Humanography Festival
Humanography is an annual dance festival in Gothenburg, initiated and curated by DanceRemainings, celebrating International Dance Day on 29 April.
The festival is a platform for the independent dance field and all dance enthusiasts, bringing together local and international artists to let dance inhabit and transform the city.
Through stage works, workshops, shared artistic practices, dance films and urban interventions, the festival highlights diversity and strengthens the independent dance scene in Gothenburg.
We develop choreographic structures that explore performance formats while allowing the city’s own choreography – people, traffic, commerce, nature, history and architecture – to become part of the live event. A collective of dance artists moves through the urban landscape in immediate encounters with citizens, passers-by and fellow human beings, inviting audiences to experience Gothenburg in new ways beyond traditional theatre spaces.
The project has celebrated International Dance Day every year since 2019 and has also been part of Gothenburg’s 400-year anniversary.
– Jonny Berg & Sebastián Ruiz, DanceRemainings
HUMANOGRAPHY DANSFESTIVAL / 2019 – 2025
HUMANOGRAPHY DANSFESTIVAL / 2019 – 2025
HUMANOGRAPHY DANSFESTIVAL / 2019 – 2025
2025
2022
2024
2021
2023
2020
2019
HUMANOGRAPHY DANSFESTIVAL / 2019 – 2025
international
dance day
In celebration of the yearly International Dance Day (Dansens Dag) in April we gather dance colleagues and bring dance to the streets of Gothenburg.
The hustle and bustle of the city is an ever-changing choreography where people, traffic, commercialism, nature, history and architecture interact and confront each other in a never ending conversation. A collective of dance artists sweeps past the urban surroundings in an immediate intervention among citizens, strangers and fellow human beings.
2025
För sjunde året i rad arrangerar DanceRemainings en hyllning till dansen genom festivalen HUMANOGRAPHY för det fria dansfältet och alla dansentusiaster. I år satsas det stort genom att fira dansen under en hel vecka.
Du är välkommen på officiell invigning tisdag 29 april på Stadsbiblioteket och under hela veckan kan du att ta del av konstnärers dans praktik under Shared practices på Danscentrum Väst och Scen 46 (Slip of the Lip), där vi även bjuder in till fest Performance night på fredagen.
Vi avslutar med Urban interventions i Nordstan söndag 4 maj.
2024
Över 50 danskonstnärer medverkade i ett performanceprogram från morgon till kväll på olika platser i Bältesspännarparken i närmare 30 olika koreografiska händelser som tillsammans bildade en kollektiv intervention i det offentliga rummet. Samma dag visade vi även dans på Stadsbibliotek barnavdelning.
Medverkande
Dans: Felipe Fizkal, Ines López, Laura Ahumada, Paco Ladrón de Guevara, Unni Britta Kangas, Mari Vittradotter, Sara Axelsson, Feri Sri Danarto, Linda Blomgren, Tove Strömberg, Ina Dokmo,
Teo Vlad, Carolina Eguguiren, Sebastian Ruiz, Jonny Berg, Vittra Dance Collective, Emma Östlund, Lovisa Larsson,
Varning för dans, Danskompaniet Spinn, dansare från Göteborgs Tango-community, Balettakademin dansprogrammet andra året, Katarina Eriksson, Bronja Novak, Torun Odlöw, MYSK, Benedikte Esperi, Gilda Stillbäck, Nilla Björkman,
Madeleine Jonsson, Endre Schumicky, Ann Sehlstedt, Caporales, Stina Axelsson, Angelica Sundberg, Linnea Petersson, Ida Anderson, Anna Hallqvist: Samuel Haglund, Evelina Ahlrot, Gloria Nordsvan, Liv Holst, Zakaria Diab, Jim de Block.
Film/foto: Adrian Isi Zar, Grafisk design: Johan Roman, Teknik: Javier Umazabal, Scenografi: Urska Medved.
Musik: Jesper Cederholm.
2023
Lördagen den 29 april firades Dansens dag genom att ett 80-tal dansare och musiker i 25 olika verk som sammanflätas under en heldag på Götaplatsen.
Åskådare kunde komma och gå till de olika danshändelserna som pågick under cirka åtta timmar. Projektet samlade för femte året i rad fria konstnärer i Göteborg i gemensam kraft för att lyfta den fria dansen på stadens gator. Vi bjöd även nationellt och internationellt verksamma danskonstnärer.
Som upptakt till Dansens dag arrangerade vi Dansdagarna i samarbete med Danscentrum väst med flera workshops och händelser. Vi arbetade också i en konstnärlig process med studenter från Balettakademin tillsammans med tre andra koreografer och två musiker under våren och skapade ”Diaspora”.
2022
In 2022 about 60 dancers and musicians in different constellations explored the city in four different choreographic work during three hours.
Locations_
Gustaf Adolfs torg, Kronhuset, Nordstan, Centralstationen, Brunnsparken, Tyska kyrkan, Tyska bron
IN ABSCENCE OF SOCERY
Kronhuset
The performance offers the public a place for reflection and poetic thought; an island of calm on a day full of energy. Dancers and musicians will meet on equal terms, searching for structure and reevaluating their everyday artistic choices. You are welcome to come and go as you please during the performance. The seats will be organised to offer an immersive experience, visually as well as aurally.
Performers_ Hanna Bartholdsson, Hanna Simonsson, Astrid Lyby, Elin Hestner Olsson, Moa Rönnbäck, Lisa Eliasson, Maja Fock, Alice Ård, Isabelle Abrahamsson, Mimmie Klarén, Lisa Simonsson
Music_ Fan-Qi Wu, Alicia Lazaro Arteaga, Adrian Barstad Andresen
Choreography_ Toby Kassell
PROCESSION with GÖTEBORGS ALTERNATIVA ORKESTER
Gustaf Adolfs torg _ Tyska kyrkan _ Tyska bron _ Domkyrkan _ Brunnsparken
Procession is a choreographic walk for 19 musicians of GAO – Gothenburg Alternative Orchestra. Playing original music and mixing with melodies from different countries in war this procession is an artistic manifestation against wars as well as violence and fear that grow bigger everywhere as a consequence. While playing their instruments, the musicians perform choreographic actions and embark the audience with them on a journey in the neighborhood around Gustav Adolfs torg.
Performers_ Göteborg Alternativa Orkester (GAO)
Choreography_ Aloun Marchal
Conductor_ Jorge Alcaide
Footage from International dance day 2022
DANCING BODIES IN THE URBAN SPACE
Gustaf Adolfs torg _ Nordstan _ Centralstationen _ Drottningtorget _ Brunnsparken
We dance through the city using concepts of opening our senses and being moved by the surroundings. Setting our body as part of the geography based on the idea of the performer as a channelizer of the environment’s information and energy.
Performers_ Hedda Parkkonen, Paula de Hollanda, Lisa Larsdotter Petersson, Anne Haglind, Stine Marcinkowski Pettersson, Tara Talebsafa, Tova Eli Ekenberg, Diana Orozco, Mio Kobayashi Frisk, Moustapha Moussadak, Rannhvi Mebius Jormin, Amélie Roch, Feri Sri Danarto, Maria Lindell, Luisa Denward, Ina Dokmo, Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt, Anna Emilsson
Concept_ Sebastian Ruiz, Jonny Berg
HOMOGRAPHUS
Gustaf Adolfs torg
A piece about human collaboration and connection where the performers are composing together from beginning to end. It’s a framework where we are weaving a ceremony and a moment to honor our ancestors and those who, for different circumstances, can’t enjoy the possibilities of expressing themselves today.
Performers_ Annika Vestel, Beda Åsbrink, Gaetano Badalamenti, Hannah Karlsson, Linda Wardal, Love Hellgren, Mari Vittradotter, Mohumed Diab, Sara Axelsson, Sebastian Ruiz, Takuya Fujisawa
Choreography_ Sebastian Ruiz, Takuya Fujisawa
Music_ Luis Muños, Felipe Botero
Scenography_ Shogo Hirata
2021
Kronhuset, Gustaf Adolfs torg, Östra hamngatan, Kungsportsplatsen, Kungsportsavenyn, Götaplatsen
By_ Jonny Berg, Sebastian Ruiz Bartilson
Dancers_
Anna Emilsson, Ann Sehlstedt, Annika Vestel, Britta Kangas, Erika Webe, Fanny Kivimäki, Freï von Fräähsen, Gustaf Jönsson, Hedda Parkkonen, Ina Dokmo, Jonne Covers, Linda Wardal, Mari Vittradotter, Maria Lindell, Minna Elif Wendin, Moa Sahlin, Nilla Björkman, Rannhvi Mebius Jormin, Robert Söderström, Sara Axelsson, Sebastian Ruiz, Simon Kriisin, Veera Suvalo Grimberg
Music_ Felipe Botero, Luis Muños
Film/photo_ Adrian Isi Zar, Juan-Carlos Poblete, Camilo Troncoso, David Saavedra
Dance students from Balettakademin_
Isabelle Abrahamsson, Cecilia Tiger, Mohummed Diab, Lisa Eliasson, Maja Fock, Mimmie Klarén, Hilda Krepper, Lisa Simonsson, Naima Stenberg, Alice Ård
Footage from International dance day 2021
2020
Järntorget, Stenpiren, Lilla Bommen, Nordstan, Centralstationen, Drottningtorget
By_ Jonny Berg, Sebastian Ruiz Bartilson,
Performers_ Aloun Marchal, Benedikte Esperi, Britta Kangas, Fanny Kivimäki, Hedda Parkkonen, Ina Dokmo, Jonny Berg, Love Hellgren, Mari Vittradotter, Maria Lindell, Moa Sahlin, Ricky Lee Huxstep, Sara Axelsson, Sebastian Ruiz, Simon Kriisin, Stine Marcinkowski Pettersson, Veera Suvalo Grimberg
2019
Nordstan
By_ Jonny Berg & Sebastian Ruiz Bartilson
Performers_ Aloun Marchal, Benedikte Esperi, Britta Kangas, Fanny Kivimäki, Hedda Parkkonen, Ina Dokmo, Jonny Berg, Love Hellgren, Mari Vittradotter, Maria Lindell, Moa Sahlin, Ricky Lee Huxstep, Sara Axelsson, Sebastian Ruiz, Simon Kriisin, Stine Marcinkowski Pettersson, Veera Suvalo Grimberg
Music_ Felipe Botero
Film/foto_ Juan-Carlos Poblete, Camilo Troncoso, David Saavedra
