The Return of The Modern dance

One of the most interesting contemporary choreographers working today, the American choreographer Trajal Harell created a new piece for Cullberg, featuring six male dancers.

Trajal Harrell works at the intersection between contemporary dance and the foundations of voguing. His work tours around the world and several of his productions have been selected as among the best dance works by Time Out New York. Harrell’s works have been invited to international festivals and presented extensively in the United States. Harrell is perhaps best known for a series of work titled Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church which re-imagines a meeting between early postmodern dance and the voguing dance tradition, and was conceived as a series of seven pieces.

All seven works in the series continue to tour internationally. Antigone Sr., the largest in the series, won the 2012 Bessie Award for Best Production. Most recently, he has begun a new research examining butoh dance from the theoretical praxis of voguing. His work, Used Abused and Hung Out to Dry, premiered at The Museum of Modern Art-MoMA in February 2013, where he has begun a two-year residency further developing this new body of work.

World Premiere at Dansstationen, Malmö 19 March 2015.
Length 30 minutes
With six dancers

Music: Codeine. W. Sub Pop, James Blake Overgrown, Universal Music Publishing, Lula Pena Acto IV, Mbari Música, Peteris Plakidis Two Grasshoppers Dances, Musica Baltica, Sade Pearis, Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia, Sweet honey in the rock Testimony, BMG Chrysalis/Concordmusic

Light Design: Sylvain Rausa

Costume Assistant: Marita Tjärnström

Choreograph Assistant: Ondrej Vidlar

Rehearsal Director: Lisa Drake