Helena Franzén – Personligt utrymme

What is your personal space? A poetic and thought-provoking dance performance for children aged 9–12 about boundaries, respect and the courage to be yourself.

How close do we want to be to each other? What happens when someone steps into your personal sphere?

And how do we find balance between community and privacy? In Personal Space, choreographer Helena Franzén explores questions about personal boundaries and how we physically relate to each other in different situations.

Through movement, music, light and scenography that constantly changes, the performance explores questions about boundaries, closeness, friendship and the courage to be yourself. Bodies, feelings and relationships are set in motion and raise thoughts about privacy, respect and community at a time when boundaries are constantly being negotiated.

An imaginative and visual dance performance for children aged 9–12 and families about finding your own place in the world.

Performance length: 45 minutes About Helena Franzén Helena Franzén is one of the leading figures in modern dance and has been for several decades. After 35 years of work, she has created close to 100 stage works which have been shown nationally and internationally.

In 2011 and 2014, Helena Franzén was awarded the Swedish Theatre Critics' Dance Prize and the Gannevik Scholarship. Helena Franzén is a sought-after teacher and mentor and regularly teaches at many different dance schools around the world.

She has toured in Scandinavia, the USA, South America and the Baltic states, and has undertaken a variety of commissions for, amongst others, Skåne Dance Theatre, Norrdans, The EDge company, London and Gothenburg Opera's Dance Company. For over ten years, Helena Franzén has collaborated with filmmaker and photographer Håkan Jelk, who has designed the stage set and lighting in several of Helena's performances.

Together they have created dance films, several of which have been presented at international dance film festivals.