
From "Living Room Dance", 2025 Photo: Mattias Givell
Living Room Dance
Dance project by Frédéric Gies and Rachel Tess
19.8 2025
Malmö
Date: Tuesday 19 August
Time: Between 10.00 and 12.30. Doors open from 09.45
Language: English
Location: Loading Dock
Tickets: Free admission. No pre-registration required
Questions: Please contact Kajsa Rolfsson by mail.
Welcome to take part in the project ‘Living Room Dance’ that will be shared through the practices and teaching methods of Frédéric Gies (FR/SE, they/them) and Rachel Tess (US/SE, she/her) parallel to documentation and reflections from the participants. It will begin with a practical component – we will dance together – and will move on to a presentation of the project and its outcome.
The program gives incites into the effects of sense-based movement practices for dance interested individuals and professionals. The program highlights methods for working with community-based art making through dance and dancing together. ‘Living Room Dance’ explores the positive change dance can induce in a non-metropolitan setting with a specific group of participants.
About Frédéric Gies and Rachel Tess
Gies is the founder and director of Dance is Ancient in Malmö – an initiative for artistic creation and the development of public encounters in the field of dance and choreography. Tess is the founder and director of Milvus Artistic Research Center (MARC), a residency center for research within the field of dance and choreography in Knislinge. Through their long-term partnership they investigate the creation of forums for critical discourse and how we care for, with, and about dance.
About the project
MARC is located in Knislinge, a small town of 3500 inhabitants, many who have no previous experience with contemporary dance. From MARC’s base in Knislinge Folkets Park, a historic ‘People’s Park’ from the 1920’s. The project ‘Living Room Dance’:
● develops methods between dance educators working with specific local communities
● reflects on and develops the creation of positive learning environments for a diverse community of learners
● deepens critical discourse in dance education on a regional and international level
Living Room Dance is produced through a collaboration between Milvus Artistic Research Center, LACE symposium and Impulstanz with funding from Erasmus+.
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