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 is a choreographer and performer who 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 several solo performances but has also created duos, trios and group works in collaboration with different artists, collectives and institutions.
She has mainly trained in contemporary dance and flamenco at a.o: Matilde Coral Escuela de Danza in Seville, Amor de dios in Madrid, Gotlands dansutbildningar in Visby and SNDO in Amsterdam. Since 2019 she also does occasional curations, for example the EarEye festival with the same focus as in her practice.
Cosas
Choreography and performance
Advice
Light Design
Thanks to
Jeanine Durning and Hendrik Willekens.
Deep Etude
By and with
Music
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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