Dark – A Ballet from Hell 1-3 oct

By Emma Kim Hagdahl, Mårten Spångberg, Elizabeth Ward
Swedenpremiere 1 of oct 7 pm, also playing 2 of oct at 7 pm and 3 oktober at 7 pm and & 00.00
Artist talk after the show the 2of oct

Emma Kim Hagdahl (SWE) and Elizabeth Ward (US), accompanied by the choreographing Mårten Spångberg (SWE) dissects ballet transforming it through black magic into a mixture between Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic occultism, Beckett’s satanic algorithms and a bunch of creepy Hollywood references. Like bloodthirsty willies two fragile spirits wander in a landscape charged with thick romanticism, etheric modernism and a few episodes of Trueblood.

DARK offers a new intimate mode of experiencing ballet, letting it be a bridge to somewhere else rather than a mode of display. In DARK ballet offers a mode of recognition, a backdrop to personal mysteries and individual agony, or a moments suspense where thought is set free and the unconscious plays the main character.

DARK is a dance performance celebrating Alfred Hitchcock: “the shock of the expected” – it’s you, two dancers and darkness. But who is the person next to you…

Weld, Norrtullsgatan 7, t-bana Odenplan, 08-309450