ExPro Stage
ExPro Stage is a projekct that runs during the fall 2023 and spring 2024, with support from the City of Gothenburg.
ExPro Stage offers a guest stage for dancers and performance artists. Experimental stage for performing arts and performance through public presentation, in a small format.
In addition, summer residencies and winter residencies are offered through Danscentrum Väst.
ExPro Stage - March 15 & 16
COUNTERPOINT:
BODY, SOUND and IMAGE
Friday March 15 at 19
This transdisciplinary dance-music-painting performance co-creates a new dialogue where emotions guide the journey through visual and acoustic landscapes. Our belief is that dance and painting can be heard, and music can be seen. We invite you to experience a contrapuntal meeting among body, sound and image, where we explore different rooms of emotions and atmospheres.
CONTRIBUTOR
Dance: Emma Minarelli (IT), with a classical ballet training and studies in W. Forsythe and M. Cunningham techniques, researches and performs instantaneous movement composition in an interdisciplinary framework.
Violinist: Agnes Högberg, with a background in classical music, is currently active in various musical contexts and genres, mainly in the ensemble Bortre Rymden.
Painting and photo: Eva Abeto (FR), is a bridge maker and a storyteller using multimedia techniques and also having a strong experience with many different media, tools and body of expression such as, paint, printing, live performance, dance, music and social media.
TRANSFORMATIONS
Transformations, is a solo work that explores different kinds of bodily transformations. In the work we meet a character who is looking for a new self and a new skin to live in. Through movement and text, the viewer is invited into a personal and intimate space. An alien layer presents a future where anyone can become anything.
CONTRIBUTORS
Anna-Greta Himmer is a dancer and choreographer based in Gothenburg. She graduated from Balettakademien Göteborgs Dansutbildning in 2023 and has since worked to establish herself as a dancer and creator.
Photo Anna-Greta Himmer
Friday March 15 at 19
Resonance Unveiled
"Tales from the White Room"
"Tales from the White Room" is the meeting of two men. Two different existences in perhaps different dimensions of time. Two versions of the same person. A scenic attempt where there is no real end goal other than transmutation, an alchemical experience through the voice.
CONTRIBUTORS
Sebastian Ruiz and Jan Rådvik started this creative process a few years ago, immersing themselves in deep work with voice, listening and movement. Today they share with the public what their practice has been.
PHOTO: "Daniel in the Lion's Den" (Chapter 6 of the Book of Daniel) tells how the biblical Daniel is rescued from lions by the God of Israel "because I was found blameless before him" (Daniel 6:22).
Saturday March 16 at 17
A T A O S - Twins & Mirrors
Saturday March 16 at 17
A T A O S - Twins & Mirrors
(a) Journey to SELF in 11 Frames & 2 Timelines
(b)y/with Emil Schimanski and his 22 Masks
A performed reflection on Identity, Attachments and Healing. Looking deep into body, mind, spirit and heart, as core elements in transforming traumatic patterns and limiting beliefs. Investigating various performative acts, simulating shamanic rituals, crossing boundaries of personal and collective experience, shifting perceptions of reality and fiction. A ritual of release shapes in the corners of Self, mirrored by Other, in a choreography of inner wor(L)ds.
Open to interactive participation in the Constellation of Masks and Mirrors. Please register for the Choir in advance at tsvprojectd@gmail.com or step in with free will during the event. Scripts&scores will be provided.
ExPro Stage - residency and stage presentation
MYSK, in collaboration with World Dance Company & Andra Våningen at Oceanen offers a new guest performance stage in a small and intimate format for Gothenburg dancers and performance artists.
In 2018, a pilot study was carried out to investigate the need to provide Gothenburg with a new guest performance stage in a small and intimate format. ExPro Stage is a development of the project and a platform that makes it possible to examine the artistic work by inviting the audience to its scenic process of experiments, labs, conversations, work in progress and the artist's needs in the development phase.
ExPro also includes a collaboration with Danscentrum Väst's residency activities. The residency means that during the fall of 2020, the artist commits to meeting the ExPro stage's audience, either in the form of a "work in progress" show or as a finished performance.
Open Call ExPro Stage
Try out your artistic idea, excerpt from a performance or work in progress.
The application shall contain
Name
Contact details
Content, what do you wish to present (excerpt of performance, work in progress, interactive presentation etc)
Length of the presentation
Number of participants, name
Technical requirements (fixed light and sound)
Other information
Send your application to pooja.mysk@gmail.com
*Can only be applied for by professional performing artists, dancers, performance artists in the performing arts in Gothenburg and Västra Götand region.
Select one option:
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Compensation - for public presentation during one occasion.
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Studio time in our premises about 8 hours
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Fee for your choice of coach
Open Deadline during the year 2023-2024.
Producers
Pooja Claesson and Sarah Tångring
Tillie the terrible
Dancer, clown and music: Tanja Andersson, Stefan Ostoji´c and Per Elofsson
Soundscape
Choreographer at the computer: Gun Lund. Dance: Rebecca Evanne, Hannah Karlssonoch Jonny Berg,
Dikta
Dance och choreographer: Felix Skalberg
Opus X
Dance och choreographer: Benedicte Esperi och Cha Blasco
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Opus no1
Dance and musik: Lisa Larsdotter Petersson and Henrik Wartel
Barlast
Choreographer: Takuya Fujisawa Dance: Marlin Kvist, Beda Åsbrink. Photo: Takuya Fujisawa
Movement 635
Dance och choreographer, Feri Sri Danarto
Photo @stendalenphoto
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Samples of presentations
ExPro Stage
ExPro Stage wants to highlight performing artists who are in an ongoing stage of experimentation, lab, 'work in progress' or the artist's needs in the development phase.
Are you in an artistic process and want to share a work in progress or are you exploring a theme, a movement language or interdisciplinary collaborations? Then ExPro Stage is a platform for you that is based on presenting a process in conversation with an audience.
Shakti
A cross-genre performance, moving between Odissi, Indian classical dance and contemporary music.
Shakti is related to energy, the creative force, whose source is the vital life force within us. With a deep heritage in Indian Odissi, it explores performative, innovative and meditative aspects of life.
ExPro Stage
cooperation partners
A selection
University of Gothenburg
Valand Academy of Art and Design
Gothenburg Fringe Festival
Kulturnatta
Planetafestival
Danscentrum Väst
Culture House Oceanen
World Dance Company
Andra Våningen
ABF