Sophie Augot and Björn Säfsten performs their improviation duett live and Trädgården club. Trädgården shows a number of live performances during the night.
Sophie Augot and Björn Säfsten makes an impro on the poem Flickan och Spindeln written by Torbjörn Lager. The movie was made at Moderna Dans teatern in Stockholm and will be able to view on the home page www.svtplay.se. Klick on the program Babel and you will find the klipp under extra material.
Participation at the Kedja festival in Umeå. Björn Säfsten and Victor Saiz works with open doors in a studio at the festival offering anyone to join in their process. At this time working on the musical concepts for the next piece Corduroy. They are using the Kedja festival is a part of a evaluation project that they started nov 2009 running through out 2010. The keðja project is so far the vastest platform for dance artists as well as educators, producers, scholars and academics, artists from other sectors and dancing youth to meet and address important issues within the contemporary dance field in the Nordic/Baltic region. For more info check out kedja.net
Compact Conversation performs between the 5th and 11th of oct at Modern Dance Theater c/o Fylkingen in Stockholm Sweden.
Compact conversations tours to Zagreb Croatia.
Premiere Compact Conversations at The house of dance Oslo, Norway. The piece performs from the 23th untill the 25th.
In August during Stockholm culture festival the rehearsal for the upcoming production Compact conversations will be open for audience.
Björn is awarded the Cullberg-price from the Swedish Arts Grants Commitee. The motivation in Swedish:
"Konstnärsnämndens Birgit Cullberg-stipendium år 2009 har tilldelats Björn Säfsten. Han har på kort tid visat på ett moget språk och en unik förmåga att med fingertoppskänsla utmejsla rumslighet i varje enskild rörelse. Med konsekventa och minutiösa förskjutningar frammanar han tillsammans med sina dansare en koreografi som är både utmanande och överraskande för åskådaren"
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