Boreali have had a dance residency at Tanzpunkt Hannover, at Northern Sustainable Futures (Moskosel Lab), at Riksteatern Hallunda, Stockholm and at Dansinitiativet in Luleå, which followed by a premiere on February 22, 2025.
A pre-premiere took place at the Seoul International Choreographic Festival, Sicf.
The Spanish premiere took place in Sala Negra at Teatros del Canal, Madrid 16 and 17 October 2025. As part of Canal Baila through Centro Coreografico Canal, Madrid.
Currently we are looking for further venues to perform.
Further tour
- Valve Kulturcenter Oulu as part of the Capital Culture City, Finland, 26 November 2026
Boreali tells the story of how The Northern Lights are created. It brings to the audience an immersive experience where they will be surrounded by dance, sound, projections, lights and live music.
The scenographic elements on stage, allow the audience to dive into a multi-sensorial journey through the Northern Lights creation as well as the white Scandinavian countries. All by creating breathtaking images and bringing art to life.
The scenography becomes an art exhibition that encourage exploration and expression freely. Invites people to move around, sit or lie down to enjoy and observe the formation of this phenomenon. A universe where the audience can explore temperatures, colors, sound-silence and even scents. Bringing to them this peaceful, cold and beautiful moments of the Artic Circle.
This magical journey is culminated with a live dance and music performance which is surrounded by moving projections and mapping to enhance the experience.
“The performance invites for movement, sensorial exploration, the reminiscence of a magical unique trip to what this phenomenon is about: the aurora boreal”.
Work in progress
Technical rider / Portfolio
Sales sheet (in Swedish)
Artistic design by Olga Wardega
Artistic team
- Artistic direction, choreography-performer: Anna Borràs
- Choreography assistant and rehearsal director: Junyi Sun
- Movement consultant: Nico Ricchini
- Lighting, set designer and sensory chronicler: Gerardo Salas Pérez
- Original sound composition: Vincenzo Lamagna
- Sound composition and gayageum player: Bora Ju
- Physical and mental preparation: Kirstine Ilum
- Costume design, tailor: Åsa Gjerstad
- Graphic design: Neus Borràs Picó · www.diferentcreatiu.com
- Artistic design: Olga Wardega
- Production and management: Dani Galán and Anna Borràs
- Thanks-support: Tanzpunkt Hannover, Northern Sustainable Futures-Moskosel Creative Lab, Danscentrum Syd Malmö, Riksteatern Hallunda-Stockholm, Kiruna Kommun, Dansinitiativet Luleå, Danscentrum Norr, CCC, Theresa Lekberg Culture Moves Europe and Goethe Institute.
- Duration: 55 minutes approx.
Colaborators
Olga Wardega
Theresa Lekberg
An honor for us to enjoy a dancer like you!
It has been an absolut pleasure to work in Boreali, so much fun and stunning work!
It has been wao! Explosive, fantastic, thank you very much!
BOREALI by Anna Borras. Fits everyone – super nice performance!
Our hearts feel very proud of you. Being our daughter is a big present. Your strength and braveness are worthy of admiration.
You had a very good energy.
Dear Anna, thank you so much for your kindness and openness with our young Summer Workers.
They are working on this project on ways in which Riksteatern/Cullberg can do better in our outreach to young Dancers in the municipality. They were tasked with interviewing the Dancers at Cullberg as their first subjects and they also insisted on interviewing you as they’ve been able to experience your work in the past couple of days. You really made a fantastic impression on them. So, thank you once again.
You guys were great!
I really like the way how you explain about your dance background/language. I can see and feel your artistic, physical, philosophical research in combination, feel inspired!
It’s fantastic to see you in your element and how you use yourself and how you also interact with the choreography and what the collaboration looks like. It was inspiring to see Boreali and how you build it together with your artistic teams. GOOD WORK!
A very very true joy to shoot Boreali, thanks!
A beautiful WIP of Boreali, and so nice to meet you, Anna.
A joy to shoot Boreali.
It was an honour to walk by your side and to witness you and your work bloom. You are pretty awesome, you doing such a beautiful work! All these layers that are so beautiful inside you!
You are going so deep in your creative and transformative work thank you for inviting me in. Feeling privileged to support the incredibly beautiful power bomb Anna Borràs with her mental and physical preparation for Project Boreali
I am very grateful to share this process and journey with you. This is such a fantastic opportunity for me too Anna, so thank you. Let’s see how it feels right for us to work. And how you get the best out of me. I am so looking forward to this dear Anna.
Thank you for the nice digital class. It felt so soft in both the body and mind!
Anna, your solo is going to be marvelous! I am sure the auroras would make you move incredible.
I thank you Anna! What a beautiful piece! Strong, powerful, beautiful, playful, flirty, all in: personal, humoristic, loneliness, discovery, reaching out, reflecting on oneself, how should I be, how do I feel, go go go are words popping up if I think back. You are strong performer and a fantastic dancer. It is so nice when you go for it. Love the floor stuff you do. It was very nice in that place as well. It looked so liberating moving around there.
I have loved the three of you. You make and have a great chemistry so as something that makes it so magical.
I did not expect less from you.
You continue dancing so well. I loved it.
Anna is an artist. Is a pleasure to see her performing as you can only see her passion in dance.
A success in dance and music. A precious music and an exceptional dance.
A very strong and significant piece.
She brings you inside her territory and without realizing it she brings you inside your relationship. You find yourself thinking about your moments.
It’s exactly what I felt when I met my husband. Thank you for dancing how you do it. I really sensed what you felt.
You are amazing and it was an amazing site specific performance.
You are as usual awesome, although today I stared at you and the truth is you move me…
