Myller Premiered for Skånes Danstheater and Skissermans Museum

Myller had a beautiful run of 30 performances and a 3 hour durational performance for Skissermans Museum in Lund.

Dancing Times Sweden

All Together in Myller with Skånes Dansteater

2025-09-18

The performance Myller premieres in a new temporary venue, Studio Malmö at Nordenskiöldsgatan 24 in Malmö — a theater space where stage and audience merge into one, creating closeness between dancers and spectators. The stage also includes a separate area for dancers to retreat into a different dimension.

In Myller, the dancers confront rapidly changing landscapes and challenges that require quick, temporary solutions. The result is a constantly evolving emotional mix of strength and vulnerability, expressed by the dancers with rapid energy and poetic ambivalence — a feeling that fills the entire theater space.

The dancers construct a kind of society with large cushions stacked high, knocking them down, rebuilding, and letting them collapse again. This is both stressful and playful, encouraging especially younger audience members to explore the performance’s themes.

At times, dancers move one by one toward the audience with one of the large cushions as part of their body, a leg tucked into the cushion, forming an especially peculiar shape. Other surrealistic figures are created as dancers form new shapes between themselves and a cushion, sometimes with slightly bizarre expressions.

The audience laughs loudly — not at, but together with — these whimsical figures, making Myller a clever artistic journey through time and space. At the end of the performance, the audience is invited onto the stage to improvise with the dancers, creating a meeting full of joy and creative improvisation. Especially children and teenagers make strong contributions in this unexpected interaction between stage and audience. One person described this as a “cultural togetherness” — a term the reviewer had never heard before — capturing a new perspective on dance and audience interaction, together on stage.