Photo: Jonne Covers - ‘Wiggling Things’ by Tanja Andersson
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BIO
BIO
I am Eva Svaneblom (she/her) born 1987 a freelance dance artist from northern Sweden, with Tornedalian background and currently based in Tromsø, Norway. I work both with my own creations as well as dancing, performing and co-creating in other artists work.
I have a dance education from Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in Munich, Germany and a masters degree in Contemporary Performative Arts from Gothenburg University, Sweden.
As a dance artist I am interested in the situated body. The body that “becomes” by its environment. This can be something as banal as a body moving differently through a snow storm than in an evening sun filled living room. More subtly it can be about how ones own body tells stories about the relation to gender identity, sexuality, sociocultural background etc. I work a lot on social media and a red thread in my work is one of community and collectivity, even if I made a lot of solo work the past few years. I often play with stereotypes as my muses and my works are usually created with a fairly big portion of DIY-aesthetics.
The past years I have made several works site specifically for social media platforms, such as YouTube and TikTok. The knowledge I gained through exploring social media as a venue has led me to also manage social media for other choreographers and their projects.
Since 2019 I have had the interest in and started exploring curating as part of my extended artistic practice. 2021 I became head of the programming committee for the performing arts festival Vårscenefest, Tromsø where I get to develop this part of my art practice.
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Current
Projects:
I did it myself (ongoing)
The umbrella project “I did it myself” takes on a queer tornedalian/kveeni perspective. It searches for a certain attitude, aesthetic, atmosphere. The project consists of different parts, that autumn/winter 2024 will be gathered and reworked into a full length dance performance.
Background photo: Courtney Ropp
Collage: Eva Svaneblom
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A selection
of works:
Kävelä Paraatissa
Kävelä Paraatissa
(2023) Part of the umbrella project “I did it myself”
’Kävelä paraatissa’ is a part of Young Arctic Artists group exhibition Välissä/In-between at Galleria Napa in Rovaniemi, Finland. The work consists of a video where I rhinestone my buckbeak boots. And these boots are also to be seen in the gallery.
Kävelä paraatissa is meänkieli and means ”walking in a parade”
Video 1 hrs 24 mins
Buckbeak boots, Rhinestones
Kuttua
Kuttua
(2023) Part of the umbrella project “I did it myself”
Performed at the opening of Young Arctic Artists group exhibition Välissä/In-between 26 aug 2023.
Also performed at Something Else lll, Cairo Off-Biennale, nov 2023 and at Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival in feb 2024 as a part of a seminar by David - Sender for performing arts.
30 mins
Body and harmonica
Photo: Santeri Happonen.
Kuttua is meänkieli and means something along the lines of ”calling for” (swe: locka på)
Social media for Elle Sofe Company(2023)
(January - Sept 2023)
Wiggling Things (2023)
The dance performance ”Wiggling Things” unfolds in an artificial arctic landscape. Choreographic pendulum movements are connected to turbulent flows, vulnerable topography and barren conditions inside and outside of bodies. Temporary in-betweens are established from vanishing sites. The oscillation and swinging is put into dialogue with raging streams and a wood chipper machine—in pace with the expansion of miles wide clear-cut forest areas and mining landscapes in Sápmi and Tornedalen. The pendulum and the shakes are said to possess curative powers. Can the energy emerging from the in-between become a site to find power?
A postcard from a mining pit
A lonely forest rave on clear-cut area
Development through decommissioning
Barefoot on the snow crust
Silence spread, and someone asks: “how deep down do I own the land?”
Credits
Choreography in collaboration with the ensemble: Tanja Andersson
Dancers / Performers: Amanda Billberg, Mpululu Ntuve, Eva Svaneblom
Lighting design: Sandra Liscano
Sound design: Rasmus Persson
Photography: Jonne Covers
In collaboration with Slip of the Lip (Emelié Sterner) & Scen46
Producer: Dag Rosenqvist / Producentbyrån
Co-produced by: Turnéslingan Tre Scener (Atalante, Dansstationen, MDT)
Other Tongue(2022)
Other Tongue has lost its voice. Or rather its language.
As a consequence of Swedish assimilation politics, Meänkieli, Kveeni and Sami languages were literally beaten out of vocal cords. Swedish and Norwegian were the languages to be spoken. Punishments awaited those who spoke their mother tongue.
Generations later, dance artists Eva Svaneblom and Tanja Andersson wonder what the choreography of the vocal apparatus would have looked like if the languages had been allowed to stay in the body.
With smartphones and portable speakers, soundscapes and physical phrases are etched as the dancers navigate through linguistic thickets and the anatomy of the vocal apparatus.
By and with: Eva Svaneblom & Tanja Andersson
Process dramaturgy: Barbara Simonsen
Light design consultation: Sandra Liscano
Funded by: Arts Council Norway, Swedish Arts Council, Tornedalsrådet, Davvi - Centre for Performing Arts, Rådstua Teaterhus, Slip of the Lip
Residencies: Slip of the Lip (Scen46) and Moskosel Creative Lab/Northern Sustainable Futures
Photo: Jamie Bivard
Premiere 9-10 dec 2022 at Rådstua Teaterhus, Tromsø Norway. May 20th at Strange Spaces in Moskosel Sweden.
Social Media for Vástádus eana - The answer is land (2022)
(June-December 2022)
A dance performance by choreographer and director Elle Sofe Sara.
Photo: Antero Hein/Hein Creations
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Glocal Gallery (2021)
Glocal Gallery is a dance performance in the form of a TikTok account. The account serves as a gallery, where 10-60 seconds long dance and performance videos act like puzzle pieces, together they make up the performance as a whole.
The theme moves around being “a local”, to feel a sense of belonging to different places, groups and communities. This in a global social media world.
Premiered 15th of October 2021 on TikTok @glocalgallery (link on button below)
Concept and idea: Eva Svaneblom
Dancers and creators: Marcella Quinchavil Steen and Eva Svaneblom
Producer: Linda Birkedal, Dansearena nord
Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Dansearena nord (Davvi - Senter for scenekunst), FNND (Forum for Nord-Norske Dansekunstnere), Rådstua Teaterhus
VATTEN (2021)
A work in progress production, an interdisciplinary performance combining sound/music, visual arts and dance. Collaboration with Henrik Sputnes (production), Gustav Lejelind (music/sound), Anna Liljedal (text/scenography), Tuva Hildebrand (choreography/dance/text) and Eva Svaneblom. (choreography/dance) as well as Peter Götzlinger (light concept) and Mattias Hök (light design)
Supported by Göteborgs Stads Kulturnämnd and Rådstua Teaterhus
Performance 3 & 4 December 2021 at Atalante, Gothenburg.
Social Media Crafts
ERIK (2021-2023)
By Choreographer Silje Solheim Johnsen
Dance: Erik Victor Johnsen. Music: Aggie Frost. Scenography and costume: Kristine Gjems. Lysdesign: Tobias Leira. Kunstnerisk sparring: Marie Bergby Handeland. Social Media: Eva Svaneblom.
Supported by: Norwegian Arts Council, Tromsø Kommune, Rådstua Teaterhus and Davvi - Senter for scenekunst. .
Linedance with me
(2021)
A workshop performance. A Linedance with a lesbian storyline. While the audience/participants learn a Linedance they get to hear the story about Stacey the cowgirl who is searching for love. The work is about building community, dancing together and about queering the mainstream and giving visibility to a lesbian story in public space.
The work premiered on the 21th of June 2021 at Arctic Arts Festival, Harstad, Norge, in the middle of Harstad town square. Part of the project ERROR:gender, a social art installation. The project’s thematic moves around identity in relation to body, sex, gender and sexuality.
#errorgendertheproject
Funded by:
Norwegian Arts Council, Figurteateret i Nordland, Dansearena nord, KORO, Festpillene i Nord-Norge, Fond for Lyd og Bilde.
Photo: Sebastian Wilches
Bodies meet Matter (2021)
A 2 hrs long durational performance where body meets costume meets scenography, blurring the edges between the three.
By Eva Svaneblom and Mari Bø. Performed by Eva Svaneblom, Mari Bø and Alma Bø.
The work premiered on the 21th of June 2021 at Arctic Arts Festival, Harstad, Norge. Part of the project ERROR:gender, a social art installation. The project’s thematic moves around identity in relation to body, sex, gender and sexuality.
#errorgendertheproject
Funded by:
Norwegian Arts Council, Figurteateret i Nordland, Dansearena nord, KORO, Festpillene i Nord-Norge, Fond for Lyd og Bilde.
Photo: Renate Jensen
CHEERS FOR QUEERS (and allies)
(2021)
An art project consisting of 10 collector cards with The Cheerleader #yourlocalcheerleader in Drag King inspired poses. On the backside you find a QR-code to a different YouTube video,
With your local cheerleader Eva Svaneblom
By Eva Svaneblom and Mari Bø
The project premiered on the 20th of June 2021 at Arctic Arts Festival, Harstad, Norge. Part of the project ERROR:gender, a social art installation. The project’s thematic moves around identity in relation to body, sex, gender and sexuality.
#errorgendertheproject
Funded by:
Norwegian Arts Council, Figurteateret i Nordland, Dansearena nord, KORO, Festpillene i Nord-Norge, Fond for Lyd og Bilde.
CHEERS FOR QUEERS (and allies) was also a part of the queer arts festival Open Out in Tromsø autumn 2022. The collector cards were exhibited in the gallery space, a new card every day for the duration of the exhibition.
Social Media Crafts and Photo/Film
KLEM_
fra.danselinja (2021)
Choreography Silje Solheim Johnsen.
A dance performance on Instagram about hugs and 2 meters distance. With the students of the dance department at Kongsbakken Videregående, high school, Tromsø, Norway.
THE CHEERLEADER is an art project that was created with pep as the main artistic tool. THE CHEERLEADER was born out of honest feelings of wanting to tell peers to keep going. THE CHEERLEADER lets us know she wants to queer the cheer and cheer the queer. THE CHEERLEADER is truly inspired by her colleagues in the performative arts scene and beyond - dancers and performers. THE CHEERLEADER is a tribute to the field. By and with Eva Svaneblom, Your local cheerleader.
The project has been screened on the tour “Beyond Words” organised by Dans i Nord 2020. It was also the part of the “Tiny Festival” in Gothenburg 2021, exhibited as QR-codes and photos.
Funded by Dans i Nord and Rådstua Teaterhus.
THE CHEERLEADER (2020)
The research project for my MFA in Contemporary Performative Arts at Gothenburg University.
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(2018-2020)
Christmas Calendar for YouTube. The series where I explored vlogging in site specific dance improvisations. This to explore both the places around me as well as the place that is YouTube and the phenomenon of Vlogmas, (video blog Christmas Calendar).
Eva’s Vlogmas
(2019)
Vlog from inside a moving installation.
Using a sort of typical dramaturgy, editing tricks and background music of vlogging, this performance/moving installation was exploring how it would be to both be in production mode and performance mode at the same time. It was also an exploration of what the actual performance was, the moving installation of a vlogging performer, the posting of the video on YouTube or the presentation/opening event of the premiere of that same video.
Performative Vlog (2019)
A series of moving still lives, double layered site specifics.
STILL LIFE
(2019-)
A live performance with video. Performed at the venue 3:e Våningen in Gothenburg and live streamed on Instagram and Facebook.
Matojärvi meets 3:e Våningen (2019)
Two live streamed Improvised performances on Instagram, exploring different aspects of public and private space. One live from Götaplatsen square in central Gothenburg, the other one from inside my own bathroom.
Public Space x 2 (2018)
Since 2010, work as a dancer in other choreographers works. Mainly in Germany, Austria, Norway and Sweden. Worked with choreographers such as Zufit Simon, Amir Hosseinpour, Jonathan Lunn, Lucia Glass, Saar Magal, Amanda Billberg, Carima Neusser, Johannes Härtl, Lenitha Hedqvist, Yessiqa Lövbrand, Stefan Dreher, and Katja Wachter, Ingvild Isaksen amongst others.
Venues such as Kampnagel/K3 (Hamburg), Ufer Studios (Berlin), Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich), Salzburger Festspiele, Landestheater Linz, Theaterhaus Jena, Schwere Reiter (Munich), Gasteig (Munich), Muffathalle (Munich), iCamp (München), Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich), LOT Theater (Braunschweig), Teatermaskinen (Riddarhyttan), Atalante (Göteborg), 3:e Våningen (Göteborg), Gallery 54 (Göteborg), Moskosel Creative Lab (Moskosel), Rådstua Teaterhus (Tromsø).
CV on request.
Work as a dancer.(2010-)
Board Work etc.
Current:
Head of the programming group of Vårscenefest, a performing arts festival in Tromsø, Norway. (2021-2024)
Board member of Vårscenefest, the organisation behind the festival. Tromsø, Norway. (2023-2024)
2018-2021:
Vice chair on the board of Vårscenefest, the organisation behind the festival. Tromsø, Norway. (2021-2023)
Chair on the board of the Swedish members organisation Danscentrum Norr, (March 2019-March 2021)
Board member of the national Swedish members organisation Danscentrum Sverige, (May 2020-May 2021)
Vice chair on the board of the Swedish members organisation Danscentrum Norr, (March 2018-March 2019)
Photo: Alexander Browne
Education:
Dance and performance related:
Master of Fine Arts with specialisation Contemporary Performative Arts at The Academy of Music and Drama at Gothenburg University, Sweden. August 2018-June 2020
Additional courses, 2019: Choreographing Contexts 7,5 hp. About curating dance. Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola.
Methods and forms of Writing in relation to Artistic Practices 7,5 hp. Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola
Diploma in Contemporary Dance for stage. Iwanson International School for Contemporary Dance, München, Germany. September 2006-July 2010
Other:
Meänkieli, language course on distance, step 1-4. Umeå University, Sweden. 2020-2021
200 hrs Yoga Teachers Training, Ashtanga Vinyasa Flow. Sampoorna Yoga, Goa, India 2016
Scholarships Received:
Statens Kunstnerstipend, Norsk Kulturråd 3 år (2024, 2025, 2026)
Statens Kunstnerstipend, Norsk Kulturråd 1 år (2022)
Rubus Arcticus Kulturstipendium (2020)
Medlemsstipend Forum for Nordnorske Dansekunstnere (2021)
Tornedalsrådets Kulturstipendium (2021)
Konstnärsnämndens Krisstipendium 3 (2021)
Konstnärsnämndens Krisstipendium 2 (2020)
Otto och Charlotte Mannheimers Stipendie (2019)
Anders Sandrews utbildningsstipendium
(2009)
Länsförsäkringar Norrbottens kulturstipendium (2009)
Contact
Email: eva.svaneblom@gmail.com
