Homage to escapism: the Show ”Eskapist” with the Royal Ballet at the Opera house. Photo: Nils-Emil Nylander 1. Ballet. ”Eskapist”, Choreographer: Alexander Ekman
Royal Opera house
Unfortunately, there are only a few performances left of the dreamy ”Eskapist” at the Royal Opera house, but those who have time there is fortunate. A hyllningskväll to the form of escapism that beats out the walls, which is based on sinnesutvidgande expansion. The dancing dervishes, the human germ, and accentuated rhythm skorytmer succeed each other. Ekman’s choreography and Mikael Karlsson’s music, which finally entered into a happy marriage at the stockholm Opera with ”midsummer night’s dream” 2015, may, here to a threesome with the sumptuous Danish fashion designer Henrik Vibskov who really kick ass. It is like being invited to a party where just about anything can happen in the dance’s whirls. Read the DN’s review here.
Poems enhances the everyday: ”The slowdown”. 2. Podcast. ”The slowdown”, Tracy K Smith
In the pod ”The slowdown” presenting the american national poet Tracy K Smith every day a new poem, and ”a new way to see the world”. The last one is no exaggeration. Each poem will be embedded in Smith’s associations, gives the context and deeper meaning. It is education – but not in the sense that you get to know more about a poem or a poet, but because it shows how the poem’s lines can capture, explain, and enhance the everyday small transitory moment. Poetry in motion? Yes, but at the same time is pod meditative, relaxing, a gentle braking in the fartökade contemporary flow. Stay up and listen.
A whole world of yodeling: Erika Stucky in ”The soul of yodeling”. 3. Tv-documentary. ”The soul of yodeling”, Director: Anders Granqvist
SVT Play, and with the may 6
Anders Granqvist has material for a documentary series of at least four hour-long episodes, so the pace becomes then, with much grinding on many surfaces, and a continuous leaping to the next tussock. On the other hand, is already an hour of yodeling more than most people would believe to be interested in. But there is a whole world to discover. Of delicate traditional körjoddling in the forest, modernist popförsök, links to the african pygmésång. But also the american countryhistorien, where joddlingen was huge from the 1920s, but is endangered niche in the day, in addition with black roots as long as osynliggjorts. All the time, albeit barely.
Bittersweet presidentsatir: Julia Louis-Dreyfus in ”Veep”. Photo: HBO Nordic 4. Tv-series. ”Veep”, season seven,
HBO Nordic
It is with great sadness pressing on the play of the seventh season of HBO’s presidentsatirserie ”Veep”. Namely, it is the last. Since 2012 has Selina Meyer, completely blindly played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, managed to be the american vice-president, president, expresident, and now, when the seventh season begins, presidential candidate. Armed with the usual osande the insults and the usual dysfunctional staff, she takes on its goals, its competitors, and (ultimately) to his new role as grandmother. For those who, by chance, seen the previous seasons so-so forty-seven times is the new sections a blessing, albeit a bittersweet one.
Arts concentration: Yngvild Saeters ”Firestarter” on the Market during Stockholm art week. Photo: Andréhn-Schiptjenko 5. Exhibition. ”Stockholm art week”
Liljevalchs, The, Dusty Deco, with several places in Stockholm
Konstveckor is a trend in the big cities and the Stockholm art week is now in its seventh edition, this year however, without the artist-run Supermarket. But Stockholm has an unusually large number konstarenor per capita and it is both fun and interesting to see this focus. The nordic region’s leading art fair Market is a natural center, in the Liljevalchs beautiful rooms. In the year, it is very painting and sculpture, and striking a bit of video and photography. The best is that most of the galleristerna bet on solopresentationer, which is more rewarding for the audience. Similarly, cross-border, peer partnerships as a Monopoly, and c/o Stockholm, where totalmiljön is more important than the competition.
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