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Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between a stage work, a lecture, a demonstration and an audience encounter,
two longtime collaborators with Säfsten dives back into the semiotics of movement. To be performed in regular spaces and alternative venues.
”Introduction” is part 2 of the series ”Attending Presence” which commenced with the piece ”Display” in 2011. The new creation starts in the spring of 2012 and opens in september at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå with additional performances at Dansens Hus in Stockholm.
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Corduroy de-constructed is a dance installation with choreographic material from the stage version of Corduroy, originally created for and performed at Dansens Hus in Stockholm in november 2010. For Corduroy-Deconstructed the piece was rewritten, shattered, smeared, fragmented and deconstructed, allowing the spectator to get close to the dancers and the choreographic action. The installation can be altered and changed depending on the size of the exhition hall or venue at thand.
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Created during 2011 and opening in October the same year, Display encounters questions of signals and symbols. Eloquently performed with a specific personal touch by two dancers, Display opens questions of representation and imagination to new discussions. The title refers both to the obvious: presentation, exhibition, displaying. Which game are played, what characters are needed in the theatrical space? What signal and symbols do we use and represent? In Display Björn Säfsten continues working closely with light designer Susan Hedin, composer Victor Sáiz and set designer Johanna Jönsson Rameus. A visual and audio-visual room is created for presentation of the movement material. The piece was presented at Mdt in Stockholm in Oct 2011 directly after the opening at NorrlandsOperan.
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The piece is co-produced with Dansenshus and Norrlandsoperan dance in Umeå. The research will be based on the working methods developed in the project Compact conversation. This piece is doing so by looking in to Symmetry, it´s politics, agenda and visual aspects. A piece for the big stage and 11 dancers.
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The piece was made as a co-production together with the House of Dance Oslo, Moderna dance theater in Stockholm. The artist had one mounth in Stockholm to research a new method called Domestic gestures. The piece was later build around the meeting and coalision between this method and the earlier methods created by the team of artist. Bouth methods aims to analyse the lingvistics in within the discourse of contemporary dance.
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The piece was created at the House of Dance in Stockholm Sweden 2008. Thanks to the price of the competition Koreograf 2007 the piece was made as the Dance network Sweden residency.
The piece is a fullevening piece made of the same artist that made In trembling space with the addition of two new dancers. The main aim in the research was to look in to the point of deconstruction created with in the methods that the artists has developed the last years. Through examine that find new ways of questioning their own method and discours.
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The piece was created at the House of Dance in Stockholm Sweden 2007. The director Kenneth Kvarnström founded a choregraphic competition inviting four young choregraphers to make a 15 min piece. An international jury selected Bjön Säfsten as the winner of the competition and he was rewarded a residence at Dansens Hus for the making of a new piece and a tour provided by Dance network Sweden. The piece has aswell been shown in Vasa Finland.
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The production was initiated by Anja Arnquist in co-operation with Norrlandsoperan and developed through an investigation project in 2007. During one and a half month Björn and Anja developed the project that in spring 2008 became a stage pruduction. Master Minds is an interactive piece for kids between 10 to 13 year old. The aim is to let the kids act as choreographers. During one hour and through choreographing together with professional dancers the students get an insight in contemporary dance and the working field of the choreographer and the dancers. The piece had its premiére in Skellefteå 2008. Since that it has been shown more than 100 times all around Sweden. Since 2008 Skånes dansteater has the rights to perform the piece.
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The piece was created in co-operation with the production company Watt in Vasa Finland and had its premiere 2006. Since that it has been shown in Hammerfest Norway, Rovaniemi, Oulo and Kristine Stad Finland. The piece was made for schools and students in the age between 13 – 19.
Trough out the tour the artist offers workshops to the audience and dance schools in the cities that they toured to.
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The adaptation was created in residence at the Aula de danza Estrella casero in Alcala de Henares Spain and had its première 2006. Since then it has been shown in Umeå Sweden (Umeå dansar med fler), Hammerfest Norway, Madrid La casa Encendida 2007 and at the dancebiennial in Umeå Sweden 2008. The project was selected for the making of a book treating the process, this project is named Documentos de danza and the book was published in 2007.
In this section you can find a selection of my work as a choreographer.
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