RESONATING SPACES Three distinctive choreographic voices from Canada, Finland, and Sweden join forces at CINARS to present excerpts of their compelling new works.
Discover Swedish choreographer Björn Säfsten’s Haunted Desires, a raw, fragile exploration of digital algorithms and the production of desire. Three dancers dissect the iconography of social media feeds, transforming random scrolling into an intense physical language that merges the autobiographical with the fictional. Experience Cameroonian-Finnish artist Sonya Lindfors’s Living In Color / In Living Color. (from her Black & Blue series). This speculative, decolonial practice weaves performative actions into a fluid collective space, inviting audiences to sit with the discomfort of racialization while dreaming of expansive Black futures. Finally, Canadian choreographer Audrée Juteau & N. Zoey Gauld & Catherine Lavoie-Marcus present Mystic-Métallic, a powerful sociopolitical commentary responding to the mining industry. Blurring lines between destroyer and destroyed, three gargoyles navigate polluted lands to find a healing frequency between bodies, machines, and the earth. Each excerpt is 25-30 minutes long.
Produced by Arts circulation (Montreal), Nordberg Movement (Sweden), Arts circulation (Canada). Made possible with support from Kulturrådet/The Swedish Arts Council, Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland
FRINGE FRAGMENTS Dance Base Festival 2026 in partnership with Assembly Festival presents Fringe Fragments on 24 and 25 August 2026. Produced by Dance Base, Fringe Fragments is a pitching platform showcasing dance talent from around the world. Designed as a public event and industry showcase in one, audiences can see several excerpts from tour-ready performances by international and UK dance artists, each presented with a short artist talk and hosted by Artistic Director, Tony Mills. This year, Dance Base is collaborating with Nordberg Movement (Sweden) and Kultur | lx—arts council Luxembourg, to present artists inspired by activism, Hip Hop and Merce Cunningham. Made possible through a collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in London and Kulturrådet/The Swedish Arts Council. Info on the event!