Performance Projects - Dance & Participation

On LP records, the A-side contained songs that the artist, producer, or record company expected to be the main hits. The B-side was often used as a space for experimentation. The featured songs could be remixes, live or peculiar versions of A-side songs, or material that conceptually just did not fit in with the material on the A-side. The B-side became a space where different logics could be tried and quirky materials had a place to hang out together to see what might happen. 

We started this project by exploring our dancing, together, and ended up as DJs and set designers to a bunch of b-side singles that seemed to enjoy the same kind of house party.

And so, ”A b-side” came to be.

Project leader

Erik Eriksson

Choreography and dance

Wilma Eriksson & Erik Eriksson

CONSULTANT

Micaela Kühn Jara

During three months, Daniella Eriksson met individually with forty people in Dalarna to discuss what dance is to them. The participants shared their personal stories, their way of dancing, & donated dance moves, videos, music, costume, dramaturgical, compositional & scenographic ideas to the creation of this performance. 

Ta Till Dans is an attempt to make a personal kind of sense out of the different perspectives on what dance is & can be today. Although it contains what the participants of the project hold to be crucial components of dance - music, bodies, feelings & the intention to inspire an audience to move - it is not about any of these parts, it is a dance with them.

Dance, choreography & production

Daniella Eriksson  

Dance

Erik Eriksson  

Co-choreography/scenography/dramaturgy/costume/sound design

Abir, Anna, Annelie, Anders, Anders, Beatrice, Brita, Britt-Marie, Börje, Cornelia, Daniel, Elham, Elza, Farhat, Hilda, Hossein, Johannes, Jonah, Linda, Lisa, Lova, Malin, Maria, Martin, Michael, Mobareke, Månica, Petter, Shadi, Somaye, Susanne, Thyra, Tomas, Yassa, Ylva, Vasse, Vilde & Wilma

We are all bodies of water >
Like a breath going in and out >
We flow in circular ways >
Waves moving in and out of shapes, bodies, times >
Pushing, pulling, whorling >
In a continuous act of giving and receiving >
I move you. You move me. Moving >
Like one big oceanic body >

During the past weeks, eight curious movers have studied the concept of Water. Inspired by the writings of Astrida Neimanis on hydro-feminism we explore how water is something that is connecting within and beyond us. Through a composition that is reformulating and shaping itself as we go along, Water Studies invites you to an experience of how water moves, sounds, feels, thinks and flows through and between us and other(s). 

INITIATIVE AND CONCEPT

Andrea Deres

DANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY

Ieva Valskyte, Mette Trier Adamsen, Ulrik Johnsen, José Carrascosa, Elen Finstad, Karina Brown, Marla Haney and Andrea Deres

COSTUMES

Andrea Deres in collaboration with Skræddersalen

After a year of accommodating to mundane isolation, how can we (re)connect with new acquaintances and traverse some explicit and implicit distance? In a time where ”Movement has been placed under house arrest”, as André Lepecki states – which movements lies within and beyond our domestic whereabouts?

Be/longings is formulated as an invitation to encounter and connect to one's neighbors in new manners through the process of creating a dance performance. Through movement scores participants act and dance together in relation to current movement restrictions and habitual patterns, as well as partake in imaginations and memories of spent dances…

Choreographer

Carolina Bäckman

performers

Catharina Simone Nisbeth, Julie Møller, Carolina Bäckman

The aim of this performance is to practice and research unique movement capabilities these performing arts practitioners have, and work with the actors on stage presence in a dance performance.
Exclude by opposites - presenting what is different without meaning and including what is similar amongst ourselves. The dance, the groove, our individual and shared, practiced and fulfilled stage presentation. We present a common dance and portray some of the many restrictions we have lived under for more than a year, and perhaps forever and a day...

Choreography

Raphaël Eder Kastling

Dancers

Heidi Bjeverskov
Siri Friis Vikesaa
Anna Rask Fischer
Joakim Myllykangas
Andreas Pedersen
Jeppe Joergensen

Consultant

Micaela Kühn Jara

here
you are in the space. I am in the space
b o d i e s
We are all dancing
every movement, every tiny thing you do
a tiny dance made up of small dances
a moulding
of what can be
of what comes next
We put our bodies through experiments that we don't understand, because we still hope and still believe
in senses over intellectual. in surprises. in the non-linear and irrational
We surrender to the cliches and to pluralities
this is a state of permanent exception of (a) collective
of reaching that very concrete task of affect
it will work for a while
at least
for as long as we are bodies
sensing
sharing
taking part
undoing singularities
becoming
imagining and acting
otherwise
together

Collective _ (underscore) et al.:

Eirini Melianou, Nanna Bruun Nielsen, Natasha Joubert, Polena Kolia Petersen

Performing

Polena Kolia Petersen

This project is engaged in creating a multisensorial experience of stage arts, and attempts shifts, or calibrations, of the senses engaged when experiencing dance from a seated position in a theater.

This project is a meeting of ideas, inspirations, institutions, humans, motivations, needs, restrictions, possibilities, outside, inside, conrete, linoleum, birds

This project enlists the dedication, talent and sensitivities of a young group of dancers to investigate possibilities of movements, sounds and darkness.
This showing is a container for experiences This showing is a part
This showing is a dance

Dance and co⎻creation:

2nd. year students at Holstebro Talentakademi:
Amalie Esbjerg Søgaard
Annesofie Splidsboel
Anton Peter Skaaning Thomsen
Clara Gudum
Emilie Ebbesen
Ida Marie Nyby Hansen
Yasmin Aydoganer
Johanne Juel
Maya Pretzmann
Methea Klindt
Nanna Kronborg Svingholm
Oliver Vilhelmsen
Olivia Tofting
Silas Lorenz Eibye
Sofie Guldborg Krogsgaard Nielsen

Concept, facilitation, staging

Søren Linding Urup ( MA DAP22 )

Hosting and collaboration

Lene Bonde (Holstebro Talentakademi )