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Dance moves across borders and connects worlds. It is in the nature of movement: create meetings, contacts and open new rooms. Lena Josefsson’s energetically imaginative choreographic work has created such encounters between art forms and people, connecting the international world of dance with Swedish, the youth world with the adult, and the worlds of different cultural expressions. She collected dancers from various countries, created for and with young people, in different genres, and worked as a choreographer, business manager, and artistic leader.
After receiving attention for his first major job “Raande-Vo” in 1988, the same year he started his own dance company with the same name in Örebro. Kompani Raande-Vo has collaborated with dancers from China, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Tanzania, Shanghai, Italy and France, created cross-border productions together with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the Länsteatern in Örebro, and traveled the world.
Josephson’s choreography was an important part when Vilhelm Moberg’s emigration post became Benny Andersson’s and Björn Ulvaeu’s hit musical “Kristina fra Duvemåla” in 1995, directed by Lars Rudolfsson. Playful mobility is only necessary when a literary work is transformed into a scenic work. Along with Rudolfsson, Lena Josefsson was the artistic director of the Orion Theater from then on between 2002 and 2004. Before that, she directed the Skåne Dance Theater in 1997–2000.
After the Orion Theater, Kompani Raande-Vo restarted and created a series of new plays. The featured “90% Paradise” of 2009, for example, was a dance theater performance in collaboration with Länsteatern at Örebro, a community project that brought together amateurs and professionals in a story about the area’s history. Lena Josefsson was a peculiar dance artist with great pathos and curious eyes on the world, and all the different worlds in it.
