Artists at Jillat
Meet the artists currently creating at Jillat and discover who will be arriving next. Some artists welcome visits, conversations or contact with other artists, while others need an uninterrupted working period. Each profile explains what is possible during their stay.
Please respect each artist’s selected contact status. A residency may be a social and public process, or a period that requires privacy and concentration.
At Jillat Now
Cirkus residency 14th - 27th of July at Jillat & in Storforsen
Manda Rydman - Aerialist
& Anna Mariann McKenna - Fakir
Wing It – A Circus Metamorphosis!
Inspired by the transformation of the moth, Cocoon Company invites audiences on a vibrant circus journey through the beauty, madness, and sometimes downright danger of change. Featuring aerial acrobatics, sword swallowing, and barefoot walks across broken glass.
Everything changes with time—so why resist when you can embrace the transformation?
The visual explosion of colourful costumes is an integral part of the story. Each costume is created through recycling, using discarded materials and forgotten remnants. From what has been left behind, something unique emerges—a reminder that both objects and people can be reborn, stronger and stranger than before.
About Cocoon Company
Cocoon Company is an all-female contemporary circus company that combines the immediacy of the sideshow tradition with a distinctive visual aesthetic. Drawing inspiration from science fiction, organic stage imagery, and moths, the company's artistic practice is deeply rooted in recycling and upcycling, with costume design playing a central role in the creative process.
Open to artistic connections
The artist is interested in meeting local or visiting artists for conversation, exchange or possible future collaboration.
Public events only
The artist is not available for informal visits, but welcomes audiences at the listed public events.
Focused working period
The artist needs privacy and uninterrupted working time during this residency.
Coming to Jillat
Dance residency: Kyrie Oda
3-8th of August 2026
Kyrie Oda is a dancer and choreographer whose practice has developed across the United States, Japan and Europe. Since moving to Sweden in 2017, she has worked with several Swedish companies and choreographers, while her international experience spans opera, contemporary dance, performance and interdisciplinary stage work. Her artistic background brings together precision, curiosity and a broad understanding of movement across cultures and contexts.
Coming to Jillat
Dance residency: Anniina Ukkonen
2-16th of August 2026
Anniina Ukkonen is a Finnish dance artist, choreographer and teacher from Tornio whose practice moves between contemporary dance, mime, mask theatre and physical expression. Her work often creates playful and accessible encounters, combining movement, character and storytelling across performances, workshops and public spaces. With a strong connection to northern contexts, children’s culture and cross-border collaboration, she brings curiosity, warmth and a distinctive physical imagination to her artistic work.
Coming to Jillat
Dance residency: Åsa Elowsson & Ulrica Blåeld Wedin
17-30th of August 2026
Åsa Elowson
Åsa Elowson is a dancer, dance educator, physiotherapist and yoga teacher whose practice brings together improvisation, community dance and dance as a form of health, presence and connection. She works across artistic, educational and care-based contexts, creating inclusive spaces where people with different bodies, experiences and abilities can find their own movement and expression. Her work is deeply informed by nature, play and a belief in the body’s own knowledge.
Ulrica Blåeld Wedin
Ulrica Blåeld Wedin is a dancer and choreographer whose movement-based practice is intuitive, reflective and closely connected to the ongoing processes of nature. Working through choreography, improvisation, video and site-specific performance, she explores the musicality of movement and the tension between control and freedom, subtlety and intensity. Her work has been presented in Sweden and internationally, across stage, public space and interdisciplinary artistic contexts.
