SPÖKA – Stina Fors
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Play, shame and chaotic pleasure at the crafts table
Doors 18:30 ● On stage 19:00 ● approx. 60 min ● ENG
In SPÖKA the audience meets an adult pretending to be a child—or someone who is neither a girl nor yet a woman. At the crafts table, improvised games and reenactments of Swedish children’s television from the 1970s to the early 2000s unfold, blending rehearsed moments with spontaneous ideas.
Inspired by how children’s unsupervised play can lead to explorations of violence or sexuality, Stina Fors creates a night of play, chaos and pleasure—often flirting with tension, discomfort and shame. At its core, SPÖKA is a reflection on when play becomes not just entertainment, but a way to process emotions.
Stina Fors, born 1989 in Gothenburg, is a choreographer and performer based in Vienna. She studied at SNDO in Amsterdam, the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm, Broadway Dance Center in New York, and Gothenburg Art College. Her work has been presented at venues such as Tanzquartier Wien, La Casa Encendida, MDT, Inkonst and Wiener Festwochen. In 2024, she participated in Luxembourg’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale and Austria’s stage programme at the Gwangju Biennale.
Concept & choreography: Stina Fors
Set design: Liesl Raff
Lighting design: Bruno Pocheron
Production: Johnson & Bergsmark
Outside eyes: Stacey Sacks, Christina Lederhaas, Oneka von Schrader
Parachute manufacturing: Florian Mayr
Co-production: Stina Fors & imagetanz 2025 / brut Wien
Funded by: City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs (MA 7), Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
Supported by: Mocovara Gallery, Inkonst, MDT, Alma Söderberg Studio, Bears in the Park
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Doors 18:30 ● On stage 19:00 ● approx. 60 min ● ENG
In SPÖKA the audience meets an adult pretending to be a child—or someone who is neither a girl nor yet a woman. At the crafts table, improvised games and reenactments of Swedish children’s television from the 1970s to the early 2000s unfold, blending rehearsed moments with spontaneous ideas.
Inspired by how children’s unsupervised play can lead to explorations of violence or sexuality, Stina Fors creates a night of play, chaos and pleasure—often flirting with tension, discomfort and shame. At its core, SPÖKA is a reflection on when play becomes not just entertainment, but a way to process emotions.
Stina Fors, born 1989 in Gothenburg, is a choreographer and performer based in Vienna. She studied at SNDO in Amsterdam, the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm, Broadway Dance Center in New York, and Gothenburg Art College. Her work has been presented at venues such as Tanzquartier Wien, La Casa Encendida, MDT, Inkonst and Wiener Festwochen. In 2024, she participated in Luxembourg’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale and Austria’s stage programme at the Gwangju Biennale.
Concept & choreography: Stina Fors
Set design: Liesl Raff
Lighting design: Bruno Pocheron
Production: Johnson & Bergsmark
Outside eyes: Stacey Sacks, Christina Lederhaas, Oneka von Schrader
Parachute manufacturing: Florian Mayr
Co-production: Stina Fors & imagetanz 2025 / brut Wien
Funded by: City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs (MA 7), Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
Supported by: Mocovara Gallery, Inkonst, MDT, Alma Söderberg Studio, Bears in the Park
stinabum.com
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