PRODUCTIONS

500 Embraces

How many hugs to you need? Have you ever borrowed a feeling? A performance exploring if you can measure a feeling, find a recipe for emotions and more.
For children 7 years and up.

When the Cat's Away

Dance, film and performance at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm

Link : http://vimeo.com/15391898

Total Twin

Are you an original or just a copy? Take a trip to this alternate world where two exquisite performers listen, research occult possibilities and execut lively interaction with their audience to determine how to move on.

A co-production for Dansema Festival Vilnius Cultural Capital
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V23v3eCCN-Y

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

Roses, dancing and and garden clippers
Barock dancing wrestles with the botanist Linné
A flower turns into a surrealist costume
In a performance where humour and dancing meets science and in natural elements.

I was asked to make a dance for the Linnéjubilée in 2007 in Sweden. Gertrude Stein's famed quote about flowers was a perfect match for a performance. A dance for parks, castles, museums and outdoor festivals.

Quicktime film from A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

Whisked Away

Three best friends whisk away in the kitchen preparing for a party and you are invited!
A family performance for pre-school ages and upwards. Commssioned by The National Park Theaters.
Premiered at the 2006 Dance Biennal in Gothemburg.

See dance clip www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHPWQdKUDmk

Repertory pieces:
Mouse A Rokoko Tale

Performance commissioned by the Stockholm Cultural Festival 2006 with four fabulous performers and surrealistic objects.
Rokoko collides with contemporary mannerisms.
Power puff heroes transform 17th century style with cheerleading choreography. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKbYtKSga24

"Mouse - A Rokoko Tale"

Favorites
Coming undone

With physicality, sensuousness and amazon playfulness, coming undone presents three amazons who have to battle with household objects and glamorous dreams in order to survive in a household landscape.
"As enjoyable to watch as it is sometimes giggly and sweetly silly. Using the prosaic elements of daily objects, the dancers astound us in their ability to cajole rambunctious, sensuous and generous physical musicality." Pia Huss Dagens Nyheter

Jönköping. Dalla Festival, Stockholm. North Star Festival Murmansk, Russia. The Nations State Theatre, Moscow, Russia. Bristol Sundbyberg. Gävle City Theatre, Åbo, Finland. Dansstationen Malmö. Dansens Hus, Stockholm. Tour to Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua. Technical Museum, Stockholm.

Dance and Live Music:
Red Square, InBlue, Duck Walk

Scenic collaborations with composer and musician Sara Edin on violin, electric instruments and microphone.
RED SQUARE explores constructivism and revolutionary dreams
IN BLUE a dadaist performance inspired by the 1920's Parisian art scene, the Swedish Ballet and dadaism.
DUCK WALK inspired by a tour to Japan, featuring duck waddling, Japanese bowing and fanning.
"Intense and fascinating collaboration between a dancer and a musician. Sara Edin and Claire Parsons light up the stage as if lit up by fireflies." Dagens Nyheter

Uppsala Art Museum International Poetry Festival, Jönköping. Centre Culturel, Paris France. Full Moon Festival, Finland. Originational Festival, Modern Museum in Stockholm. Morishita Studios, Tokyo, Japan. Torrii Hall, Osaka, Japan. Modern Dance Theater, Stockholm. Dansstationen, Malmö Sweden. Mjellby Art Centre, Sweden.

info@claireparsons.com

Photos by Susanne Kistner, Anders Jirås, Mateusz Herczka.

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