Performance, Tanz, Theater, Eröffnung, Performance

Animalarium Dance Collective: Constellation #4 - Shows for Futures

Gastspiel

Animalariums Constellations ist eine improvisierte Live-Performance, die Tanz, Sprache, Gestik und Gesang miteinander verbindet. Geführt von einem Performance-Host reagieren die Performerinnen in Echtzeit auf Themen, die gemeinsam mit dem Publikum ausgewählt werden. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit drängenden Fragen zu Countdown, Aussterben, und deren Verknüpfung mit Zukunftsträumen. Jede Performance wird zu einer einzigartigen, lebendigen Kartografie: einer sinnlichen Skulptur, einem zeitgenössischen Ritual und einem intensiven, aber flüchtigen Akt kollektiver Reflexion und Sinnstiftung.

Mit: Alexandra Wingate, Liv Schellander, Ina Dokmo und Siri Anna Flensburg.

Das Projekt tourt 2025 durch das norwegische Sápmi, Schweden und Österreich im Rahmen von Perform Europe, in Kooperation mit Elle Sofe Company, Ställbergs gruva und WUK performing arts. Diese Präsentation findet mit Unterstützung von Perform Europe und Konstnärsnämnden statt.

Animalarium’s Constellations is a live, unscripted performance weaving together dance, language, gesture, and song. Guided by a performance host, the performers respond in real-time to themes selected together with the audience. The work explores urgent questions of extinction, countdown, and its relationships to future dreaming. Each event becomes a unique, living cartography: a sensory sculpture, a contemporary ritual, and an intense but fleeting act of collective reflection and meaning-making.

Selected for Perform Europe 2025, Animalariums’ Constellations utilises workshops and performances to talk about interdependence and climate emergency in connection to its locality.

The project visits underrepresented areas and communities that situate themselves between city and rural periphery - including the arctic surrounding of Guovdageaidnu/Sápmi and its indigenous community, the abandoned iron ore mine Ställbergs mine and the Future Farm on the outskirts of the city of Vienna.

At the center of the project is the artistic practice Choreo-Constellating—a method for artistic expression, research, and collaboration. Developed within the framework of contemporary choreography and systemic inquiry, it serves as a practice of collective meaning-making through embodied storytelling.

Together with their local collaborators, the project explores topics, symptoms, language, memory and fiction — grounded in the experience of the nature, culture and history of a specific place. Making Animalariums’ Constellations a site-responsive performance event always changing, never repeated.

For Constellation #4 Shows for Futures, Animalarium brings their journey from the Nordic periphery to Vienna’s city centre, to culminate the project in the season opening of WUK performing arts on the 2nd and 3rd of October, 2025.

The projects’ participating artists are Ina Dokmo, Siri Anna Flensburg, Elle Sofe Sara, Liv Schellander, Emma Elliane Oskal Valkeapää, Alexandra Wingate and North Sámi interpreter Ellen Oddveig Hætta Gaup.

Constellation #4 Shows for Futures is performed by Ina Dokmo, Siri Anna Flensburg, Liv Schellander and Alexandra Wingate.

Animalariums’ Constellations tours Norwegian Sápmi, Sweden and Austria as part of Perform Europe 2025, in collaboration with Elle Sofe Company, Ställbergs gruva and WUK performing arts. This presentation is happening with the support of Perform Europe and The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

about

Alexandra Wingate

Alexandra Wingate (she/her) works as a choreographer and producer. She lives in an eco-village in Bohuslän and often works in Gothenburg, in Norwegian Sápmi and in Bergslagen as a Ställberg mine member. She creates works for stage, dance film, performance installations and participatory performance. Improvisation is a fundamental part of her practice and influences the working process, the format of the works and her experience of life.

Liv Schellander

Liv Schellander (she/her) is a dancer/performer, choreographer, Somatic Experiencing (SE)® practitioner and process facilitator. She loves to collaborate with artists in long-term processes. Since 2023 Liv has been developing the practice of “Choreo-Constellating”, which is artistically researched and implemented in various projects. She is increasingly engaged in exploring multisensory art making and aesthetics of access in the field of performing arts.

Ina Dokmo

Ina Dokmo (she/her) is a dance artist dedicated to the sensorial, experiential dimensions of dancing and choreography. Her own dance practice has since 2004 been her journey into fields of knowledge such as Chinese medicine, ecology, embryology and anatomy. Ina often explores relations between humans and more-than-humans. Teaching is an important part of her practice. Ina gives treatments as a shiatsu therapist which profoundly influences her as a dancer, choreographer and teacher.

Siri Anna Flensburg

Siri Anna Flensburg (she/her) is a singer and composer, active in the contemporary Nordic folk music scene. Raised in Copenhagen, with a background in classical church music, and graduated in folk singing from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. She draws inspiration from old choral books and archive recordings, and she carries the tradition into the present through a world of dark synthesizers and sound collages.

Support

This performance is happening with the support of Perform Europe as part of the project Animalariums' Constellations.

Perform Europe, supported by the European Union, is a funding scheme for the European performing arts sector. It facilitates international networking and supports inclusive, diverse, and eco-friendly touring projects across the 40 Creative Europe countries. Perform Europe emphasises practices rooted in sustainability and inclusivity, aiming to transform the performing arts sector and ensure a balanced distribution across the continent.

Perform Europe is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by a consortium of six organisations: IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts, European Festivals Association (EFA), Circostrada, European Dance Development Network, Pearle * - Live Performance Europe and IDEA Consult.

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