28.09 / 19:00
Performance / PREMIERE
LUCKY NUMBERS
Stina Nyberg / Riksteatern (SE)
Stina Nyberg’s new creation for Riksteatern will premiere at HERE:2021 before traveling all over Sweden.
In Lucky Numbers we encounter two dancers moving to music, to each other, to an inner feeling and to an imagined world.
In a patchwork of actions and reactions, the dancers Lisa Janbell and Ama Kyei move on the borders between imagery and sensation, keeping a steady beat while constantly changing relations. Immersed in the music composed by DJ and composer rRoxymore the dance itself moves, and might even move its audience. Lucky Numbers is performed in a space designed by Josefin Hinders in collaboration with the artist Anna Nordström. Her Youtube-influenced patchwork quilts present a striking visual experience enfolding the audience in a space for shared experiences.
“Lucky Numbers is very much a duet with the dancers Lisa and Ama as the main characters, the clubbers, the friends, the dancers, the people who create a space that somehow vibrates. They are busy figuring out what it really means to ‘dig’ to music, always doing it as two people in relation to each other and to the audience that surrounds them.” – Stina Nyberg
Production photos: José Figueroa
CREDITS
Dance: Lisa Janbell and Ama Kyei Choreography: Stina Nyberg Music: Hermione Frank aka rRoxymore Set, light and costume design: Josefin Hinders Textile art: Anna Nordström Technical coordinator, stage master and tour leader: Johan Rydén Sound and light technician: Per Fritz Masks: Rebecca Afzelius Costume technician: Anna Johansson Choreography consultant: Maryam Nikandish Workshops: Amelis Riquelme Nicoletti, Emma Rozgoni och Anna Ståhl Dance coach: Mona Namér Dancers under research: Bambam Frost Trailer and press photos: José Figueroa Launch image: Res
BIO
Stina Nyberg
Stina Nyberg lives in Stockholm and works as a dancer and choreographer. In her practice, she uses conviction and illusion in order to create new systems of logic which constructs the world differently, and make bodies act accordingly. At moments she calls this performative force magic, sometimes a craft, and occasionally a practice. Her departure point is always a feminist approach to the body; its social and political construction and ability to move.
She has developed a series of independent works in collaboration with choreographers, musicians, visual artists, technicians and magicians. Her latest project, The Tesla Project, involves a solo performance with a Tesla coil (Thunderstruck, 2017), a lecture performance (The woman who lit the world, 2018) and a live concert with musician Maria W Horn (Alternating Currents, 2018), as well as a puppet show about ghost sex in collaboration with Diederik Peeters and Andros Zins-Browne (Spectrophilia, 2018).
In 2020 she has developed a choreographed city walk from the perspective of a dog, on commission from the Public Art Agency Sweden (Statens konstråd), and from 2019-2021 she has developed and performed a series of dances with a rotating cast of ten dancers, as well as a book of interviews, all under the title Make Hay While the Sun Shines. In collaboration with Riksteatern, the National Touring Theatre she now creates a new dance work for Lisa Janbell and Ama Kyei, entitled Lucky Numbers.