Mona Namér

Birth Liquid

4 blurry dancers captured in movement

Photo: Faramarz Gosheh.

Tu 3.10.2023, 20:00-21:00, MDT

We 4.10.2023, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Th 5.10.2023, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Fr 6.10.2023, 20:00-21:00, MDT

"Birth Liquid" is a conversation between movement, sound, and light. In this performance, dancers' bodies travel between the stages of birth, chaos and stillness — visiting a place where the self disappears in search of strength and desire.

Inspired by the biological metamorphosis that takes place in a pupa, as caterpillar develops into butterfly, this dance performance and audiovisual experience echoes the metaphor of journeying towards harmony — using the image of the butterfly’s metamorphosis to illustrate how essential and powerful recovery is within the act of transformation. Running alongside and through this is water — a symbol of security, the liquid we are born into, that we consist of, purifies us, and a material in a constant state of transformation, sometimes gentle and sometimes forceful.

Based on, among other things, dance styles from the traditions of Hip Hop and House, as well as movement textures such as flow and groove, Birth Liquid elaborates upon concepts such as identity, vulnerability, exhaustion, dreams, struggle, collective desire and balance. A conversation between movement, sound, and light, this is a performance partly choreographed, partly open to total improvisation.

"Birth Liquid" is an extension of the dance film ‘A Bath In My Mother's Womb’, directed by Mona Namér in 2021. The film premiered at the Gothenburg Film Festival, and on SVT Play and has since won several awards including Best Experimental Short Film at the Next Generation Indie Film Awards in Los Angeles. Namér is an ambitious and prolific dance artist and creative director whose credits include working with artists like Little Dragon as well as commercial clients such as VOLVO and IKEA. Leaning on Hip Hop and freestyle techniques, "Birth Liquid" is Namér's first stage work under her own name.

Mona Namér

Mona Namér is a dancer and choreographer from Gothenburg, based in Stockholm. Educated at Broadway Dance Center in New York with a focus on Hip Hop and Modern Dance, and has since then spent years travelling between Paris, Johannesburg, London and New York. Namér merges her experience and breadth of knowledge and uses them to create a repertoire of new expressive narratives in movement and visual art. She is active in different fields such as dance and film productions, theatre, directing, teaching, commercial work, photography and various projects. Her work explores identity, human behaviour, surrealism, rituals and a sense of floating inside and outside of your own body. Namér’s innate curiosity and desire to experiment with different forms of creative expression have led to collaboration and work with lauded artists, companies and celebrated festivals such as Little Dragon, IKEA, VOLVO, Afropunk Festival and Gothenburg Opera.

Earlier dance productions: SEARCH by Lisa Janbell (2022), Skiftet by Johanna Fröjd at Dansens Hus and Dansstationen Malmö (2021), Untitled (Entitled) by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn at Bonniers Konsthall (2021), The Dress/La Robe by Carmel Loanga at La Villette in Paris and KVS in Bryssel (2019-2020), 5 Degrees with Twisted Feet Dance Company at Stora Teatern (2015), VOLVO Trucks Launch by Twisted Feet in Göteborg and in Seoul, Sydkorea (2014), Festival de Danza Querétaro with Twisted Feet in Mexico (2013), Wallstreet by Twisted Feet at Gothenburg Opera (2012)

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Choreographer and Artistic Director

Music

LVDF

Costume Design

Ellen Elias

Seamstress

Lo von Krogh

Scenography

Moa Marklund

Scenography Assistant

Olle Hiort

Light Design

Creative producer & dramaturgical support

Nina Rajabi

Photography

Faramarz Gosheh

Support

The Cultural Council, Swedish Arts Grants Commitee, Swedish National Theatre,City of Gothenburg, Danscentrum Syd, MDT, SITE Sweden and Kulturförvaltningen Region Stockholm

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