My Wild Flag is an international dance and performance festival in Stockholm that showcases local and international works highlighting contemporary choreographic and artistic practice. The festival presents innovative works in dance, choreography and performance, inviting audiences to discover new perspectives, forms of expression and encounters. 


This year’s edition is a collaboration between My Wild Flag, MDT and Dansens Hus. MWF is now in its tenth year and continues to be a temporary hub for community, dance and social choreography. The festival is run and curated by Karina Sarkissova and Pontus Pettersson.

About

There is a particular urgency that emerges when the world no longer appears stable, coherent, or singular. Rather than asking how to return to certainty, this programme asks what bodies, desires, rituals, and relations become possible once certainty has already dissolved.

Across these works, collapse is never simply an ending. It is ecstatic, excessive, humorous, sensual, and deeply social. Identities are rehearsed rather than inherited; community appears not through consensus but through friction, celebration, and transformation.

The artists gathered here treat choreography as a way of reorganising reality — dance as a technology for surviving unstable times, fantasy as political method, theatricality as a form of knowledge. Pop culture, mythology, camp, queer embodiment, ritual, and speculative storytelling coexist without hierarchy.

What emerges is a landscape of tricksters, survivors, monsters, lovers, prophets, and fools: figures who refuse to remain legible, moving between sincerity and parody, intimacy and spectacle, pleasure and catastrophe.

Rather than finished statements, these performances offer temporary ecosystems where transformation remains possible. In a time of political violence, ecological uncertainty, and a hardening climate for queer lives and artistic freedom, they insist that imagination is not an escape from reality but a way of inhabiting it differently. To gather is itself a political act: to give one's attention, one's time, one's body to someone else's transformation.

For ten years now, My Wild Flag has insisted on this proposition: that another world is not waiting somewhere beyond the present. It is rehearsed in the unstable encounter between performers and audiences, in collective celebration, in transformation collectively witnessed.


Team

Artistic directors

Pontus Pettersson & Karina Sarkissova

Design & web development

Adam Seid Tahir

Producer Dansens Hus

Katja Seitäjoki

Producer MDT

Unn Faleide

Venues

MDT and Dansens Hus

Artists

Rebecca Chaillon

Justin F. Kennedy

gergő d. farkas

Social Media

Instagram

@mywildflag