Photo Henrik Hellström
About the performance
And the animal remained, as ever, inside the human.
In a world ravaged by hubris, two deviant bodies take the streets of forgotten areas, seeking solace amongst the ruins of our own making. We enter a surreal territory where bodies become inconsequential and time is liquid as future, past & present intertwined. You sense deviant bodies extract the living tension between power and powerlessness, suggesting that our human state isn’t fixed but can be stretched, distorted, and reshaped.
Where soft and hard meet, there is a place where we can fall apart.
YIELDING is a group work for two dancers and one electronic musician that together create a dreamscape for the audience to step into. The spectator is seated amongst the events, inside the space, surrounded by movement and surround sound that is visceral and intimate. The bodily expressions are magnified when the dancers come close enough for you to sense them more than look at them as the sound vibrates through your body.
Photo Henrik Hellström
Credits
Concept & choreography Escarleth Romo Pozo
Developed & performed by Robert Malmborg, Victor Pérez Armero
Sound design Adde Huumonen
Sculptures Davide Ronco
Costume Erik Annerborn
Costume patination Mathilda Guve
Lighting design Jonathan Winbo
Dramaturgical support Masi Titta
Movement direction/teaching
Brazilian jiu-jitsu Fernando Romo Pozo
Graphic design Lea Trübenbach
Co-produced by MDT, Atalante, Dansstationen, Dansehallerne.
Residencies: Nordic residency exchange program (Nrep), Zodiak, Johnson&Bergsmark/Hörken, Riksteatern.
Supported by: Swedish Art Grant Committee, Augustinus Foundation, Riksteatern (The Swedish National Touring Theatre).
Photo Henrik Hellström
About the artists
Escarleth Romo Pozo
Escarleth Romo Pozo is a Nicaraguan-Peruvian dance artist based in Scandinavia. She uses performance as a lens and tool to be present with the world; attending to our inner landscapes in resonance & dissonance with outside forces. Performances that include bodies, dances, rituals and choreographies. She is interested in the expansion of the body that happens through performance as an act of defiance & resistance against constructed impositions; as an exploration of our inherent potentialities and multiplicity. Escarleth holds a Master in Performance from London contemporary dance school and has performed across Europe with Compagnie Tabea Martin, Voetvolk/Lisbeth Gruwez, Isabel Lewis, Rosa Omarsdottir, MYKA, Sophia Mage, Sorour Darabi, amongst others.
www.instagram.com/daniescarleth
Robert Malmborg
Robert Malmborg is a dancer and on occasion choreographer from Sweden. Working with choreography, dance and voice, he is interested in the functionality of his crafts in regards to their current work situation. Approaching the working context as choreographic material and a source of meaning. Robert holds an MA in Choreography – New Performative Practices from SKH 2021-2023. He has has worked with a.o Pontus Pettersson, Ohad Naharin, Stina Nyberg, Lito Walkey, Adam Linder, Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar.
www.instagram.com/robertmalmborg
Victor Pérez Armero
Victor Pérez Armero is an accomplished artist within the field of dance and choreography, Victor currently freelances between Barcelona and Scandinavia. He has been a member of the companies Hiatus/Daniel Linehan and Cullberg and received the distinction for Best Dancer by the Catalan Critics Awards in 2020. He was introduced to dance at a young age through popular culture and completed his studies in contemporary dance and performing arts at P.A.R.T.S. and SEAD in 2012. As a performer he has collaborated with Renan Martins, Albert Quesada, Pere Faura, Eleanor Bauer, Alma Söderberg, Deborah Hay, Jeanine Durning, Sindri Runudde, and Quim Bigas, among others. His latest choreographic work —Rel i Grapa— premiered in 2023.
www.instagram.com/itor.itorino
Erik Annerborn
Erik Annerborn is a costume designer and creative director, based in Sweden and working across Europe. With a strong interest in the performative aspects of the design process, as well as the sensual and social magnetism embedded within clothing, Annerborn creates costumes for and with dancers who want to go deep. His costume design furthers a long-standing styling and costume tradition working with individuality, archetypes, and what fashion says about us. Annerborn is also currently collaborating with choreographers Malik Nashad Sharpe, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Daniel Jeremiah Persson and Emilie Gregersen.
www.erikannerborn.com
Adde Andreas Huumonen
Adde Andreas Huumonen is a sound Designer and composer. Adde creates electroacoustic music and soundscapes where the boundaries between sound and space blur, forming immersive experiences. His work is anchored in an intuitive process that allows space for emotional interpretation before the intellect determines its form. With a bachelor’s degree in sound design from Stockholm University of the Arts and training in music production and fine arts, his work spans across theater productions, installation work, performance art, and dance. He has composed music and sound design for performances at some of Scandinavia’s most reputable stages, including Dramaten, Kulturhuset, Riksteatern, Uppsala City Theater, and Dansehallerne.
www.instagram.com/huumomusic
Jonatan Winbo
Jonatan Winbo graduated from Valand Academy of the Arts in Göteborg 2009. In his work he explores aesthetics and concepts of reality. May it be enhanced reality, phantasmic reality, or disturbed reality. He has been working as a lighting designer in the areas of dance, film, theater, art, contemporary circus, music, and performance in cooperation with Jefta van Dinther, Josefin Hinders, Tove Sahlin, Eleanor Bauer, Cristina Caprioli, Martin Forsberg, Thiago Granato, Martin Falck, Fever Ray, Louise Dahl & Hana Erdman, Yung Lean, KIKI, Privat, Tuvalisa Rangström, My Wild Flag, Sailor & I, Cullbergbaletten a.o.
www.jonatanwinbo.com
Davide Ronco
Davide Ronco is a graduate of the Ceramic MA at the Royal Danish Academy. He lives and works in Copenhagen. His ongoing research centres around reflections of the precarious existence of humankind. Through this lens, he examines themes of transience, fragility, and decay, and the discrepancies between humanity and nature.
The scenography / A Yielding World
The scenographic vision departs from the idea that everything in the world leaks and sooner or later collapses. As a spectator you feel the inbetween spaces, both spatially, relationally and emotionally. For the scenography we imagine that our surroundings leak memories just as our bodies do. We work with materials that are organic and porous that bind the room together. The visual artist Davide Ronco’s work STUDIO
DEL PRESENTE is a continuation to an ongoing investigation of the ever-changing. The work expresses how humanity and nature coexist and interact with each other through time and constant change. The sculptural work made out of rammed earth encourages direct human interaction. The exhibited piece slowly decay through the footprint and touch of the visitors, mimicking the role of humanity on planet Earth. Everything we touch alters or disappears. The costume designer is doing research on bio textiles and facilitating the idea of cultivation of funghi around the speaker construction as an extension of the costumes. The scenography & costumes are changing influenced by the movements of the dancers as well as by the meeting with the audience.
Photo Henrik Hellström
Practical info
Dates and times
12.6.2025, 20:00
13.6.2025, 20:00
14.6.2025, 17:00
Duration and stage
1 hour in Hallen.
Accessibility
The venue is wheelchair accessible, with an elevator providing access to the stages. All restrooms are genderneutral, and an accessible toilet for wheelchair users is available.
Dansehallerne’s address
Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen V
About Dansehallerne
Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography. Our focus lies in presenting and co-producing Danish and international productions for all ages. We are a gathering point for passionate dance audiences and professionals. From our center, we communicate professional knowledge of the art of dance, and we drive discussions about all aspects of the art of dance, at an intermediate level and in-depth.
Being a national center, as well as a gathering point for the local and international communities, we continuously work to ensure the best possible settings for artistic production and for the audience’s encounter with the art of dance. Every year, people from all around the country can experience the best that dance has to offer. And for several hundred artists, Dansehallerne is the year-round base and interface for professional activities within the field of dance.
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