photo of person dancing — From "Living Room Dance", 2025 Photo: Mattias Givell

Living Room Dance

Dance project by Frédéric Gies and Rachel Tess

19.8 2025

Malmö

Choreographers and dancers Frédéric Gies and Rachel Tess present a deep dive into Living Room Dance, an extended community-based dance project that took place in the spring of 2025 with women over the age of 55 in Östra Göinge.

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+.

DANCE IN THE LIVING ROOM is part of INTERLACE, developed in collaboration with Milvus Artistic Research Center (MARC), Multimedia Hut, and LACE SYMPOSIUM.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or OeAD-GmbH. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.