Press Play

Dance Jazz Commercial at Balettakademien had the dress rehearsal for their final show “Press Play” yesterday. They put on a great show! If you want to see it you can still see it today and tomorrow.

Higher
Choreographer: Alina Stenborg
Music: Higher – Rihanna
Dancers: Tyra Thomasson, Ines Lindgren, Alva Fornstedt, Birta Ósk Þórólfsdóttir,
Anna Hagman, Ellen Quick, Emma Eklund, Elina Juslin and Inka Nahkala.
“A story inspired by an afterparty and all the mixed emotions that it involves. Step into a
livingroom full of drunken fates.”

YOU
Choreographer: Daniel Rörström
Music: All i want – Alan Watts through AI x2 from the metaverse + Younger Brother,
Manifest – Coco & Breezy
Dancers: Dansutbildning jazz/commercial
”Isn’t it weird that so many versions of you exists in people’s minds whilest the person you
think of youre self exists only for you, and even you don’t know who that really is… ”

fLow
Choreographer: Astrid L. West
Music: Good Days – SZA, Low – SZA
Dancers: Hanna Johansson, Tyra Thomasson, Ines Lindgren, Ellen Quick, Arianna Hall
and Astrid L. West.
”Individuals come together and creates a flow”

Another Fantastic Day of Work
Choreographer: Adrienne Åbjörn
Music: Trip a Little Light Fantastic – from Mary Poppins, Another Day of Sun – from La
La Land
Dancers: Dansutbildning jazz/commercial

DEUS
Choreographer: Anna Hagman
Music: Deus – HVOB, Winston Marshall
Dancers: Anna Hagman, Elina Juslin, Birta Ósk Þórólfsdóttir and Arianna Hall.
”Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”

GET YOUR HANDS UP
Choreographer: Anna Fransson
Music: All Eyes on Me – Bo Burnham
Dancer: Anna Fransson
”I made the process my process. The dancer is about to do a number. So now the studio
is empty and there is a person with a lot of ideas at the same time as absolutely no
ideas at all. Feelings, relation to the audience, props, expectations. Who is actually
expecting something and what is that? So I did my process and that’s what you are
about to see now.”

Vogur
Choreographer: Birta Ósk Þórólfsdóttir
Music: Vogur – Birnir
Dancers: Birta Ósk Þórólfsdóttir, Elina Juslin, Anna Hagman, Inka Nahkala, Hanna
Johansson and Alina Stenborg.
“Mamma, sjáðu mig ég er að fljúga”

Shadows
Choreographer: Yasemin Nilsson Altan
Music: Sahalé – Shérazade
Dancers: Dansutbildning jazz/commercial

On The Way
Choreographer: Arianna Hall
Music: Showtime – 6th Borough Project, Nightline
Dancers: Hanna Johansson, Astrid L. West and Tyra Thomasson Leback.
”Sometimes in life it feels like we are standing still. But aren’t we all just On The Way.”

Addicted
Choreographer: Elina Juslin
Music: Addicted to You – Avicii
Dancers: Elina Juslin & Inka Nahkala

Let’s Get Loud
Choreographer: Cyntia Toledo
Music: Let’s Get Loud (Superbowl mix) – J.Lo
Dancers: Dansutbildning jazz/commercial

All That Jazz
Choreographer: Tyra Thomasson
Music: Cell Block Tango, Overture/And All That Jazz, Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag –
Medley Title (Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Taye Diggs, Susan Meisner, Deidre
Goodwin, Denise Faye, Ekaterina Chtchelkanova, Mýa Harrison)
Dancers: Birta Ósk Þórólfsdóttir, Alina Stenborg, Emma Fritzing, Hanna Johansson,
Tyra Thomasson, Inka Nahkala, Elina Juslin, Alva Fornstedt, Ines Lindgren, Emina
Sigesbo, Ellen Quick and Astrid L. West.
”Inspired by the six merry murderesses of Cook County Jail we provide you with tonight’s
entertainment. A place where only your biggest fantasies set the limit. ”

Falaise
Choreographer: Hanna Johansson
Music: Falaise – Floating Points
Dancers: Anna Fransson, Arianna Hall, Astrid L. West, Ellen Quick and Hanna Johansson.
”Falaise. To stand upon a cliff. Because even the frightening and unpredictable is
beautiful. Scary is pretty.”

POWER
Choreographer: Birta Ósk Þórólfsdóttir
Music: The Stars (Mufasa Interlude) – James Earl Jones, WATER – Beyoncé feat. Salatiel
and Pharrell Williams, Balance (Mufasa Interlude) – James Earl Jones, MY POWER – Nija,
Beyoncé, Busiswa, Yemi Alade, Tierra Whack, Moonchild Sanelly and DJ Lag.
Dancers: Birta Ósk Þórólfsdóttir, Elina Juslin, Alina Stenborg, Tyra Thomasson, Astrid
L. West, Anna Fransson, Emma Eklund, Ellen Quick, Josefine Odelius and Arianna Hall.
“We are all connected in the great circle of life”

Dansutbildning jazz/commercial 23/24
Emma Eklund
Alva Fornstedt
Anna Fransson
Emma Fritzing
Anna Hagman
Arianna Hall
Hanna Johansson
Elina Juslin
Julia Kahrs
Pålina Kuzminova
Astrid West Larsson
Ines Lindgren
Inka Nahkala
Josefine Odelius
Birta Ósk Þórólfsdóttir
Ellen Quick
Emina Sigesbo
Alina Stenborg
Linnea Söderlund
Tyra Thomasson