15+16 nov. Weld Extended / DOGS of DEVOTION /Jeanine Durning
This year, Weld’s concept Weld Extended extends to embrace DOGS of DEVOTION, the work of American choreographer Jeanine Durning for dancers Ulrika Berg, Louise Dahl and Hana Erdman. As a guest they have invited composer / performer / dancemaker Tian Rotteveel to create the soundscape.
November 15 at 7pm
November 16 at 7pm
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
Book: book.weld.se
DOGS of DEVOTION, made for and with Ulrika Berg, Louise Dahl, Hana Erdman, departs from Jeanine Durning’s signature performance practice nonstopping to build on the artists’ shared interest in dance as a vital force and a poetic yet absurd act of devotion to ongoingness. With unapologetic physicality and velocity of mind, DOGS of DEVOTION plays with and through the enduring forces that shape desire, behavior, decision-making and togetherness amidst ongoing change.
Weld Extended is an extension of the experimental project Weld Company (2013-2021), inviting both Swedish and international choreographers to share their practice with an invited group of dancers. This autumn, Weld Extended reaches out to a project that could not find funding on its own.
Choreography: Jeanine Durning in collaboration with Ulrika Berg, Louise Dahl and Hana Erdman
Dance: Ulrika Berg, Louise Dahl and Hana Erdman
Music: Tian Rotteveel
Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo
JEANINE DURNING (US)
Jeanine Durning, from New York, is an Alpert Award winning choreographer and performer whose work has been described by The New Yorker as having both “the potential for philosophical revelation and theatrical disaster.” She has been investigating the mobilizing and mutable force of bodies and grappling with their conditions in time, space, and place for over 25 years through experiments in choreography, performance, practice-based research, teaching, and mentoring. Jeanine’s ongoing project, nonstopping, has been the foundation for her embodied research since 2009. She’s performed her signature solo inging (based on her nonstop speaking practice) throughout Europe, across the US, and in Canada on and off since 2010. Jeanine has had the privilege to collaborate with many choreographers, including Deborah Hay since 2005, working as performer, choreographic assistant, coach, and consultant to Forsythe’s The Motion Bank project. From 2020-2023, Jeanine worked as Rehearsal Director for Stockholm based contemporary dance company Cullberg, transmitting and touring the dance works of Deborah Hay and Swedish choreographer, Alma Söderberg. Jeanine has been invited to share some of her practices all over the world through teaching, mentoring/advising, and creating choreographies. Her most recent choreographic collaborations were with Candoco Dance Company (London, UK), creating Last Shelter (2021), with Norrdans (Härnösand, SE), creating Everlasting – a new love (2023), and with an independent group of stellar dance artists in the US, creating The Invitation Situation (2023/24). In 2023, with the support of MANCC and The Melon Foundation, she collaborated with writer/editor Jenn Joy and designer Sherri Wasserman on a book project centered around Durning’s practice, nonstopping.
HANA ERDMAN (US/SE)
is an American choreographer and dancer based in Stockholm and Berlin. Since moving to Europe in 2007, she has worked across the genres of dance, music, and visual art. Her work examines connections between dance, consciousness, and the unseen, focusing on themes of companionship and exploring relationships with the environment, community, and non-human beings. Erdman’s pieces are presented in a range of settings, including galleries, forests, churches, stages, as well as through publications and recordings. Recent works include Companion (2022), Forests, Fields and Pastures (2021), and The Weather in the Room (2021). She studied Art History at UCLA and holds a Master’s Diploma in Dance and Authorship from HZT at The University of Art Berlin. Erdman has a long-term artistic collaboration with Louise Dahl, with whom she has co-created several productions.
LOUISE DAHL (SE)
is a Swedish artist working within the field of dance and choreography. Within an expanded notion of dance, she researches the relationship between thought, motion and energy. Her work is characterized by a technical approach to the body from which she explores the physical manifestation of invisible and metaphysical realities. Louise has worked with artists such as Cristina Caprioli, Jefta van Dinther, Deborah Hay, Frédéric Gies, Alma Söderberg. Antonija Livingstone, Mårten Spångberg, Hana Erdman, Philip Berlin and Darío Bardam. During the years 2020-2023, Louise was part of the Cullberg ensemble.
ULRIKA BERG (SE)
is a Stockholm based dance artist. She is interested in developing frameworks and generative sources for dance, by activating different relationships between perception, movement and imagination. She works in close collaboration with other artists and has worked with, amongst others, Cristina Caprioli, Deborah Hay, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Ludvig Daae, Tino Segahl and with Cullberg in works by Ezster Salamon and Deborah Hay. She has a master’s degree in choreography from New Performative Practices. Since 2015, she is an assistant professor of dance at Stockholm University of the Arts.
TIAN ROTTEVEEL (NL/DE)
is a Berlin based composer, performer and dance maker. Studied music composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and dance and choreography at HZT UDK Berlin. He appreciates an honest process. Often practicing something simple that unfolds over time into aesthetic complexity. When making dances Tian follows the odd logic of sound as a way to produce mobility. Sound and movement in his work are both processes that can materialize into meaning making but just as well materialize into pure sensation. His performance work “SoulSqueezing” in 2011 made entrance into the international dance field as a music maker, and the work toured over 7 years performing a singing and movement practice that is purely about amplifying and intensifying the conditions that are already present. Tian has received numerous grants and fellowships such as the K3 choreography program at Kampnagel (Hamburg) or the PACT Fellowship Program (Essen) from 2020-2022. Tian is working in close collaboration with Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Jeanine Durning, Diego Gil, Hermann Heisig and Michael Turinsky. His musical compositions have been presented by MAE Chamber Orchestra, Rosas Ensemble, as well in the choreographic works by Jeremy Wade, Dragana Bulut, Elpida Orfanidou, Martin Nachbar and others.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm