NET | Dansehallerne

In NET for children 5 – 9 years and their grown-ups, a large net spreads out into the space. Together with three dancers, the audience unfolds the performance, and a choreographic kaleidoscope emerges. Here we lose ourselves in an undulating landscape of 192 elastic squares, and with dance as the driving force, they open new doors through which the imagination can sneak in. Accompanied by catchy beats and melodious loops, we explore with each other in an aesthetic experience.

In contrast to contemporary ideas about identity, autonomy and independence, NET offers dance by giving space for everyone to become a link in the chain, a thread in the web, or an atom in the molecule. With wondering curiosity, we can see ourselves in the web as part of new figures in constant change. Perhaps this is where a world of singing cats enters – or pixelated avatars dancing in a pyramid?

NET is at the same time playful and serious; a performance where the dancers create an including atmosphere, guiding the audience to investigate and get lost.

The dancer and choreographer duo OR/ELLER was founded in 2018 by Madeleine Lindh and Anja Arnquist. A continuous interest of OR/ELLER is working with the concept of ”within”, which they do through choreography and scenography, and by placing their performances within, in different ways: E.g. by wedging them into large formats on big venues, or between two books in a library. OR/ELLER perceive their work as points of contact, inviting both dancers and audiences – children as well as grownups – to being part of a fiction playing with a tone which is at the same time complex and simple, serious and humorous. Elinor Tollerz Bratteby works as a dancer since 2012, mainly with non-institutional choreographers, artists and collectives in Sweden and internationally. She engages in dance and choreography as ever changing concepts, committed to explorations of what we do not yet know. Rebecka Berchtold is a dancer trained in contemporary and post-modern dance. Dance training, iterations and perspectives from inside are important elements in her practice. As a dancer, she has worked both freelance and with the company Norrdans (2019-22). Furthermore, Berchtold produces the podcast “5678” about dance training. Karin Bergman is a dancer and choreographer based in Copenhagen. Artistically, she is interested in decentralization as a way to recognize and organize movement, the relations between bodies and their environments and dance in unconventional places. Her latest choreographic work “Somatography” premiered in Dansehallerne 2022. Bergman has been touring interactive performances for children in Dansehallerne’s KORA program since 2020. Liv Mikaela Sanz is educated in dance at Millennium Performing Arts, London. She has performed in works on a series of venues in Denmark and internationally, and has furthermore been teaching dance for many years at The Danish Royal Ballet School, Den Danske Scenekunstskole, and in elementary schools. Naemi Gustavsson is a fashion and costume designer from Sweden, graduated from Kunstakademiets Designskole in Copenhagen. She continuously works with design inspired by function, and often explores the interactions that happen in the relation between garment and body.