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BAMBAM FROST

BamBam Frost is a dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm, Sweden. She graduated from Stockholm University of the Arts, with a bachelor of contemporary dance spring 2013. In her work she has moved between the club scene, commercial work, music videos and art institutions. During the spring 2018 she debuted with the piece SORRY.

BamBam’s work is in constant transformation and dialog with the now. There is a strong interest for social dances and pop cultural expressions. She plays with the thought of these as carriers of time, structures and context with which she through choreography can change the narratives of. Inspired by sci-fi BamBam uses choreography as a tool to imagine and propose alternatives.

Photo credits: Märta Thisner

When I jump the ground shakes

I am practicing to become a superhero. I’ve realised that there’s something in here, in my body, that can transform me. I can’t fly, I can’t run very fast or climb walls… yet. But when that – which is there inside me – is activated, it’s like I feel exactly everything all the time. When I dance, waves ripple across the water and when I jump, the ground shakes.

When I jump the ground shakes is a dance performance for children aged 6-9 years. Inspired by science fiction, three dancers come together in a playful exploration of how emotions such as joy, anger and empathy can develop into what we call superpowers.

Premiere: 16 October 2024, Dansens Hus, Stockholm

 

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Choreographer: BamBam Frost
Cut together with dancers: Ama Kyei, Ida Holmlund, Alexandra Tveit
Stage design: Chrisander Brown
Lighting design: Chrisander Brun and Christoffer Lloyd
Technique: Angela X
Producer: BamBam Frost & Nordberg Movement
Co-production: Dansens Hus, Norrlandsoperan

With the support from the Cultural Council, City of Stockholm

Duration: 60 min

Photo credits: Märta Thisner

YES

YES is a cascade of pleasure, sadness and dreams of possibilities. Morphing through a constant of what has been and what is. YES insists on fiction as a compass in the imagining of where we want to be. Yes yes yes. This could be something. YES is soft, YES is dense, YES is tension and release, YES is too much and not enough. YES is everything you touch you change.YES is BamBam Frost’s second work, following her debut with SORRY in 2018.

Premiere: 8 december 2022, Dansens Hus, Stockholm

 

Credits
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Choreographer: BamBam Frost
Performance: BamBam Frost
Guest performer: Lydia Östberg Diakité
Light design: Anton Andersson
Sound design: Yared Cederlund
Set design: Lisa Berkert Wallard
Costume: Hanna Kisch
Co-helpers in the process: Lydia Östberg Diakité and Alexandra Tveit
Production: Sara Bergsmark (MDT), Nordberg Movement
Co production: BamBam Frost, MDT, Säfsten Produktion

Duration: 75 min

Supported by Kulturrådet, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Stockholm Stad and Life Long Burning – Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe project (2018-2022) supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.