City Horses at Nationalmuseum!

The renowned dance perfomance City Horses is an urban dance piece where fifteen female dancers take on the city in full gallop. During the Lustholmen festival, the herd of horses makes a detour into Nationalmuseum! City Horses is a living commentary on the static monuments we see in our cities, of powerful men on horses, as the dominating public narrative of our history.

Date and time

Saturday 14 June and Sunday 15 June

At Nationalmuseum, approximately at 14:00–14:30

On, and in the vicinity of, Skeppsholmen, between 13:00 and 15:30

Cost

No additional cost, but since the horses move around inside the museum, an entrance ticket is required to experience the full performance.

Location

Several spots around the museum

About the event

In the dance performance City Horses, the balance of power and experience shift, as the dancers, like wild horses, take over the streets and squares, creating an immaterial, moving monument that unfolds over two hours. During the Lustholmen festival, the weekend of 14–15 June, they will take over Skeppsholmen, the small island right next to Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

At Lustholmen festival, the piece becomes an invitation to reframe the island Skeppsholmen’s military history. The horse, historically tamed and used for war, here becomes a metaphor for both power and freedom. The dancers move as a herd across Skeppsholmen, entering nearby Nationalmuseum and continuing to the bronze horses at Blasieholmstorg, close to the museum.

This is a choreography about power, existence, and the female body in public space — a gallop through the city’s memories and futures, a living monument in constant motion.

City Horses

Performance by Byström Källblad

Dancers

Josephine Auffray, Hedvig Edvall Bons, Giorgia Calliari Hui-Han Hu Gustavsson, Tea Harryson, Dana Hamburgo Hernandez, Annika Hyvärinen, Aurora Itland, Torill Kolsrud, Oda Olivia Øverbø Lindegård, Qadira Oechsle-Ali, Linn Ragnarsson, Sanna Söderholm, Elinor Tollerz Bratteby, Moa Westerlund