Sharing session: "The Upheaval" | SKÅNES DANSTEATER

Name: Sharing session: "The Upheaval" | SKÅNES DANSTEATER
Start: 2026-02-26T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Inter Arts Center

Schedule

Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 03:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Inter Arts Center | Malmö, SN

SHARING SESSION: Thursday, 26 February, at 15:00–16:00; discussion: at 16:00–16:30. The sharing session will be moderated by Phil Sanger.
REGISTRATION: Please register by 23 February at the latest sending an email to [email protected]
SKÅNES DANSTEATER has together with choreographer Philippe Blanchard initiated an exploratory project with the title "The Upheaval". The project involves a deeper conversation about ecologically sustainable practices within the performing arts. In February the team moves their ongoing studio practice temporarily to IAC and opens their artistic research to an interested audience for dialogue and feedback.
In a time when the climate emergency is accelerating, the project looks beyond emissions data and toward a critical reflection on the ethical dimensions of the performing arts methodologies, the infrastructures that sustain them and the symbolic economies surrounding them. The project questions not only what we produce, but how, why, and under what systems of value.
The project includes a dance work for summer 2026 with 6 dancers. In the process PHILIPPE BLANCHARD and dramaturge and collaborator MAIKA KNOBLICH draw on the philosophical concept of opacity as articulated by the Martinique poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant. Rather than clinging to material origin, the dance work will invite visitors to discover the weave – a tapestry of relations, histories, and gestures.
Philippe, Maika, and the dancers explore if we can imagine artistic practices that embody this ethic of opacity – practices that do not seek to extract or explain, but to relate, resonate, and respond? Can dance, as a temporal, embodied art form, offer a way of thinking and creating that is ecologically adjusted, relationally grounded, and politically urgent?
Visit Skånes Dansteater’s website: https://www.skanesdansteater.se/en
Read more about the event here: https://www.iac.lu.se/calendar/sharing-session-creating-without-destroying-skanes-dansteater
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