up up up

Performed by second-year students in the Bachelor’s Programme in Dance, this work forms part of their repertory studies. The choreography was created by the students together with choreographer and alumnus BamBam Frost. Performed at MDT 13-21 March 2026.

A group of dancers with expressive faces and dressed in black and pink. — Photo: Niklas Dennermalm

Through rehearsal and performance, the dance students engage with an existing choreographic work, carrying it forward into the present.

up up up is the third step in an ongoing choreographic study that began with Sorry (2018) and So Sorry (2019). This new work continues to climb into the landscape of entertainment and pop-cultural imagery.

In up up up, the investigation continues into how popular culture shapes bodies, expressions, aesthetics - how it forms methods for entertaining, seducing, and repeating.

up up up turns its gaze toward the position of the entertainer. Using movement, music-video logic, and traces of earlier pop-cultural phenomena, the performers dive into what happens in the deconstruction, in the repetition, in the pauses, in the spaces in between, beneath, above, and behind the images that are so eagerly consumed.

up up up extends a choreographic lineage of looking and re-looking , questioning and playing with the culture that shapes our desires. It is both a joyful homage to performance itself and a study of the forces that continue to shape what we long for.

Post-performance talk 20 March

Performer-choreographer Eleanor Bauer (Assistant Professor of Contemporary Dance and Choreography, Postdoctor and PhD alumni from SKH) in conversation with the performers Dieynaba Cissé, Hannes Henschel, Janina Swierzewska, Julie Elisabeth Villumsen, Lana Kariz Mesko and Livi Pösö.

Dancers

BA year 2

Andrew Smal
Biret-Ingá Pieski
Dieynaba Cissé
Ela Villanueva
Elena Sophia Bürer
Ewemande Ehiwe
Hannes Henschel
Inês Filipe
Janina Swierzewska
Julie Elisabeth Villumsen
Lamiya Odenyo-Gafur
Lana Kariz Mesko
Livi Pösö
Mimi Henrich
Sigrid Rodian Poulsen
Sofiia Butiaga
Thea Faldborg Liversage

Set design: BamBam Frost, inspired by Lisa Berket Wallard's original set design for Sorry

Participant in the process: Mea Holappa

Lighting design and technician: Olle Axén

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Past dates

2026

Friday 13 Mar, 19:00-20:00

Saturday 14 Mar, 15:00-16:00

Sunday 15 Mar, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday 18 Mar, 19:00-20:00

Thursday 19 Mar, 19:00-20:00

Friday 20 Mar, 19:00-20:00

Saturday 21 Mar, 15:00-16:00

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Location: MDT Moderna Dansteatern Slupskjulsvägen 32, 111 49 Stockholm

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