Sep 23–28. Loveboost Festival
With: Eeva Juutinen, William Nylind, Roula Samiotaki & Brina Dokl, Lisen Pousette & Olivia Rivière, Marcus Doverud, Zala Pezdir with dancers Alice MacKenzie, William Säfström, Siriol Joyner, Mikko Hyvönen, Yari Stilo, Brina Dokl and Emelia Koberg, Eftercenter – Sebastian Lingserius & Nefeli Oikonomou
With the Loveboost festival, we want to give an extra boost of love to artists who, despite uncertain circumstances, still dare to follow their calling. We want to energize the field and open doors for both new and established talents. The festival offers choreography, a text- and improvisation evening, a replay and a concert. We also have the opening of the Eftercenter project with ten artists’ after-documents in various formats.
From Finland, dancer and choreographer Eeva Juutinen is visiting with her new solo Unknown for talking bodies. Roula Samiotaki and Brina Dokl are coming with the duet Shifts. Dancer William Nylind will premiere a new solo entitled Ý. Olivia Rivière and Lisen Pousette will perform a replay of their work Spiritus, having just returned from tour. There will also be an art-music performance by Marcus Doverud entitled Love and hate.
The highlight of the festival week is Bullshit Jobs: A Performance, Zala Pezdir’s project that brings together dance artists and social scientists in a performance featuring live readings from the late anthropologist David Graeber’s book ”Bullshit Jobs: A Theory”. In the book, Graeber develops his theory about jobs that seem meaningless and do not contribute to society, but still take up our time and provide us with a source of income. The performance work takes its starting point in Graeber’s reasoning and in Pezdir’s questions about why work for work’s sake is valued, while art for art’s sake is not and what questions this raises.
September 23–28
See programme and read about all the events below
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
Book at: book.weld.se
PROGRAMME
September 23
at 7pm Vernissage ”Eftercenter” (Entrance open 6.30pm)
at 7.30pm Premiere Ý / William Nylind
September 24
at 6pm–8.30pm Bullshit Jobs: A Performance / Zala Pezdir.
Dancers: Zala Pezdir, Alice MacKenzie, William Säfström, Siriol Joyner, Mikko Hyvönen, Yari Stilo, Brina Dokl, Emelia Koberg
Readers: Karin Kindblom, Nadia Lovell, Ella Hillström
September 25
at 7pm Ý / William Nylind
at 8pm Unknown for talking bodies / Eeva Juutinen
September 26
at 7pm SHIFTS – Shifting roots of the Roles / Roula Samiotaki & Brina Dokl
at 8pm Ý / William Nylind
at 9.pm Love and hate / Marcus Doverud
September 27
at 7pm Spiritus / Lisen Pousette & Olivia Riviére
at 9pm Love and hate / Marcus Doverud
September 28
at 4pm Spiritus / Lisen Pousette & Olivia Riviére
Eftercenter
”Eftercenter” is a platform initiated by choreographers Sebastian Lingserius and Nefeli Oikonomou, which explores sustainable and alternative post-processes in dance. During the festival week, the artists’ Efterdokument (After Documents) will be exhibited: visual, textual and performative traces that have emerged from the project’s work with reflection, public reunions and post-documentation.
Participating artists: Rebecka Berchtold, Lisen Ellard, Nicole Neidert, Hugo Hedberg, Sybrig Dokter, Efva Lilja, Fredrik Quiñones, Carima Neusser, Adam Seid Tahir and Björn Elisson.
The project is carried out with the support of Kulturbryggan.
Producer Jonas Robin.Vernissage September 23 at 7 p.m.The exhibition is open throughout the festival.
Ý
/ William Nylind
September 23 at 7.30pm
September 25 september at 7pm
September 26 september at 8pm
Ý is the name William was given before he was adopted in Sweden. Ý is an autobiographical journey that touches on and processes memories, adoption, and reunion.
Dance and choreography: William Nylind
Sound and music: Ossian Nylind
Thanks to: Ji-Pyo Lim, Laruga Glaser, Petra Howard, and Anna Koch.
Photo: William Nylind
William Nylind (VN/SE)
is a Vietnamese/Swedish choreographer, teacher, and dancer. His artistry stems from a spectrum of emotions. He has a background in martial arts and yoga, and has worked with choreographers such as Thiago Granato, Femke Gyselinck, Petra Howard, Isabel Lewis, and Virpi Pahkinen.
Ossian Nylind (VN/SE)
is a Vietnamese/Swedish songwriter and instrumentalist. He has studied songwriting, piano, guitar, and violin at Kulturskolan, Rytmus Gymnasium, and Helsjöns Folk High School.
Bullshit Jobs: A Performance
/ Zala Pezdir
Dancers: Alice MacKenzie, William Säfström, Siriol Joyner, Mikko Hyvönen, Yari Stilo, Brina Dokl, Emelia Koberg
Readers: Karin Kindblom, Nadia Lovell, Ella Hillström
September 24 at 6pm–8.30pm
During the 2.5 hours that Bullshit Jobs: A Performance lasts, you can come and go as you please.
When working for the sake of working is a rewarded form of being, but making art for the sake of art isn´t, questions arise: What level of spiritual violence are we prepared to accept before imagining a different world? Can time be sold? Can values be valued? And could the field of improvised dance have something to contribute to the discussion?
Bullshit Jobs: A Performance was first performed at Uppsala Konstmuseum in 2024. The book Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, written by the late anthropologist David Graeber, was read by his contemporary colleagues at Uppsala University, while the dance company Babice explored the topics of freedom and care – two concepts Graeber proposed as an antidote to the paradigm of production and consumption.
This new edition at Weld expands both the dance and reading ensemble, adding independent dance artists from Stockholm and a new constellation of anthropologists as readers.
It is time for the dance artists and social scientists to gather in a performance of Bullshit Jobs!
Idea and concept: Zala Pezdir (Babice)
Dancers: Zala Pezdir, Alice MacKenzie, William Säfström, Siriol Joyner Mikko Hyvönen, Yari Stilo, Brina Dokl, Emelia Koberg
Readers: Aina Backman, Karin Kindblom, Nadia Lovell, Ella Hillström
Duration: 2,5 hours
Photo: Pär Fredin / Uppsala konstmuseum
Unknown for talking bodies
/ Eeva Juutinen
September 25 at 8pm
Unknown for talking bodies asks how pleasure can be an ethical and responsible action towards the environment and everything that lives and is. By using ecstatic birthing practices as a main reference, it wants to find out how birth could be seen as a possibility and potential for empowerment.
The work aims to bring the attention of the spectator also towards their own bodies. It wants to stop in the middle and inside of the doing to sense and observe what is (happening) and the being of the happening.
Choreography, performance, costumes, sound design: Eeva Juutinen
Producer: Hilla Huuhka
Artistic dialogue: Mikko Hyvönen
Residencies: KWP Kunstenwerkplaats, Zodiak Center for New Dance, Vitlycke Center for Performing Arts
Supporters: Finnish Cultural Institute of Benelux, TelepART Mobility Support Platform, Finnish Cultural Foundation Mobility grant, Zodiak
Music in the performance: Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyrias.
Photo: Mikko Hyvönen (FI)
Eeva Juutinen
is a choreographer and performer who studied dance, performance and choreography at Trinity Laban (BA) and at The Place (Post-Graduate Diploma) in London as well as in the Research Studios in P.A.R.T.S. (PARTS Research Diploma) in Brussels. Her work has been shown in Belgium, Finland, France and England; and supported by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland and the Finnish Cultural Foundation. She has been/will be working in Kunstencentrum Buda, Vitlycke Centre for Performing Arts, Chateau De Monthelon, Routa, De School Van Gaasbeek, workspacebrussels and Zsenne artlab.
In her work she looks for meaningful questions that activate the body and relate to the world in different ways. Since the beginning of 2019 all her work is based on the question: How do we receive information through our bodies and get affected by it in our bodies? She looks at this question from various perspectives and in different spaces and times in order to find other concepts and more specific questions and approaches for different processes.
SHIFTS – Shifting roots of the roles
/ Roula Samiotaki & Brina Dokl
September 26 at 7pm
Walking on a thin line between love and violence.
Some less, some more familiar.
Intimacy in its own slow rhythm, growing.
The hug where I am loved or the hug where I suffocate.
Going between, not really knowing.
By the time I recognize what it is, it moves on, it transforms, it shifts.
Hands reaching, and there is no one.
Just a memory.
Until I find her again.
In Shifts, two female bodies connect their deep interest in ways of altering social perception. Using the vibrating sound of electronic music, different physicalities and contact, the two dancers are transformed through a constantly changing notion of movement. Through their touch, they create images which they challenge, shift the relationship, the space, the dance. Hand in hand, it’s their commitment to keep on moving.
It’s always between the two, never between the one.
Offering and taking, giving and receiving, pushing and pulling, loving and fighting.
Shifting between the one who starts and one who ends.
One who offers hands, one who pushes back.
And sometimes they both offer hands. As if it’s the first time they met.
It goes on, unnamable.
From empty hugs to loving hands.
Idea, Choreography and Performance: Brina Dokl, Roula Samiotaki
Music: Giorgios Kanoupakis
Mentorship, Dramaturgy: Natalia Manojlović Varga
Lighting Design: Janko Oven
Creative Producer: Katja Somrak
Production: Plesni Teater Ljubljana – PTL Prvenec 2025
Graphic design: Nikolas Levantakis
Special thanks: Anamaria Klajnšček, Petra Dokl, Mirko Dokl, Andreja Fir, Nika Brdar
Photo: Nika Brdar
Brina Dokl (SL/DE/SE)
is a Slovenian dancer based in Berlin, Germany. She holds a BA in dance from Stockholm University of the Arts as well as Faculty of social studies Ljubljana, cultural studies. Brina has worked with Urša Rupnik, Zala Pezdir (Babice dance company), Yared Tihalun Cederlund, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Liz Kinoshita and expanded her education with learning from: Sasha Waltz and guests dance company, Fighting Monkey, Kinetic Orchestra and more. After graduation in 2023 she produced a youth performance and wrote a kids book It’s different on Mars; founded a Youth dance company Krokar; did a solo with 3 musicians; was part of DaCi; and took part in some other projects. Brina is mostly interested in partnering and floorwork while discovering movement-body-possibilities. Seeing dance as a practice of togetherness, building and sharing a community.
Roula Samiotaki (GR/SE)
is a dancer and performer, based between Sweden and Greece. Her education included contemporary dance techniques, folk dances, partnering, and a BA in dance performance at Stockholm University of the Arts. As a performer, she has worked with choreographers such as Przemek Kamiński, Yared T Cederlund, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Mia Habib, Liz Kinoshita, Apostolia Papadamaki, Anna Mesquita, Leandro Zappala, Konstantinos Tsakirelis. Her artistic work is focused on moving, as a way of coming together, with her own senses and with others, researching topics of identity, the female body, restrictions vs desires, imagination and fiction.
Love and hate
music-arts performance
Composed, produced and performed by Marcus Doverud
September 26 at 9pm
September 27 at 9pm
When we love we hate. And where we hate there is a strong attaching.
Ambivalence does not mean mixed-feelings. A lukewarm wavering.
It is two, or more, opposing feelings at once. At the same time.
The performance try to voice and embody some of this ambivalence and its consequence.
Set list:
1. Split in two
2. Move
3. No song
4. The pain of grief
Marcus Doverud (SE)
is an avid multi-instrumentalist, choreographer, philosopher, dancer and performance-artist, based in Stockholm. His work is regularly staged in Sweden and abroad as solo performances and in collaborations. His work focuses on musicality, listening, spatiality and the contours of choreography.
Photo: Mats Äleklint
Spiritus
/ Lisen Pousette & Olivia Riviére
September 27 at 7pm
September 28 at 4pm
Spiritus is a work engaging with ideas of ‘resonance’, where resonance is understood as an acoustic phenomenon as well as something describing a relationship. In the performance, the choreographers and dancers Olivia Rivière and Lisen Pousette enter un-set performative situations with body and voice that oscillates, stay responsive and spin off of eachother.
Their practices of resonance originate from whatever voices; the small cries, wet, dry, high pitched forms of “screams” and melodies. While exploring the specific timbre and force, the sounds invoke a variety of textures and gestalts. “Spiritus” is a play with this as the work taps into the word’s meanings and derivations: breathing, mood, geist as well as alcohol and intoxication.
In Spiritus, states of listening, observing and responding are practiced through their sensing selves. They therefore invite the audience to listen to the subtle nuances in their song, the small exchanges, those that we rarely notice, even though they are so crucial in the approach of a discernible change.
By and with: Olivia Rivière and Lisen Pousette
Music and sound design: Kristian Alexander
Light scenography: Anna Moderato
Dramaturgy: Ida Larsen
Costume: Olivia Rivière and Lisen Pousette
Lights: Olivia Rivière and Lisen Pousette in conversation with Erik Molberg Hansen
Photo: Mali Dönmez
With support by: Holstebro Dansekompagni, Det Danske Institut Athen, Ufer_Studios, Konstnärsnämndens internationella program för dans, SITE, William Demant Fonden
Co-production: Weld and Dansehallerne
Lisen Pousette (SE) and Olivia Rivière (SE/DK)
share a background in classical choir singing and choreography and have made work since 2017 departing from extended vocal techniques. While exploring the materiality of the female-identified voice and its reach, they enter ambiguous states that can tip over into the absurd as much as the vulnerable. Together they have created the duet Ever losing (2019) and the group piece DUNKEL (2022), which have been presented at venues such as Norberg festival, MDT, CinemaQueer and Inkonst (SE) Dansehallerne (DK), Østre (NO), Les Urbaines (CH) and Ufer_Studios (DE).
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm