Alma Söderberg

2 solos: Cosas & Deep Etude

A lined collage of picture of a woman and a hand

Photo: Hendrik Willekens

Th 15.3.2018, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Fr 16.3.2018, 20:00-21:00, MDT

The evening presents Alma Söderberg’s first and latest works. The solo "Cosas" from 2010 was her breakthrough and won a price for best performance at Act Festival in Bilbao. The second piece of the evening is Söderberg’s latest solo "Deep Etude", where she continues to play with rythm, voice and movement.

In "Cosas", Alma Söderberg sings while talking, talks while dancing and dances while singing. "Cosas" is a college that that cuts, combines, overlaps and explores possibilities of meaning in a torrent of song, language, stamping feet and verbally punctuated gesture.

"Deep Etude" is a deep etude of embodied rhythm. Polyrhythm is the living object of study. A layering of rhythms by means of recorded sound (machine drum), live sound (voice) and dance (body) will take the listener back to where she already is. "Deep Etude" is a piece of dance and a piece of music where one and the other are both separable and inseparable in the ear-eye of the beholder. They are only separable insofar as they can change places with each other, and only inseparable insofar as the one makes the other perceivable. They play apart. The foreground and the background shift, the one carves itself into the other, the dance becomes the backing track of the music, the movement excavates the sound and brings it to the surface. "Deep Etude" is a study that is a spirit, a composition that is a practice or an object that is a skill.

Alma Söderberg

Alma Söderberg is a choreographer and performer that works with music and dance. She uses her voice and body to play space as if it was an instrument. Her ongoing research deals with how we listen as we look; the relation between the ear and the eye. She has grounded her practice in a number of solo performances in which she developed an idiorhythmic way of creating. In the two ongoing music projects wowawiwa and John the Houseband, she has worked in collaboration with the other artists Anja Muller, Dennis Deter, Hendrik Willekens, Roger Sala Reyner and Melkorka Sigridur Magnusdottir. In all her works she collaborates closely with the sound artist Hendrik Willekens. Alma Söderberg has won the Thalia Prize and has been granted the Cullberg scholarship.

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Cosas

Choreography and performance

Light Design

Thanks to

Jeanine Durning and Hendrik Willekens.

Deep Etude

By and with

Dramaturgy

Production

Co-production

Kunstenfestivaldesarts, BUDA, PACT Zollverein, Riksteatern.

Supported by

Swedish Arts Council (Kuturrådet).

Residencies

STUK, BUDA, Pianofabriek, Tanzfabrik.

The performances are part of the tour with Riksteatern during spring 2018.


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