STHLM Dans presents a durational performance combining different dance traditions, inviting you to gaze inside and outside with SKH Dance Performance, facilitated by caterina daniela mora jara.

This three-hour performance unfolds in both the café space and outdoors. Audiences are invited to move around, come and go, watch closely or from a distance. Free entry.

Dancing with many tongues and between different dance traditions.
Dancing the many dances that have danced us.
Gazing our sensation while embodying work.
Gazing at our sensation while embodying work.

Students from the Dance Performance programme at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) will explore how dance practices, memories, and sensations shape the way we move—and how they can generate something new.

The performance grows out of a year-long workshop led by caterina daniela mora jara, who describes herself as a facilitator rather than a choreographer. Together, the students have gathered in three working periods. Throughout these sessions, they have returned to past dances, borrowed from multiple traditions, and asked: How can all the dances and embodied experiences we carry be a resource for creating and sharing movement today?

About STHLM DANS

First organised in 2022, STHLM DANS is an international contemporary dance festival held annually in early May in Stockholm and the surrounding region. STHLM DANS places dance in new contexts, providing opportunities for diverse dance artists to showcase creative formats and bold ideas.

About caterina daniela mora jara

caterina daniela mora jara (Argentina/Chile, 1988) is a performing artist and researcher. Coming from the territory called Patagonia by expeditionary colonizers, she was born in a city that carries the name of the general who organized the genocide and the displacement of native people. Trained in academic dance and folkloric dance, caterina’s work aims to problematize the modes of production and colonial legacy in representation of Western dance. Her pedagogical approach uses intimacy as procedure and explores translation as transgression. caterina is currently doing a PhD at SKH, Uniarts (Stockholm). She got married to have a residence permit in European territory. 

Credits

Facilitator: caterina daniela mora jara
Performers: Elena Sophia Bürer, Sofiia Butiaga, Dieynaba Cissé, Kerstin Ehiwe, Thea Faldborg Liversage, Mimi Henrich, Hannes Henschel, Mea Holappa, Lana Kariz Mesko, Lamiya Odenyo Gafur, Biret-Ingá Máret Pieski, Sigrid Rodian Poulsen, Inês Filipe Silva, Andrew Smal, Janina Swierzewska, Julie Elisabeth Villumsen & Maya Kilic
Head of Programme: Zoë Poluch
Dramaturgical assistance: Aphra Behn & Marietta Baderna
Lights: the sun in May
Photo: Bo Vloors
Thanks: Ingela Stefaniak, Chrysa Parkinson & Eleonora Fabião
Supported by: Stockholm University of the Arts, STHLM DANS & Accelerator