Swedish choreographer Bo Arenander.

Productions

Still Life and More

Like a pearl embedded in black velvet.

Choreography Bo Arenander
Music Leif Jacobsson
Setdesign Peter Nylander
Costume Nils Harning
Lightdesign Magnus Pettersson
Photography Peter Nylander
Dancers Bo Arenander, Charlotte Engelkes, Adele Essle, Annette Henriksson, Francoise Joyce, kerstin Lindgren, Anders Stenstrom, Demet Ozturk

Flowers from the abyss

“A tender look on the light and darkness in our lives. A white and black part. Naked and close in its new light. Something stange seldom seen. A light searching piece of dance. A world of obscurity with strokes of mother of pearl and unexpected small messages. A strong dance- and image language that also have song and text as elements, performed with humor and ease.”

Choreography Bo Arenander
Artist Charlotte Engelkes
Music Leif Jacobsson, Mats Lindberg
Text Gunilla Bergerham
Setdesign Jonas Bohlin
Lightdesign Magnus Pettersson
Costume Bo Arenander
Dancers Bo Arenander, Patrick Bragdell, Charlotte Engelkes, Anna Erle, Annette Henriksson, Francoise Joyce, Peder Nilsson

Reviews

Still Life and More

“In the impressive beginning Charlotte Engelkes sits like a humming diva on a ropeladder halfway to heaven singing a. gospel( ‘Where you there when they crucified my Lord?’) The scene returns in the end and frames one hour of a slow meditative repetition of falling, catching, carrying, resurective gesturistic dance. The crucified or haunted, changes. Someone rides a donkey astride.”

“The dancers are overall finding a beautiful relaxation in every part.”

Svenska Dagbladet

“Still life and more, is a hour long variation over the ultimate passiondrama in the western world: The death of Christ on the cross. the setting is in bloodred and black.”

“Bo Arenander have a strong faith in the immense power of the pictures when he with the patience of a marblesculptor chisels out the details. The choreography is powerful and impressive.”

Dagens Nyheter

Flowers from the abyss

“The Flowers from the abyss have the same effect as healing herbs for tired souls.”

Svenska Dagbladet

“In a time possessed by blissful success and continually rise on the stock market the fall has become our most terrible nightmare. Bo Arenander presents a refreshing picture against that, making the art of falling to something beautiful, life affirmative and deeply human.”

Dagens Nyheter

“With the help of Bo Arenander ponders our human existence all the way in to the bone. And even thou it dances on the brink of the abyss Flowers from the abyss inspire hope.”

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