2019). Siden 2013 har hun været en del af gruppen Samlingen (sammen med Amanda Apetrea, Nadja Hjorton, Halla Ólafsdóttir og Zoë Poluch) som i site-, tids- og kontekstspecifikke værker forholder sig til dansens historie fra et feministisk perspektiv.
T H U N D E R S T R U C K
I 2020 udviklede hun den koreograferede byvandring SKVALLRET, som blev opført fra en hunds perspektiv, bestilt af Statens Konstråd. Samme år begyndte hun også at udvikle og optræde med det igangværende danseværk MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES i New York og Stockholm. Værket har afstedkommet yderligere gentagelser i form af både en kortfilm og en udgivelse med interview og senest blev den opført på festivalen Brådjupa i Karlshamn (august 2021). I oktober 2021 havde hun premiere på værket LUCKY NUMBERS, som blev bestilt af Riksteatern, på Vitlycke Center for Performning Arts. I samarbejde med Sofia Wiberg er hun for tiden ved at arrangere et symposium, der tager fat i spørgsmålene omkring kollektive læringsprocesser i forhold til asymmetriske magtrelationer, lytning, begær, uvidenhed og snavs. Marts 2022 havde hun premiere på et nyt værk for Norrdans i Härnösand med titlen THE DAWN CHORUS.
Interview med Stina Nyberg Vil du lære Stina Nyberg lidt bedre at kende? Brug 10 minutter i hendes meget gode selskab: https:// vimeo.com/598896582 Video: Palmer Lydebrant Undertekster: Johanna Widlund Crisman Produktion: Elisabet Widlund Fornelius og Magnus Nordberg, Nordberg Movement Produceret med støtte fra Det Svenske Kunstråd
DANSEHALLERNE X BETTY PRÆSENTERER
POPDEATHPOWER
NYSKABENDE FORESTILLINGER, SAMTALER OG MERE Dansehallerne x Betty er et strategisk samarbejde mellem Dansehallerne og Betty Nansen Teatret Kurator: Danjel Andersson Producent: Eva Steen Nordhagen Assisterende producent: Sofie Pedersen Kurator, New Sh*t vol. 4: Liva Xamanek Lopez
Hvornår:
5. marts – 2. april 2022
Hvor:
Edison, Edisonvej 10, 1856 Frederiksberg C
Mere info & billetter:
dansehallerne.dk / bettynansen.dk
Producent, New Sh*t vol. 4: Anne Mette Berg PR/Kommunikation: Eva Steen Nordhagen, Marie Lundgaard, Jette Lin Nielsen, Anne Basse, Simone Staack Hedelund, Kasper Boll, Sebastian Nervil Grafisk design: Karoline Schapiro Produktionsleder: Nils Engelbrecht-Sørensen Teknikere: Fabián Carvallo, Mogens Kjempff, Per Lydersen, Carl-Emil Amundsen, Sune Bang, Weronika Andersen, Madelaine Lind Hoppe, Ariellah Winther, Sven Kristoffersen
Programmet er støttet af
POPDEATHPOWER PROGRAM 5. marts / Edison
19.00
20.00
21.30
Kurateret af Liva Xamanek Lopez Varighed: 90 min Sprog: Engelsk Fra 12 år
DJ Billow_40 fra UUMPHFF Radio varmer op.
New Sh*t vol. 4
DJ Billow_40 fra UUMPHFF Radio spiller indtil midnat
9.-10. marts / Edison
20.00
16.-17. marts / Edison
20.00
25 min artist talk med Ofelia Jarl Ortega efter forestillingen den 16. marts
Ofelia Jarl Ortega Varighed: 90 min Fra 12 år
DJ NAH CARE + hangout indtil midnat efter forestillingen den 17. marts
22.-26. marts / Siloen Edison
20.00
He’s Dead
25 min artist talk med Malik Nashad Sharpe efter forestillingen den 9. marts
Malik Nashad Sharpe aka marikiscrycrycry Varighed: 50 min Sprog: Engelsk Fra 12 år
Hegemony
DEAD by Beauty and the Beast
25 min artist talk med Amanda Apetrea & Halla Ólafsdóttir efter forestillingen den 23. marts
Amanda Apetrea & Halla Ólafsdóttir Varighed: 60 min Sprog: Engelsk Fra 15 år
29.-31. marts / Siloen Edison
20.00
1.-2. april / Edison
20.00
DJ Malika Mahmud + forårsfest indtil midnat efter forestillingen den 1. april
Stina Nyberg Varighed: 65 min Sprog: Engelsk Fra 12 år
25 min artist talk med Stina Nyberg efter forestillingen 2. april
Metasexy
25 min artist talk med Inés Belli efter forestillingen den 30. marts
Inés Belli Varighed: 63 min Fra 12 år
Thunderstruck
DEAR FRIEND OF DANCE,
April 2022
We’re thrilled to have you with us! With the program POPDEATHPOWER we go for round two of Dansehallerne x Betty: A brilliant, new collaboration that revolves around our shared passion for dance. The goal is to make you see (even) more dance! The vehicle is FANTASTIC dance. Thus, POPDEATHPOWER is a precisely curated program, representing for us the newest and the coolest. From Norway: Ultra-sharp Inés Belli offers a feminist gaze at the catwalk. The powerful Swedish-Chilean Ofelia Jarl Ortega: A steady drum and an immersion in complicated power dynamics between men. Was 2Pac depressed? The question is posed by English-American star choreographer Malik Nashad Sharpe. And then the two giant superstars Beauty and the Beast aka Argentine-Swedish Amanda Apetrea and Icelandic Halla Ólafsdóttir pop by Edison to present an (in all sorts of ways) intimate performance. The crazy genius Tesla is here, too. If you don’t already know: Edison and Tesla were at war with each other. We have asked the equally genius, Swedish choreographer Stina Nyberg to bring his spirit. Lightning will strike. All this + the fourth edition of New Sh*t curated by Danish-Honduran and streetwise Liva Xamanek Lopez.
We have chosen the performances based on our common predilection for urgent works that affect us regardless of our different preconditions. For this is what dance is capable of: To communicate immediately and directly from one body to another with a universal language that conveys emotions, moods and connects us to something that we remember or recognize on a conscious or unconscious level. Common to the five works in this year’s program is that they clearly draw on popular culture; some of them play with death; all of them negotiate gender, norms and power. They have things at heart and are furthermore created by strong choreographers who have never been presented in Denmark! We complement the performance program with artist talks and top up with DJs and social formats where we share the joy of finally being together - together for great art, pop and party. It’s POPDEATHPOWER. It’s Dansehallerne x Betty. A warm welcome, Elisa Kragerup Artistic director, Betty Nansen Teatret
Danjel Andersson Artistic director, Dansehallerne
PART TIME ROBOT / Foto af Simone Ballan
THUNDERSTRUCK
One of my favorite choreographers, Stina Nyberg, is in this piece a medium. She is a female genius. And she carries the spirit of the Serbian-American, crazy, but brilliant, and very macho scientist - Nikola Tesla – onto the stage. Here the lightning-producing Tesla-coil is controlled by Stina’s armored body. Don’t stand to close! Thomas Edison proved that the coil can, and will, kill an elephant if it is struck by the coil’s lightning. Edison and Tesla were the great scientists of their time. But they were also rivals. And hated each other. Expect thunder when the Tesla-coil meets the Edison-stage. - Director of Dansehallerne, Danjel Andersson about Thunderstruck
By Stina Nyberg
1-2 April / 20.00 at Edison Part of the program POPDEATHPOWER presented by Dansehallerne x Betty
Please also join us for: DJ Malika Mahmud + Spring Celebration until midnight April 1 25 min. artist talk with Stina Nyberg after the performance April 2
About Thunderstruck “Modern science says: The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. (…) Meanwhile the cheering lights of science and art, ever increasing in intensity, illuminate our path, and the marvels they disclose, and the enjoyments they offer, make us measurably forgetful of the gloomy future.“ Nikola Tesla, “The problem of increasing human energy”, 1900
Dressed in full protective gear Stina Nyberg enters the stage, sends a bolt of lightning from her middle finger and creates a feminist electricity show. THUNDERSTRUCK walks in the footsteps of the genius and madman Nikola Tesla. In the end of the 19th century, the Serbian-American inventor brought us several of our century’s most important innovations in electricity and communication. He also invented the Tesla coil, an electrical resonant transformer circuit used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. Basically, a device that produces lightning bolts and now can be used for entertainment in live electricity shows.
THUNDERSTRUCK departs from the 19th century phenomena of touring electricity shows. At a time when electricity was still a scientific novelty it was displayed in public performances as acts of magic. Today, a contemporary heir to the electricity magic show is the Tesla coil performance, making use of the spectacular sound and light effects the coil produces, but often performed in hyper-masculinized, technique-masturbatory and rock’n’roll-fetishistic shows. In THUNDERSTRUCK, Stina Nyberg returns to a time when the artist and scientist believed in transforming the forces of nature into the forces that propel society, harnessing natural energy for crafting nearly magical devices. Creating an alternative to the existing macho-spectacular Tesla coil shows, THUNDERSTRUCK pairs effective technical innovations with a long-term research on science and magic.
CREDITS Choreography and performance: Choreographic support: Composition and sound design: Technical supervisor and Tesla coil operator: Light design and operation: Tesla coil: High voltage consultant: Light assistance: Research: Stage assistant:
Stina Nyberg Andros Zins-Browne Maria W Horn Katti Alm Nicky Wahlström Finn Hammer Roya Nikjoo Axel Norén Sandra Linnell, Stina Nyberg, Zoë Poluch Danko Lekic
Terry Johnson, Magnus Nordberg/Nordberg Movement, Frida Tiger Co-production and residencies: MDT in Stockholm, Station in Belgrade, The National Touring Theatre of Sweden and residency support by C.off. Administration: The artist co-operative Interim kultur Supported by: The Swedish Arts Council, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Kulturbryggan, City of Stockholm, Stockholm County Council and [DNA] Departures and Arrivals network which is co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission. Producers:
Thanks to:
David Choi at makerspace Fat Cat Fat Lab NYC, Miroslav Kosanic and Nikola Milenic at makerspace PRAKSA Belgrade, Erik Gabrielsson at KTH Stockholm, Niklas Ren for assistance, Jan Ohlsson for Tesla coil storage and all the coilers along the way.
About Stina Nyberg Stina Nyberg lives in Stockholm and works as a dancer and choreographer. In her practice, she uses conviction and illusion in order to create new systems of logic which constructs the world differently and make bodies act accordingly. At moments she calls this performative force magic, sometimes a craft, and occasionally a practice. Her departure point is always a feminist approach to the body; its social and political construction and ability to move. She has developed a series of independent works in collaboration with choreographers, musicians, visual artists, technicians and magicians. The Tesla Project, created between the years 2016-2018, involves a solo performance with a Tesla coil (THUNDERSTRUCK, 2017), a lecture performance (THE WOMAN WHO LIT THE WORLD, 2018) and a live concert with musician Maria W Horn (ALTERNATING CURRENTS, 2018) as well as a collaboration with Andros Zins-Browne and Diederik Peeters entitled SPECTROPHILIA (2019). Since 2013 she is part of the group Samlingen (with Amanda Apetrea, Nadja Hjorton, Halla Ólafsdóttir and Zoë Poluch) who in site, time and context-specific works tackles dance history from a feminist perspective.
T H U N D E R S T R U C K
In 2020 she developed the choreographed city walk SKVALLRET performed from the perspectiv of a dog, on commission from the Public Art Agency Sweden (Statens Konstråd). The same year she also started developing and performing the ongoing dance work MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES in New York and Stockholm. The work has created further iterations in the forms of a short film and a publication of interviews and was most recently performed at festival Brådjupa in Karlshamn (August 2021). Her recent work LUCKY NUMBERS, a commision for Riksteatern, opened at Vitlycke Center for Performing Arts October 2021. In collaboration with Sofia Wiberg she is currently organizing a symposium addressing questions of collective processes for learning in relation to asymmetric power relations, listening, desire, not-knowing and filth. March 2022, she premiered a new piece for Norrdans in Härnösand, entitled THE DAWN CHORUS.
Interview with Stina Nyberg Want to get to know Stina Nyberg a bit better? Spend 10 minutes in her very good company: https://vimeo. com/598896582 Video: Palmer Lydebrant Undertekster: Johanna Widlund Crisman Produktion: Elisabet Widlund Fornelius and Magnus Nordberg, Nordberg Movement Produced with support by the Swedish Arts Council
DANSEHALLERNE X BETTY PRESENT
POPDEATHPOWER
CUTTING-EDGE PERFORMANCES, TALKS AND MORE Dansehallerne x Betty is a strategic collaboration between Dansehallerne and Betty Nansen Teatret Curator: Danjel Andersson Producer: Eva Steen Nordhagen Assisting producer: Sofie Pedersen Curator, New Sh*t vol. 4: Liva Xamanek Lopez
When:
5 March – 2 April 2022
Where:
Edison, Edisonvej 10, 1856 Frederiksberg C
More info & tickets:
dansehallerne.dk / bettynansen.dk
Producer, New Sh*t vol. 4: Anne Mette Berg PR/Communication: Eva Steen Nordhagen, Marie Lundgaard, Jette Lin Nielsen , Anne Basse, Simone Staack Hedelund, Kasper Boll, Sebastian Nervil Graphic design: Karoline Schapiro Production manager: Nils Engelbrecht-Sørensen Technicians: Fabián Carvallo, Mogens Kjempff, Per Lydersen, Carl-Emil Amundsen, Sune Bang, Weronika Andersen, Madelaine Lind Hoppe, Ariellah Winther, Sven Kristoffersen
The program is supported by
POPDEATHPOWER PROGRAM 5 March / Edison
19.00
20.00
21.30
Curated by Liva Xamanek Lopez Duration: 90 min Language: English From 12 years
DJ Billow_40 from UUMPHFF Radio kicks off the evening
New Sh*t vol. 4
DJ Billow_40 from UUMPHFF Radio + celebration until midnight
9-10 March / Edison
20.00
16-17 March / Edison
20.00
25 min artist talk with Ofelia Jarl Ortega after the performance 16 March
Ofelia Jarl Ortega Duration: 90 min From 12 years
DJ NAH CARE + hangout until midnight after the performance 17 March
22-26 March / Siloen Edison
20.00
He’s Dead
25 min artist talk with Malik Nashad Sharpe after the performance 9 March
Malik Nashad Sharpe aka marikiscrycrycry Duration: 50 min Language: English From 12 years
Hegemony
DEAD by Beauty and the Beast
25 min artist talk with Amanda Apetrea & Halla Ólafsdóttir after the performance 23 March
Amanda Apetrea & Halla Ólafsdóttir Duration: 60 min Language: English From 15 years
29-31 March / Siloen Edison
20.00
1-2 April / Edison
20.00
Metasexy
25 min artist talk with Inés Belli after the performance 30 March
Inés Belli Duration: 63 min From 12 years
Thunderstruck
Stina Nyberg Duration: 65 min Language: English From 12 years
DJ Malika Mahmud + spring celebration until midnight after the performance 1 April 25 min artist talk with Stina Nyberg after the performance 2 April