WonderWaves is both an installation and a choreographic work at the intersection of dance, sculpture, and sound. Inspired by the formats of social dance floors and passing on as a speculative practice, the work explores how embodied experiences emerge, are shared, and transform over time.

In Anna Öberg’s artistic practice, rhythm becomes an exploration of bodily togetherness – deeply rooted in folk tradition while at the same time shaped by a strongly experimental approach.

The installation consists of a fragmented wooden floor and three suspended speaker elements that together form a dance floor, a sculpture, and a place for visitors to sit. Over the course of six months, the space is repeatedly activated by dancers Viktor Fröjd and Jon Bugge Mariussen, sound artist Elize Arvefjord and musician Olof Misgeld.

From the beat that emerges between the dancers’ bodies, sound and movement are repeated, transformed, and interwoven. A collective and rhythmic work in which forms emerge, shift, and dissolve, while meanings drift apart and seep across genres.

As a visitor to WonderWaves, you become part of the work: you are welcome to step onto the floor, sit down, listen, or simply pass through – surrounded by the traces of dancing bodies and alongside others.

WonderWaves takes as its starting point the practice developed for Landscapes (2025).

Premiere @ Accelerator, Stockholm Sept 12th 2026 as part of the group exhibition The Owl of Minerva 12 Sept – 14 Feb 2027.

Incus is a solo for three. A rhythmic play, where sound and movement create temporary situations and unexpected embroilments. Defiant and accommodating. In Incus, Anna Öberg returns to the core of her practice – listening and moving in and through rhythm. This time, she takes the stage herself, in close collaboration with musicians Johannes Burström and Olof Misgeld, as well as sound designer Elize Arvefjord. As always, the performance is in close relation to the audience.

Incus refers to one of the three middle ear bones (“städet” in Swedish).

Premiere: September 2024, Norrlandsoperan. Touring through Dancenet Sweden in fall 2024. 

Landscapes Behind the Scenes is a by-product of Landscapes – a mix between a performance lecture, workshop and artistic forum where choreographer Anna Öberg along with dancers Viktor Fröjd, Jon Bugge Mariussen and sound designer Elize Arvefjord generously share the artistic working process of Landscapes, what it looks right now and in close relation with the audience.

Based on methods and materials used in Landscapes, the audience are invited to talk dance, see dance and even dance themselves.

“In Landscapes in process, I want to share the practice from Landscapes focusing on passing on as a choreographic method and pulse and rhythm as the mediating material.”
– Anna Öberg

Premiere: 14 juni 2023, SiteSpecific Festival, Sweden. Has also been performed at FLOCKfestival in November 2023 and Dansstationen Malmö February 2024.

Intellectus LIVE is a public format of the artistic research project Intellectus LAB developed during Öbergs 1- year artistic residency at the Södertörn University in 2023. An ongoing research that takes its starting point in Öbergs interest in how artistic ideas can arise and expand in groups – and in encounters with an audience. Through that Intellectus LIVE works as an ongoing platform for encounters and aesthetic discussions between art forms and fields of knowledge that rarely otherwise meet.

The format for the lab is inspired by ​​passing on (Sw tradera) as a relational practice dependent on how a multitude of authorships might bring specific and subjective interpretations into a collective web of understandings.

The name of the project is inspired by Nicolaus Cusanus (1401-1464) descrition of intellectus as standing on the horizon of not knowing.

“I am so grateful to have been part of this! I have especially appreciated how the encounter between different practitioners have been curated so that we could move together into unknown terrain, and how that made me experience new aspects of my own practice.”
invited artist LIVE23

Premiere: Intellectus LIVE. December 18 2023, Svarta Lådan @ Södertörn University, Stockholm