Shapes of states

Shapes of states
- Right now, we are sitting on the first row in a big square room with black surfaces aimed for different performances. In the middle of the room there is a white curtain with long lines painted on it. The curtain moves in a slow and dreamy way, as if there was a slight wind on stage. A soft light lit the floor and the first three rows. Those who are seated in the back row sometimes wonder what I am talking about here in the front. I am here to interpret a dance performance for you, a story about what takes place on stage but also a story in itself.
  
  Shapes of States traces the historical and political writing of the body by connecting Swedish public health ideologies from the 1920’s with contemporary training ideals. Seeing the body as malleable material, which are the means through which we sculpt it? And what is the daily shaping of the body doing to the way we shape society? With a starting point in Meyerhold’s biomechanics the dancers in Shapes of States develop a movement vocabulary far from any idea of natural behaviour. In a series of dances they tell the broken story of a human belief in the disciplining of the flesh.
  
  The performance will be visual descripted, offering various perspectives on how to perceive the form and content of dance.
About Stina Nyberg
- Stina Nyberg lives in Sweden where she makes and performs choreography. Her departure point is always a feminist approach to the body; its social and political construction and ability to move. She is educated as a dancer and holds an MA in choreography from DOCH in Stockholm.
  
  Stina has presented several independent works on the relation between sound and movement, as well as investigations of the polical history of the body. She choreographed the Shaking the habitual show with the Swedish band The Knife and performed on tour in Europe and US between 2012-14. Last year, she choreographed a new work for the Cullberg Ballet. Together with the choreographers Amanda Apetrea, Nadja Hjorton, Halla Ólafsdóttir and Zoë Poluch she forms the group Samlingen – a collaboration that deals with the history and herstory of dance.
  
  Shapes of States will premiere at MDT in Stockholm the 30th of March 2016.
  
  Read more on Stinas website: www.1200m.org/stina
Credits
- Choreography: Stina Nyberg. Performers: Andrea Svensson, Sandra Lolax, Sindri Runudde and Stina Nyberg. Set design: Tove Edlund Dreiman. Costume: Tove Edlund Dreiman and Sandra Leandersson. Lighting design: Josefin Hinders. Dramaturgical adviser: Manon Sanktin. Producer: Sara Bergsmark. Administration: Interim Kultur AB. Visual description workshop: Jannine Rivel. Limón workshop: Jeanette Bolding. Meyerhold workshop: Tom Fjordefalk. Production: MDT, Inkonst, Norrlandsoperan and wpZimmer. Supported by: The Swedish Arts Council, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, The Municipality of Stockholm and The City of Stockholm. This presentation is part of the project [DNA] Departures and Arrivals, which is co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission.
Tour dates
- 2016:
  3 April. Köttinspektionen, Uppsala
  
  13 April. Inkonst, Malmö http://www.inkonst.com/
  
  11 May. Norrlandsoperan, Umeå http://www.norrlandsoperan.se/
  26-27 November. Atalante, Gothenburg http://atalante.org
  
  2017:
  24-25 May. The Swedish Biennial of Performing Arts, Norrköping scensverige.se/en/the-swedish-biennial-for-performing-arts/
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