Stina Nyberg

Sweet

Stina Nyberg performing Sweet

Photo: José Figureoa

Visually Descripted 19.11

Th 3.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Fr 4.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Sa 5.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Su 6.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Mo 7.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Tu 8.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

We 9.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Th 10.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Fr 11.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Sa 12.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Su 13.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Mo 14.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Tu 15.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

We 16.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Th 17.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Fr 18.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Sa 19.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Su 20.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT

”That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” – Emily Dickinson

This story starts with the emergence of a new species, perhaps two hundred thousand years ago. The species does not yet have a name – in fact, nothing does – but it has the capacity to name things. Bit by bit, it spreads to practically every corner of the globe, reassembling the biosphere and the atmosphere on its way. It razes vast forests. It sleeps with its biological cousins and then kills them off. It is, in short, the very asshole of creation.

In a series of ten performances, Stina Nyberg departs from the mind-boggling perspective of billions of years in order to talk about her own assholeness. Or perhaps it is the reverse, departing from her own asshole to talk about eternity. In any case, aided by a dance practising the attention of a bird, she hones in on the details of existence, spanning from the very intimate to the very existential.

Sometimes "Sweet" is described as a choreography for the attentive. Sometimes just as a mortal dance.

The text about "Sweet" is inspired by “The 6th Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert.

Stina Nyberg

Stina Nyberg (b. 1981, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden) engages in the choreography of dances, conversations, meetings, texts, sounds, and shows. She regularly falls in love with new stuff and uses choreography as a means to learn more about these new objects of desire. Some of her recent love affairs have involved doom, details, dogs, electricity, gossip, men, dance history, birds, and mind-reading. She is busy crafting physical practices in relation to the world at large, currently dwelling on the simultaneous molding of, and being molded by, other humans, surroundings, and prevailing ideologies.

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Kulturrådet, Stockholms stad, Region Stockholm. Co-produced by MDT and Life Long Burning – Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe project (2018-2022) supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

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