Sep 26, 27, 29. 303 / Matej Kejžar (SI/BE) & Mikael Marklund (SE)
303 is a solo for the Swedish dancer Mikael Marklund created by the slovenian choreographer Matej Kejžar in collaboration with Mikael Marklund that explores perspectives, patterns, hierarchies and challenges our habitual expectations of how we put our gaze on a single dancer. In this case, a body occupied by rhythm, directions and movement language.
303, named after the iconic Roland TB-303 synthesizer, merges urban dance, clubbing, and contemporary dance to offer a digital perspective on multicultural society. What if we imagine different cultures as the same data, unfolding in diverse ways—could this liberate us from the hierarchies of our histories?
By shifting the front to the side, using repetitions, measuring space and giving the illusion of randomness, 303 questions if we can envision cultures coexisting side by side rather than one in front of the other.
Through this deliberate disorientation, we seek to uncover new ways of seeing and shaping our shared future.
Authors: Matej Kejžar & Mikael Marklund
Dance maker: Matej Kejžar
Dance: Mikael Marklund
Producer: Žiga Predan
Production: Pekinpah
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
September 26 at 7pm
September 27 at 7pm
September 29 at 5pm
Book at: book.weld.se
MIKAEL MARKLUND (SE)
dancer and maker from Sweden, began with breakdancing and trained at P.A.R.T.S before joining the Rosas dance company. He later explored experimental dance with artist Laurent Chétouane for six transformative years, pushing the boundaries of the art form. In 2018, a profound personal loss shifted his artistic direction, leading him to explore dance’s broader impact. Engaging with Berlin’s breakdance community, he created a documentary and diverse projects, examining the intangible aspects of existence. Marklund’s work emphasises communication, individuality, and the fluidity of space and time, seeking to transcend cultural divides to foster universal connection.
MATEJ KEJŽAR (SI/BE)
studied at SNDO Amsterdam, X-GROUP P.A.R.T.S., and Trisha Brown Dance Company in New York. Already at the beginning of his career, he created many critically-acclaimed performances. Since 2011, he has been developing his oeuvre between Brussels and Ljubljana while regularly creating performances worldwide (India, Singapore, Brazil). Among others, he worked with the Rosas Dance Company in Brussels between 2008 and 2012 (The Song, Cesena), participated in the French choreographer Boris Charmatz’s project 20 Dancers for the XX Century, and premiered his performance Rave, created in collaboration with Spanish musician Niño del Eche, at the Festival d’Avignon. In 2020, he started working on a series of dance experiments titled Spending Time Dancing, questioning the perception and manipulation of objects, using the senses of touch and proprioception. Since its inception in 2010, Kejžar is the artistic director and curator of the international Festival of Radical Bodies Spider, which annually takes place in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2023, he received the Ksenija Hribar Award for his dance opus as an ‘outstanding dancer and powerful creator who inspires,’ awarded by the Slovenian Contemporary Dance Association. He lives and works in Belgium.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm