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Performance, NO Deadline Duo in collaboration with Systemic Quartet 18:00 Friday 28/12, Scen 46

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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.

Observe that the workshop is fully booked. If you e-mail us, we can put you on the waiting list and let you know if there’s free spot .

Third edition of RABBIT/DUCK Interdisciplinary Art Festival

3-5 October 2025 at Scen 46

CREATIVE CURRENTS - a choreographic evening 1st edition Scen 46, 27+28 of September

Listen to No Deadline on Liza Penkova's podcast:

No Deadline
Photo: Chris Caig

During Dance Week Festival in Zagreb, No Deadline’s Toby Kassell taught a 3-day workshop at Zagreb Dance Centre:

Composition in Motion

In this improvisation-based workshop, choreographer and performer Toby Kassell (UK/SE) invites participants to explore the relationship between individual voice and collective motion. The sessions are grounded in embodied awareness and spatial attention, guiding dancers toward intuitive compositional choices in real time.

Participants work with shared improvisation structures and movement scores that activate listening, presence and the poetic potential of the group. Kassell’s approach emphasizes the emergence of choreography from within – rather than imposed design – challenging dancers to take creative responsibility inside a collaborative space.

23 of May at Masthamnsgatan 23, 413 27 in Gothenburg

No Deadline + Donovan von Martens performed Crunch Crisis in an evening organised by Levande Musik. Curator: Arvid Kraft.

WORKSHOPS:

2025/2026: 
Harlan Rust (14/9, 10:00–14:30, Scen 46)
Katie Duck (4/10, 11:00–17:00, Scen 46) 
Helder Seabra (6+7/12, Ärlegården, Danscentrum Väst)

 

ARCHIVE:
In collaboration with Danscentrum Väst, No Deadline hosted a workshop by Anna Nowicka at Scen 46.

Anna Nowicka (Berlin) is choreographer and performer, plunging into the lush reality of dreaming. She researches the potential of images to expand the body into a state of a continuous becoming. Graduate of the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), MA Choreography at the HfS Ernst-Busch / HZT in Berlin and MA Psychology at the Warsaw University, she wrote her practice based PhD on embodied awareness as the foundation for being present. She has completed a basic training in Systemic Therapy. Anna’s research has been repeatedly recognized. She was awarded the DAAD Prize, followed by the choreographic scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Tanzstipendium from the city of Berlin, scholarship from the Gwaertler Foundation and most recently, Tanzpraxis Scholarship from the city of Berlin. Her solo: “the truth is just a plain picture. said bob.” was selected for the Polish Dance Platform, Fringe Festival in Edinburgh and Polish-Israeli Dance Platform in Tel Aviv. „Raw Light” (2017) was chosen to be part of the Polish Dance Network, and “This Is The Real Thing” (2018) opened the Polish Dance Platform in 2019. Her most recent work – „Eye Sea” premiered in December 2019 in HAU, Berlin. Since 2010 her individual choreographic practice is connected with the Art Stations Foundation. Anna is a certified Saphire® teacher of dr. Catherine Shainberg’s “The School of Images”. She is unfolding dreamwork through an intensive exchange with dr. Bonnie Buckner.

Read an interview with Anna Nowicka here:

https://www.tanzforumberlin.de/en/artist/anna-nowicka/

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