Incus is a solo for three. A rhythmic play, where sound and movement create temporary situations and unexpected embroilments. Defiant and accommodating. In Incus, Anna Öberg returns to the core of her practice – listening and moving in and through rhythm. This time, she takes the stage herself, in close collaboration with musicians Johannes Burström and Olof Misgeld, as well as sound designer Elize Arvefjord. As always, the performance is in close relation to the audience.

Incus refers to one of the three middle ear bones (“städet” in Swedish).

Premiere: September 2024, Norrlandsoperan. Touring through Dancenet Sweden in fall 2024. 

What can an artistic process look like? What are the methods and how do you proceed?

Landscapes in process is a by-product of Landscapes – a mix between a performance lecture, workshop and artistic forum where choreographer Anna Öberg together with dancers Viktor Fröjd, Jon Bugge Mariussen and sound designer Elize Arvefjord generously share the artistic working process of Landscapes, as it looks right now and in close relation with the audience.
Based on methods and materials used in Landscapes, the audience are invited to talk dance, see dance and even dance themselves.

“In Landscapes in process, I want to share the practice from Landscapes focusing on passing on as a choreographic method and pulse and rhythm as the mediating material.”
– Anna Öberg

Premiere: 14 juni 2023, SiteSpecific Festival, Sweden. Has also been performed at FLOCKfestival in November 2023 and Dansstationen Malmö February 2024.

Intellectus LIVE is a public format of the artistic research project Intellectus LAB developed during Öbergs 1- year artistic residency at the Södertörn University in 2023. An ongoing research that takes its starting point in Öbergs interest in how artistic ideas can arise and expand in groups – and in encounters with an audience. Through that Intellectus LIVE works as an ongoing platform for encounters and aesthetic discussions between art forms and fields of knowledge that rarely otherwise meet.

The format for the lab is inspired by ​​passing on (Sw tradera) as a relational practice dependent on how a multitude of authorships might bring specific and subjective interpretations into a collective web of understandings.

The name of the project is inspired by Nicolaus Cusanus (1401-1464) descrition of intellectus as standing on the horizon of not knowing.

“I am so grateful to have been part of this! I have especially appreciated how the encounter between different practitioners have been curated so that we could move together into unknown terrain, and how that made me experience new aspects of my own practice.”
invited artist LIVE23

Premiere: Intellectus LIVE. December 18 2023, Svarta Lådan @ Södertörn University, Stockholm