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ANNA ÖBERG [SE]

Anna Öberg is a dancer and choreographer who uses her background in Swedish folk dance as the starting point for both her artistic and research work. In 2015 she was awarded an MFA degree in Choreography at Stockholm University of Arts (Uniarts), as the first traditional dancer in its history.

Anna’s work comprises her own artistic projects as well as commissions from different venues and institutions in Sweden and abroad. Her deep knowledge of tradition in combination with her innovative approach has drawn a lot of attention to her choreographic work, which is characterized by the creation of multilayered performances with a strong physical approach, often using the interaction between music and movement as a central core. Even if she nowadays often works with ensembles, she has grounded her practice in a number of solo performances in which she has explored craft and concepts embedded in the genre of folk dance, striving towards the shift from what those areas depict and represent to the effects and experiences they produce. Her work is often described as innovative and with subtlety and perceptual acuity.

Commissioned works in recent years include e.g Musik i Syd, Dalateatern, Stadsteatern, Scenkonst Sörmland, Riksteatern, Dancenet Sweden. Her stage works have been presented at e.g. Dansens Hus, MDT, Norrlandsoperan, Moderna museet, Dansstationen in Sweden, Dansehallerne in Denmark, Riksscenen Norway and Brut Imagetanz Vienna. During 2019 she created SOLITUDE as Dancenet Sweden’s new co-production.

Anna has recurring commissions as a dramaturg, moderator, and pedagogue in Sweden and abroad. During the years, she has also initiated and curated platforms for stage art, pedagogical issues and research, latest FLOCK, a new festival for scenic art in Falun, Sweden, in collaboration with Dalateatern and Folkmusikens Hus. More info about the dance festival FLOCK.

Artist website

Landscapes

ANNA ÖBERG [SE] - Landscapes - April 29, 2026 - Kulturhuset Hudiksvall, Riksteatern Gävleborg -
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  • Kulturhuset Hudiksvall, Riksteatern Gävleborg
  • April 29, 2026

Landscapes

ANNA ÖBERG [SE] - Landscapes - April 30, 2026 - Söderhamn, Riksteatern Gävleborg -
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  • Söderhamn, Riksteatern Gävleborg
  • April 30, 2026

Photo credits: Märta Thisner, Håkan Larsson

Incus

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. 

Credits
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IDEA, CHOREOGRAPHY AND DANCE Anna Öberg
MUSICIANS Johannes Burström and Olof Misgeld
SOUND DESIGN Elize Arvefjord
LIGHT DESIGN Maja Lindström
DRAMATURG Charlotta Ruth and Bodil Persson
PHOTO Märta Thisner
GRAPHICS Aron Kullander-Östling
PRODUCTION SUPPORT Lina Dahlgren/Nordberg Movement
Incus is a co-production between Norrlandsoperan, Rum för Dans, and Dancenet Sweden

Duration: 45 min

SUPPORTED BY The Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee

https://vimeo.com/1072114175?share=copy

Landscapes

Two dancers. One dance floor.

In a captivating and enveloping work, choreographer Anna Öberg draws inspiration from couple dance as a phenomenon and pulse as a medium in the encounter between dancers Viktor Fröjd and Jon Bugge Mariussen, with backgrounds in house and folk dance.

Central to Öberg’s artistry is a strong, improvised connection between music and movement, often manifested through live musicians on stage. In Landscapes, she has invited her long-time collaborator, sound artist Elize Arvefjord, who, based on the sounds generated by the dancers’ movements, creates a sound design in real time that enhances, distorts and adds to what the dancers do.

“I have long wanted to make a work for Viktor and Jon to allow their experiences and aesthetics to meet in changing landscapes of craft and materials. Two different dance practices, yet so similar.
The inspiration for the work comes from my own background in couple dancing, where listening to, and negotiating with, the other is constantly at stake.”

Premiere at Dansens Hus in Stockholm on April 23rd, 2025

 

Credits
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CHOREOGRAPHER Anna Öberg
CO CREATING DANCERS Viktor Fröjd, Jon Bugge Mariussen
SOUND DESIGN Elize Arvefjord
LIGHT DESIGN Maja Lindström
MUSIC MATERIAL Olof Misgeld
SCENOGRAPHY Anna Öberg with support by Jenny Nordberg
WOOD CONSTRUCTION Max Landegren
COSTUME Pia Gyll
DRAMATURG Bodil Persson
STILLS/VIDEO Milja Rossi
PRODUCTION Anna Öberg, Nordberg Movement
CO PRODUCTION DansIt Koreografisk senter, Trondheim
SUPPORTED BY Swedish Arts Council, Stockholms Stad and Region Stockholm

Duration: 60 min

Touring schedule: Rosendals Teater, Trondheim, and Dansens Hus Stockholm, Spring 2025.

Photo credits: George Grigoriadis

Landscapes - Behind the scenes

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.

Credits
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CHOREOGRAPHER Anna Öberg
DANCERS Viktor Fröjd and Jon Bugge Maurissen
SOUND DESIGNER Elize Arvefjord
PRODUCTION SUPPORT Lina Dahlgren/Nordberg Movement
SUPPORTED BY: The Swedish Arts Council

DURATION 60-90 min

Photo credits: Märta Thisner

Intellectus LIVE

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 

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Invited artists LAB2022: Johannes Burström (composer/musician), Chrysa Parkinson (dancer/Professor in Dance SKH), Peter Mills (dancer/activtst/choreographer), Roberto N Peyre (artist, performanceartist), Alice McKenzie (dancer/writer), Charlotta Ruth (dancer/choreographer), Marcus Doverud (dancer/musician), Mårten Medbo (artist-craftsman) 

Invited artists LIVE2023: Mårten Medbo (artist-craftsman), Sofia Romberg (scenographer/artist), Fia Fredricson Flodin (lecturer in Aesthetic Learning Process @ Södertörn University), Stina Bäckström (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Senior Lecturer @ Södertörn University), Viktor  Fröjd (dancer/choreographer), Jon Bugge Mariussen (dancer/choreographer), Elize Arvefjord (sound designer), Ludvig Björklund (PhD Student Practical Studies at Södertörns University)   

Supported by Södertörn University, Swedish Arts Council, Swedish Arts Grants Committee Â