Animalarium workshop

Dance and Performance Workshop by Animalarium Dance Collective
Embodied Storytelling and Collective Meaning Making

In this workshop Animalarium Dance Collective will share their improvisation practice
Choreo-Constellating. Participants will explore themes related to their upcoming creation, Constellation #2, being developed on-site in collaboration with Elle Sofe Company.

We will use dance, gesture, language, song and joik as expressions. We will create improvised stories, guided by what we feel with our own senses. The choreography and dialogue is created collectively and in the moment by the group. We will explore relationships between topics that we select together, and will invite speculations and dreams about the future through our bodies and creative expressions.

The two days will consist of guided explorations, performing in small groups as well as witnessing each other and reflecting together. Alexandra and Liv will guide the group in english and swedish. Our participating collaborators Elle Sofe Sara and Emma Elliane Oskal Valkeapää can provide translation to North Sámi.

Choreo-Constellating is a practice for artistic expression, research and collaboration. Developed by Liv Schellander and Animalarium, this unique method integrates sensory work, embodied perception, movement, voice, language and improvisation. Developed within the framework of contemporary choreography and somatic and systemic inquiry, it serves as a practice for collective meaning making through embodied storytelling, offering a dynamic way to map relation/ships, histories, and speculative futures through the body.
The practice invites a multisensory presence, fostering an interdependent awareness that contrasts with the isolating tendencies of contemporary culture. It offers a space where collective experience can be digested through movement and shared experiencing—something dance has historically provided across cultures.

This same workshop will also take place on 14 – 15 August, 2025 at Ställbergs gruva in Bergslagen, Sweden. For those of you who might be interested to join, but actually live closer to Ställberg than Guovdageaidnu.

Workshop information:
Thursday, 8 May 2025 from 10:00 – 17:00 and Friday, 9 May 2025 from 11:00 – 19:00
Open Workshop Showing on Friday, 9 May 2025 from 17:00 – 18:00
LES – Salen, Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino
Free of charge

Open to artists of all genres (literature, music, performing arts, joik, visual art, film, duodji, etc)
Workshop facilitators Liv Schellander and Alexandra Wingate, joined by local collaborators Elle Sofe Sara and Emma Elliane Oskal Valkeapää

Register via wingate.alexandra@gmail.com

Liv Schellander and Alexandra Wingate are artists working in dance and performance. Liv, based in Vienna, enjoys collaborating with other artists in long-term processes. She develops her artistic practice Choreo-Constellating together with Alexandra for their project Animalariums’ Constellations. Liv and Alexandra share a history and focus on improvisation and founded the Animalarium Dance Collective together with Lena Kimming. Alexandra, based on the Swedish northwest coast, works closely with dancers to create pieces that explore cultural ideas and symbols. She is a part of Elle Sofe Company and also collaborates with Máret Ánne Sara, Anitta Katriina Suikkari, Anja Saiva Bongo Bjørnstad as well as with Dáiddadállu. Both artists are passionate about bringing new perspectives and creative processes to their work.

Animalarium Dance Collective

Nuvttá bargobádji mii lea ovttasbargu gaskkal Animalarium Dance Collective ja Elle Sofe Company.

Embodied Storytelling and Collective Meaning Making