Choreographers Soledad Howe and Fredrika Byman-Moberg, and music composer Malin Dahlström make up Katten Konstgrupp. Based on their collective experience that encompasses body, dance, music in performing arts, they focus on developing choreographic works and concerts that focus on the interaction with the audience and where the audience´s presence and movements become part of the work. The group are interested in researching the opening that arises in the space between the performer and the audience.
SOLEDAD HOWE
Soledad Howe (b. 1974) is an Argentinian-Swedish dancer, choreographer and movement director in performing arts across various stages. She is also one of the artistic leaders of the art collective MOLD, which creates site- and situation-specific works based on audience participation. Her work centers around vulnerability and a negotiation between fiction and factuality, often with a suggestive raw aesthetics; around a situation. Soledad co-manages Katten Konstgrupp with choreographer Fredrika Byman Moberg and composer and artist Malin Dahlström from the band Niki & the Dove. She has previously created performances at Skogen and Atalante. Soledad’s choreography has been featured in Suzanne Osten’s “Konspiration” (2024), “Falla ur tiden” (2016), and “Fenix” (2018) at Dramaten, “Publiken” (2009) and “I Annas garderob” (2014) at Göteborgs Stadsteater, “Flygräddare” (2013) at Unga Klara, and “Ett självmords anatomi” (2019) at Malmö Stadsteater. She has also appeared as an actress at Backa Teater in “Vilda inuti” (2023), as a dancer in “Närheten” (2022) at Riksteatern, and choreographed “The Vivian Girls” (2022) at Göteborgs Stadsteater and “Vi som ärvde” (2020) at Angereds Teater, “Katrina” (2024) musical-theatre in Åland and “Monsieur Venus” (2024) at Folkteatern Göteborg. Former member of Spinn Dance co consisting of dancers with and without disabilities. Soledad now divides her time between her own work and commission work for some of Sweden’s biggest theaters. She is also a teacher of movement and choreography at Angered Theatre school and Nordiska.
FREDRIKA BYMAN-MOBERG
Fredrika Byman Moberg is a dancer, choreographer, movement director, actress and teacher. She has an education from The Northern School of Contemporary Dance in England and since 2001 she has worked as a freelance dancer and choreographer in numerous theatres across Sweden, collaborating with various choreographers and directors. Her career includes performances at venues such as Göteborgs Stadsteater, Angereds Theatre Backa Theatre, Malmö Opera and Music Theatre, Atalante, 3e Våningen and Skogen. In addition to her dance background, Fredrika has pursued further education at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and has worked as an actor at Angereds Teater and Hagateatern. She is also one of the artistic directors of the art collective Mold and co-manages Katten Konstgrupp with choreographer Soledad Howe and composer and artist Malin Dahlström from the band Niki & the Dove. Most recently, she was the movement director for the productions “Vi som ärvde” (2020), “Kabul, Stockholm, Paris” (2022) and “Blås av Matchen” (2023) at Angereds Teater. Fredrika also works as a movement teacher Angereds Teaterskola.