Skånes Dansteater 30 years

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22. Poetry beyond words 

Voices from the audience

"Don't, Kiss .Skånes" resonated deeply with the audience when it toured in the summer of 2022. Through the dance experience, we can come near to what is closest to our hearts.

Clips from
"Don't, Kiss .Skånes" (Fabio Liberti 2022, 2024)

21. Nature always finds its way 

With Maria Pilar Abaurrea Zardoya

Dancer Maria Pilar Abaurrea Zardoya remembers the piece "Something About Wilderness and several attempts at taming beauty", that transformed the entire parking lot outside the theater into a flourishing garden. 

Clips from
"Something About Wilderness and several attempts at taming beauty"(Mélanie Demers, Laïla Diallo 2017)

20. Even when words are not enough – talk about dance 

With Celine Orman

Since 2020, the project Maintaining / Bevara Rörelse Movement has been collecting voices about dance from various perspectives. In meetings with choreographers, dancers, and audiences, the archivist and project manager Celine Orman has created a unique and celebrated archive that preserves the art of dance for the future.

Clips from 
"Zero-Zero" (Johanna Nuutinen 2022, 2023)
"in:finite" (Wubkje Kuindersma 2022)
"Transit" (Tero Saarinen 2020, 2023)
"Blushing Gold" (Heidi Vierthaler 2022)
"Don't, Kiss .Skånes" (Fabio Liberti 2022, 2024)
"Once a Whisper" (Helena Franzén 2022, 2023)
"Mitridate" (Fernando Melo 2022)
"Out of the Blue" (Anouk van Dijk 2021)
"Remind Me I'm not Dead" (Mari Carrasco 2021, 2022)
"Djurens karneval" (Marcos Morau 2020-2023)
"The Dropouts" (Jo Strømgren 2023, 2024)
"Vår Dag" (Tina Tarpgaard 2021, 2022, 2025)

19. Opening up perspectives

With Tanja Mangalanayagam

Our former project manager Tanja Mangalanayagam recalls the ensemble's euphoria after their premiere of "Katlego". A unique dance project and collaboration with Drömmarnas Hus, Kulturcentrum Skåne, and Aktiva Tjejer.

Clips from
"Katlego" (Melody Putu 2013)

18. Dancing in the great outdoors

With Kat Nakui and Fabrizio di Franco

Our dancers Kat Nakui and Fabrizio di Franco share their experiences of dancing under open skies, beyond the borders of the stage and theatre, joining dancers and audiences, people and places in new and unexpected circumstances.

Clips from 
"Nook" (Fabio Liberti 2021) 
"Domino" (Erika Silgoner 2024)
"Going Steady" (Liam Francis 2023)
"Wild Fellas" (Erika Silgoner 2022)
"Dayglow Courtyards" (Maria Pilar Abaurrea Zardoya, Sarah Bellugi-Klima Berzell, Line Branchereau, Matthew Branham, Jon Ipiña, Anette Jellne, Ischa Statie, Tiemen Stemerding 2020)

17. 30 years of physical expression

With Vidar Maggason

Former dancer Vidar Maggason looks back at his dancer days and memories of blood, sweat and a tear or two, but more importantly also of years of so much laughter and joy. Nowadays all that experience becomes useful tools in his daily work as Company Manager at Skånes Dansteater.

Clips from 
"Pers Planet" including "Ayas Öga" & "Rivers of Mercury" (Per Jonsson 2006)
"Love Conversations" (Guido Tuveri 2001)

16. Celebrating five years with "DancePod with Skånes Dansteater"

With Kit Brown and Samuel Denton

Since 2019, dancers Kit Brown and Samuel Denton have uncovered invaluable insights about dance, artistic creation and dance research in 53 episodes of DancePod with Skånes Dansteater! Listen to costume designers, project managers, choreographers, artists, and dancers, among many others, and discover new perspectives on dance.

Clips from 
"Gentle Unicorn" (Chiara Bersani 2018) 
"Transit" (Tero Saarinen 2020)
"Out of the Blue" (Anouk Van Dijk 2021) 
"in:finite" (Wubjke Kuindersma 2023)
"Going Steady" (Liam Francis 2023)
"Snaecka" (Sindri Runudde 2022)
"Katlego" (Melody Putu 2012)
"C me" (Caroline Bowditch , Melody Putu 2015)
"Time Loops" (Rachel Victoria Tess 2022)

15. Dance in a sea of sound

With Eric Roos

Eric Roos sings bass in the Malmö Opera Choir and sees the similarities between an opera singer and a dancer, both equally dedicated to refining their instrument; the voice and the body.

Thank you Malmo Opera for all the fantastic collaborations where dance and song merge on stage, often to the extent that the choir dances and the dancers sing.

Clips from 
"Mozarts Requiem" (Örjan Andersson 2018, 2023)
"To see the world while the light lasts" (Ben Wright 2016)
"the feeling of going" (Ben Wright 2013, 2017)

14.  Coming full circle

With Lidia Wos

In 2002, Lidia Wos took the Malmö Opera's stage as a young dancer. Now she's back - as a choreographer for "Wing Ding", an anniversary celebration full of imagination, joy and a dash of madness. With a marvelous team, the Malmö Opera Chorus, the Malmö Opera Orchestra and our dancers, who together bring three decades of dance memories to life.

Clips from 
"Wing Ding" (Lidia Wos 2025)

13. Arts are essential in a society

With Bengt Hall

Bengt Hall, Artistic Director & CEO, Malmö Opera 2009–2017, was an essential person during the major reorganization in the early 1990s. This laid the foundation for today’s three independent arts institutions, Malmö Opera, Skånes Dansteater and Malmö Stadsteater. Since then, opera, dance and theater have continued to grow and thrive on their own stages, spreading joy and life to all of Skåne! 

Clips from 
"This Moment is Your Life" (Ben Wright 2015) 
"Unearth" (Per Jonsson & Susanna Leinonen 2012)
"Heart of Silk" (Pontus Lidberg 2009)
"Black Water" (Jorma Uotinen 2009)
"Sånger från en inställd skilsmässa" (Lidia Wos 2015)

12. The joy of performing for young audience

With Hanna Nussbaumer and Simone Frederick Scacchetti

Experiencing dance, on a stage or in a studio, is a discovery of our inner worlds. The transformative power of live art is often wonderfully present in the young audiences we meet. Dancer Hanna Nussbaumer and Simone Frederick Scacchetti share their thoughts on the exhilarating meeting with the you audiences.

Clips from 
"Djurens karneval" (Marcos Morau 2020–2023)
"Vår Dag" (Tina Tarpgaard 2021, 2022, 2025)
"The Dropouts" (Jo Strømgren 2023, 2024)
"Club Domino" (Erika Silgoner 2024)

11. Decades of sharing expertise and creativity

With Sanna Ekström Forsberg and Khira Fromark 

Are you a fabric geek too? We celebrate a long-lasting wonderful collaboration with Malmö Opera together with Costume Managers Sanna Ekström Forsberg (Malmö Opera) and Khira Fromark (Skånes Dansteater). Both ateliers are currently working hard to finish all the beautiful costumes for our anniversary production "Wing Ding" (Lidia Wos 2025). A vital and generous everyday exchange of expertise, creativity and materials.

Clips from 
"Out of the Blue" (Anouk Van Dijk, Jessica Helbach 2021)
"Domino" (Erika Silgoner, Bregje van Balen 2024)
"In Wind or Dust" (Danae & Dionysios, Martha Foka 2024)
"Transit" (Tero Saarinen, Teemu Muurimäki 2020)
"Wing Ding" (Lidia Wos, Tomas Sjöstedt 2025)

10. The courage to try something new

With Samuel Denton and Belinda Nusser 

Dancer Samuel Denton and former dancer Belinda Nusser remember the performance ... AND ... with Philippe Blanchard and Björn Säfsten. A performance that rearranged things at the theater as well as in our minds.

Clips from 
"… AND …" (Philippe Blanchard & Björn Säfsten 2013)

9. Creating alone and together 

With Ludvig Daae

Creating something can be a lonely task, being a freelance choreographer for example. Creating at the dance theater means instead more hands working together. For "Attempting Alchemy", choreographer Ludvig Daae has been able to fully immerse himself in the role of choreographer. At the dance theater that means interviews, the occasional podcast and open rehearsals, all intended to create meetings between  dance and audience.

Clips from 
"Attempting Alchemy" (Ludvig Daae 2025)

8. From ballet to contemporary – the birth of a dance theater

With Katarina Wallmo

Skånes Dansteater was born 1995 from the ballet company known as Malmöbaletten. The Ballet Director at that time, Jonas Kåge, had worked hard for many years to establish an independent dance company. After a few turbulent turns of events the modern dance company Skånes Dansteater was born. Patrick King was appointed the Artistic Director and set the ambition for the successful start. 

We go back to those transformative years together with Katarina Wallmo. She was a company dancer with the Malmöbaletten and then Skånes Dansteater and has stayed true to the company since its beginning. She is a living archive of all performances and colleagues, remembering all vividly and detailed. Her dedication to the theater is still strong, nowadays as Project Manager. 

Clips from 
"XXX CLOSE UP" (Patrick King 1995)

7. She needs the dance

With Faïka Ammar

We celebrate Skånes Dansteater's fabulous community together with one of our active members. Faïka Ammar is a community dancer sharing the joy of dance in all kind of ways. She began as a coordinator of our community production "Time Loops" in Lund. She has been an active part of "Bevara Rörelse", our archive project, and she is regularly found in the audience and at workshops. She was also a guest dancer in "Don't, Kiss.Skånes" in spring 2024.  

Clips from 
"Time Loops (Rachel Tess 2022)
"Don't, Kiss.Skånes" (Fabio Liberti 2024)

6. The love of dance as a transformative power

With Tanja Mangalanayagam

The love of dance transformed Tanja Mangalanayagam and the dance theater opening it up to the world. This anniversary Thursday Tanja, Project Manager of Dance Theater in Dialogue 2009–2022, shares memories from years of work increasing access to the theater, the stage and dance as an art form. With a vast program of events, workshops, talks, festivals, conferences, and productions all making the theater a more accessible, inclusive, and diverse place for everyone. It began as a temporary project but has become an invaluable and essential part of Skånes Dansteater ever since.

Clips from 
"Dare to Wreck" (Madeleine Månsson, Peder Nilsson 2017)
"C me" (Caroline Bowditch, Melody Putu 2015)
"Katlego" (Melody Putu 2013)
"Frozen Motion" (Lidia Wos 2016)

5. From baby steps to bold leaps - reminiscing with Artistic Directors

With Mari Brolin Tani and Åsa Söderberg

Defying doubts, daring to dream and relying on the power of dance in us all. We remember different stages of Skånes Dansteater's history together with Artistic Directors Marie Brolin Tani (CEO 2001-2007) och Åsa Söderberg (CEO 2008-2019). From inaugurating a dance theater to performances which have broken glass ceilings or become classics. Please enjoy some of Marie's and Åsa's memories from their years with Skånes Dansteater.

Clips from 
"Ayas Öga" (Per Jonsson 2006)
"To find a way with one another" (Ben Wright 2018)
"Kroppens Poesi/Lunchdans" (Marie Brolin Tani and Skånes Dansteater's dansare 2005)
"Rivers of Mercury" (Per Jonsson 2006)
"Woza Nami" (Melody Putu 2015)
"To see the world while the light lasts" (Ben Wright 2016)

4. All the dancing and so much more

With Hazuki Kojima 

Life at the dance theater can mean all sorts of challenges, choreography, stage tech, props, acting, unruly audiences and more. We meet our dancer Hazuki Kojima who shares thoughts on acting and having a script in the performance "In Wind or Dust". The performance premiered spring 2024 but meets new audiences this season with a new group of dancers.

Clips from 
"In Wind or Dust" (Danae & Dionysios 2024, 2025)

3. Dancing your last show

With Laura Lohi

Life at the dance theater is cyclical, artists come go, world premieres are followed by revivals. We meet our dancer Laura Inkeri Lohi who shares thoughts on her last performance at Skånes Dansteater, VÅR DAG (Our Day). The performance premiered during the pandemic, but meets new audiences 2025 with a new group of dancers.

Clips from 
"Vår Dag" (Tina Tarpgaard 2021, 2022, 2025)

2. Kit celebrates 10 years at Skånes Dansteater

With Kit Brown

Dancer Kit Brown celebrates 10 years as a dancer at Skånes Dansteater this year! Time to look back and remember those early days. 

Clips from 
"Spectrum" (Ben Wright 2017)
"Eller så talar vi alls inte" (Kit Brown, Carl Johan Karlidag Folkesson 2023)
"the feeling of going" (Ben Wright 2013, 2017)
"Bread & Butter" (Samuel Denton, Jesper Berg 2023)
"Like a large animal deep in sleep" Marina Mascarell 2016)
"Vår Dag" (Tina Tarpgaard 2021, 2022, 2025)

1. Revisiting Siluett

With Sara Åhman and Jonas Svensson

”This I remember, these steps!”. Celebrating Skånes Dansteater’s 30th anniversary with our dancers Sara Åhman and Jonas Svensson revisiting Lena Josefsson’s creation “Siluett” from 1998.

Clips from 
"Siluett" (Lena Josefsson 1998–2000)