How do we dance a city, a park, an island?

Welcome to the workshop How do we dance a city, a park, an island?  based on the performative public artwork City Horses – created by Anna Källblad and Helena Byström – an urban choreography that celebrates female courage and strength at all ages.  The artwork has been performed in many different urban environments around the world since 2017.

How could our movements take place and create space in the park? The workshop explores how we can occupy space through dance and different ways of moving. Join us for a playful workshop where we dance and create choreographies together on the island of Skeppsholmen. We tackle large areas and small corners and discover the island in new ways. We move differently from what we are used to. Outdoors and together, we find a new, unique choreography. 

The workshop is based on the performative public artwork City Horses where we encounter public art as a moving group of living “sculptures”. Throughout the public artwork, a meeting occurs between the performance that moves through the city and the public sculptures we pass by daily in parks and squares. In the workshop, we get to experience for ourselves how this feels and try different ways of responding to the environment. 

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A collaboration with MDT

Lustholmen Festival 2025 at Skeppsholmen in Stockholm continues its tradition to celebrate the arrival of the summer through dance, performance, music and arts. For this year’s edition a special collaboration has been developed between Public Art Agency Sweden and Moderna Dansteatern – The Island Dialogues. City Horses is one of three artworks in Island Dialogues. Curator: Edi Muka, Annika Enqvist (Public Art Agency Sweden) and Anna Efraimsson (MDT).