Performance theatre youth

Skånes Dansteater
Skånes Dansteater is a dance company with a contemporary repertory ensemble based 
in Malmö. Since 1995 Skånes Dansteater has presented relevant performing art to a 
wide audience. From grand scale performances to small scale, site-specific works, on 
the company’s own stage as well as on tour. Besides the performances, the company 
organizes a wide range of community and inspirational projects.
Touring productions 2013:
On Invisible Pause: An exploration of all that is in between – between the visible and 
the invisible, movement and rest, the declared and the untold – between you and me. 
Choreography: Christopher Arouni.
…AND… : This is not a double bill. An exploration of identity, truth, life and art, firmly 
grounded in the contemporary. Choreography: Björn Säfsten and Philippe Blanchard.
Ghost Spot/A Summoning: A diptych – A struggle against relentless light and unwavering 
darkness. / Black on white, the longed for transformed into the tangible. Choreography: 
Ben Wright.
Contact
Åsa Söderberg
[e-mail]
www.skanesdansteater.se
CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS               
DANCE
               MUSIC               PERFORMANCE               THEATRE               YOUTH

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Photo: Mats Bäcker.

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Photo: Uggi Kaldan.

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Somantic Noice 
/Kirstine Ilum
Somantic Noice/Kirstine Ilum engages in interdisciplinary performing art projects and 
focuses on collaborations across borders. With a base in contemporary dance theatre, 
Ilum is driven by the urge to tell stories while experimenting with extreme and risk 
taking physicality. This makes her work powerful, political, interesting and energizing to 
watch. The company is open to collaborations and commissioned work.
Recent works available for tour:
Pause. From acrobatic dance on the walls to more gentle sensitive and theatrical 
expressions. A trio work about being so occupied with everything in life that you risk 
being late for life itself. 
MaMa Duet. Two neighbors, completely separated but only by a thin wall, tell their life 
stories simultaneously. 
Fobia Studies#1 Solo. Audience interaction study that deals with the political situation in 
Europe concerning immigration politics.
Stimulation Overload. 4 performers with audience on all 4 sides. A raw physical dance 
theatre performance about surveillance and the abuse of power. 
Contact
Daniel Eriksson
[e-mail]
www.somaticnoise.com
CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS               
DANCE
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Sousou & Maher Cissoko 
“Charismatic duo delivered fantastic stage-presence”…“The warmth from the stage 
and the audience contact where extraordinary throughout the night.”/Alexander Agrell, 
Sydsvenskan
Expressive singing and rhythmically rocking music define this unique duo. They bring 
beautiful West African Mande music with influences from reggae, folk, soul and blues 
closer to you.
Maher Cissoko was born to be a kora player in a great griot family in Casamance, 
Senegal, that has seen the art of kora playing being passed from generation to generation. 
Sousou Cissoko, a singer from Sweden fell in love with the kora at an early age and 
travelled to West African to study kora, singing and guitar, and is today one of few female 
kora players in the world.
Together they perform both as a duo, trio and full band and since the release of their 
debut album Adouna (2008) and the second album Stockholm-Dakar (2011) they have 
been touring in Scandinavia, South Korea, Senegal, Mali, Tanzania and South Africa, 
performing at festivals like Peace & Love, Gwanju World Music Festival, Sauti Za Busara 
and Festival Sur Le Niger.
Contact
Sousou Cissoko
[e-mail]
www.sousoumaher.se
CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS               DANCE               
MUSIC
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Photo: Eirik Folkedal.

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Photo: Jessica von Horn.

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Stockholm Bach Society
Stockholm Bach Society was formed in 2009 by baroque violinist Katarina Bengtson 
Dennis, to perform the music of J S Bach and his contemporaries. The latest addition to 
our repertoire is a highly acclaimed version of Henry Purcell’s 17th-century opera Dido 
& Aeneas, which we are now able to offer in two different formats.
1. During a weekend, Stockholm Bach Society will invite your choral society and/or 
orchestra to participate in our semi-staged performance of Dido & Aeneas. We coach you 
in historically informed interpretation, singing and choreography, and provide insights 
into the life and music of Purcell.
2. We perform Dido & Aeneas in an intimate chamber format. 10 singers and players 
create a painfully beautiful and multilayered opera that will touch everyone who’s ever 
doubted love. 
Katarina Bengtson Dennis performs regularly throughout Europe, with groups and 
conductors such as the Academy of Ancient Music, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers and 
Laurence Cummings. Janna Vettergren (Dido) is a mezzo-soprano, choral director and 
voice coach and has extensive experience of both early and contemporary opera, working 
with conductors such as Olof Boman and Emilio Pomarico. 
Contact
Katarina Bengtson Dennis
[e-mail]
www.flavors.me/stockholmsbachsallskap
CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS               DANCE               
MUSIC
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