My Wild Flag

MWF 2025 – wild at heart and weird on top

In hard times, we turn to dance to define space: not just any space, but one we build together.

This years edition is built on collective spirit and co-curating, inviting artists to shape the festival alongside us. We believe that through holding each other, we create spaces where dance and ideas move between bodies, where artists and audiences meet on equal ground.

We have invited three initiatives, three co-curating partners to define from their point of view what this dancing could be. Together, we gather, we share, we define and we keep making room for the wild, the weird, and the deeply necessary act of dancing, however it might look like

My Wild Flag is an international dance and performance festival in Stockholm. Consisting of local and international acts and scenarios that propose contemporary choreographic and artistic work. Bringing communities together and joining in social choreographies as well as works devoted for the stage.

Through the years the festival have compiled, matched and forced a mix of institutions, freelance artists and organisations, the list continuously grows. As one know, there is always so much more than what meets the surface: We are disturbed, concerned and engaged with our locality, a context we are part of building together as well as inviting international actis into.

The festival is made possible with financial support by the city of Stockholm and co-produced by Dansens Hus and Hallen in Farsta, and with support from the International Dance Programme at the Swedish Arts Grants Committee

MWF is curated by Karina Sarkissova and Pontus Pettersson

Karina Sarkissova

Organizer & Curator

Pontus Pettersson

Organizer & Curator

Working in the expanded field of choreography and contemporary dance, Pontus' work is anything in-between fountain making and cat practicing to curating festivals and dancing. Where hospitality and temporality can be seen as two major choreographic and artistic principles, as well as more open fields of study such as poetry and water.

Unn Faleide

Producer

Unn Faleide is a Stockholm-based dance artist, curator, and producer whose work explores the intersections of movement, visual arts, and critical curatorial practice. With a background in international performance, including several years with Cullberg, and a Master’s in Curating, her practice engages questions of identity, authorship, and structural conditions in the arts.She works independently and as a producer at MDT, focusing on alternative modes of production, collaborative processes, and the decolonial potential of curating in and through dance.

Christoffer Lloyd

Stage manager

Lighting and video designer who since 2016 has been working in the fields of contemporary art, music, theatre and dance. Based in Stockholm and graduated from Stockholm University of the Arts in 2022 with a BFA in lighting design.