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In  Works and Days,  experiences from a trip to ancient Greece are mixed with fragments of a fifteen-year-old performance. With humor and seriousness, Gunilla Heilborn attempts to figure out how all the disparate episodes she has collected are connected and whether it is really possible to understand the world better by reading both the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Works and Days  consists of two parts. In one, we are met with magnificent tableaux with names like  “A place that is terrible in winter, harsh in summer, never pleasant”  and “ The Rose-fingered Dawn ”. Through fog, mist and music, two dancers move; let’s call them Foam-eyed Sophie and Many-worded Ludvig. With fleeting ease, they stroll across the stage and ask themselves and the audience questions. Do you get seasick easily? Would you describe me as a typical Renaissance person? That I have many strings on my lyre? Do you know what it feels like to drift around in a ship that has frozen solid in the ice?

Works and Days – an epic

Norrlandsoperan

Gunilla Heilborn is one of Sweden's most active choreographers with a long career and a number of acclaimed performances, films and TV productions behind her. In 2024 she was awarded the Swedish Theatre Critics' Dance Prize for her performance  Dante . Gunilla's performances are in their own universe. Like a kind of personal archaeological excavations where a mixture of text and movement, philosophical subtleties and a peculiar humor are the cornerstones.

Dancer, Director, Choreographer

Gunilla Heilborn

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27 - 28 Feb, 2026

Works and Days – an epic · Norrlandsoperan

27 - 28 Feb, 2026

Works and Days – an epic · Riksteatern

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Actor in Works and Days – an epic by Hiorthøy

Riksteatern

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