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Dont miss the Live-strem of "Im takt unt aus dem takt" from tonights performance in Schwerin
At 19:30 the 21st of October.
E=mc2 is currently on a mini tour in Germany with performances in Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg and Justice Department in Schwerin. Tonights performance of Im Takt und aus dem Takt, wich will be performed in the golden hall of the Schwerin Justice department, will be exclusively live streamed.
The night will be dedicated to the sculptor Gert Marcus and the composer Ingolf Dahl, two brothers who fled from Germany in the 30s and started successful artistic carers in the arts in Sweden and the united States
The Live stream starts at 19:30 and can be seen here www.verfemtemusik.de
dance at Konstvågen
3–4 august 2019
During the first weekend of August its ones again time for Konstvågen, the big art walk round the islands of Öckerö. More than a 100 artist open up their studios for visitors.
Gun Lund is this year participating with a shorter work on the island of Burö, the 11th island in the Öckerö archipelago. For those who are up for it, it is possible to wade over to the island but as usual, there will be a boat transport 30 minutes before each show.
Konstvågen Öckerö: Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th of August. Shows on Burö 14:00 and 16:00 both days
For more info about Konstvågen: ockero.se/fritid-och-kultur/kultur/konstvagen
in shades of gods
Dont miss out on this summers big dance happening August 16-18 – IN SHADES OF GODS returns to the rocks of Bohuslän
Thousands of people have experienced,being fascinated and gotten touch of the work Gun Lund created 1989.Since then it has been performed every 10th year at the same place, Vadholmen in Kungälv. This is in many ways a classic.
Once again its time for 13 dancers to tread the cliffs in the sunlight and perform this mighty epos about human and nature and the ocean, the mountain and the wind participates in the drama.
The themes comes from the ancient rock carvings, the black dressed women of Bohuslän, the rites and the cult. But everything takes place right here and right now in front of the eyes of the audience. - what you see and experience is open for every interpretation
The work has been performed 1989,1999, 2009 and 2019. Just lika a solar eclipse or some kind of astrological phenomenon it will take ten years before you can experience it again. In the Shades of Gods belongs to the cultural heritage of the site.
So bring your pick nick basket and take yourself to the beach of Vadholmen 16-18 of august. The performance startts in the evening when the sun is low. Everything is accompanied by mighty drums and music composed by Jonny Axelsson
No entrance fee!
On the brink of a ruin
Gun Lund och E=mc2 Danskonst
8 september 2019
The hidden and forgotten spots of the city...
The old Älvsborg castle is such a place. On a forgotten hill between the Carnigie factory and the seaside hotels rests the ruins of what ones was a mighty fortress that monitored the inlet of Göta älv. Its been there since the 14th century but today it is unknown to most and probably even for the people living in the area. For several years, the coreographer, Gun Lund has put the spotlight on seldom seen places in the city. With bodies in motion she draws lines in the landscape and make the audience observe its enviroment in a different way. The idleness of the commonplace suddenly burst out in vitality.
We welcome you to experience the Old Älvsborg castle come to life in the twilight hour, together with six dancers, one musician and the very special character of the ruins.
8 september kl 16:30
Length: 35 min
Digital footprints
Gun Lund and Åke Parmerud
Performance at 3:e Våningen
Gothenburg Mars 6-14
We all leave traces behind us- we want to leave traces behind us, we want to be remembered. Some trace are more precise than others. The foot that steps on the ground, the movement over a towns square or a scenic surface. But what will remain? Are the traces that the dancers form in a space lingering somewhere else than in our fading
memory? The human archive.
In Digital footprints its the virtual traces thats in focus – an interplay between body and electronics. Toghether with the composer and video artist Åke Parmerud, Gun Lund has with her ensemble developed an interactive system for scenic use. The dancers control what happens trough their motions, direction and speed. The connection between body and technics a subtile but not random.
Its a consciosly created pattern and unique digital footprints on the stage
The work also awakes questions about the traces we leave behind us. Everything you do on the web is logged, the big tech giants follows and uses our digital traces. The art wants to complicate and question this in a more implicit way. But at the same time ,Its fully enough to just enjoy the beauty in the picture, let yourself be swept away by the digital motion the body forms on its way through space
Concept & Choreography -Gun Lund
Music, Visuals and interactive technology – Åke Parmerud
Dancers – Rebecca Evanne, Hannah Karlsson, Olof Persson
Stage tech – Finn Pettersson
Third Movement (20 years in sockerbruket celebration)
Performance at 3:e Våningen
Gothenburg 7, 8, December and 24, 26, January
E=mc2 Dance is celebrating 20 years in the Sockerbruket area.
We started with a small studio which we named 24 kvm. It became the smallest dance stage in sweden and It´s name echoed far outside the national borders.
In 2010 we moved to larger facilities in the same area. This became 3:e Våningen and gave us new possibilities to show larger productions and and give the two companies a home to develop their art.
A long row of productions have been made both for the stage at 3:e Våningen and other venues. To have our own room for experiments and rehearsals has been crucial for the development of the works.
We now celebrate these 20 years with the Gothenburg premiere of Third Movement. Feel welcome to celebrate with us, both those of you who have been with us through the years and those that have joined the Gothenburg dance community in later years.
We hope that you want to share this experience with us!!
We will play two shows before Christmas and two in January.
Choose the date that suits you the best
Concept and Choreography: Gun Lund in collaboration with Gunilla Jansson
Music: Steve Reich / Reich Remixed / Ákos Rózmann
Costume: Anna Kraft
Scenography: Lars Persson
Lighting Design: Finn Pettersson
Dancers: Gunilla Jansson, Torun Odlöw, Olof Persson, Lina Räftegård, Åsa Thegerström
Third Movement (Limited Edition)
Performance at Fylkingen
Stockholm 27, 28 ,29 September
Dance and Music are deeply connected, like two limbs on the same body.
Coreography, the path for the choir in the ancient drama, corresponds with the rythmic course which every dance work is building even if all take place in “silence”.
“Third Movement” is a piece that is rooted in the past, deals with how we treat the surrounding world. How we would handle new outer or inner conditions physical as well as existential.
“At my side is Ákos Rózmann, close friend and discussion partner of peoples conditions of life.
His music is drilling down in our subconsious, sketches out new maps. gives impulses.” (Gun Lund)
The coreographer Gun Lund belongs the forerunners in Swedish contemporary dance. Her strong expressions, musicality and her attitude towards room and space make her an exceptional dance artist.
Earlier Gun Lund has created coreographies to music and sound art by among others Åke Hodell, Jan W Morthenson, Ákos Róizmann, Zbigniew Karkowski, Luciano Berio, Victor Varela, Jonny Axelsson/Ivo Nilsson, The Gothenburg Combo and has cooperated with Gageego, Trio des Lyres.
This program is part of an exchange between the venues Fylkingen, Stockholm, and 3:e våningen, Göteborg, 3:e våningen is an art run arena for contemporary dance, visual art and music. We have a dance venue, exibition hall, dance studio, library and dance archive and two dance companies - 600m2 situated in an old sugar factory of Carnegie former brewery at the harbour of Göteborg
Concept and Choreography: Gun Lund in collaboration with Gunilla Jansson
Music: Steve Reich / Reich Remixed / Ákos Rózmann
Costume: Anna Kraft
Scenography: Lars Persson
Lighting Design: Finn Pettersson
Dancers: Gunilla Jansson, Torun Odlöw, Olof Persson, Åsa Thegerström
On the brink of the ruin
22th August
In conjuction with the Gothenburg Dance & Theatre Festival, E=mc2 Dance will launch a performance of
"On the Brink of the Ruin". Taking place in the old ruin of Gamla Älvsborg. Dancers and musicians will let this hidden and forgotten place of Gothenburg come alive for a short while in the most beautiful time of spring – when the green colours of nature are light and fresh, contrasting with the mystic remnants of the old ruin.
Read more about the performance here
Choreography: Gun Lund in collaboration with Gunilla Jansson
Dancers: Joachim Berntsson, Rebecca Evanne, Gunilla Jansson, Hannah Karlsson,
Torun Odlöw, Åsa Thegerström
Musician: Björn Synneby
Soundscape: David Sundqvist
Technicians: Finn Pettersson, Lars Persson
RADIO CONTROLLED DANCERS?!
You have to see it to believe it …
Mrs Gun Lund, Swedish Choreographer presents ”Dance & Technology - a Love Story” at Tanzmesse. She is highly valued - after forty years she is still in the frontline with new Dance projects and initiatives.
The work presented here is not only a gadget and an enjoyable experience - it´s a serious working tool for development of new unique movement sequences. Skilled improvisors state that this goes beyond their comfort zone and creates a new approach.
Whether high-tech or low-tech Gun Lund gives the audience a unexpected experience and shifts the perception of the spectator.
Gun Lund / E=MC2 Dance Company has a broad repertoire of works on and off stage from solos to large-scale performances, installations and site specifics. Her work in the Art & Technology field is highly acclaimed. She holds a lifetime reward from the Swedish Arts Grant Committee. She was awarded the Dance Prize of Swedish Theatre Critics, an honor she shares with Mats Ek and Örjan Andersson.
Her projects are supported by: City of Göteborg, Swedish Art Grants Comitté, Region of Västra Götaland, National Board of Cultural Affaires.
”DANCE& TECHNOLOGY - A LOVE STORY”
OPEN STUDIO THURSDAY AUGUST 30, 15.30 H,
TANZHAUS STUDIO 5, DÜSSELDORF
Visit us at Booth 114, 2nd floor
GUN LUND TO INTERNATIONALES TANZMESSE
Düsseldorff 29 aug - 1 Sept
Gun Lund of E=mc2 Dance has been choosen to present her work at Internationales Tanzmesse.
Internationales Tanzmesse takes place in Düsseldorf 29th august - 1 september and It ´s one of the largest meeting points for the dance art community in the world. The coreographer Gun Lund has been choosen to present her work with Dance & Technology – Good Vibrations & Digital Footprints of Dance
The art directors of Tanzmesse choosed between 600 applications
See you there!!
OBITUARY FOR LENA HOPSCH
Sorry non-swedish speaking readers but this text is only in swedish
Rytmens estetik, formens kraft
Verk / studie för doktorsavhandling av Lena Hopsch, Chalmers Arkitektur
Idé Lena Hopsch Koreografi och dans Gun Lund. Inspelad på Burö (2006)
Videofilm o foto: Mikael Hopsch
”I skulptur är nästan tomrummet det viktigaste”
Till minne av
LENA HOPSCH 1961 - 2017
Skulptören och arkitekturforskaren Lena Hopsch tog sig an det inte helt lätta arbetet att utforska rytmen som begrepp inom arkitektur och skulptur. Rytm som betydelsefull faktor inom musik och diktning är relativt väl vetenskapligt dokumenterad. Hennes doktorsavhandling utforskade rytm, rymd och form i arkitektur och skulptur. Kroppens fenomenologi såsom den beskrevs av Merleau-Ponty - kroppens upplevelse av rum och rymd genom sinnena var en viktig utgångspunkt i hennes arbete. Steget, fotens kontakt med golvet och kroppens rörelse i rummet fascinerade henne och människor med professionell erfarenhet av detta utgjorde en bas i hennes undersökande arbete - här ingick såväl lindans som koreografi.
Under många år samarbetade Lena Hopsch och koreografen Gun Lund i undervisningsprojekt med arkitekturstudenter. Gunnar Asplunds Rådhus i Göteborg var ett återkommande objekt i detta arbete.
- Den öppna piazzan (i Rådhuset), som tillsammans med balkongerna, trapporna och den rörliga hissen skapar olika tempo i arkitekturen. Även relationen till gården utanför bidrar, liksom flödet av rörelser i byggnaden, säger Lena Hopsch i en intervju i tidskriften RUM 2015.
- Den är som en stor rörelsemaskin, väldigt koreografisk. För mig är den oerhört skulptural. Och samtidigt är det väldigt bra arkitektur.
I forskningen kring rytm o form var blev också relationen mellan kroppen och den skulpturala formen tydliggjord. Eller som Lena Hopsch säger i intervjun:
– Skulptur kännetecknas av en relation mellan kroppen och objektet, eller rummet. Och det senare gäller ju även arkitektur, så de ligger väldigt nära varandra. Likheten mellan arkitektur och skulptur ligger i kompositionen – i rumssekvenser, och i delarnas relation till varandra.
– Även form och rymd förenar, för båda måste förhålla sig till rummet som rymd. I skulptur är nästan tomrummet det allra viktigaste. Det är det som skapar spänning i relation till formen, säger hon, och avslutar: – Men skulpturen måste också ha sin frihet i rummet, så att man inte dödar den. För relationen mellan arkitektur och skulptur är som ett samtal mellan två människor. Det är en dialog, inte en monolog.
/ Lars Persson
FIELDS IN MOTION - NEW WORK BY E=MC2 DANCE
Dancework
Premier at 3:e Våningen 30 November 2017
Can an ordinary stage room become a new and unexpected setting for a dance performance? Yes, If you like the coreographer Gun Lund been a nomadic wanderer. Since the 80s she has been part of the movement that has conquered the public space with big, renowned, dance works.
With the new work ”Fields in Motion” she ties together experiences from the work in the public space and nature. This work has a deep connection with the artist Robert Smithson´s concept of site and non-site. Site is a place outside the gallery and the later an embodiment and a documentation inside the gallery
Here the terms site and non-site change place. The different spatiality creates a new and exciting experience. The coreographer is used to draw long lines in the open landscape, here she creates a concentration and a densifiying effect instead. With 7 dancers on stage, there are big possibilities in creating shapes, lines and structures. The picture is abstract, but still it represents an actual site. The result is surprising. ”Fields in Motion” is a work in an urban context.
WHEN? 30 NOVEMBER and 1, 8, 9 DECEMBER
WHERE? 3e våningen 3rd floor - Dance and Art Space
600 sqm dedicated to Dance - Studio, DanceVenue, Exhibition Hall, Dance Library/Archive.
SOCKERBRUKET 9, GÖTEBORG (Tram 3 or 9 to Vagnhallen Majorna, 3 min walk towards
Röda Sten Art Hall.
KONSTVÅGEN ÖCKERÖ
Dancework / Art installation at Konstvågen
Öckerö 5-6 August 2017
Many of Gun Lunds works are site specific and have been compared with Live Sculpture and Visual Art. The site or the space is inhabited with Dance and the process is open for the audience to experience. Artists as Robert Smithson, James Turell and Bill Viola have been an inspiration though they are not dancers.
It is natural for Gun Lund to participate and give Dance a place in exhibitions and events together with other art forms. Since 2015 she has presented her works at Konstvågen - The Art Wave - an annual event in the Archipelago north of Göteborg. On the small island Burö people have been able to enjoy Dance on the rocks.
This year the audience can watch a Dancework / Art Installation from Burö Ferry Quay.
- Performance at 1400h & 1600h Saturday and Sunday August 5 & 6 2017
- Free Admission. Welcome!
KONSTVÅGEN: http://www.ockero.se/konstvagen
Digital Footprints of Dance - new movements in Technology
Exclusive Preview at 3:e Våningen
16th of June at 20:00
The Choreographer Gun Lund, pioneer of Swedish Contemporary Dance based in Göteborg will present her new interactive.
For many years we have had a great interest in Dance and it´s Artistic and Technological counterparts. Dance is deeply rooted in our bodies, but the bodies are always interacting with the surrounding World, the Space, the Audiences, the intellectual Concepts and the Society…
In our work we have dwelled deeply into the the actual physiological processes - the conscious body and mind of a Choreographer meeting the knowledge of a skilled Medical Doctor.
With ”Good Vibrations” (Presented at NOFOD 2006) and ”Transmission” we developed an interactive system based on tactile communication. We clearly found that it was possible to develop new, never experienced movements when the audience was part of initiation of movements.
With ”Digital Footprints of Dance” the Dancers will be able to change and distort the space with their movements. Acceleration, Gravity, Directions in 3-Dimensional space are detected by accelerometers on their bodies. The output can modulate sound, light and video. The technology is developed together with Ideofon - Kristoffer Hagbard & Dan Henriksson.
Read more about the project here! ( In swedish )
The Dancers will have to learn how to interact in a conscious way, thereby the interaction itself has an impact on the movements, modulating its directions, quality and energy. New moments will appear and at the same time change the world of performance, the stage or the space itself.
You are invited to experience the first moves of this radical system!
FRIDAY June 16 at 20.00h
WHERE? 3e våningen 3rd floor - Dance and Art Space
600 sqm dedicated to Dance - Studio, DanceVenue, Exhibition Hall, Dance Library/Archive.
SOCKERBRUKET 9, GÖTEBORG (Tram 3 or 9 to Vagnhallen Majorna, 3 min walk towards
Röda Sten Art Hall.
Small meal and drinks will be served! The Exhibition of Julia Dault and the Library of Elsa Marianne von Rosen will be open.
On the brink of the ruin
Celebrating the International Dance Day
29th April
E=mc2 Dance will celebrate the International Dance Day with the performance "On the Brink of the Ruin" taking place in the old ruin of Gamla Älvsborg. Dancers and musicians will let this hidden and forgotten place of Gothenburg come alive for a short while in the most beautiful time of spring – when the green colours of nature are light and fresh, contrasting with the mystic remnants of the old ruin.
Read more about the performance here
And listen to when the swedish national radio interviewed Gun Lund for the occasion here
Choreography: Gun Lund in collaboration with Gunilla Jansson
Dancers: Joachim Berntsson, Rebecca Evanne, Gunilla Jansson, Hannah Karlsson,
Torun Odlöw/Helen Ridal Hultén, Adèle St-Aubin, Åsa Thegerström
Musician: Björn Synneby
Soundscape: David Sundqvist
Technicians: Finn Pettersson, Lars Persson
Sketches of the world- the seven continents
revival at 3:e Våningen
18-27th January
Sketches of the world was first premiered autumn 2015. The work was very well recieved by both the audience and the press and therefore we wanted to give more people the chance to experience this musical excursion around the seven continents of the world. With the help of The Gothenburg Combos wondrous guitar music we start our journey on the hard, icy surface of antartica, make a stop in the australian wildlife, contuinue on to Asias ingenious arabesques, and finally we end up on a sleepy town square in Al-andalus.
Read more about Sketches of the world here