6+7 december 10.00–14:00 at Danscentrum Väst, Ärlegården.
OBS: The workshop is fully booked, but you can sign up for the waiting list, and we’ll contact you in case a space opens up.
Helder Seabra, born in 1982 in Portugal, is a distinguished performer, teacher, director, and choreographer. He began his dance education at the Ginasiano Dance School in Portugal before continuing his studies at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, under the guidance of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. For over a decade, Seabra was a pivotal member of the renowned dance companies Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus and Eastman/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, as well as collaborating with other celebrated choreographers such as Damien Jalet, contributing as a performer, choreographic assistant, and teacher across the globe for critically acclaimed productions.
In 2013, Seabra founded Incognitus, his own creative platform. Through Incognitus he has integrated his vast experience, exploring the full potential of the body and mind. Incognitus has become the nucleus of his artistic pursuits, fostering dynamic collaborations with fellow artists. With a markedly dynamic and articulate style, raw and refined at the same time, Helder Seabra presents a highly distinctive artistic language with experimental theatricality and significant physicality.
Since 2018, Seabra has been commissioned to create productions for several prestigious companies, including Johannes Wieland in Kassel, Unusual Symptoms/Theater Bremen, and MAD in Russia. At the same time, he continues to innovate and create new works with Incognitus, establishing his voice in the contemporary dance scene. Beyond his work as a choreographer and performer, Helder is deeply committed to education, blending teaching with his artistic practice. He has mentored diverse groups globally, sharing his expertise through classes and workshops at companies, universities, festivals, and international dance centers. Collaboration remains central to his approach, fostering dialogues that unlock the full potential of mind and body.
INNERCORE | CORPUS INCOGNITUS
This immersive workshop invites participants to embark on a profound journey of self-exploration, movement, and presence – bridging organic physicality with inner landscapes. We begin with INNERCORE, a dynamic class rooted in an organic, continuous flow of movement that recycles and channels energy. Starting from the floor, we progressively rise through layers of kinetic force, anatomy, instinct, and speed.
This practice cultivates a deep physical and mental connection to our own center – an openness that embraces both internal awareness and the external environment. Exploring risk, trust, and instinct, participants learn to balance control with surrender, observing what emerges when we let go. Within a playful and supportive space, we push physical and mental limits, inviting personal intuition and individual movement language to surface and evolve.
Building from this foundation, we delve into CORPUS INCOGNITUS, a meditative encounter where each participant confronts their inner vortex and the subtle relationship between self and surrounding space. Through guided exploration, the workshop taps into subconscious depths, encouraging spontaneity and presence to fuel the emergence of unique, authentic movement material. We engage with vulnerability and unconscious impulses, challenging notions of limit and forward momentum.
Participants will investigate the interplay between human identity and performative character, discovering their “internal guerrilla” – the shadowed, raw energy that can animate and transform the body. This journey invites courageous engagement with the “dark matter” within, opening new pathways for creative expression and embodied individuality within the collective.
Helder’s dynamic teaching style reflects his own creative practice, which blends high physicality, experimental dance theater, and original live music. Rooted in an ongoing exploration of human complexity and the interplay between personal and collective movement, Helder’s work invites participants into evocative, honest, and deeply emotive experiences that challenge and inspire.
28 November 18:30 at Scen 46
Alongside Systemic Quartet, No Deadline Duo are invited as artistic collaborators in Palle Dahlstedt’s research project:
CTRL + IMPROV
Dancing with algorithms
An evening of improvisation around algorithms, rules and systems, in sound, movement and visuals. The dancers and musicians explore a number of different improvisation systems, while also reflecting on what happens within this practice.
The evening includes two performance sets, with food served in the break (included in the ticket).
Tickets: 150kr / 100kr (students, retired, etc.)
The evening is a collaboration between the performing arts duo No Deadline and the Swedish-American group of musician-researchers called Systemic Quartet. It is a part of the artistic research project Entangled Musicianship at University of Gothenburg, supported by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
No Deadline: Toby Kassell and Ingeborg Zackariassen are Gothenburg-based choreographers and performers working collaboratively at the intersection of movement, sound, and text. Through their platform No Deadline, they create interdisciplinary works grounded in embodied listening, improvisation, and the shifting relations between physical and sonic composition.
Systemic Quartet:
Palle Dahlstedt, Swedish composer and improviser, pianist and electronic musician, explorer of new kinds of musical interaction for more than two decades. Professor of interaction design, professor of art & technology, University of Gothenburg and Aalborg University.
Per Anders Nilsson, Swedish composer and improviser, deeply rooted in free jazz and free improvisation, playing sax and electronics. Professor emeritus of music, University of Gothenburg.
Tim Perkis, electronic music pioneer and improviser from USA, currently living in Gothenburg, cofounder of the legendary League of Automatic Composers in the 1970s and The Hub in the 1980s.
Gino Robair, improviser, composer, multiinstrumentalist, and visual artist from California. A leading character in the San Francisco improvisation scene, and has played with each and everyone.
Rabbit/Duck Interdisciplinary Art Festival returned to Scen 46 for the third time this year, stronger than ever, with a fantastic line-up, an additional workshop day, two visual art installations, regional and international collaborations.
Thanks to all artists, technicians and audiences for a wonderful edition.
This year’s artist were: Alma Söderberg, Teater Nu, Klabbes Bank, Katie Duck, Marta & Sindri & Thiago and Hollow Ship.
Tech: Ljudteknikerna.
Foto: Kerstin Ehrnlund. Video: Anton James.
RABBIT/DUCK INTERDISCIPLINARY ART FESTIVAL 3/10 + 5/10
ARTISTS: ALMA SÖDERBERG, KATIE DUCK, EMMA KHANAFER, TEATER NU, HOLLOW SHIP, MARTA & SINDRI & THIAGO, KLABBES BANK
PLACE: SCEN 46
TIME: DOORS OPEN 17:00, FIRST ACT GOES ON AT 18:00
PRICE: 200 SEK
TICKETS: Click here!
While each workshop is shaped by the group’s experience and context, common elements include: Daily warm-ups that involve physical and vocal exercises to build presence and responsiveness / Improvisation scores (structured prompts or games) used to explore movement, voice, and interaction / Solo, duet, and group explorations using real-time composition principles / Interdisciplinary tasks, such as adding live music, text, or visual art to performance improvisations / Feedback & reflection sessions to refine awareness and artistic decision-making.
Katie’s teaching style emphasises: Intuition over impulse or technique / Failure as a tool for discovery / Humour / Real-time decision making / The body as an instrument of expression / Listening (to sound, space, and others)
Themes: The performer’s presence in the moment / The role of chaos and order in creativity / Political contexts in performance / Autonomy and authorship in improvised work
Workshops are intense, playful, laced with Katie Duck’s insistence to find humour, creativity, and pleasure in every dark corner of the theatre.
The very first edition of Creative Currents presented Anna Hallqvist and Samuel Haglund, with their solo works Transformation and HYMN TO (SELF) LOVE.
CREATIVE CURRENTS – A CHOREOGRAPHIC EVENING 27+28/9
PERFORMANCE SERIES, 1st EDITION
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS BY ANNA HALLQVIST and SAMUEL HAGLUND
PLACE: SCEN 46
TIME: 19:00–21:00
Multi-award-winning Welsh dancer Harlan Rust leads a contemporary dance workshop on the 14th of September.
Harlan’s work is built on an exploration of body mechanics and systems to develop a physical visceral movement style using partner work, floor work and locomotion practices.
The workshop will start with a class before progressing to more theatrical and creative tasks and explorations feeding back and sharing our ideas and experiences.
For over 10 years Harlan has been working with full bodied contemporary and physical theatre practices using a range of techniques to guide a deep sense of understanding the body in space and scene.
This season Harlan will be working with Atalante and Art of Spectra for their most recent production DISORDER.
This workshop will utilize the signature physicality and intensity Art of Spectra has become known for over their 25 years and will be looking at how to develop and push the boundaries of your own mise-en-scene for contemporary dance theatre.