Festival: DansFunk
BEYOND SAFETY is the theme of this year’s DansFunk Festival at Skånes Dansteater. Concepts of safety, care and pleasure will be examined and embodied by international disabled artists, and you are invited to join them to explore the question: Do you feel safe?
Beyond Safety
Each year, Skånes Dansteater’s festival dedicates a week to a theme, question, or community that challenges how we understand the dancing body. Every other year the festival places disabled-led work at its centre called DansFunk.
Two very different performances, Diana Niepce’s Hornfuckers from Portugal and Amoroso with Teatr Klucz from Poland, will create absolute worlds on stage opening and closing the festival. Filled with violence and love, they bring us closer to fear and ecstasy. Stemming from a shared belief that the stage is a place of encounter and dialogue, each body and their experiences matter.
DansFunk Forum is a full day of panel talks and discussions that will investigate two main questions; what it means to move through the world not designed for your body, and can crip art bring us all together without ready-made answers?
The festival programme has been curated by artist and activist, Filip Pawlak. Filip is a graduate of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice, the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław and the Master Program Performing Arts as a Critical Practice at the Malmö Theatre Academy / Lund University:
”What fascinates me about crip/ crippled art is its fluid definition, a paradoxical reminder of the impossibility of art; the fleeting promise of an imaginary but inaccessible world, a space in which judgement is suspended, if only for the duration of the performance.”
A Better World
Dance is one of the few languages where we can experiment without consequence, make mistakes, be moved, and explore possibilities without the pressure of definitive judgments. We can temporarily suspend rules and imagine a better world through the innovative spirit and work of dance artists with disabilities, those who dare to ask questions about the complexities of everyday life.
DansFunk 2026 is presented in partnership with Europe Beyond Access, a four-year transnational project that supports European disabled dance artists through professional development in dance and choreography. Europe Beyond Access is funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
The complete DansFunk programme will be released in September.
