Feb 13–16 … and they both fell into the sky / Efva Lilja
… and they both fell into the sky
a work on memory as symbol, form, and escape
Contemporary artistic expressions are shaped by our ideas of what has been, defined by memory as symbol, form, and escape. Memories are used to recall or interpret a situation in relation to body, reaction, and action. In this performance, we aim to show the connections between memory as storage capacity, individual layers of memory as personality formation, and memory as a refuge and poetic metaphor. Together with the dancers, we depict memories as representation and interpretation, as a psychological and ethical distortion.
Efva Lilja and Åke Parmerud
February 13 at 7pm
February 14 at 7pm
February 15 at 7pm
February 16 at 4pm
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
Book at: book.weld.se
Dance: Helene Karabuda, Per Sacklén
Choreography, images, video, text: Efva Lilja
Original music, video editing: Åke Parmerud
Light, video technic: Jonas Holst
Photo: Håkan Larsson
Production: DAP in collaboration with Weld
The performance was produced with support from Weld, the Swedish Arts Council and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Many thanks to EMS
EFVA LILJA
is an artist working with choreography in the form of dance, imagery, film, and writing. She challenges and offer new visions for the creation of a reality where political activities and everyday action can be questioned and reformulated when she tackles the basic human condition with singular suggestive power. Her works have been presented in more than forty countries, often seen as controversial and trailblazing. Among them commissioned works for the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm, Baltic Art Center Visby, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, and the Guggenheim Bilbao, but also works for experimental fora, various stages, and public spaces. She present exhibitions, lectures, and has published 14 books translated into several languages. Efva Lilja has received a large number of awards, including the Gannevik Grant, Stockholm municipality’s honorary award, the Prix D’Assitej, the St. Erik’s medal and His Majesty the King’s medal Litteris et Artibus. She is a.o. member of the Disorderly woman network, the European Cultural Parliament and Honorary member of the International Center for Cultural Relations.
efvalilja.se
ÅKE PARMERUD
is an artist with a global presence in contemporary music and media art. His work has been commissioned by numerous institutions, among others UN in New York where his work Grains of Voices was presented on United Nations Day 1997. In addition to his electroacoustic and instrumental music, his body of work encompasses compositions that span a wide cross-section of modern experimental music in areas such as dance, film, interactive art, multimedia, theater, and video. His music has been released on eight solo albums and in several compilation albums with the ninth coming up in spring 2025. He has received 23 international prizes and three Swedish major distinctions. Åke Parmerud was appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1998.
parmerud.com
HELENE KARABUDA
is a dancer, choreographer, and project leader. She completed her education at the Ballet Academy in Stockholm 1988, thereafter working as a dancer. From 1997 to 2006, she worked as a dancer, soloist, répétiteur, and choreographic assistant with E.L.D. in the repertoire of Efva Lilja. During this period, Helene participated in nearly 600 performances in about twenty countries, earning significant attention and praise from both audiences and critics. Since 2006, she has led and choreographed artistic processes within Share Music Sweden. These processes focus on inclusion outside conventional norms and result in public performances. Since 2014, she has performed as a dancer in performances with among others Kompani Nomad and from 2024 she collaborates again with Efva Lilja.
PER SACKLÉN
is a dancer and choreographer. After completing his classical training at the Swedish Ballet School in 1984, Per worked in the Royal Swedish Ballet and in several other repertory companies in Sweden, the USA and Canada. Since the mid-90s, he has worked with contemporary dance on a project basis with choreographers Per Johnsson, Örjan Andersson and Cristina Caprioli, among others. In 1997 he started the dance collective Räserbyrån together with Katarina Eriksson and Håkan Mayer. In recent years, his work has mainly revolved around Räserbyrån’s projects, often shown at Fylkingen where Per is a member. In Räserbyrån, Per has also had the opportunity to delve deeper into his investigation of sound/music and he has created sound scapes for a number of the group’s productions. Since 2014, he is a member of the Weld Company, a work that focuses on choreography and different methods and practices in dance. … and they both fell into the sky is his first collaboration with Efva Lilja.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm