Gothenburg Opera Dance Company (GöteborgsOperans Danskompani), formerly Göteborg Ballet, is a modern dance company based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It shares a performance space with the city’s opera.
Valley is a contemporary dance work by Spanish choreographer Marina Mascarell, created for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani and premiered at the Göteborg Opera in 2019. Developed through an extensive period of research, the work examines a distinctly contemporary question: what happens when…
A “one-reeler” entirely choreographed musical film directed By Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Thom Yorke. In 2019, musician Thom Yorke (Radiohead) invited Damien Jalet to imagine a choreographic response to his new solo album “Anima”. This was a follow up to…
noBody completes a choreographic cycle of three pieces about humans and their bodies which Sasha Waltz created in the years around the turn of the millennium. In her piece “Körper“, she investigated the materiality of the human being, relating the…
In an iconic library designed by the visual artist Hans Op de Beeck, life is lived as if nothing will ever change. Self-centeredness and a clumsy search for acknowledgement thrive in pursuit of inner peace. The monochrome grey library is…
A creation for 17 dancers performed on a 34 degrees platform. In Skid, human beings relationship to the law of gravity, to the poetry of resistance and abandonment from gravity itself, sets the dancers in motion. Our very existence itself…
Untitled Black by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar is pure, multi-layered, emotional choreography. Through its atmospheric and futuristic movement, embedded in a structure of strong composition, it takes us into a fantastic parallel universe. Live music by DJ Ori Lichtik…
What is more indispensable, more immediate, what is more inseparable of us than our body? We are our body and exist through it. Everything we do develops on the limits of our body, through skin and touch. The body is…
All the dancers from GöteborgsOperans Danskompani perform in this new work by Alexander Ekman. I want to create a joyful, entertaining work with plenty of energy. I really look forward to working with all the talent in GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. Alexander…
