Music for “If you don’t like it, you can go to hell’ Ballets Suédois 1920–1925”

Dansmuseet’s anniversary exhibition is called ‘If you don’t like it, you can go to hell’ – Ballets Suédois 1920–1925. The title of the exhibition comes from the stage backdrop for the Ballets Suédois’ production Relâche and is a quote by Francis Picabia.
Together with Erik Satie, Fernand Léger, Nils Dardel, Audrey Parr, Hélène Perdriat and many more, the Ballets Suédois created total artworks for the stage. The artists, composers and dancers are copiously represented in the exhibition with objects such as costume sketches, photographs, films and other material from the dance company’s productions.

The music in the exhibition
The music is specially composed for Dansmuseet’s anniversary exhibition by Linus Hillborg, Karl Johannes Jondell, Theo Kentros, Brenda El Rayes, Viktor Sandström and Jerker Österlind, composition students from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm’s Bachelor of Arts programme in electroacoustic music. The composition project for Dansmuseet has been supervised by Kim Hedås, lecturer in composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and is part of the students’ degrees as well as the EU project EASTN-DC (European Art, Science and Technology Network for Digital Creativity).