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About

I was from an early age introduced to breakdance, climbing, le parkour, alchemy, acrobatics, and various somatic practices in the woods and rivers of mainland Sweden. For many years it seemed self-evident that a career as archaeologist, fishing guide, lumberjack or photographer lay before me. However, due to a large number of coincidences and a confidence that at the time vastly exceeded my abilities, I entered the field of contemporary dance.

Harshly schooled by French intellectuals and Baltic folk dancers, I now obsessively work on creating abstract fiction-dance performances, based on stuff that the performances themselves are NOT about. Rather, I am interested in making small universes of neatly patterned layers, layered in even neater patterns, that all together generate something completely different than what their constituent parts may imply at first sight.
Hopefully, some of them might inspire people to find ways, meanings, or things that they lost, forgot, or just never thought of.

People I work with

Daniella Eriksson
Krišjānis Sants
Ieva Gaurilčikaitė
Veli Lehtovaara
Linn Eriksson
Cassiel Gaube
Daniel Linehan
Rihards Lībietis
Laima Jansone
Mārtiņš Miļevskis
Andy Field
Krista Burāne
Ieva Kauliņa
Kate Krolle
Taha Ghauri
Martins Eihe

People / things I like

Chen-Style Taijiquan and in particular my teacher Nabil Ranné
     Nabils Instagram
     CTND Berlin

Photo: M.M.MALKICH
Contact
sonoferiksson@gmail.com