7–8/3
HAUNTED DESIRES – Björn Säfsten

We’re all dancing to the tune of our own desires, wrapped in a pink string of digital obsession. (Recommended from age 15.)

DOORS: 18:30.
ON STAGE: 19:00.
DURATION:  60 min.
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SWEDISH.

In a raw exploration of digital algorithms, body ideals, and the invisible communication shaping our reality, three gay men dive into their self-images by looking at what we all look at too much.

Through the reflections of our screens, the choreography digs into a mass production of the material that constantly overwhelms us. From this, a dance is born, three beings baptized in their seemingly random scrolling, abandoned in a place where the only thing they can do is practice their own language. By wallowing in their desires and inhibitions, these images and feelings are explored in a series of scenes that are as fragile as they are intense.

In Haunted Desires, Björn Säfsten continues to delve into humanity’s constant failure in communication and what it does to the individual. In this piece, the gaze is specifically directed at iconography created by men who wish to be desired by other men, as the dancers arbitrarily select clips from the algorithms thrown at them in social media. On stage, the autobiographical merges with the fictional, the sought-after with the real, in a jumble of exposed haunted desire. The thing that you desire, perhaps you must become?