Oct 27 – Nov 18. Weld Extended
Weld Extended is an extension of the experimental project Weld Company (2013). This autumn and spring, Extended will be in focus while we re-examine our larger project. During the autumn we have invited both Swedish and international choreographers to share their practice.
Nicole Neidert (SE) open sharing Oct 27 at 6 pm
Elisabete Finger (BR/DE) open sharing Nov 4 at 6pm
Femke Gyselinck (BE) öppen visning den Nov 11 at 6 pm
Harald Beharie (NO) öppen visning den Nov 18 november at 6 pm
Weld Extended is an open project with dancers/choreographers who have not worked with us in this constellation before. We want to open up for more Swedish and international dancers and choreographers and do this by conducting a short curious process together.
The invitation to the choreographer is to share their practice for a few days and to create choreographic material linked to 12 minutes of composed music by the Swedish composer Tomas Björkdahl. The work will offer different interpretations of the same composition. The work will end each week with a short open sharing of the process.
Dancers participating in different constellations: Natalia Drozd, Andreas Haglund, Maria Naidu, Wiliam Nylind, Alice MacKenzie, Anna Pehrsson, Jade Stenhuijs and Stina Ehn.
Invited choreographers:
Nicole Neidert (SE) open showing on October 27 at 6pm
Elisabete Finger (BR/DE) open showing on November 4 at 6pm
Femke Gyselinck (BE) open showing on November 11 at 6pm
Harald Beharie (NO) open showing on November 18 at 6pm
We have also invited Virpi Pahkinen for a special project in Weld Extended which will be reported later.
Nicole Neidert (SE)
works as a choreographer and dancer based in Sweden. Her work focuses on artificial expressions, textures, our senses, alternative bodies, emotional storms and dance. Through works that slip between illusions and realities, she wants to approach different aspects of our humanity. Nicole has been active since 2012 in various projects, productions, formats and constellations. Her work has been shown at Skånes Dansteater, Dansens Hus Stockholm, SPIRA Kulturhus, Uppsala konstmuseum, Falkhallen Falkenberg, Hjalmar Bergmanteatern Örebro and Malmö Konserthus, among others. In 2021 she was awarded the Birgit Cullberg scholarship.
Elisabete Finger (BR/DE)
Performer and choreographer whose pieces pursue a state of enchantment and eroticism of matter, generating situations that explore the borders between delight and disturbance. She studied Law in Brazil, Dance and Choreography in different places such as the Essais Program at CNDC d’Angers (Centre National de Danse Contemporaine – France) and the MA SODA (Master program Solo/Dance/Authorship at UdK / HZT Berlin – Germany). Her work has been presented in different contexts: dance, performance, visual arts. With the support of international institutions as such: Itaú Cultural, Festival Panorama, FUNARTE, Ministério da Cultura, Sesc (BR), Institute Français, Le CND (FR), Goethe Institute, PACT Zollverein, Fabrik Potsdam, Uferstudios (DE), Iaspis, Moderna Museet Malmö (SE), among others. Currently she lives is Berlin, she is an associated artist at HZT/UdK, holding a scholarship from Martin Roth Initiative.
Femke Gyselinck (BE)
is a dancer and choreographer based in Brussels. She graduated from P.A.R.T.S in 2006. After her studies she worked as a freelance dancer with Eleanor Bauer, Andros Zins-Browne and Esther Venrooy. She participated in Deborah Hay’s Solo Commissioning Project in 2007. From 2010 to 2018 she worked as an artistic assistant of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas. She also worked as an ‘outside eye’ for Alexander Vantournhout and Andros Zins-Browne. Her own artistic practice focuses on closely relating expressive movements to text and music in combination with a bold but humble performativity. Femke is a member of the faculty of P.A.R.T.S. GRIP started to jointly follow up Femke’s work in 2022. In 2023 she will officially become one of the joint artistic directors of GRIP, alongside Jan Martens, Cherish Menzo and Steven Michel.
Harald Beharie (NO/JM)
Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo. His practice looks into alternative modes of being, dancing and existing together while questioning notions of normativity. His choreographic practice unfolds in various constellations with other dance and visual artists, and some of the leading interests in his work at the moment are dissecting known physical narratives and opening for a conscious naivety and playfulness while indulging into the pathetic, collapsing but still joyful body. He is a part of the performance collective – De Naive, a group that mainly works with dance practice as soft activism – inviting and invading public space with social performances. From 2016-2019 he was part of Carte Blanche- The Norwegian National company of contemporary dance.Haralds work has received nominations for the Norwegian Critics Association prize for the performances ” Shine Utopians” with Louis Schou (2020) and the solo work Batty Bwoy (2022).
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm