Petricore Movement is an artistic platform founded by Anna Holmström in 2015, with its base between Stockholm and Berlin. Through collaborations with international artists she creates performances, exhibitions and short-films on the topics of environmental- and mental health.
Imagine walking outside after a heavy rain and thunderstorm, filling your lungs with the fresh air. into a feeling, a structure, a touch.
Something awakes, an eagerness to explore, express and exchange.
– Anna Holmström
NEWS
26.03.2024 | QUEENS OF UNWANTED THINGS
Queens Of Unwanted Things has been selected to be screened at “Screendance Festival” at Dansmuseet Stockholm in April.
Dates: 29th April 2024
For more information:
https://screendancefestival.com/
28.08.2023 | MÖTET
Mötet is an improvised, composed and choreographed pop-up performance with dance and saxophone!
In September of 2023 an initial research residency was arranged in Hällefors, Sweden. In this residency Anna and Erika from the professional industry as well as a newly graduated Lotta Asmyhr and local dance enthusiast Saga Immonen met to explore the topic “Mötet” ( swedish for meetings ).
More information:
https://petricoremovement.com/motet/
30.04.2023 | MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE – TOUR 2023-2024
Sadler’s Wells and Universal Music UK present Message In A Bottle, the breathtaking new dance-theatre production by triple Olivier Award nominee, Kate Price, to the music of 17-time Grammy Award winner, Sting.
Anna is really excited to return and perform in Message In A Bottle in the role as the mother Gaia. for the 2023 -2024 world tour!
Upcoming countries are:
UK
Australia – at the Sydney Opera House
The Neterherlands
North America
For more information:
https://zoonation.co.uk/productions/message-in-a-bottle/
“Choose life, choose love, choose hope.”
“The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations. Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever. Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive.
11.11.2022 | DEBRIS AT UBUNTU CONNECTION
Anna was invited to participate in a crossover dance battle and perform a short version of her solo Debris at UBUNTU CONNECTION in Leipzig.
16 dancers and circus artists joined together for a weekend of exchange, dance and UBUNTU! The event was created by Raphael Moussa Hillebrand and Jasmin Blümel-Hillebrand and produced by Euro-Szene Leipzig
The inspiring approach of “ubuntu” embodies the desire for a constructive fundamental attitude based on respect, empathy, participation, change and hope. This human attitude to a collective worldview has great relevance in many countries in sub-Sahara Africa and is unified in the single word “Ubuntu”, which can originally be found in the Bantu languages of the Zulu and Xhosa: “A human becomes human through other humans.
21.06.2022 | BRITA
During 4 weeks Anna has been working as a dancer in the production BRITA, choreographed by Erika O’Neill.
How strong can a woman be? Is a woman’s strength limited by centuries of shapes and structures? How do we break out of a culture of distorted ideals? What is femininity and what would the woman’s reality look like if templates were never formed and boundaries were never drawn?
The dance performance ‘BRITA!’ invites you to a reality where women don’t have to wrestle because they have to, but because they want to. A parallel universe where women are allowed to be all they can be, without limitations of norms, structures, filters or ideals. With lively dancing, powerful wrestling and swinging “Folktronic”, the boundaries are blurred and make room for complete raw power. A physical tribute to the primal female power. A scenery of freshly pressed ‘Girl Power’, where the dancers break down the word `feminine’ with rawness and build it up with capital letters of muscle, sweat and poise.
21.06.2022 | RESIDENCY & WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING
Between 9th-22nd June Anna and the composer Patrick Zylka from Zentire Music has had a residency at Hällefors Kulturskola, Sweden.
They have been working on a new solo performance named BEFORE, and will finish off the residency with a work in progress viewing.
Date: 21.06.2022
Time: 15.30-16.00
Place: Hällefors Kulturskola
More information about the performance here:
https://petricoremovement.com/before/
21.06.2022 | DANS & MIDDAG
A day of danceworskhops, food and discussion for professional dancers in Örebro Län, Sweden.
The day is arranged by Region Örebro, Kulturrådet – projekt Ansats, Hällefors kommun, Hällefors kulturskola, Petricore Movement, Zentire Music and Gala Dance Bergslagen.
More information and registration:
https://fb.me/e/2uLqaEG45
03.06 & 05.06.2022 | MIND THE GAP – Dieselverskaden
Anna has choreographed the piece “What could have been” for the spring performance for year 2 of Balettakademiens professional dance education.
Photographer: Maja Dahlbäck
16.05 & 20.05.2022 | CONTEMPORARY WORKSHOP with Anna
Anna will be teaching contemporary drop in classes at Diambra, Stockholm.
Monday 16th May | Time: 20.30-22.00
Friday 20th May | Time: 18.20-19.50
More information:
https://www.diambra.se/dance-classes
Photographer: Håkan Larsson
Credit: Diambra C.A.M
09.05 – 12.05.2022 | CONTEMPORARY WORKSHOP with Anna
Anna will be teaching the daily professional contemporary classes at
Balettakademien Sthlm from Monday 9th May – Thursday 12th of May.
Time: 12.00-13.30
More information:
http://www.dagligtraning.se/dagligt-traning-start/
Photographer: Johannes Hjort
01.02 & 03.02.2022 | BACK ON TRACK – a research project
BACK ON TRACK is an open research on the topic of how to re-enter movement practise while recovering from a knee injury, within the fields of contemporary dance & breaking. In addition Anna will also perform admin work for her creative platform Petricore Movement
Between February 1st to 30th June Anna has been granted a research grant funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media ( BKM ) in the program NEUSTART KULTUR, aid program DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
Follow her journey through the next months here
01.02 & 03.02.2022 | CONTEMPORARY WORKSHOP with Anna
Anna will be teaching the daily professional contemporary classes at
Marameo on Tuesday 1st and Thursday 3rd of February between
14.00-15.30.
More information:
https://www.marameo.de/kurse/contemporary-for-dancers/
06.12.2021 | CREATIVE LABORATORY with Khoudia Toure
In 2021 Anna was granted an international exchange grant from the Swedish Arts Grants committe ( Konstnärsnämnden ). For the the exchange she invited Khoudia Toure from Dakar, Senegal to work on a short dance film as well as teaching workshops in Stockholm, Sweden.
12 dancers with 8 different dancestyles participated and it was an evening full of sweat, exchange and dance!
To further the cultural exchange between Senegal and Sweden we decided to highlight and share information about Association Maggando and the Food for Thought Project.
To read more click here