March 19–22. Matta / Daniel Staaf
Daniel Staaf’s new work Matta is a choreography and an invitation into a space where the boundary between stage and audience space slowly dissolves. You step into an enveloping landscape where your own movement becomes part of the work. With choreography and subtle lighting, each element interacts to open up a collective sense of stillness, presence and curiosity. Here, your nervous system becomes an active participant in the artwork.
Matta is created to awaken and refine the senses. The ASMR-inspired sounds envelop the audience and make your presence an active, choreographic element. The work builds on the explorations begun in Daniel Staaf’s earlier work Fläta, now in a more tactile and enveloping form.
March 19 at 7pm
March 20 at 7pm
March 21 at 7pm
March 22 at 4pm
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
Book at: book.weld.se
The work is created in collaboration with the dancers: Matilda Bilberg, Mikael Marklund and Sarah Stanley
Set design: Daniel Staaf
Sound design: Hara Alonso
Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo
Costume: Sarah Stanley
External eye: Johannes Lind
Matta is a co-production between FRAME and Weld, with support from SITE through production residencies, in collaboration with Nordberg Movement. Matta will be further developed as an installation work in 2026.
With support from: The Swedish Arts Council and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Daniel Staaf
is half Filipino half Swedish, Stockholm-based choreographer and dance artist working at the intersection of relational choreography, spatial perception, and immersive performance. Educated at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and Codarts Rotterdam, he has performed internationally with Bern:Ballet, Gallim Dance, and Punchdrunk, and collaborated with choreographers including Tabea Martin and Örjan Andersson. Since 2022 he is co-founder of FRAME, a platform connecting dance and well-being through residencies and artistic research. His choreographic works explore proximity, listening, and collective presence.
Thomas Zamolo (FR/SE)
is an eclectic artist working at the crossroads of photography, dance, and lighting design. With a background as a dancer and rehearsal director, his practice has evolved around the dramaturgical possibilities of light. Since 2010, Thomas has created lighting designs for choreographers including Frédéric Gies, Cristina Caprioli, and Tilman O’Donnell, with works presented at venues and festivals such as Tanz im August, ImpulsTanz, the Venice Biennale, and Tanz Quartier Wien. Beyond performance, Thomas extends his practice into film and photography, where movement, bodies, and space converge into a singular visual language. He currently resides in Stockholm.
Hara Alonso
is a Stockholm-based pianist, composer and sound artist from Spain. Her compositional process is grounded in performance and corporeal experience, exploring multisensory practices, memory, space and imagination as instruments for sound-making. Hara’s music has been showcased in the form of ensemble, solo, sound installation and EAM in festivals such as Mutek (Mexico), Keroxen (Spain) or Sound of Stockholm (Sweden). She lectures composition, music programming and improvisation at The Royal College of Music (KMH) in Stockholm.
Matilda Bilberg
is a Stockholm-based dance artist working internationally. Educated at the Swedish Ballet School and holding an MA in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts, her practice moves between performing and choreographing. She has collaborated with artists a.o. including Cristina Caprioli, Helena Franzén, David Zambrano, MELO and Nicole Neidert, as well as composer Torbjörn Grass and audiovisual artist Ionnalee. Her choreographic works have been co-produced by Tanzhaus Zürich and Rote Fabrik and presented internationally. Together with her long-term collaborator Jenna Hendry, she was selected as an Aerowaves Artist for their work IUMI.
Mikael Marklund
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. Marklund’s work emphasises communication, individuality, and the fluidity of space and time, seeking to transcend cultural divides and foster universal connection. Since 2024 he has been in collaboration with Weld Stockholm.
Sarah Stanley
Originally from Houston, Texas, Sarah Stanley is a dance artist (BFA SUNY Purchase), yoga teacher and Ilan Lev Method™ practitioner based in Stockholm (formerly New York and Berlin). She has worked with Jefta Van Dinther, Daniel Staaf, Örjan Andersson, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Kat Válastur, Moritz Majce and John Heginbotham among others. She is a founding member of FRAME, with whom she produces research residencies, workshops and creates work for performance. Sarah is currently engaged in facilitating educational experiences weaving together her physical backgrounds which encourage participants to move from a space of conscious curiosity.
Johannes Lind
studied dance at the Royal Swedish ballet school and later finished his BA in dance at Codarts, Rotterdam in 2011. After his studies he continued working as a freelance dancer and performer throughout Europe mainly in the Netherlands and Switzerland. In 2018 he joined the Staatstheater Braunschweig as a dancer where he stayed working for 4 years working. Throughout his career he has also initiated and produced his own projects (in collaboration) such as Sphere in 2022, or Oscillations in 2024. He also works a lot with sound creation and experimentation and has created soundscapes as well as played music live for his works. He is currently studying an MA in new performative practice at SKH Stockholm.
Weld is supported by the City of Stockholm, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm.