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BYSTRÖM KÄLLBLAD

The Swedish duo Byström Källblad makes work for the stage, the gallery and the public space. Artist Helena Byström and choreographer Anna Källblad share a desire to tell stories from and based in collaboration and exchange with specific places and its people.

Byström is a visual artist from the north, working mainly with film and sculpture, Källblad is a choreographer from the south, with ten years in Los Angeles. Byström and Källblad have shown work in places like a sports arena, a nuclear power plant, Shibuya Crossing Tokyo, Sakakini Art Centre Ramallah, Stockholm City Hall, Uppsala Cathedral, Kulturhuset, The Royal Dramatic Theatre and the Modern Museum in Stockholm.

Photo credits: Tina Axelsson

City Horses

In our cities, on bronze horses, proud kings quietly stare above our heads. Their history and visual male dominance daily manifested and passed on to the next generation. Where are the women and their stories?

This was the starting point for City Horses – a city choreography with twenty female dancers about power, existence and the female body in the public space, a gallop through cities, a living monument in constant motion, celebrating female courage and power of all ages.

Since the premiere in 2017 at Dansens Hus in Stockholm, City Horses has toured in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Australia, Mexico, Germany and The Czech Republic.

During 2022- 2024 City Horses is proud to be a Big Pulse Dance Alliance co-production.

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Dancers: Thjerza Balaj, Hedvig Edvall Bons, Katarina Eriksson, Ruth Rebekka Hansen, Tea Harryson, Hui Han Hu Gustavsson, Annika Hyvärinen, Nassim Meki, Ellen Nylander, Anna Persson, Benedicte Ramfjord, Tilda Seger, Sanna Söderholm, Elinor Tollerz Bratteby, Moa Westerlund.

City Horses is a Big Pulse Dance Alliance co-production, co-produced by Sismògraf Dance Festival (Catalonia – Spain), Julidans (The Netherlands), Tanz im August/HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Germany) and CODA Oslo International Dance Festival (Norway), co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Duration: 120 min