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Inspired by the creeping buttercup’s winding, ground-hugging growth and its non-linear way of spreading, the audience is invited into a sensorial experience that reaches beyond the rational and the desire for control. Creeping Buttercup is a physically and visually arresting work in which two dancers, through continually shifting movement patterns, generate a world with no clear beginning or end.
About the light and set In the piece, we work with SOX lamps (low-pressure sodium lamps once used in motorway tunnels), whose slow warm-up gradually transforms the space. Over roughly twelve minutes, these lamps shift from muted darkness to a sepia-toned glow in which individual colors dissolve. At the beginning of the performance, the audience is therefore immersed in a monochrome world that unfolds little by little as the eye adjusts to a different visual logic. At the back of the room, two large canvases hang, moving ever so subtly from side to side. Their soft, almost continuous drift creates a muted pulse — a kind of visual subconscious that influences the space without overtaking it. In dialogue with the white dance floor, they shape a landscape that at first seems peripheral to the experience, yet whose inherent motion slowly gathers a powerful energy of its own. Interview: HERE Trailer: HERE Documentation (full): only upon request Choreographer & dancer: Daniella Eriksson Co-creative dancer: Wilma Eriksson Music: Giorgi Koberidze in collaboration with Gori Women Choir Light design: Yohan Zeitoun Scenography & costum: Daniella Eriksson Special thanks to: Tom Brand and Edvin Erlandsson (co-creative team during research phase) Length: 40 minutes Premiere: 19th of September 2025, Dalateatern Developed in co-production with: Dalateatern & Dansens Hus With support from: Dans i Blekinge, Region Uppsala, Space & Place, Konstnärsnämnden, Kulturrådet & STEGEN |