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Choreographer Halla Ólafsdóttir to create Cullberg’s next work
For the next creation, Swedish dance company Cullberg collaborates with choreographer Halla Ólafsdóttir. The new work starts out from the mythological creature the sylph, an ethereal being with the power to shape-shift to rougher and rawer creatures. Sylph premieres at ...
Cullberg pop-up
Once again Cullberg steps outside, to the summer streets of Stockholm in collaboration with Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Parkteatern. This year’s long-awaited post-pandemic pop-up is based on material from choreographer Alma Söderberg’s latest work for Cullberg – ...
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 ...
Cullberg and Deborah Hay to Barcelona
At the turn of the month, November/December, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona’s stage for contemporary dance, presents a comprehensive retrospective of Cullberg’s associate choreographer Deborah Hay and her art. Cullberg participates with The Match and Figure a Sea. At ...
Deborah Hay’s collaboration with Cullberg to reach finish line
On the same day that the last audience restrictions are lifted across the country on September 29, Cullberg premieres Deborah Hay’s new work Horse, the solos at Stora Teatern in Gothenburg. The music for Horse, the solos is written by Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds ...
Marcus Lindeen to direct a short film with Cullberg
Award-winning director Marcus Lindeen makes a film of associated artist, choreographer Deborah Hay’s new work Horse, the solos for Cullberg. The short film Dear Dancer depicts the work prior to the premiere, and will be shot in Stockholm starting at Dansens Hus this week, ...
Cullberg’s artistic director Gabriel Smeets to leave the company
Artistic director Gabriel Smeets will leave Cullberg at the turn of the year 2022. During his years at the position, Smeets has anchored the dance company in a contemporary aesthetic. ”When I came to Cullberg my assignment was to establish the company as the leading ...
Explorations of Now: Lectures on Vimeo December 7
The Explorations of Now project was launched spring 2020 by Kultivator, Cullberg and the Institute for Futures Studies. The aim is to explore how a coalescence of art and science can inspire greater civic participation and explore the challenges of transitioning to a sustainable ...
The Öland-based art collective Kultivator is first on the scene as Explorations of Now kicks off – starting with conversations with the biosphere
The Explorations of Now project was launched this spring by Kultivator, Cullberg and the Institute for Futures Studies. The aim is to explore how a coalescence of art and science can inspire greater civic participation and explore the challenges of transitioning to a sustainable ...
Former Cullberg teacher Irena Milovan passed away
Former prima ballerina and Yugoslavian ballet teacher Irena Milovan died last month in Madrid. She was an engaged teacher at Cullbergbaletten for many years, starting in the early nineties and giving her final class for the company in 2013. Her Vaganova- and English school based ...
Explorations of Now – a unique collaborative project blending art and science for increased community involvement in a climate-changing world
The art collective Kultivator on Öland and Sweden’s most famous contemporary dance company Cullberg have together initiated the Explorations of Now project and invited the Institute for Future Studies. The initiative comes from art to science is new and the diversity of ...
Cullbergbaletten begins an artistic collaboration with three selected choreographers, and changes its name
“In order to sharpen, deepen and develop the company’s artistic identity, we want to work exclusively with three choreographers. What unites them is that they individually have developed practices that form the basis of all their work. Their artistic proposals are ...
Cullbergbaletten, Eleanor Bauer and Yung Lean win Nöjesguiden’s Stockholmspris 2018 for Best Stage show
It was the first time, choreographer Eleanor Bauer and Jonatan Leandoer Håstad/Yung Lean worked together, and for both artists, a strong relationship to writing is at the center of their respective artistic practices. Poetry became a common ground in the collaboration NEAR. A ...
Ian Kaler and Planningtorock create for Cullbergbaletten
Every dancer in Cullbergbaletten has their own story, and the company connects them. Who are the people in the group, and how do they construct this group? Navigating and shifting through different situations, who are they in private and how does that shape their stage ...
Cullbergbaletten season 2018/2019: choreography and music in the 21st century
NEAR Choreographer Eleanor Bauer works for the first time with Jonatan Leandoer Håstad/Yung Lean and Cullbergbaletten creating the concept dance concert, a common fantasy world in which they examine the concept together. The two artists share an interest in poetry which is a big...
Cullbergbaletten presents festival for contemporary dance in Stockholm
– We want to do something new for contemporary dance in Stockholm and connect different actors. In an uncertain world defined by globalism, climate change, neo-liberalism, rapid changes of values and technological advancement, we aim to create an oasis for the senses, to offer ...
Cullbergbaletten to perform at the International Festival of Contemporary Dance of the Biennale di Venezia
It is the first time ever that Cullbergbaletten participates in the prestigious international biennial, and the first time in almost 40 years that the company performs in Venice. Festival Internazionale di Danza Contemporanea was hosted for the first time in 1999. Up until then ...
Cullbergbaletten on a successful European tour
Protagonist is choreographer Jefta van Dinther’s second big stage production for Cullbergbaletten. Elias, 2015’s major breakthrough artist in Swedish music, whose debut single Revolution was a big hit, provides recorded singing and voice-over, accompanied by sound design and ...