PROGRAM
SUNDAY, APRIL 27TH
11.00 - 17.00
MARC HOUSEWARMING PARTY, DAY 3
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​11.00 - 14.00 MASKOT, a dance piece in two parts. THE PARKOUR COURSE + THE MASKOT WORKSHOP
​No pre-reservation is needed, drop-in during the opening hours.
The work is intended for children, their guardians and siblings.​​
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An interactive dance piece by Rachel Tess for Norrdans
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About MASKOT
MASKOT is an interactive dance piece by choreographer Rachel Tess. It was created for Norrdans in 2022, and toured northern Sweden for children between 6–12 years of age. During Bästa Festivalen in 2023, MASKOT was presented in Broby in Östra Göinge and at Malmö Festivalen in 2024. WHAT DOES YOUR MASCOT LOOK LIKE? does it have eight legs and a tree in its belly? does it like to eat spray painted super fruit for lunch? and plays music from its head? DOES YOUR MASCOT LIKE TO DANCE? how would it move? maybe it has some favorite moves? Do like this - two steps: 1. THE PARCOUR TRACK – DREAM YOUR BODY! (approx. 25 mins.) You will shake as if you have a million ants crawling on your skin, slither through a maze, create a monstrous mountain, and pass through a magic portal as you turn to liquid. Begin at the station marked MAZE to meet your Maskot guides. 2. THE MASKOT WORKSHOP – CREATE YOUR OWN MASKOT! Here you will be provided with materials to build your Maskot. Your Maskot may have eighty toes and one giant ear that helps it fly to the moon. How would your Maskot move? Would it be different than how you move? Take the time that you need to build your dream Maskot on another person.
14.00 - 16.00 Film Screening of Proxies by Susanne Clausen and Pavlo Kerestey
Szuper Gallery (Susanne Clausen and Pavlo Kerestey) will present a work in progress. Proxies is an interdisciplinary project that examines the entangled themes of vulnerability, resistance, and dislocation in the context of war. Drawing on performance, video, and installation, the work employs hand-crafted figure puppets as both subjects and stand-in, embodied surrogates that navigate fragmented narratives and unstable terrains. This screening offers an insight into the project's evolving research process and material experimentation.
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The project is supported by Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union.
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16.00 - 17.00 Flip Side: She Drifts She Charges by Sophia Mage with Rachel Tess
No pre-reservation is needed, arrive at least 10 minutes before the show starts. ​​​
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Choreography: Sophia Mage
Dancer: Rachel Tess
Music: Simon Olderskog Albertsen
Costume: Sofia Stål​
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About Flip Side: She Drifts She Charges
In this windy solo dance, Rachel seamlessly transitions through a multitude of attitudes, textures, turns, and personas. She forms as she goes, leaving subtle traces of lived experience, nothing stays for long, and everything changes. She Drifts She Charges is an hour-long, tempest made with and for Rachel Tess, she is accompanied by percussionist Simon Olderskog Albertsen. About the project Flip side: Flip side is a series of ten solos created with and for dancer Rachel Tess between 2024-2027, by contemporary choreographers in Sweden and abroad. Commissioned by Tess as a dance anthology, the title refers to the ‘flip side’ or less hyped ‘B-side’ of a record. Since 2013, Tess has created work from deep in the Skanian countryside with a focus on site responsive works, people, and place rather than commercial success. Each edition of Flip side is crafted to showcase her skills as a maturing performer, unearthing an artistry accrued over a long career in dance.
About Rachel Tess
Photo: Mattias Givell
Rachel Tess (b. 1980) is an American dancer and choreographer based in Sweden and is the director of Milvus Artistic Research Center (MARC) in Knislinge. She holds a BFA from The Juilliard School (2004) and has danced with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, and Cullberg Ballet.
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She earned an MA in choreography from DOCH in 2013 and has presented works in Sweden, Montréal, New York, and Costa Rica. Her project Souvenir, a mobile choreographic architecture, was exhibited at Wanås Konst in 2014. Since 2010, she has collaborated with Benoît Lachambre as a performer and co-creator.
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Tess has choreographed performances for Corpus, Dansk Danseteater, Norrdans, and Skånes Dansteater. In 2019, she received the Birgit Cullberg Award for her work with MARC and Any number of sunsets…, exploring new spaces for dance. In 2023, she was awarded Region Skåne’s Culture Prize for her innovative work in dance.
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She has worked with choreographers such as Peter Mills, Tim Matiakis, and Anna Pehrsson and was the associate curator for performance at Wanås Konst (2016–2022). She teaches over 500 school children annually in Knislinge and researches experimental performance in rural areas. She also holds a ten-year working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
About Sophia Mage
Photo: Benedicte Ramfjord
Sophia Mage (US/DK) is an artist, a mother, and a raver. She approaches performance as a world-building process, integrating an expansive cosmic insight with astute detail.
Themes of sensuality, abjection, horror, euphoria, and eternity permeate her work. By embracing many apparent contradictions, she oversaturates, dissolves, and re-dreams the human experience. Transformation is central to her practice and aesthetic.
In her world-building, sound is experienced both visually and physically. She collaborates intimately with composers to create immersive sonic landscapes. The result is a dynamic pulse of shifting images and atmospheres, charged with immensity and uncanny undertone. With an eye for immediate and broad appeal, her finished pieces are inherently inviting yet layered with rich underlying intention. This approach informs her work as a performer, teacher, dramaturge, and choreographer.
After receiving a BA in political science and working for an NGO in Oakland California, she relocated to Europe and studied at the Danish National School for Performing Arts. Over the years she has collaborated with choreographers, musicians, visual artists, and academics in projects of various scales of capacity and ambition. She gives workshops and teaches for institutions and companies such as The Danish National School for Performing Arts, P.A.R.T.S., Danish Dance Theatre, Ballet De Lorraine, and Cullberg. Additionally, she has produced and created several pieces, including Vibrant Matter (2020) and Atmosphere of Decay (2023), and is currently developing a new work set to premiere in 2026.
About Susanne Clausen & Pavlo Kerestey
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Susanne Clausen and Pavlo Kerestey are artists and collaborators working across painting, drawing, performance, video, and installation. Together, they founded Szuper Gallery as a tool to explore the concept of gallery as institutional critique, which has since evolved into a platform for interdisciplinary practice and cultural exchange. Through this collaboration, they navigate their East - West experiences in projects that explore themes of migration, mobility, identity, and crisis - often realised as performative exhibitions.
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Susanne is Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading and Director of Reading International, while Pavlo has exhibited internationally since the 1990s. Their joint work has been presented at galleries and institutions including Whitechapel Art Gallery and ICA London, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Western Front Vancouver, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong, and Voloshyn Gallery, Miami.