Sep 11+12+13. Flower of Skins / Samuel Feldhandler
Flower of Skins
Suite for drums, lamps, fabric, dancing body, cymbal, papers, paint, prepared piano, cello and dried plants
A suite in the musical sense is a collection of short pieces commonly referred to as dance forms, which together function as one larger form. Suites came from musicians’ practices of accompanying social dances in the baroque times and mirror their emancipation from that singular role.
Continuing his approach of emancipating dance from music by understanding the latter’s mechanisms, Samuel Feldhandler dived in the form of the suite and welcomed it as his teacher during this process. For that purpose, Flower of Skins is built very closely to the suite mother form and composed of the following dances:
– Toccata
– Allemande
– Courante
– Sarabande
– Minuet I & II
– Giga
After years of working on his own looking for a structural primacy of dance, Flower of Skins marks an opening in Feldhandler’s body of works as it is the beginning of collaborations with Lise Lendais for costumes and Jean-Christophe Feldhandler for music.
September 11 at 7pm
September 12 at 7pm
September 13 at 2pm
September 13 at 7pm
Weld, Norrtullsgatan 7
Book: book.weld.se
Costumes: Lise Lendais
All compositions, percussions & piano: Jean-Christophe Feldhandler
Cello: Martine Altenburger (Excerpt of «Le bruit du Regard», co-production Ryoanji, Athènor Scène Nomade / CNCM, Abbaye de Noirlac centre culturel de rencontre)
Choreographic assistant: Yari Stilo
Light technique: Ronald Salas
Sound technique: Christian Antila
Administration: Interim kultur AB (svb)
Special thanks: Christophe Havard, Catherine Musseau, LE STUDIO Film und Bühne, Cie La Migration
Flower of Skinsis funded by the Swedish Arts Council, co-produced by Weld and MARC, and supported by Athénor Scène Nomade – CNCM.
Weld is supported by Stockholms Stad, the Swedish Arts Council and the Stockholm County Council
Samuel Feldhandler (FR/AT)
is a french choreographer currently living in Vienna and working between Austria, Germany, Holland and Sweden. Being from a family of musicians, Samuel investigates ways of translating musical forms within a dance context as his main approach to choreography. In his works he has dealt with counterpoint, harmony, fugue, the canon and sonata among forms. In his latest work Fake Dances (2019) he approached jazz forms, introducing improvisation within his work for the first time. Samuel holds a Master in choreography from DOCH, Stockholm and a Bachelor in contemporary dance from the Modern Theatre Dance department of the Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Due to Covid-19
Currently we have limited seats with safe distance. Only pre bookings is valid. Be on time!
For everyone’s sake, we ask the audience to keep their distance from each other and avoid queuing. No check of payment will take place at the entrance.