Mar 17–20. Love’s Conversation is Dance / Efva Lilja
We are happy to present Efva Lilja at Weld again. After 2020’s major installation with dance pictures and words, she is back with a stripped-down solo where she meets Per-Henrik Mäenpää’s electronic music written specifically for this piece. The title of the solo is also the collective name of a newly published book trilogy and a series of pictures that she is exhibiting this spring.
Love’s Conversation is Dance features life in and through choreographic strategies, navigating past deceit, inner and outer chaos. It makes art function as a reconstruction of what we perceive as unsatisfactory, thereby giving us new perspectives on ourselves, each other and our existence. It is an hour-long pounding on the meaning of life and living in a confused and politically bewildering time, like an inner dialogue about experiences and sentiments, about love and the art of survival. Here and now.
For years I’ve worked with a concept I call the technologies of listening and the practice of thinking. I listen out the movement. Choreography becomes a survival strategy and dance a resistance stance, a poem of life and the voice of love. In collaboration with composer Per-Henrik Mäenpää I explore the relationship between the mental and the physical, as I dance beyond words.
/ Efva Lilja
Choreography and dance: Efva Lilja
Text and voice: Efva Lilja
Original music: Per-Henrik Mäenpää
Light design: Jonas Holst
Photo: Håkan Larsson
Produced by weld
This work is part of a trilogy:
Love’s Conversation is Dance – book, Appell publishers, release at Rönnells 10 March 2022
Love’s Conversation is Dance – dance performance – weld 17-20 March 2022
Love’s Conversation is Dance – imagery, Konsthallen Stockholm 26 March – 3 April 2022
The performance is staged independently of the other parts.
EFVA LILJA
works with choreography as dance, imagery and text in works that take us through different layers of consciousness, erotic episodes, contemplative calm or playfulness with a political edge. Her works are both entertaining and worrying when she tackles the basic human condition with singular suggestive power. She is an unconventional artist, who uses choreographed sequences in the formation of a reality where everyday events and actions are transformed and given new expressions. She creates cross-disciplinary works that have been described as beautiful, poetic, controversial and groundbreaking. Her works have been shown in some forty countries and her books and articles have been translated to several languages.
PER-HENRIK MÄENPÄÄ
is a composer who works with music for films (drama, fiction, documentaries, animation, and music videos), fine arts, theater, and dance. From his studio in Gothenburg, he detects the sounds of everyday life, experimenting with electromagnetic impulses and other noise effects; he plays several instruments and frequently works with body and voice. All of this in a deeply personal and distinctive musical creativity, all about listening to what is going on in life. Per-Henrik has participated in various award-winning productions; internationally for The Pulitzer Prize and the Emmy Awards; nationally for Guldbaggen and Kristallen.
Weld stöds av Stockholms stad, Statens kulturråd och Region Stockholm