City Horses, film installation
Byström Källblad
A large-scale audiovisual installation with four projections presents images, reflections and moments from the City Horses project – a piece shown at Sismògraf 2022 that has since toured various European cities, from Stockholm to Barcelona.
The footage combines recordings of performances with thoughts and writings from nearly 100 women who participated. The audience is brought closer to the dancers, hearing their voices and seeing their bodies express themselves, moving like wild horses through streets and squares. Galloping, trotting and neighing, they claim the urban space as a living, moving sculpture. The performance elicited strong reactions from both spectators and participants alike.
Helena Byström and Anna Källblad create works that inhabit public space, exploring themes of female freedom, the body and sexuality. To what extent are women free to occupy space and move through the city? What happens when a woman takes over public space without conforming to norms or seeking permission?
The Swedish duo Byström Källblad makes work for the stage, the gallery and the public space. Artist Helena Byström and choreographer Anna Källblad share a desire to tell stories from and based in collaboration and exchange with specific places and its people.
Byström is a visual artist from the north, working mainly with film and sculpture,
Källblad is a choreographer from the south, with ten years in Los Angeles.
Byström and Källblad have shown work in places like a sports arena, a nuclear power plant, Shibuya Crossing Tokyo, Sakakini Art Centre Ramallah, Stockholm City Hall, Uppsala Cathedral, Kulturhuset, The Royal Dramatic Theatre and the Modern Museum in Stockholm.
Writer, director, choreography, costume, photography: Byström Källblad / Edit, photography: Jenny Vinterqvist / Cast, dance: Karianne Andreassen, Fie Dam Mygind, Dana Hamburgo Hernandez, Edith Strand Askeland, Oda Olivia Øverbø Lindegård, Ina Bråstein, Aurora Itland, Marthe Nordgård, Inga Lu Zhong Cai Dæhli Moberg, Mai Lene Eliesen, Hedda-Sofie Nilsen, Malena Aasen Gundersen, Charlotte Brohmeyer, Joséphine Auffrey, Nefeli Asteriou, Polina Sonia, Quadira Oechsle-Ali, So Yeon Shin, Sofia Seta, Giorgia Callari, Katinka Wissing, Milena Stein, Britt Angus, Tanit Graffelman, Jitka ?echová, Tereza Holubová, Natalie Tun, Lenka Gregarová, Sumin Sung, Emily Jane Steele, Michaela Dašková, Martina Hajdyla Lacová, Natálie Podešvová, Jana Maroušková, Da Costa Cécile, Talia Marie Preis, Natálie Vacková, Yana Reutova, Liudmyla Ponomarchuk, Olena Korotkova, Anastasiia Pavlovska, Alessia Obinu, Arina Lannoo, Helena Canas, Katja Coser Galtés, Montse Álvarez, Núria Dalmau, Mar Izquierdo López, Carla Piris, Claudia Reig, Andrea el Ameri, Azucena Moya, Aitana Giralt, Eva Durba, Lucy Hood, Cody Lavery, Sandi Woo, Nadia Milford, Sara Edwards, Amber Nofal, Tiana Pinnell, Chelsea Chua, Felix Palmerson, Erin O’Rourke, Linn Christin Aagedal, Thjerza Balaj, Amalie Bergstein Nielsen, Tilda le Grand, Antonia Harke, Camilla Lind, Julia Müllner, Benedicte Ramfjord, Evita Tsakalaki, Maria Björkvik, Hedvig Edvall Bons, Katarina Eriksson, Marte Golten, Hui-Han Hu Gustavsson, Ruth Rebekka Hansen, Tea Harryson, Caroline Hoeg, Annika Hyvärinen, Katrine Johansen, Torill Kolsrud, Sara Larsson, Sofia Calizaya Malygina, Minna Mannelqvist, Nassim Meki, Nicole Sestan Neidert, Ellen Nylander, Anna Persson, Linn Ragnarsson, Wilma Ring, Lotta Salonen, Tilda Seger, Julia Svensson, Sanna Söderholm, Elinor Tollerz Bratteby, Henrietta Wallberg, Moa Westerlund, Tyra Wigg, Sofia Östergren
Production: Once Upon A Time / Co-production: Liljevalchs +, Big Pulse Dance Alliance, Sismògraf Olot, International Dance Festival TANEC PRAHA, Tanz im August/HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Danscentrum Sverige, CODA Oslo International Dance Festival, Julidans, Dansehallerne, Graner Centre, Supercell Dance Festival / Cooperation partners: Stockholms Kulturfestival, Roskilde Festival, Aaben Dans, Supercell Dance Festival. Figueres MOUFestival de dansa, Festival de dansa Castell de Montjuïc, Havremagasinet, Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten, Dansehallerne, The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Balettakademien Stockholm / Supported by: Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Swedish Arts Council, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Region Stockholm, Region Västmanland, City of Stockholm
