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BAMBAM FROST

BamBam Frost is an artist working through different mediums to create performance, choreography and spatial installations. She moves through different contexts and artistic materials but often returns to playing with the thought of bodies as carriers of historical, contemporary and speculative future events that she through fictional ideas can manipulate. The body is central in her artistic practice and while working practices of empathy, care, play and pleasure are important. Her recent work has been shown at for example Dansens Hus Stockholm, MDT Stockholm, Dansens Hus Oslo, Dansehallerne Copenhagen, Arsenic Lausanne, Festival Parallelle Marseille, Inkonst Malmö, Kaai theatre Brussels, Tanzqvartier Vienna and the Modern Museum in Stockholm. Frost holds a BA in contemporary dance and performance from Stockholm University of Arts and is currently enrolled in a MFA at the Stockholms Royal Institute of Art.

Photo credits: Märta Thisner

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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

 

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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.