"choros" – a metachoreographic exhibition by Marie Fahlin

choros is an exhibition in the form of a meta-choreography in which six solo choreographies are danced simultaneously during the opening hours of the Kunsthalle. The English experimental composer Cornelius Cardew's score The Tiger's Mind has been used as a starting point for the participating choreographers' artistic works. These have then been translated into asemic texts, a type of text that lacks semantic meaning, which are then reinterpreted by the choreographers into six solo works that are in turn performed in a new relational score. Asemic texts, scores and dance coexist in the same space where a play between the visual, the corporeal and the written constantly generates new compositions and meanings in relation to each other. choros is part of the research project The Curative Act and funded by the Swedish Research Council and Stockholm University of the Arts.

Participants

Marie Fahlin is a researcher, choreographer and Ph. Her choreographic works take the form of dance and text, often in relation to visual art. Fahlin has led and participated in several artistic research projects where choreography has been integrated with other art forms. She received her PhD from Stockholm University of the Arts in 2021 with Moving through Choreography - Curating Choreography as an Artistic Practice, where the exhibition Centauring at Marabouparken konsthall formed a central part of the thesis.

Irina Anufrieva is a choreographer and dancer from Belarus, based in Stockholm. Anufrieva has a background in ballet and butoh dance and trained at SU-EN Butoh Company. In her artistic work Anufrieva is interested in perception and durational performance.

Sybrig Dokter is a Dutch choreographer, dancer and Alexander teacher based in Stockholm. Dokter works in the fields of contemporary dance, visual arts and contemporary theatre. Her artistic interests are synchronicity, mirror neurons and proximity.

Frédéric Gies is a French choreographer and dancer, based in Malmö. With a background in ballet and contemporary dance, they have incorporated club dance and somatic practices into an aesthetic that often addresses dance history and bodily archives. Gies is the artistic director of Maison de la Danse.

Anne Juren is a French choreographer and Ph. Dr based in Vienna. Juren has studied French literature and is a certified Feldenkrais teacher. In her PhD project, Juren researched the effect of language on the body through what she calls Fantasmical Anatomies. Since 2025, Juren holds an international postdoctoral position based in Brazil.

Anna Koch is a Swedish choreographer, dancer and artistic director at Weld in Stockholm. Koch's interest in choreography is based on the dancing body in relation to material and writing. Koch has broad and long-standing experience of collaborations between dance, visual arts, theatre and electronic music.

Music:
Alexandra Nilsson
Alexandra Nilsson is a composer, sound artist and musician. Nilsson is active in sound art, electroacoustic and scenic music where she moves in the borderland between acoustic and electronic sound worlds. Nilsson is interested in the interplay between sound/image/movement/action and often works interdisciplinary.

Read more about Marie Fahlin's research project on SKH's website: The Curative Act

Read more about the exhibition: Marabouparken konsthall (In Swedish)