Dance lover? Satisfy your appetite with this tantalising teaser ahead of the Göteborg Opera’s Dance Festival, 8–10 May. Curious? Get up close to one of today’s leading companies and experience their artistry firsthand.
Dance
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani – Pop-up at World of Volvo
Dance at close range.
Duration
Varies
Dates
03 May 2025
Stage
World of Volvo, Göteborg
Genre
Dance
Price
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Accessibility
For one day only, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani takes over World of Volvo with a series of pop-up performances throughout the building. Come and experience dance up close, in unexpected places. The pop-up concepts have been created by the dancers of GöteborgsOperans Danskompani.
Schedule
13:00–14:00 Pop-up performances throughout World of Volvo*
14:00–14:30 Little Stories We Tell Ourselves by Paxton Ricketts
14:30–15:30 Pop-up performances throughout World of Volvo*
15:30–16:00 Little Stories We Tell Ourselves by Paxton Ricketts
16:00–17:00 Meet the dancers
*Six different pieces will be performed continuously throughout each hour, in various locations around the building. Read more about each piece below.
Little Stories We Tell Ourselves
By Paxton Ricketts (Nederlands Dans Theater / NDT)
A narrator who is afraid of his own stories. Afraid of the lessons forced upon him. Afraid of the dark. Afraid of what might be.
His imagination is his gift, allowing him to weave tales that enthral and spin worlds into being. But it is also his undoing. He questions what is lurking in the shadows. He convinces himself of his most terrifying fantasies. His imagination is both what he must escape from and what he must escape into.
This is a work-in-progress created in collaboration with the following dancers from GöteborgsOperans Danskompani: Janine Koertge, Valērija Kuzmiča, Viola Esmeralda Grappiolo and Miguel Duarte; rehearsal director Pascale Mosselmans, and technician Emily Lavebäck.
Performances at different locations in and around World of Volvo
Zero point
by Filippo Buonamassa*
It all starts from zero, but it can always restart whenever we want it to. Zero point is an attempt to research about our own zero, or more than one … It’s about finding always a new awareness, a point or something to hold on to until we decide to restart again.
*In collaboration with dancers Ivo Mateus and Giovanni D’Agati
And Together We Cry
by Hiroki Ichinose
Conference room Streams
An immersive, time-limited experience exploring how emotion is performed, consumed, and aestheticized in the digital age. The work questions whether public digital expressions of vulnerability foster authentic connection or merely transforms emotion into aesthetic content in pursuit of visibility and validation.
Dancers: Valentin Durand, Da Young Kim, Iris Telting
Seagulls
by Rachel McNamee
Ceno Brasseriet
Girls. A bit like birds, no?
Dancers: Josephine Weise, Olivia Blanch
Lift
by Sabine Groenendijk
The elevator
Are we really in control of the narratives that shape our life, or is it chance that defines those.
Dancers: Sabine Groenendijk, Zachary Enquist
You Who
by Josephine Weise
Gradängen
Who are you? Are you the body of your thoughts? Are you your dreams?
A thought has no body, but you do.
Everybody. A collective consciousness.
What are you waiting for and what is the point of all of this?
Dancer: Zander Constant
Aérien
by Duncan C Schultz and Victor Ketelslegers-Polster
Outside
You find yourself overlooking this world within a world, a microenvironment self-created with an agreed order. Its inhabitants are not aware of the expanse of what exists beyond its borders and are satisfied with not knowing. Or are they? What happens when the unknown takes them out of their comfortable rituals and forces them to acknowledge something else?
Dancers: Victor Ketelslegers-Polster, Duncan C Schultz, Amanda Åkesson
