23.03 - 03.04
We are proud to present a new international collaboration supporting contemporary dance artists in Sweden and Québec.
In April 2026, Québec-based artist Katia-Marie will travel to Vitlyce-CPA, Sweden, while Swedish dancer Salka Ardal Rosengren will undertake a residency in Québec at Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique. This unique residency is part of a Québec–Sweden artistic exchange and a international collaboration within the field of dance.
Through this initiative, artists are invited to deepen their practice, build international connections, and engage with new artistic contexts.
About Circuit-Est.
It is a choreographic centre in the heart of Montreal, Canada that has been supporting research, creation, and professional development in contemporary dance for nearly 40 years. Each year, it hosts residencies, international exchanges, and classes that offer choreographers and performers a stimulating space to experiment, connect, and share their practice locally and internationally. Read more about Circuit-Est here: https://circuit-est.qc.ca/en/homepage/
We wish Salka a great residency in Montreal!
This project Amma looks at older folk dances, ring dances, chain dances and dancing games to investigate lived social practice. These dances are understood as historically situated technologies for relation, ways of organising bodies, attention, touch, desire and collective time.
I am especially curious about how these social forms of gathering, both musical and physical, became displaced from adult life and associated with childhood. This shift happened through processes in which the bodily, sensual and socially charged aspects of dance were moralised and regulated, particularly through Protestant ideas about the body, and later through industrial society’s demands for discipline, productivity, and control of time and movement.
The concept of play is central in the work. Here, play is understood as a complex activity of concentration, risk, communication, curiosity and joy. I am interested in play as a form of social intelligence, a way to organise collective situations that are both structured and open, both disciplined and unpredictable.
BIO
Salka Ardal Rosengren works with dance and performance. She was born and raised in Stockholm, but moved to Brussels where she studied at P.A.R.T.S. (Training & Research Cycle, 2006–2010). She returned to Stockholm during the pandemic and completed a Master’s degree in New Performative Practices at SKH in spring 2021.
Her work Lasting Figures toured last autumn with Riksteatern and has also been presented at Weld, Atalante, Flockfestivalen, and HOROS. She has previously created works together with Mikko Hyvönen (Trash Talk), Nicholas Hoffman (The Thing with a Hook), and Andrew Hardwidge (Subbodybodysub).
As a dancer, she has worked and toured internationally with, among others, Eszter Salamon, Xavier Le Roy, Boris Charmatz, Daniel Linehan, Sarah Vanhee, Tino Sehgal, Gunilla Heilborn, Malin Elgán, Rosalind Goldberg, Liz Kinoshita, Salva Sanchis, and Björn Säfsten.
She has taught professional dancers at institutions including Cullberg, Norrdans, SKH, Musée de la danse, and Beijing Dance Academy, among others. She is currently teaching in the Modern/Contemporary Dance Program (DMN) at Balettakademin, as well as classes for children and adults at Värmeverket in Bredäng, where she lives. She is a member of the management group for the DMN program and also sits on the reference group for daily training at Danscentrum Stockholm.