MEDIATHEK

Happy to be here – is a “dance-existential” premise, a soft, beautiful landscape where bastards come to life. In this context ‘dance-existential’ refers to both the dance’s existing space as a phenomena on stage as well as the existence of those dancing and those observing.

Anna Koch has been conducting a choreographic process with Marcus Doverud, Josefine Larson Olin, Marie Fahlin, Igor Koruga (SRB) and Dragana Zarevska (MKD) and Bure Holmbäck. 
They have made an inventory of each other's knowledge, looked into various choreographic methods, affirmed the flow of ideas and movements; revaluated them and turned them over.

Happy to be here is a struggle of aspirations and desires. Ingredients of different origins are processed and form a strange yet familiar entity. Rhythmic, insisting movements filter through an assiduous process. Solos, duets, trios and larger group-dynamics transpire. Storms of applauds intermingles with pure silence.

/ CAST & CREDITS /

CHOREOGRAPHY: Anna Koch
ON STAGE: Marcus Doverud, Josefine Larson Olin, Marie Fahlin, Igor Koruga (SRB) and Dragana Zarevska (MCD) as well as Bure Holmbäck.
MUSIC: Collage by Bure Holmbäck, Rohaeen
LIGHTING: Erik Westerlund
COSTUMES: Ingela Nilsson, Anna Koch
LENGTH: 55min
PRODUCTION: Weld
DATE: The 7th of May at Made festival in Umeå and back at Weld the 9 and 10th of May.
PREMIERE: Happy to be here had its worldpremiere at Dansens Hus Mars 2+3rd 2010.

Marcus Doverud (SE) is an artist and performer in the fields of dance and performance art. He moves between different forms of expression, dealing with bodily, spatial and sonic utterances and their interrelations. Marcus’s work has been shown at Teater Giljotin/Alp Gallery, Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, and he has collaborated with Rasmus Ölme, Suzanne Osten and Anna Koch, among others. He studied contemporary aesthetics at a master’s level at Södertörn University College and graduated with a degree in mime from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Marie Fahlin (SE) trained as a choreographer at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam and since 1992 has been working as a choreographer, dancer and teacher. Creator of some thirty choreographies, her work includes solos, larger group performances, stage works and projects in public spaces, performed at Moderna Dansteatern, Weld, Dansens Hus and Fylkingen, among other venues. Marie often collaborates with other artists, composers and choreographers, and conducts research projects and works as a dancer.

Bure Holmbäck (SE) is a self-taught artist and shaman in training. He works with movement, words and sound. He previously collaborated with Anna Koch on her work for the inauguration of Bonniers Konsthall (2006).

Anna Koch (SE) is a dancer/choreographer and artistic director of Weld in Stockholm. In recent years Anna has created a large number of projects in Sweden and abroad. She is a frequent participant in the worlds of art, music and theatre and is always working on expanding the boundaries of dance in different ways.

Igor Koruga (SRB) has been involved in alternative forms of theatre, performance art and modern dance since 1998. As a member of the NGO Station in Belgrade, he has participated as a dancer in various artistic projects and residencies in Serbia and abroad. In 2009, he was awarded two European dance education scholarships, from danceWeb and NOMAD Dance Academy respectively, and has recently started to create his own choreographic work. Igor also studies socio-cultural anthropology at the University of Belgrade.

Josefine Larson Olin (SE) recently graduated as a dancer from Balettakademien in Stockholm, with a background in visual arts. In 2009, she was awarded a danceWEB scholarship in Vienna where she participated as a dancer in works by Anne Juren, among others. Last autumn, she took part in a residency at the Danskonstkollektivet Sch!! in Norway and danced in works by the performance art group Superamas. She has worked as a dancer and choreographer in theatre and television and is initiator and member of the Af Dalmatinerhjärta foundation.

Dragana Zarevska (MCD), born in Kratovo, Macedonia, is a visual artist. Working primarily with video and graphic art her work can be described as ’minimal expressionism’, characterized by simplicity (‘low-fi’) with a streak of dark humour. Her work has been shown at HBJCEM 2009 (Biennale for Young Artists in Europe and Mediterranean), where she was awarded the ‘Artist in residence program 2010’, and at film festivals in Macedonia, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland. Dragana is studying a master’s degree in communication and media in Skopje, Macedonia.

// DEUTSCH //

Glücklich hier zu sein - ist ein Tanz-existentielle Annahme, eine weiche, schöne Landschaft, wo Mischlinge gemacht werden. Der "Tanz-existentiellen" bedeutet hier sowohl Tanz bestehenden Standort theatralische Phänomen und die Existenz dessen, der tanzt und sieht es. Anna Koch wurde die Durchführung einer detaillierten choreografischen Prozess mit Marcus Doverud, Josefine Larson Olin, Marie Fahlin, Igor Koruga (SRB) und Dragana Zarevska (MKD) und Bure Holmbäck. Zusammen haben sie verschiedene choreographische Methoden untersucht und befragt gegenseitig ihre Kenntnisse, bekräftigte die Verbreitung von Ideen, Bewegungen und fordert, dass, geboren geworfen und ersetzt. Glücklich hier zu sein ist ein Kampf der Wünsche. Dank einer sorgfältigen Prozess, gefiltert rhythmisch, eindringlich Bewegung heraus. Soli, Duette, Trios und größere Gruppe dynamischem Teil vorliegt. Der Klang von tosendem Applaus mit reiner Stille vermischt. ”¨ Ein Tanz historisch eher, macht sich und Staat: Die Monster, die alte Form der Choreographie spricht und lebt. Es lebt, es am Leben ist, ich sah es mit meinen eigenen Augen. Wie können wir dieses Monster zu necken?

/ BESETZUNG & CREDITS /

CHOREOGRAFIE: Anna Koch
BÜHNE: Marcus Doverud, Josefine Larson Olin, Marie Fahlin, Igor Koruga (SRB) und Dragana Zarevska (MCD) sowie Bure Holmbäck.
MUSIK: Collage von Bure Holmbäck, Rohaeen
LICHT: Erik Westerlund
KOSTÜME: Ingela Nilsson, Anna Koch
DAUER: 55 Min.
PRODUKTION: Weld
AUFFÜHRUNGEN: 7. Mai beim Made Festival in Umeå und am 9. und 10. Mai wieder bei Weld.
PREMIERE: Happy to be here feierte seine Weltpremiere im Dansens Hus am 2. und 3. März 2010.

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