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The dance film 40 M UNDER is Alexander Ekman's first lengthy film project. The film, which was recorded in the summer of 2009 in the former reactor hall at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, focuses on a few people who carry out a type of installation underground.

Cullbergbaletten, KammarensembleN och Fotografiska in co-operation.

Cullberg Ballet, KammarensembleN and Fotografiska collaborate in a new work, specially composed for Fotografiska. Musicians and dancers meet in this improvised work, based on the collaboration between the varying textures in dance, music and image. Five instrumental solo pieces from the 20th century form the basis and images from the photographer Fanny Oldenburg projected on the walls, create landscapes together with dance and music. The work is presented within the frame of Cullberg Out in context, the company’s site specific project that takes parts of the company's activity out of its usual context to other settings than the traditional. 

Sunday 6 May, Fotografiska at 13:00-14:00 and 15:00-16:00

A full evening work in three parts by Alexander Ekman.

Choreographer Alexander Ekman is conquering the international dance scene. Four years ago he was said to be “a rising young choreographer to keep an eye on”. August 2010 he created his first full length evening: Ekman’s Triptych - A Study of Entertainment. Three separate works weave through a multitude of expressions, where dance meets dialogue, wit becomes wistful and the meaningful cohorts with the meaningless. What is entertainment?

At Kulturfestivalen in Stockholm Cullberg Ballet will appear with dance installations by Alexander Ekman, originally created as a gift to Moderna Museet in Stockholm for its 50th bithday. Out in context is Cullberg Ballet's site specific project that takes parts of the company's activity out of its usual context to other settings than the traditional.

In November 2009, for the first time ever, Cullberg Ballet made an entrance on the Stockholm House of Dance’s small stage with Canadian choreographers Crystal Pite's work xspectacle and Benoît Lachambre's JJ's voices.

The progression of things challenges broadly conceived notions of history, and it's requisite conceptions of progress, growth and transcendence through myth building, as a linear phenomenon. Färgfabriken, Stockholm: 11-13 & 18-20 nov, 11:30 - 15:30. Admission 40 kr, reduced admission 30 kr for students and pensioners, admission is free for children and young people under 18. Recommended from 8 years.

New works by Tilman O’Donnell and Melanie Mederlind

Press cuttings
"It is humorous and effective and gradually builds to culminate in a moving whole." Aftonbladet
"Lyrical atmosphere." Svenska Dagbladet
"Playfulness and humour." Svenska Dagbladet
"Striking beautiful and thoughtful meditation..." Dagens Nyheter
"...subtle humour..." Dagens Nyheter


Opinions on August Strindberg are many and divided. In spring 2012 Cullberg Ballet will be inviting dancer and choreographer Tilman O’Donnell and director Melanie Mederlind to be inspired by, comment on or oppose this Swedish icon. They will each create dance works for an evening’s performance to be premiered on the Dansens Hus main stage in Stockholm on 15 March 2012. Cullberg Ballet will encounter Strindberg in a new form. Exclusive, unexpected and up close.

THE WAY THINGS GO is a choreographed chain of causes and effects. Treating the body as a combination of controlled will and factual mechanics, the dancers continually reinvent the circumstances to which they are subjected. Carefully positioning themselves in the line of fire, the precision of their contact reveals the fiction of the inevitable that lies beneath the seemingly self-evident course of events.

Norwegian choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen created a new piece for Cullberg Ballet in spring 2011; True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors. Eight of Cullberg Ballet's dancers perform in this illustrative piece.