Suspiciously Groovy
NoXsense (SE)
Suspiciously Groovy
NoXsense (SE)
Performance
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Saturday, 20 September 17.00
What is a groove? Perhaps a shared pulse, a rebellion, or simply a fleeting moment of joy.
Suspiciously Groovy tries to answer this question by approaching groove not as a fixed concept, but as a question in motion. The performance challenges the body by experimenting with movements that are intentionally inorganic, awkward, and feel difficult to perform. From this sense of discomfort, something contagious begins to take shape. The dancers of NoXsense welcome you into a lively, playful choreography that invites you to feel the rhythm—and perhaps wiggle right out of your seat.
Created and performed entirely by queer artists, Suspiciously Groovy embraces feelings of unease at the heart of its exploration. The work defies mainstream values by celebrating strangeness and imperfection within a shared rhythm. For the choreographer and the group, the work reflects themes of deviation, self-expression, and community — core experiences within queer lives. In doing so, the piece invites audiences to reconsider not just how we groove as a society, but who gets to define what groove can be.
NoXsense
NoXsense is an artist-led platform for freelancing dance artists in Skåne. It focuses on strengthening the newly established dance artist’s working conditions, artistic practice and accessibility to professional networks. Through residencies, choreographic collaborations, mentorship and public performances NoXsense aims to contribute to a sustainable freelance ecology for dance art in southern Sweden. The platforms artistic profile is queer and site-adaptive - an exploration of body, site and identity grounded in contemporary dance art.
The dance piece Suspiciously Groovy is a collaboration between the choreographer Ian Yves Ancheta and the dance artists in NoXsense 2023. The piece was created through a collective process and is a bodily, rhythmic, and playful encounter. The group continues to receive mentorship from NoXsense’s artistic directors Daniel Jeremiah Persson and Matilda Bjärum, and are encouraged to continue working as a collective - to find means, produce new work and further develop their artistic practice, together.
Klara Pertmann is a multidisciplinary dancer, whose practices include a constant translation between movement and language. Her research concerns dance as a social phenomenon and the body as living archive, which materializes in improvisation, meetings, and poetry. She graduated from Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2023, and has since danced with NoXsense, as well as MYKA and Dansstationens touring company in the performance UNTZ BABY UNTZ.
Isabella Khanamidi is a Malmö-based freelance dance artist and graduate of the Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School. She has performed with companies such as Bobbi Lo Produktion, Svalholm, Holstebro dansekompagni, Ildance and NoXsense and has worked with choreographers such as Israel Aloni, Lee Brummer, Mia Habib, Nønne Svalholm, Ana Kreitmeyer and Gwyn Emberton among others.
Ethan Sammons Ericson is a multidisciplinary dancer, visual performer, and artistic researcher from Lund. They obtained their degree in contemporary dance in 2023 from London Contemporary Dance School, where they worked with choreographers such as Ella Mesma, Akeim Toussaint, Yolande Yorke-Edgell. Currently Ethan is studying a Masters in Performance Practices at ArtEZ, focusing their research on the queer body, repetition, visual poetry, and humor.
Credits
Concept and Choreography: Ian Yves Ancheta
Dancers and Choreography: Isabella Khanamidi, Klara Portman, Ethan Sammons Ericson
Artistic consultation: Daniel Jeremiah Persson, Matilda Bjärum
Photographer: Patrik Palm
Production: NoXsense
More information
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