Technosomatics workshops

Frédéric Gies’ movement practice is toured internationally in festivals and dance theaters and shared with dance students and professionals around the world. In the frame of La Maison de la Danse, we offer technosomatics workshops for all levels, free of charge. Dance at your own rhythm: you can either sign up to single sessions and let go of the week’s pressure or sign up to several sessions in order to take the most of the practice and connect deeper with your own body and states of consciousness.

Price: Completely free of charge thanks to the support of Malmö stad, Region Skåne and Kulturrådet.
Age Restriction: Adults (from 16 yo).
Language: English.
Note: the workshop includes loud music.

Drop-in accepted in limit of available spots. Booking recommended.

SCHEDULE SPRING 2024

Monday, 26 February 2024
18.30-21.00 - Teater Barbro at Ungdomens Hus
Access: Norra Skolgatan 10 B, 211 52 Malmö. Once in the corridor, first door to the left.

Monday, 11 March 2024
18.30-21.00 - Teater Barbro at Ungdomens Hus
Access: Norra Skolgatan 10 B, 211 52 Malmö. Once in the corridor, first door to the left.

Monday, 25 March 2024
18.30-21.00 - Teater Barbro at Ungdomens Hus
Access: Norra Skolgatan 10 B, 211 52 Malmö. Once in the corridor, first door to the left.

Monday, 8 April 2024
18.30-21.00 - Teater Barbro at Ungdomens Hus
Access: Norra Skolgatan 10 B, 211 52 Malmö. Once in the corridor, first door to the left.

ABOUT TECHNOSOMATICS

Technosomatics is a movement practice developed by Frédéric Gies who shares it in various workshop formats. The practice is toured internationally and taught in various dance MA and MBA programs. Frédéric also animate regular free practices for all levels in Malmö in the frame of la Maison de la Danse.

Technosomatics consists of a collective and individual exploration of the endocrine glands (the major chemical system of our body) and the chakras (energy centers) through club dancing to techno music as wells as the opposite: an exploration of club dancing while embodying the endocrine glands and the chakras. The practice connects to both the field of somatics (movement education practices) and to techno club/rave dance cultures. It originates in Frédéric Gies’ encounters with diverse somatic practices, and in their dance floor experiences. As a form of meditation in movement, it explores trancelike states of consciousness and acknowledges the healing potential of the act of dancing. It also approaches club dance as a tool for self-discovery and for expanding the range of our perceptions.

Frédéric Gies has teached the practice internationally to both professional dancers and the general audience. The practice has been shared in several dance BA and MA programmes as well as at diverse public manifestations such as Impulstanz (Vienna), Tanzkongress (Dresden), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw), Art stations – Stary Browar (Poznan), Ponderosa (Germany), Weld (Stockholm), HZT (Berlin), Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Skogen (Gothenburg) etc. and has met its audience internationally. 

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#THE PARTY after a dance after a dance after another dance - 2023

After #THREE (a dance after a dance after another dance - 2023), the grand finale of Maison de la Danse 2023, let’s celebrate a year of dancing with a Party! Live DJ and techno beats with local artist Rivet and Berghain resident Fiedel!

This party is organized in collaboration with Kontra-musik.

PROGRAMME

Before 22.00: join us for the last dance show of La Maison de la Danse Fall 2023 + party warm up at Ungdomens Hus! All info HERE
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22.00-Midnight: Rivet
Midnight-02.00: Fiedel

ABOUT OUR GUEST DJS

Rivet

Contrast. Objection. Antithesis. This is how you might start an attempt to describe the world. A seemingly chaos of shapes and thoughts that don’t belong to each other. An overall image to be found in life and in music. But that’s not Fiedel’s view of the world. Where others make distinctions, he sees connections, where others find emptiness, he finds rooms full of opportunities.

Finding those harmonies, connections and contexts marks out his musical work. The synthesis of apparently opposing music, the interaction and the mix of styles and moods, without loosing the storyline, that makes out the characteristic Fiedel sound.

After the wall came down, the way was open to access a fresh scene, and with it came a whole spectrum of new and old music to discover. In the beginning of the 1990s, he started DJing in public as a regular at the Monday events at Subversiv. Shortly after he began his collaboration with his befriended Errorsmith under the name of MMM. They released several productions and play live shows. Since 2000 he is resident at OstGut and later on at Berghain. On the compilation Fünf he had his first solo release on the incorporated Ostgut Ton label, followed by contributions to the compilations Various (2013) and Ostgut Ton | Zehn (2015). In 2012 he eventually founded his own label Fiedelone, to give his own productions a more personal base. In spring 2014 he developed a live set, which he premiered at Berghain. March 2017 saw his first full Ostgut Ton release with the 12″ Substance B, followed up by his contribution to the Berghain mixes series in January 2018.

You can say one thing about Fiedel: he is no techno or house stereotype pattern, that you can put randomly on a every evening or club. He is lead by his history, the history of the music and the feeling of the moment to build something new and to capture this very moment. Let it be the straight dark techno of today, banging acid of the 80ies or an electro funk record, Fiedel surprises. He undermines and overrides expectations and refrains to limit the music for any reason. He lets the music speak for itself, through himself.

Penumbral Dances

Penumbral dances is a dance performance by Frédéric Gies, for one spectator at a time. It was created in December 2020 at Frank Galleri, during the first winter of the COVID 19 pandemic, under the title Penumbral dances – public service. It was created as a replacement for Unclouded dances, another one-to-one performance, which couldn’t take place for safety reasons at that time, as it would have meant that Frédéric would have met more 40 people in the same week, in a small confined space. Instead of cancelling completely the event, which would have been inconceivable for Frédéric as they surely don’t believe that dance is non-essential, they created this dance, which took place outdoor, at the entrance of the gallery. 

This December, Frédéric proposes you again this dance, indoor this time. This dance will be crafted on the spot, especially for you, like a haute-couture dance, and will accompany you, we hope, through the beginning of this winter.  

Concept & dance: Frédéric Gies
Music: Fiedel

Duration: 30 min.
Age restriction: 18+
Price: free

Dates & Times:
1/12, 2/12, 3/12, 4/12, 5/12, 8/12, 9/12, 10/12, 11/12 & 12/12
5 times a day. Specific times available on the booking page.

Important: Booking is necessary!
Only 1 spectator per time slot.
Last booking accepted: 19.00 the day before each performance.

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Maison Ouverte (Open House)

On November 18 and 19, Maison de la Danse’s doors are wide open!

During the two days of Maison Ouverte, not only we open our doors to you and invite you to dive into our work from different angles (watching us perform for you, dancing with us or watching us rehearse) but we also open our doors to other artists, whose work you will be able to witness as well. For the first edition of Maison Ouverte, we invite Malmö based Elise Brewer, who is also part of Dance is ancient’s team and Anna Pehrson, who is currently in residence at MARC. On day 2, we will also have the pleasure to welcome Ulf Eriksson, in collaboration with Kontra Musik, who will DJ for our technosomatics session. 

You are free to make your own programme, come whenever and come and go as you wish (please not that for the technosomatics session, doors will close after the start of the workshop). If you choose to stay for long: there will be some snacks!

Dates & Times
Sat. 18 November 2023 from 14.00 to 22.00
Sun. 19 November 2023 from 11.00 to 19.00

Note: Activities and performances all weekend: come and go as you wish. Detailed schedule below.

Price: free

DETAILED PROGRAMME

Day 1: Saturday Nov. 18

14.00 · Open training with Dance is ancient’s team

Frédéric Gies will give a dance class, open to all levels (even if you don’t have any dance practice, that is possible), which combines a technique class (with a couple of ballet elements) and a somatic approach of movement. It is all about developing bodily awareness, effortlessness and ease in movement, not about looking good in relation to an impossible ideal. 

15.00 · Open rehearsals

Dance is ancient’s team invites you to witness their rehearsal process and dive into the meticulous work of preparing for showing a dance to a public. 

16.00 · Dance is ancient dances Dance is ancient’s dances #1

We have compiled for you a programme of dances from our repertoire, which we will present in their original form or remix in unexpected way. It will be a different programme of dances each time we will do it during the weekend. Except voluptuous, bold and queer dances, to infectious techno beats!
Dances choreographed by Frédéric Gies / Danced by Elise Brewer, Disa Krosness and Frédéric Gies / Music: Fiedel / Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

16.30 · Anna Pehrsson presents Excavation Series I 

In the first part of three, Excavation Series I, Choreographer and Dancer Anna Pehrsson, sources movement as mass - hot liquid rock lurking around the corner - a comet’s tail blasting through the skies - or a thin layer of evaporated water reaching the pores. 
Choreography and Dance: Anna Pehrsson / Music: Alva Noto

17.30 · Elise Brewer presents You might plant a rose bush under your bedroom window 

You might plant a rose bush under your bedroom window is a walk through the landscape of bushes and railway tracks. A sequence of desires and needs unfolding alongside the trail. A dance of repetitive riffs that hits tenderly.
Dance & choreography: Elise Brewer

18.30 · Dance is ancient dances Dance is ancient’s dances #2

In Dance is ancient dances Dances is ancient dances, we compiled for you a programme of dances from our repertoire, which we will present in their original form or remix in unexpected way. It will be a different programme of dances each time we will do it during the weekend. Except voluptuous, bold and queer dances, to infectious techno beats!
Dances choreographed by Frédéric Gies / Danced by Elise Brewer, Disa Krosness and Frédéric Gies / Music: Fiedel / Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

19.00 · Dance is ancient dances Dance is ancient’s dances #3

In Dance is ancient dances Dances is ancient dances, we compiled for you a programme of dances from our repertoire, which we will present in their original form or remix in unexpected way. It will be a different programme of dances each time we will do it during the weekend. Except voluptuous, bold and queer dances, to infectious techno beats!
Dances choreographed by Frédéric Gies / Danced by Elise Brewer, Disa Krosness and Frédéric Gies / Music: Fiedel / Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
Please note: Due to a last minute contretemps, Alma Söderberg's performance originally planned at 19.00 had to be cancelled. Dance is ancient dances Dance is ancient's dance #3 will therefore start at 19.00 instead and is extended into a 2-hour program of dance, covering 10 years of work and various collaborations! Opening unexpected doors for the future and joyfully and too briefly inviting you into what dance and dancing can encompass, as the poetry of movement, as a labour, as a speech, as a train of thought, as a point of view, as a meaning, as a feeling, as a sensation, as a political stand…

21.00 · After work

You are invited to mingle, meet and talk with us

Doors close at 22.00

Day 2: Sunday Nov. 19

11.00 · Open training with Dance is Ancient’s team

Frédéric Gies will give a dance class, open to all levels (even if you don’t have any dance practice, that is possible), which combines a technique class (with a couple of ballet elements) and a somatic approach of movement. It is all about developing bodily awareness, effortlessness and ease in movement, not about looking good in relation to an impossible ideal.

12.00 · Open rehearsals

Dance is ancient team invites you to witness their rehearsal process and dive into the meticulous work of preparing for showing a dance to a public. 

13.00 · Techno lunch

Skip food, come to our dance floor and dance!

14.00 · Dance is ancient dances Dance is ancient’s dances #4

In Dance is ancient dances Dances is ancient dances, we compiled for you a programme of dances from our repertoire, which we will present in their original form or remix in unexpected way. It will be a different programme of dances each time we will do it during the weekend. Except voluptuous, bold and queer dances, to infectious techno beats!
Dances choreographed by Frédéric Gies / Danced by Elise Brewer, Disa Krosness and Frédéric Gies / Music: Fiedel / Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

15.00 · Technosomatics Live

Technosomatics is Frédéric Gies’ movement practice. It is toured internationally in festivals and dance theaters and shared with dance students and professionals around the world. Frédéric Gies and Elise Brewer will guide you through a 3-hour Technosomatics workshop, which will culminate with a one hour session with Ulf Eriksson DJing for us. This live session is organized in collaboration with Kontra-musik.

18.00 · After work

You are invited to mingle, meet and talk with us

Doors close at 19.00

ABOUT OUR GUEST ARTISTS

Anna Pehrsson

Anna Pehrsson, born in Boliden, Sweden, is a dancer and choreographer working in the intersection of dance, choreography and visual arts. She has danced with Alias Compagnie, Corpus/ Royal Danish Ballet, and Cullbergbaletten, and has since her debut as a choreographer in 2016, created a wide range of works for stage and art galleries, as well as a number of commissioned works. Pehrsson is one of Weld's associate choreographers, and has an MFA in Choreography from DOCH and a post master accreditation from KKH. Since her debut at Tjörnedala Konsthall in 2021, she is also active as a visual artist. During 2023, she participates as a choreographer and dancer in the EU project Rail2Dance and develops the site-specific project Danser för Bruket in collaboration with Region Uppsala. www.annapehrsson.com

Alma Söderberg - cancelled

Alma Söderberg is a choreographer and performer that works with music and dance. She uses her voice and body to play space as if it was an instrument. Her ongoing research deals with how we listen as we look; the relation between the ear and the eye. She has grounded her practice in a number of solo performances, Deep Etude, Nadita en more. She has also created the trio Entangled phrases and made two pieces for the dance company Cullberg. She has an ongoing collaboration with sound artist deHendrik lechat Willekens and has made a film, La mano que canta, together with visual artist Alex Reynolds.

Elise Brewer

Elise Brewer works as a freelance dancer and is currently based in-between Stockholm and Sätaröd, Sweden. She holds a BA in Dance and Performance from Stockholm University of the Arts (2012-2015). 
Her artistic work and practice consists of a hybrid of doing, thinking, reading, writing and discussing and takes shape through collaborations with other artists and through the development of her own projects. Her own work often takes place in public urban spaces where the interest lies in investigating performative aspects of those specific sites to give resonance to the multitude of desires, values and needs that they hold and that could unfold. She is currently studying the post-master course Tusen kulturhus at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Together with choreographer Sanna Blennow she is part of the duo Brewer & Blennow. Their work often takes place at public libraries.
Elise has ongoing long term collaborations together with choreographer Malin Elgán and choreographer Frédéric Gies.

Disa Krosness

Disa is educated at The Danish National School of Performing Arts but is now based in Stockholm. She has worked as freelance dancer, choreographer and producer since 2011 and is now expanding into social work at Marie Cederschiölds Högskola. Disa has worked with contemporary dance, opera, theatre, dance theatre and more. She has been part of many different constellations, amongst others Weld Company 2015-2022. She performed in Barricades and Legacies, Tribute and Warriors.

Ulf Eriksson

Eriksson runs Kontra-Musik, a techno label based in Malmö, Sweden’s southernmost city. Eriksson was a musician and DJ long before launching the label in 2006, and is getting well-deserved recognition as Kontra’s profile continues to rise.  
Kontra’s carefully curated catalogue and divergent aesthetic is having an increasingly significant influence on electronic music internationally. Kontra Musik is a label that fully embrace today’s radically open aesthetic. Its artists include: Frak, Mokira, Jonsson/Alter, Jason Fine, Rivet, and more. A labour of  love, the label has flourished and boosted the profile of all the artists involved  including Eriksson himself. Eriksson has recently become more visible as a DJ outside Sweden, holding many live dates. His dj-set is a reflection of the label output, blending styles with ease, mixing with personality and an open mind. Ulf also has several mixes out on respected mixes on curated podcast series’ including Modyfier (2011), mnml ssgs (2011), Smoke Machine (2012)  and RBMA.
www.kontra-musik.com

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#ONE (A dance after a dance after another dance - 2023)

This dance performance evening is the first of the series “A dance after a dance after another dance – 2023” that will unfold during this fall. In this series, we offer a programme of shorter dances and performances, old or brand new, which together constitute a full evening programme. They are excerpts of longer works from our repertoire, remixes, works-in progress or short pieces created for the occasion. We present them in a stripped down way and intimate setting, doing away with the whole theater apparatus, in order to make the dance appear in the most direct and lively way. It also puts the dancers and their artistry at the center of the programme.

For #ONE, Dance is ancient invites collaborator Andreas Haglund to present his own work in the shape of a work in progress of his up-coming solo. Declan Whitaker and Frédéric Gies will also dance bold, relentless and voluptuous dances extracted from the Chiron in Aries cycle by Frédéric Gies, to the exhilarating beats by Fiedel. The performances will be followed by a discussion with the artists. 

PROGRAMME

Many Wild Times by Andreas Haglund

Many Wild Times’ is a choreographic project by Andreas Haglund. In it they investigates the overlaps between hetereocis-normative sociability and climate collapse. Through staging methods that propose queer access to time and how dance can distort the binary of nature and culture. The work consists of dances that stretch and songs that loop and Andreas uses ‘Many Wild Times’ to investigate methods to rewild dance & choreography. 

Inspired by Queer theorist Jack Halberstam and Climate theorist Andreas Malm (amongst others), he learned the ways in which Queer lives are determined as degenerate and ‘against nature’. Andreas investigates how this pequeerliar social position can be an (ad)vantage point for reformulating human relations to nature. What is regenerative about the degenerates? How can dance tease regenerative practices from the body? 

Dance & choreography: Andreas Haglund

Excerpts and remixes from Chiron in Aries’ cycle by Frédéric Gies

Since 2020, Frédéric Gies has been working on the 7-piece cycle Chiron in Aries. To that day, 4 pieces have already been created. Chiron in Aries takes for framework the astrology and mythology around the figure of the centaur Chiron, the wounded healer, who can also be seen as a queer mythological figure. 

Selected duos and solos from the pieces are be presented on the original music by Fiedel, but also uniquely revisited with group dances danced as solos and/or solos as duos. The Spring edition revisited Brittanie Brown and Elisa Brewer’s solos. It is now time to rediscover the cycle through the prism of dancers Declan Whitaker and Frédéric Gies.

Choreography: Frédéric Gies
Dance: Frédéric Gies & Declan Whitaker
Music: Fiedel
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

PRACTICAL INFO

Language: none
Note: the show contains loud music
Price: free

Dates & Times
Fri. 10 November 2023 - 19.00
Sat. 11 November 2023 - 19.00

Program
18.30: Doors open
19.00: Show
20.00: Discussion with the artists (in English)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

About Andreas Haglund

Andreas works as a freelance dancer and performer and choreographer. He has a BA in Dance and choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts. He is a member of Dance Cooperative; a new platform, dance studio and place for intersectional practice and performances in Copenhagen. Andreas has, among other things, worked with choreographers such as Jules Fischer, Andros Zins-Browne, Ágnes Grélinger, Thjerza Balaj, Paolo Gile, Stina Ehn, Antonia Harke and Denise Lim. Andreas performed in several Chiron in Aries’ pieces: Hope, Barricades and Legacies, Constellations and Alliances. He will also collaborate on the future opus of the cycle.

About Declan Whitaker

Declan is a dancer and choreographer based in Switzerland. His artistic interest lies with aesthetic conventions and the border between fantasy and reality. As a performer he has worked with Meg Stuart, Isabel Lewis, Simone Aughterlony and Martin Forsberg amongst others. Declan is a part of The Field, the associated collective at Tanzhaus Zürich. He holds a Master’s degree from London Contemporary Dance School and in 2019 received the danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz. In 2023, Declan was part of Springback Academy in the frame of Aerowaves.

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Open Classes

Participate in our dancers’ daily training. The class is led by choreographer Frédéric Gies and will be taken together with the dancers rehearsing for Maison de La Danse’s performance programme as well as for next year’s new creation. All exercises can be followed at your own rhythm.

Price: Completely free of charge thanks to the support of Malmö stad, Region Skåne and Kulturrådet.
Age Restriction: Adults (from 16 yo).
Levels: All levels

Language: English.

SCHEDULE FALL 2023

Wednesday 8th November 2023
10.15-11.30 - Sal 12 at Ungdomens Hus (access: Torpgatan 21, 211 52 Malmö. Once in the courtyard: first door to the left, go up the stairs, first floor.)

Wednesday 15th November 2023
10.15-11.30 - Sal 12 at Ungdomens Hus (access: Torpgatan 21, 211 52 Malmö. Once in the courtyard: first door to the left, go up the stairs, first floor.)

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Technosomatics workshops

Frédéric Gies’ movement practice is toured internationally in festivals and dance theaters and shared with dance students and professionals around the world. In the frame of La Maison de la Danse, we offer technosomatics workshops for all levels, free of charge. Dance at your own rhythm: you can either sign up to single sessions and let go of the week’s pressure or sign up to several sessions in order to take the most of the practice and connect deeper with your own body and states of consciousness.

Price: Completely free of charge thanks to the support of Malmö stad, Region Skåne and Kulturrådet.
Age Restriction: Adults (from 16 yo).
Language: English.
Note: the workshop includes loud music.

SCHEDULE FALL 2023

Monday 6th November 2023
18.30-21.00 - Sal 11 at Ungdomens Hus (access: Torpgatan 21, 211 52 Malmö (same entrance as Aktiv Ungdom). Once in the courtyard: first door to the right)

Monday 13th November 2023
18.30-21.00 - Sal 11 at Ungdomens Hus (access: access: Torpgatan 21, 211 52 Malmö (same entrance as Aktiv Ungdom). Once in the courtyard: first door to the right)

Sunday 19th November 2023 (Live music session)
Time 15.00-18.00 - Festsalen at Ungdomens Hus (access: Norra Skolgatan 10B, first floor)

Monday 27th November 2023
18.30-21.00 - Sal 11 at Ungdomens Hus (access: access: Torpgatan 21, 211 52 Malmö (same entrance as Aktiv Ungdom). Once in the courtyard: first door to the right)

ABOUT TECHNOSOMATICS

Technosomatics is a movement practice developed by Frédéric Gies who shares it in various workshop formats. The practice is toured internationally and taught in various dance MA and MBA programs. Frédéric also animate regular free practices for all levels in Malmö in the frame of la Maison de la Danse.

Technosomatics consists of a collective and individual exploration of the endocrine glands (the major chemical system of our body) and the chakras (energy centers) through club dancing to techno music as wells as the opposite: an exploration of club dancing while embodying the endocrine glands and the chakras. The practice connects to both the field of somatics (movement education practices) and to techno club/rave dance cultures. It originates in Frédéric Gies’ encounters with diverse somatic practices, and in their dance floor experiences. As a form of meditation in movement, it explores trancelike states of consciousness and acknowledges the healing potential of the act of dancing. It also approaches club dance as a tool for self-discovery and for expanding the range of our perceptions.

Frédéric Gies has teached the practice internationally to both professional dancers and the general audience. The practice has been shared in several dance BA and MA programmes as well as at diverse public manifestations such as Impulstanz (Vienna), Tanzkongress (Dresden), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw), Art stations – Stary Browar (Poznan), Ponderosa (Germany), Weld (Stockholm), HZT (Berlin), Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Skogen (Gothenburg) etc. and has met its audience internationally. 

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Jumelles
at Skogen, Göteborg

Duration: 70min
Dates & Times:
- Friday 6th October 2023, 19.00
- Saturday 7th October 2023, 19.00
- Sunday 8th October 2023, 17.00

Jumelles
by Anne Juren & Frédéric Gies

In French, Jumelles means both “(female) twins” and “binoculars”. In Jumelles, Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies take on the task of portraying one another in the form of two twin dancing portraits: one danced by Anne Juren and choreographed by Frédéric Gies and the other danced by Frédéric and choreographed by Anne. At the origin of this piece is the 18 years long story of artistic collaboration and friendship between the two artists. Their collaboration consisted of participating to research laboratories, collaborating within educational programmes (DanceWEB, MA in choreography at DOCH-SKH) and performing together. They witnessed each other paths within the dance field and accompanied each other both professionally and in their lives. 

Anne and Frédéric respective choreographic works are rather different formally speaking. Yet, deep connections unite them. These connection find their origins in their love for dance and in the way this love grew through their early years within the dance field, as they were both meeting specific trends in post-modern, contemporary dance. Both artists also share a strong interest for the bodily origins of movement, which manifest in the integration of somatic practices in their work. This connects to the way they both emphasize embodiment, sensuality and the power of dance as a medium of expression. Furthermore, feminist and queer perspectives are constituent of their work. 

Their recurrent collaborations, their paths within dance, their common interests and their personal bond have taken the shape of a continuous process of twinning and mutualisation, which underlies Jumelles. Through the act of portraying one another, they put a magnifying glass on this process and on the historicity of their dancing bodies. In these interlinked portraits, the place of the portrayed and the portraitist are interwoven. It opens up a vast field of gazes in which the gaze is a dynamic entity involving the bodies of the dancers, of the portraitists and of the viewers. 

Credits:

Dance and choreography: Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies
Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo
Sound Design, Composition: Paul Kotal (Turf & Surf)
Techno by Fiedel - exploited by Turf & Surf
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
Production management: Ambre Andriamanana (DIA), Magdalena Stolhofer (WTKB)

Produced by Dance is ancient and Wiener Tanz und Kunst Bewegung / Coproduced by Inkonst, Weld, Skogen and ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival  / Residence support by MARC / with the support of The Swedish Arts Council, Region Skåne, the city of Malmö, Stadt Wien Kultur and The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Jumelles
at Inkonst, Malmö

Duration: 70min
Dates & Times:
- Friday 29th September 2023, 19.00
- Saturday 30th September 2023, 19.00

Jumelles
by Anne Juren & Frédéric Gies

In French, Jumelles means both “(female) twins” and “binoculars”. In Jumelles, Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies take on the task of portraying one another in the form of two twin dancing portraits: one danced by Anne Juren and choreographed by Frédéric Gies and the other danced by Frédéric and choreographed by Anne. At the origin of this piece is the 18 years long story of artistic collaboration and friendship between the two artists. Their collaboration consisted of participating to research laboratories, collaborating within educational programmes (DanceWEB, MA in choreography at DOCH-SKH) and performing together. They witnessed each other paths within the dance field and accompanied each other both professionally and in their lives. 

Anne and Frédéric respective choreographic works are rather different formally speaking. Yet, deep connections unite them. These connection find their origins in their love for dance and in the way this love grew through their early years within the dance field, as they were both meeting specific trends in post-modern, contemporary dance. Both artists also share a strong interest for the bodily origins of movement, which manifest in the integration of somatic practices in their work. This connects to the way they both emphasize embodiment, sensuality and the power of dance as a medium of expression. Furthermore, feminist and queer perspectives are constituent of their work. 

Their recurrent collaborations, their paths within dance, their common interests and their personal bond have taken the shape of a continuous process of twinning and mutualisation, which underlies Jumelles. Through the act of portraying one another, they put a magnifying glass on this process and on the historicity of their dancing bodies. In these interlinked portraits, the place of the portrayed and the portraitist are interwoven. It opens up a vast field of gazes in which the gaze is a dynamic entity involving the bodies of the dancers, of the portraitists and of the viewers. 

Credits:

Dance and choreography: Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies
Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo
Sound Design, Composition: Paul Kotal (Turf & Surf)
Techno by Fiedel - exploited by Turf & Surf
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
Production management: Ambre Andriamanana (DIA), Magdalena Stolhofer (WTKB)

Produced by Dance is ancient and Wiener Tanz und Kunst Bewegung / Coproduced by Inkonst, Weld, Skogen and ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival  / Residence support by MARC / with the support of The Swedish Arts Council, Region Skåne, the city of Malmö, Stadt Wien Kultur and The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Swedish Premiere of Jumelles
at Weld, Stockholm

Duration: 70min
Dates:
- 22nd Sept 2023, 19.00-20.30
- 23rd Sept 2023, 19.00-20.30
- 24th Sept 2023, 18.00-19.30

Jumelles
by Anne Juren & Frédéric Gies

In French, Jumelles means both “(female) twins” and “binoculars”. In Jumelles, Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies take on the task of portraying one another in the form of two twin dancing portraits: one danced by Anne Juren and choreographed by Frédéric Gies and the other danced by Frédéric and choreographed by Anne. At the origin of this piece is the 18 years long story of artistic collaboration and friendship between the two artists. Their collaboration consisted of participating to research laboratories, collaborating within educational programmes (DanceWEB, MA in choreography at DOCH-SKH) and performing together. They witnessed each other paths within the dance field and accompanied each other both professionally and in their lives. 

Anne and Frédéric respective choreographic works are rather different formally speaking. Yet, deep connections unite them. These connection find their origins in their love for dance and in the way this love grew through their early years within the dance field, as they were both meeting specific trends in post-modern, contemporary dance. Both artists also share a strong interest for the bodily origins of movement, which manifest in the integration of somatic practices in their work. This connects to the way they both emphasize embodiment, sensuality and the power of dance as a medium of expression. Furthermore, feminist and queer perspectives are constituent of their work. 

Their recurrent collaborations, their paths within dance, their common interests and their personal bond have taken the shape of a continuous process of twinning and mutualisation, which underlies Jumelles. Through the act of portraying one another, they put a magnifying glass on this process and on the historicity of their dancing bodies. In these interlinked portraits, the place of the portrayed and the portraitist are interwoven. It opens up a vast field of gazes in which the gaze is a dynamic entity involving the bodies of the dancers, of the portraitists and of the viewers. 

Credits:

Dance and choreography: Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies
Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo
Sound Design, Composition: Paul Kotal (Turf & Surf)
Techno by Fiedel - exploited by Turf & Surf
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
Production management: Ambre Andriamanana (DIA), Magdalena Stolhofer (WTKB)

Produced by Dance is ancient and Wiener Tanz und Kunst Bewegung / Coproduced by Inkonst, Weld, Skogen and ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival  / Residence support by MARC / with the support of The Swedish Arts Council, Region Skåne, the city of Malmö, Stadt Wien Kultur and The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Ribbon Dance
at Øyafestival

As part of Permament Collection Tøyen

Wednesday 9 August
Thursday 10 August
Friday 11 August
Saturday 12 August

World Premiere of Jumelles
at Impulstanz

Duration: 70min
Date & Time:
- Monday 17th July 2023, 23.00
- Wednsday 19th July 2023, 23.00
Stage: Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz

Jumelles
by Anne Juren & Frédéric Gies

In French, Jumelles means both “(female) twins” and “binoculars”. In Jumelles, Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies take on the task of portraying one another in the form of two twin dancing portraits: one danced by Anne Juren and choreographed by Frédéric Gies and the other danced by Frédéric and choreographed by Anne. At the origin of this piece is the 18 years long story of artistic collaboration and friendship between the two artists. Their collaboration consisted of participating to research laboratories, collaborating within educational programmes (DanceWEB, MA in choreography at DOCH-SKH) and performing together. They witnessed each other paths within the dance field and accompanied each other both professionally and in their lives. 

Anne and Frédéric respective choreographic works are rather different formally speaking. Yet, deep connections unite them. These connection find their origins in their love for dance and in the way this love grew through their early years within the dance field, as they were both meeting specific trends in post-modern, contemporary dance. Both artists also share a strong interest for the bodily origins of movement, which manifest in the integration of somatic practices in their work. This connects to the way they both emphasize embodiment, sensuality and the power of dance as a medium of expression. Furthermore, feminist and queer perspectives are constituent of their work. 

Their recurrent collaborations, their paths within dance, their common interests and their personal bond have taken the shape of a continuous process of twinning and mutualisation, which underlies Jumelles. Through the act of portraying one another, they put a magnifying glass on this process and on the historicity of their dancing bodies. In these interlinked portraits, the place of the portrayed and the portraitist are interwoven. It opens up a vast field of gazes in which the gaze is a dynamic entity involving the bodies of the dancers, of the portraitists and of the viewers. 

Credits:

Dance and choreography: Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies
Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo
Music and Sound design: Paul Kotal
Music: Fiedel
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
Production management: Ambre Andriamanana (DIA), Magdalena Stolhofer (WTKB)

Produced by Dance is ancient and Wiener Tanz und Kunst Bewegung / Coproduced by Inkonst, Weld, Skogen and ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival  / Residence support by MARC / with the support of The Swedish Arts Council, Region Skåne, the city of Malmö, Stadt Wien Kultur and The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Participate in Dance is Ancient's creation process during a few days! The work done will be presented at the end of the residency in front of an audience.

UPDATE: This workshop has been cancelled. We will come back during the Fall edition with a new format. Interested? Sign up to our interest list here.

The workshop will be based on Frédéric Gies’ performance Ribbon Dance (2015). Ribbon Dance is a celebration dance, a manifestation of the drives and forces that set off bodies or things in movement and the movement potential to self-generate. The performance has already be reviewed in several formats - solos like group pieces, and performed by professional dancers.

During the workshop, Frédéric Gies will share their practice and approach of dance with you and you will learn parts of the real performance. During four days, you will work closely with the choreographer and discover what it means to be part of a dance company with dancing on one of the key work of Frédéric Gies.

At the end of the workshop, you will present their work in the frame of Maison de la Danse.

Who: For all 13-18 yo curious about dancing
Age Restriction: from 13 to 18 yo
Level: All levels accepted
Fee: Completely free of charge

* All the workshops are completely free of charge thanks to the support of Malmö stad, Region Skåne and Kulturrådet.

Practice schedule

* Monday, June 19th 2023
10.00-13.00

* Tuesday, June 20th 2023
10.00-13.00

* Wednesday, June 21st 2023
10.00-13.00

* Thursday, June 22nd 2023
15.00-19.00 (Followed by a public presentation of the work at 19.00)

Place: Ungdomens Hus (Sal 11 and Festsalen), 10B Norra Skolgatan, 211 52 Malmö

Dance Concert #2
- Brittanie & Elise

Constellations and Alliances + Barricades and Legacies

The Dance Concerts #1, #2 and #3 are specially created for this edition of La Maison de la Danse. In this series, Frédéric Gies compiled different programs of bold, tender and virtuosic dances extracted from our recent performances for the stage. Selected duos and solos from the pieces will be presented on the original music by Fiedel, but also uniquely revisited with group dances danced as solos and/or solos as duos. Excerpts from group dances will be presented in a unprecedented intimate setting, by 2 dancers.

In Dance Concert #2, Brittanie Brown will dance her solo from Barricades and Legacies: Chiron in Aries, Recital #3 as well as her solo and a group dance from Constellation and Alliances: Chiron in Aries, Recital #4, which was originally created for Weld company extended and never presented in Malmö. Elise Brewer will dance her solo and a group dance form the same piece.

Since 2020, Frédéric Gies has been working on the 7-piece cycle Chiron in Aries. To that day, 4 pieces have already been created. Chiron in Aries takes for framework the astrology and mythology around the figure of the centaur Chiron, the wounded healer.

Choreography: Frédéric Gies
Dance: Brittanie Brown & Elise Brewer
Music: Fiedel
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

Dates & Times
Wedn. 14 June 2023 - 19.00
Thur. 15 June 2023 - 19.00

Program
18.30: Doors open
19.00: Show
20.00: Discussion with the artists

About Brittanie Brown & Elise Brewer

Brittanie is currently a freelancer who received her B.F.A. in Dance from The Juilliard School in 2011 after being named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 2007. Throughout the years, she has performed original works by Alexander Ekman, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Christopher Roman, Stijn Celis and Victor Quijada. Brittanie has worked with companies such as the GöteborgsOperans DansKompani, Skånes Dansteater, Norrdans and Corpus.

Elise has a BA in contemporary dance from Dans and Circus School in Stockholm. Her artistic activity consists of collaborating with other artists, developing own artistic projects and working to strengthen the free dance field by developing and supporting sustainable structures for the dance to operate within. All her work in dance involves a hybrid of doing, thinking, reading, write and discuss.

Dance Concert #1
- Andreas & Frédéric

Constellations and Alliances, Warriors and Terpsichore in Scorpio

Dance Concerts #1, #2 and #3 are specially created for this edition of La Maison de la Danse. In this series, Frédéric Gies compiled different programs of bold, tender and virtuosic dances extracted from our recent performances for the stage. Selected duos and solos from the pieces will be presented on the original music by Fiedel, but also uniquely revisited with group dances danced as solos and/or solos as duos. Excerpts from group dances will be presented in a unprecedented intimate setting, by 2 dancers.

In Dance concert #1, Frédéric Gies will dance a few dances extracted from their solo Terpsichore in Scorpio – Deposition, which they made as a testimony of their 30 years of career in the dance Field. Andreas Haglund will dance their solo and a group dance from Constellations and Alliances: Chiron in Aries, Recital #4, which was created for Weld company extended and that has never been shown in Malmö. Frédéric and Andreas will also dance a duo version of a solo that was danced by Frédéric in the Chiron in Arie’s piece Warriors and by Andreas in Barricades and Legacies.

Choreography: Frédéric Gies
Dance: Frédéric Gies & Andreas Haglund
Music: Fiedel
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

Dates & Times
Wedn. 7 June 2023 - 19.00
Thur. 8 June 2023 - 19.00
Frid. 9 June 2023 - 19.00

Program
18.30: Doors open
19.00: Show
20.00: Discussion with the artists

About Andreas Haglund

Andreas works as a freelance dancer and performer and choreographer. He has a BA in Dance and choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts. He is a member of Dance Cooperative; a new platform, dance studio and place for intersectional practice and performances in Copenhagen. Andreas has, among other things, worked with choreographers such as Jules Fischer, Andros Zins-Browne, Ágnes Grélinger, Thjerza Balaj, Paolo Gile, Stina Ehn, Antonia Harke and Denise Lim.