With tickets for Gothenburg Fringe now released, it’s time to take a deeper dive into the shows coming your way on 29 August to 7 September 2025.
Teater Trixter has been a mainstay and strong supporter of the festival over the years, so it’s only fitting to be there for our 10th edition and that it is the feature of our first artist reveals. Take a look at the heavy-hitting international dance and physical theatre shows we’ll be presenting there, then get your tickets here.
Trace of Belief
by Chun Dance (Tawian)
The up-and-coming choreographer Hsieh Yi-Chun makes an impressive international debut with a brand-new ensemble dance about collective ritual and individual will. Inspired by temple processions and childhood memories, her mesmerizing sextet uses a flow of dynamic movement to pose a key question: ‘What anchors our faith in an ever-changing world?’ Merging past and present, sacred and secular, tradition and modernity, this sensitive and searching production surges with a heightened sense of spirituality. At the same time it is deeply rooted in communal humanity. The result is cross-cultural dance of great power and universal resonance.
Founded in 2018, Chun Dance is a Taiwanese contemporary dance company based in Taoyuan. United by the belief that dance is a universal language that transcends cultural barriers and fosters human connection, we uphold the motto “Dance to live, Live to Dance.” Our creative inspiration is drawn from contemporary social issues and seek to resonate with everyday life experiences. Currently, we are exploring themes such as cultural diversity in the East, women’s roles in society and the development of our own dance vocabulary through artistic creation.
Thorny Rose Hedge
by United Cowboys (Netherlands)
Thorny Rose Hedges is an intimate, personal yet monumental performance based on Tsjaikovski’s Sleeping Beauty, presented by United Cowboys from The Netherlands.
To round-up its Tsjaikovski’s trilogy, United Cowboys decided to create an intimate, personal yet monumental performance based on the Sleeping Beauty. Under the title Thorny Rose Hedge – History of the Times Gone, United Cowboys will artistically explore the softness and romantic notions of a rose against the unexpected harshness of its thorns. These are contradictions and contrasts United Cowboys can and seeks to work with.
After presenting their biotope The Body as Reference for (R)Evolution in Gothenburg in 2022, we’re delighted to welcome the Coyboys back for our 10th anniversary festival.
Papillon
by We All Fall Down (Canada)
What can we expect from the unexpected? What can we recognize in the chaotic, in a world governed by unpredictability? Drawing on the aesthetics of street and contemporary dance, PAPILLON juxtaposes three solos and a live experimental soundtrack in a complex trio that explores the delicate balance between order and disorder.
For 50 minutes, the dancers weave in and out of sync through a complex choreographic partition, supported by a live, hypnotic musical soundtrack. Inspired by chaos theory and mathematical equations, PAPILLON is a raw, engulfing reflection on loneliness and togetherness, singularity and similarity, metamorphosis and above all, the importance of human connection. The show is accessible and fun, while remaining artistically challenging. Presented over 60 times across Canada, at The Edinburgh Fringe (Summerhall) and in Cape Town South Africa (Suidoosterfees), PAPILLON is a global phenomenon!
Never Just I
by Evie Demetriou (Cyprus)
NEVER JUST I is a raw and daring solo performance that blends contemporary dance and spoken text to navigate the intricate realities of being a woman. Drawing from her personal experience as a mother of three and a dancer inhabiting multiple roles, Evie Demetriou crafts an intimate and deeply human work that resonates beyond the personal.
This performance is a journey through vulnerability, guilt, empowerment, and strength. It invites the audience into a space where fragility meets resilience, where the deeply personal becomes political. The atmosphere oscillates between moments of humour and deep emotional honesty, creating a space that is at once fun and vulnerable, intimate and defiant.
The performance challenges notions of individualism, offering an invitation to embrace collective strength and agency. It is an act of resistance, a moment of reflection, and an invitation to reimagine what is possible.
Fearless, playful, and unapologetically alive.
Enactor
by Becca Hoback (USA)
Enactor – Solo performance at its most raw, intimate, and arresting.
Becca Hoback commands the stage in a fierce evening of honest, unflinching performance. Enactor dives deep into the body, identity, and what it truly means to be seen.
Featuring:
“Is this good” by Ana Maria Lucaciu – A woman steps into the spotlight and suddenly… things get weird. What begins as a simple introduction spirals into a rollercoaster of doubt, discovery, and the struggle to hold it together when everyone’s watching.
“Offering” by Ben Green — A ritual in motion, moving through reverence, absurdity, and vulnerability to reveal the transformative power of ceremony.
Unexpected. Unfiltered. Unapologetically human.
Enactor isn’t just something you watch—it’s something you feel in your bones.
