Säfsten Production is a platform for choreographic creation and experimentation. An intertwinement of theory and practice, it manifests itself through artists joining forces in speculation and critical formation within the fields of choreography, politics, language and identity production. A platform for experimentation, a platform for a changing constellation of artists and a base for continuous artistic research within the field of choreography.
In the work and practice of choreographer Björn Säfsten, the body and the mind and its connected actions are scrutinized, dissected and exposed. The focus is on creating “another body”, another notion of human physicality, bringing images to life that visually problematize our notion of human nature. The physical practice exposes images that result from a certain physical action, in a random way. The work thus takes visual twists and turns, often moulding itself while being performed, establishing itself anew each time for each audience encounter.
We aim to expose physical dilemmas, deliberately creating situations where the performer’s thoughts are revealed, opened up to the viewer. The work fools around with the notion of language – striving to confuse and divert the viewer from the regularity of bodily reading. The body is seen as a multiplex of wills, desires and directions, moving away from the notion of a bodily and mental entity. Changing the notion of the body and the embodiment of the object, and the relationship between the two entities, are central in research and presentation.
The exact texture of the singular movement stands at the core of the work. Sections are created in the present moment through practices that occupy the performer with a blend of orders, restrictions and physical parameters. The methods behind the work strive for the direction of non-clarity and non-singularity, exposing the trajectory of thought and movement in the performer as actions happen. Energies in the action differ from hesitation to a certain urgency, to a deliberate stillness to an outburst of action. The incoherence of actions create the non-singularity, the non-linear narrative that interests Björn and the artists working with the different choreographic works. The work goes against a consensus of understanding, aiming to bring the diversity of the audience members into the relationship between stage and auditorium, between the performers’ area and the spectators’ area. We aim to discuss how language is violent in its form of oppressing both the performers’ and the viewers’ relationship to movement and the body. We wish to expose the multilayered understanding the physical experience embodies and how this can be brought into the private, the public and the political spheres.
Current projects for

The Canteen / Matsalen (2016)
In an interactive space dancers and students experiments with the familiar in search for new potentials. What if we would become food or the texture of food? Or building sculptures together with the trays? Perhaps a dance could grow out of a position of eating or what if we dance to Sara Larsson with the […]

Björn Säften – Lost night
In an abstract existence, three individuals come together in an attempt to talk and share a listening coexistence. They form a choir, a flock and at the same time are three different people who talk about what happened before. Together they process a multitude of emotions and attempt in different ways to categorise their impressions, […]

Björn Säfsten / Movement and conversations for You over 65!
A workshop for people over 65, interested in trying out and talking about movement. A workshop designed by Björn Säfsten

Landscapes of I (2018)
“Landscapes of I” “Landscapes of I” lingers between the personal and the fictional, the real and the fake, the biographical and the made-up. The piece investigates different states of the performers and their relationship to the audience. Through engaging shared situations of recognition and by bending their materiality new landscapes and emotional journeys occur. The […]

Björn Säfsten / Prologue (2016)
An open space offers a view of an individual, eyes covered, a woman looking out into nothing. She is tracing a world of signifiers, searching for a language to hold onto. She arms herself, and leads herself to becoming something new through transforming inputs and cliches that otherwise would have led her to another identity. […]
Calendar

I Själva Verket
Nyköpings Teater Nyköping , SE
I Själva Verket
Folkets Hus Haparanda , SE
I Själva Verket
Dansinitiativet Luleå , SE
I Själva Verket
Nordanå Skellefteå , SE
I Själva Verket
Storsjöteatern Östersund , SE
I Själva Verket
Hudiksvall Teater Hudiksvall , SE

I Själva Verket
Petrus Magni Scen Vadstena , SE
I Själva Verket
Landskrona Teater Landskrona , SE
I Själva Verket
Stenkrossen Lund , SE
Lost night
Bærum Kulturhus Bærum , NO


Lost night
Inkonst Malmö , SE
Lost night
Inkonst Malmö , SE
Lost night
Atalante Göteborg , SE
Lost night
Atalante Göteborg , SE
The Canteen
Stadsteatern Skärholmen Stockholm , SE
The Canteen
Stadsteatern Skärholmen Stockholm , SE
The Canteen
Stadsteatern Skärholmen Stockholm , SE
The Canteen
Stadsteatern Skärholmen Stockholm , SE
The Canteen
Stadsteatern Skärholmen Stockholm , SE
The Canteen
Stadsteatern Skärholmen Stockholm , SE
The Canteen
Stadsteatern Skärholmen Stockholm , SE
The Canteen
Stadsteatern Skärholmen Stockholm , SE





Body of Curiosity – Associated Workshops and Talks
Annantalo Arts Centre Helsinki , FI
The Canteen
Annantalo Helsinki , FI
The Canteen
Annantalo Helsinki , FI
The Canteen
Annantalo Helsinki , FI
The Canteen
Annantalo Helsinki , FI
The Canteen
Annantalo Helsinki , FI
The Canteen
Annantalo Helsinki , FI
The Canteen
Klaipėdos kultūros fabrikas Klaipeda , LT

Body of Curiosity – Associated Workshops and Talks
Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen , DK
Movement for You over 65 – a workshop!
aliasTEATERN Stockholm , SE
Movement for You over 65 – a workshop!
aliasTEATERN Stockholm , SE
Local Practice
Danscentrum Stockholm , SE


Within Practice
Eric Ericsonhallen, DOCH, SITE Stockholm , SE
Within Practice
Eric Ericsonhallen, DOCH, SITE Stockholm , SE
Within Practice
Eric Ericsonhallen, DOCH, SITE Stockholm , SE
Within Practice
Eric Ericsonhallen, DOCH, SITE Stockholm , SE
Within Practice
Eric Ericsonhallen, DOCH, SITE Stockholm , SE
Within Practice
Eric Ericsonhallen, DOCH, SITE Stockholm , SE
Landscapes of I
Tanz im August/Sophiensæle Berlin , DE
Landscapes of I
Tanz im August/Sophiensæle Berlin , DE
Landscapes of I
Tanz im August/Sophiensæle Berlin , DE


Prologue
Teatro Leal La Laguna , ES
Prologue
Atalante Göteborg , SE
Prologue
Atalante Göteborg , SE
Landscapes of I
Väven Umeå , SE
Landscapes of I
Botkyrka Teaterförening / Riksteatern Hallunda Hallunda , SE
Landscapes of I
Eric Ericssonshallen (Skeppsholmsskyrkan) Stockholm , SE
Landscapes of I
Eric Ericssonshallen (Skeppsholmsskyrkan) Stockholm , SE
Landscapes of I
Eric Ericssonshallen (Skeppsholmsskyrkan) Stockholm , SE
Landscapes of I
Eric Ericssonshallen (Skeppsholmsskyrkan) Stockholm , SE
Landscapes of I
Eric Ericssonshallen (Skeppsholmsskyrkan) Stockholm , SE
Landscapes of I
Stenkrossen Lund , SE
Landscapes of I
Inkonst Malmö , SE
Landscapes of I
Inkonst Malmö , SE
Prologue
Centroa Paragga Murcia , ES
Prologue
Carme Teatre Valencia , ES


Movement for You over 65 – a workshop!
Folkets Hus Uddevalla , SE
Movement for You over 65 – a workshop!
Danslokalen, Österåkers Gymnasium Österåker , SE
Movement for You over 65 – a workshop!
Artipelag Gustavsberg , SE
Movement for You over 65 – a workshop!
Träffpunkt Brandbergen Brandbergen , SE
Movement for You over 65 – a workshop!
Valfisken / Simrishamn Teaterförening Simrishamn , SE
Movement for You over 65 – a workshop!
Style Dance Studio / Lund Teaterförening Lund , SE
Movement for You over 65 – a workshop!
IOGT-NTO, samlingslokal/Godtemplaregården, Vadstena Teaterförening Vadstena , SEIn the Works / studio-presentation
Gibney Dance 890 Broadway New York , FI
Idiots
Inkonst Malmö , SE
Idiots
Inkonst Malmö , SE
Language Fools
Spira: Teatern Jönköping , SE





Language Fools
Folkets Hus Olofström , SE
Language Fools
Sparresalen Karlskrona , SE
Language Fools
Ljungby/Teaterbiografen/Grand Ljungby , SE
Language Fools
Regionteatern Blekinge Kronoberg Växjö , SE
Language Fools
Regionteatern Blekinge Kronoberg Växjö , SE
Language Fools
Regionteatern Blekinge Kronoberg Växjö , SE

Performance Lecture Series
Regionteatern Blekinge Kronoberg Växjö , SE
Prologue
Kompani1 Stockholm , SE
Prologue
Kompani1 Stockholm , SE
Prologue
Kompani1 Stockholm , SE
Prologue
Kompani1 Stockholm , SE
Prologue
Kompani1 Stockholm , SE
Prologue
Kompani1 Stockholm , SE
Conversations and movement for senior citizens
Dansens Hus Stockholm , SE
Conversations and movement for senior citizens
Dansens Hus Stockholm , SE


Performance Lecture Series
Kompani1 Stockholm , SE
Performance Lecture Series
Kompani1 Stockholm , SE
Idiots
IFMC – International Festival of Modern Choreography Vitebsk , BY
Performance Lecture Series
Inter Arts Center / Samtidsverket Malmö , SE
Performance Lecture Series
The Swedish National Heritage Board, Annual Fall Meeting Stockholm , SE
Idiots
Hiroshima Barcelona , ES
Idiots
Hiroshima Barcelona , ES
Idiots
La Casa Encendida Madrid , ESTranslate, Intertwine, Transgress – summit 2015
Moderna Museet & MDT Stockholm , SE
Language Fools
Danscentrum Stockholm , SE
Language Fools
Danscentrum Stockholm , SE
Performance Lecture Series
Studio 44 Stockholm , SE
Performance Lecture Series
Studio 44 Stockholm , SEMove to the beat of my tongue
Café 44 Stockholm , SE

Performance Lecture Series
Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS) Umeå , SE
Performance Lecture Series
Dansväxthuset Skellefteå , SEDE-SENTATION: Performance lecture 2015
Dansväxthuset Skellefteå , SE
Fictional copies
Euro-Scene Leipzig Leipzig , DE
Fictional copies
Euro-Scene Leipzig Leipzig , DE
Fictional copies
Euro-Scene Leipzig Leipzig , DE



Fictional copies
Inkonst Malmö , SE
Fictional copies
Inkonst Malmö , SE
Fictional copies
Baltic Centre for contemporary art Gateshead , UK
Fictional copies
Baltic Centre for contemporary art Gateshead , UK
Fictional copies
Baltic Centre for contemporary art Gateshead , UK


Performance Lecture Series
Istanbul International Theater Festival Istanbul , TR







Fictional copies
Centre Choreographique National du Caén / Basse Normandie Caen , FR
Fictional copies
Centre Choreographique National du Caén / Basse Normandie Caen , FR
Fictional copies
Centre Choreographique National du Caén / Basse Normandie Caen , FR


























































