How to create a modern dance group

Poster for this year Costume and dance performance at Herreköket,
Vadstena slott, Vadstena. Eleven designer students, three dancers and
nine. Improvised posing and dancing to Stravinskys the Firebird. A five
week university course in costume design for stage.
Images from the show ELDFÅGELN 4 july, 2008.

All costume and make up designed by:
Josefin Arnell Lena Bobrowski, Matilda Ekström Stina Engman, Caroline Fossum Julia Göransson, Frida Holmberg, Julia Krantz, Ida Therese Lindberg, Anna Mård, Mona Möller

plötsligt tror man att allt är en dans förutom kanske de som står helt stilla jämt. 

tex haren springer slalom framför bilen i mörkret och man vill tro: den är på disco för den dansar till bilstereon och strålkastarljusets sken. Förmodligen är det ingen dans utan en skräckslagen dödssymfoni, typiskt för hararsläktet. 

suddenly you prefer to think everything is a dance, even the hare loves to dance, so called hare disco. /j

när man dansar kan man även dansa som ett djur oxå.when you dance you probably have the destination to be The animal.  /j

Costume design. Workshop ” Firebird”, 17 June 2008, Linköping University, Vadstena

What defines dance and dance costume?

Every summer for the fifth time this year, I have this inspiration lecture
and workshops for design students specialising in costume design for
theater, opera and dance. The first three years was connected to opera.
This and the last year have been toward dance. But the course also nourish a wish for the people on stage to understand and
work with the costumes. To let the costume direct. I am very intrigued
by the act to lett your dress give you direction how to move.

Part of my interest in this show we will have on the 17 August How to create a modern dance group -I can’t believe it’s not sugar ! is
in everyday actions and movements turned in to dance or/and ritual. But
it´s not about turning everything in to everyday situations, it´s the
opposite. To turn this world in to a magical and mythical system of
aesthetics. Go wild go arty, go dancing even when no one else can se
that you are. Every crowd, every day on the bus to work and at work is
a day with magical movements.