Reading and Dancing in the Dark Days
Reading and Dancing in the Dark Days
Image: Jennifer Lacey
February 13–17, the Master programme of Choreography at SKH will host readings and dancing from morning until evening.
Winter is hard and winter is dark and the general tactic for survival is that we send our energy down into our tap roots and await the sun. The problem is that we are not exactly plants and we need other things to survive this deep, enforced communion with darkness.
"Reading and Dancing in the Dark Days" is an invitation to a week-long gathering together around the hearth of the theatre-machine. Reading and dancing will be our main activities for exploring how we can nurture our curiosities both together and alone-together. MDT will be used as a place to inhabit and invest with our collective study. Using the presence of others and the frame of the theatre, we can ride out the moment of the year when the darkness seems intolerable and begins to masquerade as a part of our souls.
There will be a central programme of led-dancing mornings, suggested study and reading afternoons and evening activities that pay formal attention to the daily transition to darkness. Our proposal is that the generated central heat of group study can also sustain peripheral individual pursuits (we could also call this hanging out.) You are invited to join in or just come and profit from the warmth.
DAILY SCHEDULE
MONDAY 13
10.00 – 12.00 morning dance: "Togethering" Alice Chauchat
13.00 – 16.00 afternoon study: "Utopian Communities" Jennifer Lacey and Alice Chauchat
16.00 – 17.00 sundown ritual
18.00 – 20.00 evening activity: experimenting with space / light / sound
TUESDAY 14
10.00 – 12.00 morning dance: Alice Chauchat and Jennifer Lacey
13.00 – 16.00 afternoon study: Alice Chauchat and Jennifer Lacey
16.00 – 17.00 sundown ritual
18.00 – 20.00 evening activity: Valentine’s jam with DJ Kekki
WEDNESDAY 15
10.00 – 12.00 morning dance: "Fake Dance Class – exercises
for necessary and not so necessary skills" Linda Wardal with friends
13.00 – 16.00 afternoon study: "Real Shit – a performative collaborative study on what we consider being dirt" Vilma Mankonen and Matilda Bilberg
16.00 – 17.00 sundown ritual
18.00 – 20.00 evening activity: Soup and reading
THURSDAY 16
10.00 – 12.00 morning dance: "You’ve failed already, c’mon dance anyway" Ira Wuolle and Marvil Iglesias
13.00 – 16.00 afternoon study: "Listening Practices, the body as ear" Martin Sonderkamp and Hara Alonso
16.00 – 17.00 sundown ritual
18.00 – 20.00 evening activity
FRIDAY 17
10.00 – 12.00 morning dance
13.00 – 16.00 afternoon study
16.00 – 17.00 sundown ritual
18.00 – 20.00 evening activity: movie night with selected treats from the Filmform collection with Anna Karin Larsson
Please note that the schedule is subject to change, but will follow the structure of dancing in the morning, followed by afternoon study and a sundown ritual at sunset. Each day will end with an evening activity. If you're interested in the most up to date version of this schedule, see the event page and confirm your attendance here.
