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© Mehmet Kerem Özel GöteborgsOperans Danskompani (Gothenburg Opera Dance Company), which celebrates its 30th anniversary in the current 2024-25 season, has evolved over the past 10 years from a classical ballet company to a company that performs exclusively contemporary dance pieces. The company's general strategy is not to have a resident choreographer, but also not to have a choreographer as artistic director. Instead, the artistic directors commission pieces from choreographers of their own choosing, and this strategy ensures that the company's repertoire is full of world premieres. Very rarely does a piece created for another company become part of the repertoire. Katrin Hall, the company's artistic director since 2016, follows in the footsteps of her predecessor, Adolphe Binder, and continues to bring the company a repertoire of original pieces by today's most sought-after choreographers, as well as young choreographers just emerging on the international dance scen...

Waiting for Invisibili , Les Abbesses - Paris  ©  Mehmet Kerem Özel, 15.01.2024 At the beginning of the piece, the thick black frame with three sides, which was lying on the floor of the stage, gradually rose backwards, lifted the cloth lying on the floor attached to it and gradually revealed the image printed on the cloth to us, the audience. When the frame was erected, the Triumph of Death stood before us in all its splendour, measuring 6 metres by 6.5 metres.  Originally exhibited in a museum in Palermo, the Triumph of Death , whose painter is unknown, dates from the 1440s and is one of the most impressive works of medieval art in terms of content, colour and composition. In the centre of the fresco, which probably depicts the plague known as the Black Death, which entered the ports of Sicily and ravaged the entire European continent about 100 years before it was painted, there is a gigantic Death in the form of a skeleton.  Death rides a galloping horse, also in...