Invitation to maison de la danse 2024!
Malmö, the 5th of February 2024,
Dear dance and techno lovers,
It has been wonderful to see you in 2023 at Maison de la Danse, our mobile, independent house for dance. It was a pure pleasure to treat you to cutting-edge dance performances, to beats resonating throughout your whole body, to exploring what your body can do in our Technosomatics workshops and dance classes and to invite you to ask your most burning questions to the artists. It was also pure joy to share the dancefloor with you.
Great news: we are back in 2024!
Less great news: times are really grim for culture in Sweden and as many organisations, we are facing economic hardship, which could jeopardise our existence on the long run if nothing changes. But guess what? We refuse to give up!
So yes! We are back in 2024! We have to be more inventive than ever to be able to put together a generous programme under those circumstances but it is not a challenge we are afraid of! We are fearless and we love dance too much to let inflation coupled with dodgy national cultural politics jeopardise our work and our meeting with you.
We are more than excited to welcome you to our spring and fall editions of Maison de la Danse! As I am writing this letter and as I am finalising the last touches of the spring edition, I wonder what should be our motto for it. “Less is more”? “Tax the rich”? Or “poor but sexy” as Berlin used to be beginning of the noughties? Maybe all of that. In any case, at Maison de la danse 2024, dance and music will not be average and we will continue to raise high the flag of sharp aesthetic choices and of dance practices that expand our perceptions. All of that without neglecting hospitality, which is at the core of our project. Our home is your home!
Check our online programme! The spring is already on and the fall will be announced later, after the summer.
Last but not least, another great news… It is still for free! Unless you want to support us with a donation. But know that the best support you can ever give us is your presence! You can count on ours!
I cannot wait to see you!
Frédéric Gies
Artistic director of Dance is ancient
