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Kristine Slettevold, new Artistic Director of Cullberg

Kristine Slettevold has been appointed new artistic director of the dance company Cullberg. Slettevold is currently active as a dancer and as Head of Department of Dance at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH). Kristine Slettevold will take up her new assignment after the summer.

“I am extremely happy and eager for this exciting mission! It is a challenging and very inspiring assignment. Cullberg has fantastic dancers and co-workers and I look forward to creating a creative work environment and a place for the development of contemporary dance art, says Kristine Slettevold. The company has an important role in creating bold dance works, being a place for continuity and having a central position in contemporary discourse, she continues.”

07.03.22

Premiere: Dear Dancer, written and directed by Marcus Lindeen

Director Marcus Lindeen’s short film on choreographer Deborah Hay’s latest work Horse, the solos for Cullberg premieres this Sunday, March 13 at Moderna Museet, Stockholm in collaboration with Tempo Dokumentärfestival. The short film Dear Dancer depicts the work leading up to the premiere last year and was shot in Stockholm in the spring of 2021. The screening is followed by a conversation with Marcus Lindeen, dancer Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska and Deborah Hay (online from Austin), moderated by Cecilia Roos, Vice Principal for Research and Professor of Artistic Practices at Stockholm University of the Arts. Sunday, March 13 at 14:00, Moderna Museet.

21.03.22

On Earth I'm Done diptych to premiere at Norrlandsoperan

Associated artist Jefta van Dinther’s archaic-futuristic diptych On Earth I’m Done takes the audience to a place torn out of the conventional space-time continuum. The first part, the solo Mountains premiered last year. The second part, the group piece Islands, premieres at Norrlandsoperan May 11, which will be the first time the two works are presented together, in a full evening.

04.04.22

Elverket, Stockholm May 18-21

Following the diptych premiere in Umeå, we will be back in Stockholm, at Dansens Hus/Elverket in May with four performances of On Earth I’m Done: Islands, with 13 dancers on stage.

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