The Choreography explores the world through movement and examines how the way we move can affect what we think, see and feel. In The Choreography there is no wrong move you can make, everything turns out just right!
The Choreography is an interactive performance based on audience participation. Everyone in the audience gets a pair of headphones through which they will hear a guiding voice instructing them on how to move, how to relate to one’s body and how to relate to one another. There are no dancers or actors in the performance, but it is instead the audience itself who creates The Choreography together.
The performance is available in 16 languages: Arabic, Dari, English, Farsi, Finnish, German, Kurdish (Sorani), Meänkieli, Northern Sami, Pashto, Romani (Arli), Russian, Turkish, Somali, Southern Sami or Swedish. Regardless of language, everyone participates together and listens to the same instructions. The audience can listen to the same instructions and have a shared experience without understanding the same language. We hope that The Choreography can serve as an equal meeting place for people who don’t speak the same language.
Johanssons pelargoner och dans is a performing arts group that likes the broad, kind and intuitive. We create performances where the audience is involved physically, focusing on the bodily experience of those who participate. Our work is usually aimed at children and young people and we have a great interest in the pedagogical meeting, regardless of target group. Since 2009, we hold workshops, tour performances, give lectures and run projects. We who founded and work with Johanssons pelargoner och dans are dance educators, choreographers, and dancers.
Production
Interactive Performance
Johanssons pelargoner och dans, Sweden
Concept, choreography, script and set design:
Anna Haglund, Annica Styrke, Johan Sundén and Karin Wiklund
Sponsored by: Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Postcode Foundation, Swedish Inheritance Fund, Stockholm Municipality, Institute for Language and Folklore and Swedish Arts Council.
