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SINDRI RUNUDDE

Sindri Runudde is a Swedish dancer and choreographer. Professionally trained in dance at Stockholm University of the Arts, with additional international training in contemporary circus. Their work is characterized by transcending the traditional field of dance weaving together elements of sound, visual art, and storytelling. Sindri often plays with conceptualization by embracing metaphorical and imaginative concepts. Blending sensuous dance practices, personal stories, texts, and songs, their works are characterized by a formbased humorous and playful expression, with an undertone of complex perspective and experiences. Using somatic and attention oriented based practises.

Sindri has worked as an artist/dancer for companies like The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm City Theatre, Skånes Dancetheatre, Candoco Dance Company, Les 7 doigts de la main, and for choreographers like Martin Forsberg, Stina Nyberg, Ben Wright, Jeremy wade Carl Olof Berg, Joe Bannon Ebba Bohlin, and Lisen Ellard amongst others.

As a choreographer they have made several group pieces, The fishingdance & other cosmic confessions, Delighthouse & the dark room, as well as their solo performances  A sensoral lecture and Blind Boi Diaries. Sindri has also created two pieces for children called Sälskap and Vända & Vrida.

Sindri approaches their work from a queer and feminist perspective, and with a lived experience they are involved in the disabled community, both nationally and internationally,

2023 Sindri was commissioned to create two community works Vingel for Norrlandsoperan/EU project Dancing in your shoes and and Snaecka for 17 senior amateurs at Skånes Dancetheater.

Their new piece Cosmetic demons: a choreographic salon premiered at Inkonst in April 2024.

Photo credits: Thomas Zamolo

Cosmetic demons: a choreographic salon

Cosmetic demons: a choreographic salon uses the hair salon as a metaphor for a place where our processes, emotions and inner demons can have space to be shared and celebrated. Allowing visitors to indulge in a cosmetic transformation, and a live conversation between a hairdresser and a client.

In front of the chairs – where the mirror used to be – there is now a dancer. Three hairdressers, three clients and three dancers play out a choreographic idea that becomes a fictive salon.

The concept of cosmetic demons is inspired by an ancient meditation and therapy method called “feeding your demons”. Starting from a personal interest in the hair salon as a place, and its nature of relationality, between our inner and outer processes, and between the hairdresser and client. A sensorial perspective where a staged intimacy, and amplified gossip unfolds. As a choreographer and performer, they work with a playful foundation and using joy, fiction and fashion as tools for queer perspectives and perception politics juxtaposed with more complex and dark experiences of the salon.

In CDCS Sindri continues to curiously explore the different senses of the human body, this time especially the 666th sense; The bloody sense of humor!

Premiere: 11 April 2024, Inkonst Malmö, Sweden

Credits
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Choreography and text: Sindri Runudde

Rehearsal and artistic assistance: Maia Means

Dancers: Linn Ragnarsson, Olivier Muller and Victor Pérez Armero

Dance material developed with: Brittany Brown and Leah Marojević 

Choreographic assistance and demonic outer eye: Halla Ólafsdóttir

Composer and sound design: Andreas Tilliander

Distant lapdance song: Sindri Runudde (lyrics and melody), Ellekari Sander (vocals), Alexander Zethson (piano)

Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo

Costume and set design: Hanna Kisch & Sindri Runudde

Developed with: Toni Tora Botvid

Technicians and technical coordination: Ulrich Ruchlinski & Sigge Jonsson

Illustration: Eero Lampinen

Producer: Sindri Runudde, Maria Lindeberg/SmartSE and Nordberg Movement

Co-production: Dansens Hus, Norrlandsoperan, Subtopia, DansiT trondheim and Inkonst

With the support of The Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Nordic Culture Fund and Region Skåne

Thanks to Asaf Aharonson and Ponderosa for research support

Made possible with support from The Swedish Arts Council, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Nordisk Kulturfond and Region Skåne.

Duration: 65 min

Photo credits: Graham Adey

A sensoral lecture

A Sensoral Lecture is a solo performance by and with Sindri Runudde, in which we encounter five voices through metaphoric dating scenarios. The show deals with auditory romance and love at first frequency, an exploration of sound, and especially the voice, as touch. Through dance, dialogue and movement exercises, the audience is invited to a sensual and sensory lecture with humour, imagination and sensitivity.

Together with composer Marta Forsberg, Sindri explored the concept of a voice message, and the culture of auditive versus text based SMS. Curiously examining the intimacy of the voice message, combined with humorous reconnaissance – realizing that a voice message can be way more intimate than a nude picture.

The performance is based on Sindri’s exploration of the tactile and auditive based movement practice ”Centered Adventures”. With guidance by Sindri, the audience will be invited to try this practice during the performance.

Premiere: 4 May 2022, Dansens Hus, Stockholm

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Concept and choreography: Sindri Runudde
Performer: Sindri Runudde
Assistant and dramaturg: Emelie Empo Enlund
Music and sound: Marta Forsberg
Light design and technician: Ulrich Ruchlinski

Duration: 60 min