DANCE IS ANCIENT

DANCE IS ANCIENT is a durational performance that is a club night and a club night that is a performance, in which the dancer and choreographer Frédéric Gies collaborates with the dj Fiedel, the visual artist Anton Stoianov and the lighting designer Thomas Zamolo. To the infectious techno beats of Fiedel, Frédéric Gies inhabits the dance floor and all adjacent spaces as a faunlike, panic figure. Dancing non-stop during the whole performance, they act as a catalyst for the audience’s participation. Eliciting and unleashing the fathomless and primal forces that traverse the depths of dancing bodies, Frédéric Gies also serves a whole history of dance, summoning up ghosts of dancers, from Nijinsky  to Isadora Duncan and Dominique Bagouet. Their dance collapses the difference between ballet, club dance and folk dance. The performance addresses altogether the bodily, perceptual, sensual, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions of the act of dancing, DANCE IS ANCIENT brings the magic of the dance floor to its highest levels.

Creation: 2025
Premiere: Sept. 12, 2025 * Stockholm, SE
Duration: Part 1 - 85 min. + Intermission - 15 min. + Part 2 - 40 min.

Choreography: Frédéric Gies
Dance: Rachel Tess
Music: Fiedel
Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

Co-produced by Inkonst, Skogen and Weld
Residence support by MARC

With the support of Kulturrådet, Malmö stad and Region Skåne