All people have one thing in common. We’ve all been there, inside someone’s body! Even though we all have different experiences of becoming, coming into being, or giving life to new people, we are still connected in this;
Life’s first chamber play.

In Dolly, OR/ELLER has allowed three guiding stars to cross-fertilize different inputs into the work’s theme of coming to life and becoming. Dolly the sheep – the first clone, the artist Dolly Parton – who continued her creation outside the womb and the Doll – who comes to life through play and imagination. Based on experiences from the time between the first heartbeat and the first breath, OR/ELLER turn their ideas around the “within”, inside out, and let Dolly take place as a shared horizon.

With a playful yet earnest concentration, the body and its movements are put on display. Through a multi articulated physicality, Madeleine Lindh, Anja Arnquist and Sam Huczkowski dance around the idea of ​​the poetics of cell division, the blurred boundaries of subjectivity and a constructed becoming in our contemporary world. Dolly revolves around the ability that movement has to awaken that which puts us in contact with what it means to come to life, to live and to become. In Swedish this translates to the simple term “blåsa liv”, to “blow life into”. Dolly can be described as a dancing laboratory, which draws inspiration from puppet theatre, chamber play and anatomical theatre.

Dolly is not a performance for kids, it is not a performance for grown ups, it is a performance for people between 10 -99 years old.

During three weeks in November, MDTs Studio 1 will be transformed by OR/ELLER. It is the first time they guest MDT.

During two nights, OR/ELLER present SALONG DOLLY. The age restriction is set to 18 years old for this event due to alcoholic beverages being served and post puberty tematics flourishing.

NET is a dance performance where YOU call the shots.

A net moves in and spreads in your school’s sports hall or at your closest theater. Together with three dancers, we let the performance unfold and a choreographic kaleidoscope emerges. Here we create an undulating landscape that, with dance as an engine, opens doors to new rooms where we give shape to our fantasies.

In contrast to contemporary ideas about identity, autonomy and independence, NET invites you to dance by making room for you to become a link in the chain, a thread in the web or an atom in the molecule. With speculative curiosity we find ourselves as parts of new figures in constant transformation. Out of a tangle of threads we dance a slicing track, stop by a campfire or fly like a flock of birds. New verges and other yet unknown spaces emerge.

To catchy beats and melodic loops, we dance our way through this experience, mimicking, building, helping, waiting, fusing and actively resting in the imagination. NET is both a playful and serious performance, which in meeting its audience creates a human atmosphere where the visitors, through a guided dance and together, manage to get lost in a shared aesthetic experience.

NET is created in co-production with Dansehallerne Copenhagen, KORA -the network for dance for young people in Denmark and NorrlandsOperan, Umeå, and in cooperation with Dansens Hus, Stockholm. It will premiere in September 2023.