Rebecka Stillman

Katie Vickers

Inga Huld Hákonardóttir

We Will Have Had Darker Futures

A woman standing underneath a knitted abstract textile.

Photo: Märta Thisner.

Sa 11.11.2017, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Su 12.11.2017, 20:00-21:00, MDT

“If one dreams of ecstasy and lameness…
If one dreams of going and never really getting anywhere on a little path through other things…”

"We Will Have Had Darker Futures" attempts to weave together past, present and future and to mix it all up into a time loop allowing our sense of temporality to be blurred.

"We Will Have Had Darker Futures" thinks of possible futures through daydreaming, language, and dance while emphasizing the passage of time in the act of collective finger knitting.

"We Will Have Had Darker Futures" is a short term detachment, a visionary parallel reality that contemplates the bounds between past and present.

Rebecka Stillman

Rebecka Stillman works in different formats but always within the realm of the choreographic. She is based in Stockholm but probably spends more work time elsewhere. She has initiated performance projects in collaborations and collectives and done commissioned work, as in her long term collaboration with Swedish initiative the Weld Company. She has also administered local initiatives, written for publications and worked as a dancer (e.g. with Eleanor Bauer, Mårten Spångberg, Stina Nyberg and Dalija Acin Thelander). She has an MA in choreography from DOCH in Stockholm, and has previously attended SEAD in Austria and The Royal Swedish Ballet School. The projects she initiates have in common a quest for the middle ground and the unfamiliar in the familiar, often through a protocolized procedure aimed at getting there. Lately she has taken a special interest in experiences of time such as déjà vu and anticipation, and has an affinity towards knitting and mermaids. A constant struggle of hers is how to build what one wants to be part of, for example a fluid and supportive, open and specific, brave and care-taking art scene.

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Katie Vickers

Katie Vickers is an American artist (dancer/choreographer) who lives in Brussels, Belgium. After receiving her BFA in performing arts at The Ohio State University (2010), she moved to Europe to further study dance and graduated from P.A.R.T.S (2010-2014). Throughout her studies, Katie organized jams and taught numerous classes and workshops throughout the US and Europe. Alongside Albert Quesada, Katie co-directs the Mercersburg Academy Summer Program for Dance and Theatre and Practicing Performance: International Dance Festival at The Ohio State University. In 2012, Katie created her solo Ode To That Dance, which performed in Belgium, Germany, and the United States. Since  2013, she’s been collaborating with Benjamin Pohlig in their creations Techno-Tarantella-Novella (2013) and 5 Seasons (2016), as well as Inga Huld Hákonardóttir with their creation Slogan For Modern Times (2014). She has also worked with and for Benjamin Vandewalle (BE), Vera Tussing (GE), Martin Nachbar (GE), Daniel Linehan (USA), Kendell Geers (RSA) and Janine Harrington (UK) and was recently a guest artist for the Cullberg Ballet in ‘Figure a Sea’ choreographed by Deborah Hay. She is on tour with Slogan For Modern Times, 5 Seasons, and her most recent collaboration with Inga Hákonardóttir and Rebecka Stillman, We Will Have Had Darker Futures.

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Inga Huld Hákonardóttir

Inga Huld Hákonardóttir was born in Höfn in Iceland and now lives and works in Brussels. After graduating from P.A.R.T.S in 2014 she has worked within the field of performance as a performer, dancer and choreographer. As collaborator and performer Inga worked with Eleanor Bauer and composer Chris Peck in the contemporary musical, MEYOUCYCLE. She danced for Salva Sanchis in his most recent works Islands and Radical Light and performed/collaborated with the contemporary music ensembles ICTUS and GAME (Ghent Advanced Master Ensemble) in their project Ballet Mekanique. She also currently performs in Traces, a work by Rósa Ómarsdóttir. As a choreographer/maker Inga has has worked mostly in collaborative environments and has created several collaborative works in the past few years. She has worked extensively with Rósa Ómarsdóttir under the name Inga and Rósa. Their works include two duets; The Valley, and Wilhelm Scream, and one group piece, Da Da Dans which was a comission for The Icleandic Dance Company, in celebration of the Dada movements 100th anniversary. Their work focuses on seeking the friction between the symbolic and the sensorial. Inga has also collaborated extensively with Katie Vickers with whom she created the duet Slogan For Modern Times and the trio We Will Have Had Darker Futures they created together with choreographer Rebecca Stillman. Their work together focuses on situations and experiences that effect the moving hand of time. We Will Have Had Darker Futures dealt with strange anticipatory fantasies of the future that lie on a wide spectrum between hope and fear.

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deSingel, MDT Stockholm.

Supported by

the Province of Antwerp, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, wpZimmer, ccBerchem,  de School van Gaasbeek, The Swedish Arts Council and Reykjavik City.

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