
PITCH SESSION
YDM 2025
PITCH SESSION
Get ready for a fast-paced session where dance companies creating bold, beautiful work for young audiences take the spotlight.
In quick, sharp pitches, they’ll present performances that are ready to hit the road — in Sweden and beyond. Expect glimpses into powerful stories, inventive movement, and fresh ideas designed to connect with kids and teens today.
This is your chance to discover new touring gems, meet the artists behind the work, and get inspired.
PARTICIPATING COMPANIES:
GAZART (DK)
THE BABY BASTION
A choreographed installation performance for the very youngest audience of 0-15 months and their adults. A soft fortress in continuous change, where babies and adults can crawl into to dwell on changing moods and be absorbed by the co-creating soundscape. An immersive and unfolding experience, where two dancers hold the safe space and give you time to be. You can come and go along the way and you decide by yourself how long you want to stay in The Baby Bastion.
ÄR : GRUS / IS : GRAVEL
We are building / placing a line of stones / creating a grain of gravel / in the sand
Is : Gravel builds clues and travels through a small space in the large grain of sand in the universe. Dance, juggling and shadow play is a game with micro and macro perspectives, similarities and opposites.
Which stone is the right one?
The performance premieres on September 20, 2025, in collaboration with ZebraDans.
A performance experience for all from 4 years and up.
ÄGG / EGG
Who am I and what will I become?
Will I become something that can fly or swim?
Maybe I need many eyes?
A dancer steps into a giant egg, believing
they can become anything at all.
Instead, they turn into someone
who needs to build a nest and keep track of
lots of little eggs!A tactile and humorous dance experience for babies, toddlers, and parents. About searching for your identity and needing many arms, legs, and eyes in the back of your head.
GRO(W)
What connects us...with ourselves, eachother and with nature? What are ourroots? How do we grow - together?
In the performance you meet two sisters whogrew up together, look like each other but still are very different. They
explore through music and dance what it means to grow and thrive – together and
as individuals.GRO(W) awakens the senses in a dreamlikesoundscape where we can experience the material nature of the scenography
around us. Through magical movements inspired by natures rhythm, we celebrate
growth.WAILETH & BARDON
WHO IS BEST?
A dance and circus performance based on the children's book by: Stina Wirsén
We are so happy to tell you that our collaboration with Stina Wirsén continues!
In August 2025, we premiere Who’s best? in Malmö. The teddy bear and the cat meet again, this time in a competition to see who can run the fastest, jump the highest and do
nice somersaults. But there is one who can do something no one else can…
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