8th + 9th of MAY AT SCEN 46
KRAAKUS by Anna-Greta Himmer and Elias Kraft
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Creative Currents, 2nd Edition: During spring 2026, Anna-Greta Himmer and Elias Kraft are co-creating a new choreographic work during residencies at Konstkollektivet (Mölndal), Scenstudion (Gerlesborg) and Finnekumla Dans- och Konstscen (Ulricehamn).
The work premieres at Scen 46 on the 8th of May, with an additional performance on the and 9th of May.
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Kraakus, I have three thoughts
The first one is that I need my own hiccups to end when I tell them
The second one is that I need you to hug me
I really really really really really need to find it, its my everything, almost
Lets move onI need something else
And the third thing was somewhere in between previous points, but I could not catch it myself
I would appreciate if you did, Thank you
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A world of murky, had me feeling like I understood what I didn't.
The perspective from there told different than from over here.
Relatable content and angles on body and flesh, voice and text
Kraakus* need be like my own realm
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Created and performed by Anna-Greta Himmer & Elias Kraft
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*Kraakus, as of now refers to a unclear, seeable, somewhat tangible, space/room where the world of absurdity and its normalness lives and plays out its intentions. Us being people/creatures/energies of this world are the visual outputs through Kraakus’ atmosphere
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Anna-Greta Himmer är dansare och koreograf baserad i Göteborg och har en examen från Balettakademien Göteborg (2023) Hennes konstnärskap utgår från ett intresse av att förkroppsliga fantasier i rumsliga strukturer. Hennes koreografiska arbete sträcker sig över rörelse, text och ljud där strävan är en scenisk närvaro som kan berätta och förstå relationer mellan kropp och omgivning. Hon fascineras just nu av kroppsliga förlängningar, potentialen i förnyelse och ett pågående.
In English:
Anna-Greta Himmer is a dancer and choreographer based in Gothenburg with a degree from Balettakademien Göteborg (2023). Her artistry is based on an interest in embodying fantasies in spatial structures. Her choreographic work extends to movement, text and sound where the aspiration is a scenic presence that can narrate and understand relations between body and its surroundings. She is right now fascinated by body extensions, the potential for renewal and states of ongoingness.
Elias Kraft är en dans- och scenkonstnär baserad i Göteborg. Han tog examen från SEAD år 2022. Hans arbete kretsar kring improvisation som sceniskt språk, där närvaro, timing och beslutsfattande i stunden står i centrum. Han verkar i både fria och institutionella sammanhang och initierar även konstnärliga mötesplatser och community-baserade processer.
In English:
Elias Kraft is a dance and performance artist based in Gothenburg. He graduated from SEAD in 2022. His work centers on improvisation as a scenic language, where presence, timing, and decision-making in the moment are central. He works across both independent and institutional contexts and also initiates artistic meeting spaces and community-based processes.
1st edition, 2025: This evening introduces choreographers Anna Hallqvist and her solo “Transformation” as well as Samuel Haglund’s “HYMN TO (SELF) LOVE”; two contrasting solo works adding exciting textures to the contemporary choreographic landscape.
Photo: Harald Nilsson
As an artist, Anna Hallqvist explores organic movement through improvisation with an awareness of the whole body. She attentively responds to impulses and considers the body’s context in space. Through moving she is affecting the space and in the same way the surroundings inform her choices. She seeks a state in which the body moves her rather than her moving the body – a continuous practice of awareness, deep listening and honesty. She balances the subtle with larger, more drastic movements. Relational interactions play a big part of her work; whether it is with the audience, other dancers, her own body or objects in the room. Through theatrical expressions and spatial awareness, she explores shifting points of focus. The dance becomes an interplay with the past and the future; an interaction with herself.
Transformation
is a solo performance that explores different factors of movement and how encounters with objects can shape the experience. The objects serve as external influences, tools used to find new possibilities. By challenging the body’s center of gravity and playing with muscular tension, the movement is shaped. It is a play with balance and focus, awareness and observation.
What influences the movements and their expressions? What expectations emerge in the meetings? Who or what determines how they unfold? The solo is a result of experiences from the past and a conversation with what is yet to happen.
The sculpture is made by artist Nino Aquilon.
Photo: Harald Nilsson
To realise that you do not love yourself is truly heartbreaking…but utterly necessary. Only then can you begin the journey back to yourself. And to make this trip easier you can get help from self-help. But is self-help something that actually helps? Does it work the same way for everybody?
Maybe it is not about loving oneself completely and always in every situation.
Perhaps it is about walking the line between pathological narcissism and feelings of inadequacy or insecurity and a syndrome of throwing oneself under the bus.
Maybe self-hate with a fist-full of salt and a big bowl of sarcasm is not something negative.
Just make sure you’re not doing that thing where you neglect your own needs. You can’t get what you want unless you know what to ask for.
“HYMN TO (SELF) LOVE” is a piece for those who live alone, as well as for those who live with extreme existential anxiety. This piece is the first part in a series called “Thoughts on love” where Samuel reflects on and tries to navigate the different aspects of the subject.
Samuel Haglund works with his own experiences and lines of thinking in his artistry and his works. Through movement, scenes, and text he stages his existential life questions, big and small. Wanting to understand his place in a peculiar world, he finds comfort in the everyday realism.
He wants to produce movement material that speaks, characters that can narrate his mind, and use pop cultural references and music/sound that amplifies his themes. At the same time he is searching to stage honesty and “the authentic”, whatever this means.
Samuel wants to stage a dynamic show with ever changing pictures and intensities. Throughout his pieces and his artistry he is working the idea of “comedic finesse”, which is not about actively searching for laughs or putting something that can obviously be perceived as “funny” on stage. But in this case it could be about putting something commercial in the conceptual room in a non-conventional way.
Team:
Curation and production: No Deadline
Communication: Stina Axelsson
Logo Design: Sean Smith
Tech: Oliver Sjöberg / Ljudteknikerna
Big thanks to Art of Spectra and Stora Teatern for tech support.
Creative Currents is supported by Göteborgs Stad and Västra Götalandsregionen.