Sep. 3–11. In an act of weaving Festival
Festival finally! finally festival! a colorful umbrella that begins with a festival with dance performances, installations, video works, workshops and choreographic interventions and then continues throughout the year. Podcasts in November + Book publication March 2023 follows -tbc.
In an act of weaving is for weaving enthusiasts, dance artists and anyone who wants to feel in companionship again. a festival that is both close and far away, to keep in touch but also create new paths, a festival to ´hold the thread´ together again.
With a series of events both live, outdoors, digital and finally in book format, we redefine closeness, what is public & private, digital & live, centralized & decentralized, alone & together. How have relationships and life changed? Come, weave with us.
The festival begins with A choreographic intervention by Paloma Madrid with the dance company Rosales in Edsbergs slott on September 3, followed by some program elements from our festival, while we present the entire festival content in the second week of September.
It’s election year this year. The festival, which ends on election day 11 of september, raises important issues within the framework of both performances, workshops and the final book.
Coordinator, initiator: Nefeli Oikonomou
Participating artists:
Marcus Baldemar, Paloma Madrid (in collaboration with composer Hara Alonso), Sandy Ceesay, Sebastian Lingserius, Nefeli Oikonomou, Ludmila Christeseva
In an act of weaving
Schedule
Read more about all events and artists below
September 3
at 3pm A choreographic intervention / Paloma Madrid
Edsbergs slott, Landsnoravägen 10 Sollentuna
at 7Pm Weaving poetry / Nefeli Oikonomou and Sandy Harry Ceesay
at 8pm Neo Ballet / Sebastian Lingserius
at 9pm Because (unresolved)/ Sandy Harry Ceesay
September 8
at 6pm Because (unresolved) / Sandy Harry Ceesay
at 7pm Weavers / Nefeli Oikonomou
September 9
at 6pm Because (unresolved) / Sandy Harry Ceesay
at 7pm Weavers / Nefeli Oikonomou
September 10
at 3pm How to receive me / Marcus Baldemar (Cancelled due to illness)
at 4pm–6pm Crafts that unite, heal and last / Ludmila Christeseva
at 7pm NeoBallet / Sebastian Lingserius
September 11
at 5pm How to receive me / Marcus Baldemar (Cancelled due to illness)
at 7pm Weavers / Nefeli Oikonomou
at 8pm Kvadrennalen Event Finnissage + Party
Performance:
A choreographic intervention / Paloma Madrid
Free admission, No pre-booking required
Edsbergs slott, Landsnoravägen 10, Sollentuna
Find your way there!
A choreographic intervention is performed outrside. There are benches to sit on but the audience is also welcome to bring blankets or stools.
A choreographic intervention, directed and choreographed by Paloma Madrid together with nine dancers in collaboration with the composer, pianist and electric musician Hara Alonso who plays live in Edsbergs slott.
A choreographic intervention draws attention to ecological connections, where sensitivity of how we can be present in the earth is presented in poetic performative images. The choreography explores what it is like to become part of the earth and the healing effects it has on our bodies.
In this choreography, the dancers are right before we get the answers, knowing that we can change and influence together and be present in our healing artistic process and movement that becomes the foundation of our existence.
We dance for nature, the spectators who come and witness the intervention, and I hope innerly that more people dare to take off their shoes and start walking slowly in nature, as Xiuhtezcatl Martinez environmental activist, says; The biggest challenge we face is to change human consciousness, not save the planet, the planet doesn’t need saving, we need to change. / Paloma Madrid.
Dancers: Elvira Madrid Wiig, Saina Shamshirdar, Shaya Khalil, Emma Hultqvist, Jenny Salomonsen, Daniel Staaf, Mari Raudsepp, Maureen Asic
Performer: Sarai Alvarez Riveros
Direction and choreography: Paloma Madrid
Music and live performance: Hara Alonso
Photography and documentation: Celine Escher
Organised by Kultur- och fritidskontoret, Sollentuna kommun
Poetry night and immersive installation
Weaving poetry / Nefeli Oikonomou & Sandy Harry Ceesay
Free admission. No pre-booking required
We will like to invite the audience to experience the poetry of the work Weavers in an immersive experience where the audience is gently guided in the space in a slow tempo while they listen to poems from the performance. You can drop in and out, pas by for a short moment or long period. Nefeli Oikonomou och Sandy Harry Ceesay will like to share with you the poems they have been writing and give another entrance to the stage performance that premiers the 8th of September.
Video work and installation:
Because (unresolved) / Sandy Harry Ceesay
Free admission. No pre-booking required
Leaving trauma. While locked in an interrogation room, Because (unresolved) centres around one major event, and the breaking point of the protagonist as he/they tries to retell the story. The work becomes an archive for failure, as it fails to retell the event in anything other than a series of rhythmical impulses. Is “the unresolved” actually the letting go? Is closure even real? What makes us overcome the details of our past to be able to see the future of our lives? Is it failure?
Sandy Harry Ceesay about the practice:
Through the process of abstraction, I try to (from a distance), converse with the different mediums of making. By involving the body and its ability to appropriate experiences, structures and words, I seek new ways to facilitate creative production through physical actions. Whether it is painting, writing, dancing or audio visual material, they are all filtered through a physical experience (i.e weaving the body), bridging different creative mediums to explore the condition of human existence, through experiences of a marginalised body.
Performance:
Neo Ballet / Sebastian Lingserius
Book at: book.weld.se
A solo. A quartet. An astronaut and a panel. A dance speculation for the Ballet of the future. Or should we call it Neo Ballet. A place where the only attitude is the ballet attitude. With new language and other body ideals, the beautiful monstrous ballet enters.
For How Would You Sell Ballet to a Second Generation Martian?
With & by: Sebastian Lingserius (live), Noah Hellwig, Caroline Byström, Nefeli Oikonomou (video)
Composer: Franz Edvard Cedrins
Video editor: Aleksandra Sende
by: KASS Production
Funded by The Swedish Arts Council
Performance:
Weavers / Nefeli Oikonomou
Book at: book.weld.se
Weavers is a choreographic piece that follows the movement of thought like a trace or a trail or a wave. To weave is to entangle, to be in a relationship, to sense vertically and horizontally and follow complicated patterns in a methodical way that contemplates the resonance of each action in the larger scheme.To grasp the invisible forces that manifest with our actions; through a collage that unravels new aspects of how we make sense of the world.
Weaving is used both as a metaphor and as a working method, where the performers relates to their own body, the landscape, and the bodies co-existing in space. It is also referred to as an act of taking care and listening, but also as a labour in itself, with its own life and limitations. As the dance unfolds, different emotional states are evoked in a vibrant dialogue with the surrounding environment as the performers oscillate between different senses, qualities, textures and mediums that unfold in a crossing of animalistic and repetitional. Where does the body start and end?
What it takes is willingness to learn the labour of holding; staying; witnessing; facilitating the crossing of liminal thresholds; lubricating the beginnings and ends of human life-forms. The skills in question sprout up in the cracks throughout human societies, yet, under capitalism, there is next to no incentive for universalizing them. The fact of departing, or arriving, or undoing life, remains (for now) of limited market use. (Sophie Lewis,’With-Women: Grieving in Capitalist Time’,2020)
Choreographer: Nefeli Oikonomou
Performers: Sandy Ceesay, Nefeli Oikonomou
Music composition: F E C
External consultant: Sebastian Lingserius
Co-production: Weld
Producer: Ulrika Skoog Holmgaard, Scenit Produktion AB
Part of Kvadrennalen
Developed within the Residency Program AADK, Spain
With the support of the Swedish Arts Council, Stockholms stad and International cultural exchange by Konstnärsnämden- The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Cancelled due to illness
Dance-performance/Class
How To Receive Me / Marcus Baldemar:
Free admission
Max 10 participants
Book at: book.weld.se
How To Receive Me is a hybrid between a dance-class and a dance-performance where the participant/audience will be guided through a practice of receiving through looking, listening, moving/being moved and touching/being touched. Marcus will engage in and include you in physical contact.
I am/we are bodies of flesh, blood and bones
But I am/we are much more than that
I am/We are weight and force
But I am/we are much more than that
I am/we are sticky, hairy, soft, mushy and gooey
Furthermore I am/we are history, stories, and images
But I am/we are much more than that
I am/We are emotions, fantasies and ambitions
Furthermore I am/we are givers
But we are much more than that
I am/We are receivers
We are meant to give, we are told to give, we are encouraged to give.
We are even expected and pressured into giving.
But we are meant for much more than that.
We are receivers. We are meant to receive. We are mentally and spiritually meant to receive.
Our bodies are even built for it. We have holes and cavities meant to be filled, stimulated and penetrated.
We ARE holes and cavities made for being filled, stimulated and penetrated.
Receiving equally as passivity and activity but a doing nonetheless.
Receiving as…
…looking, but more than that; seeing.
…listening, but more than that: hearing.
…touching, but more than that: feeling.
Workshop / Performance Installation / Video Documentary / Artist Talk
Crafts that unite, heal and last / Ludmila Christeseva
Free admission
Book at: book.weld.se
We are a quiet and peaceful orchestra of crafts where ukrainian, swedish and women from all over the world meet to inspire and support each other. We craft for peace: crocheting, embroidering, braiding. Through our common creation, people unite for strength, creativity, hope and optimism.
NEFELI OIKONOMOU
is a dancer/choreographer/ dance pedagogue/performing artist from Greece, based in Sweden. Her work is characterised by an enigmatic and almost philosophical approach to movement and a strive to locate it in uncommon places, contexts and bodies. Nefeli’s work connects knowledge in the field of dance and choreography with a drive for interdisciplinary hybrids that embrace new ways of relating to one’s own body and its surroundings. Various themes she has worked with are, for example, the body in the crisis, working conditions, alternative political history and questions about identity, style, intimacy.
Nefeli graduated Dance in Athens (MoC) and Design in Siros (UoA), she has completed her Master’s degree in Choreography at DOCH and the interdisciplinary post graduate course Organizing Discourse at Konstfack University. She has produced various works, such as Punks Not Dead, The Art of Laboring, Rhymes of Pleasure, CFT with performances in theaters both locally and internationally. Through the long term collaboration with Sebastian Lingserius she has co-created the duets DANCER and POLY and performed in various international contexts, such in the Philippines, Spain and France. In addition, she curated Pracrising Transitions Festival (2016) in Wip Konsthall in Årstaberg and Rhymes mini ‐ festival (2017) in Weld which invited many artists with performances, open discussions, exhibitions, film screenings and workshops.
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SANDY HARRY CEESAY
is a dancer, choreographer and writer who wanders the different landscapes of poetic expression. He has worked with choreographers from all over the world: Connor Schumacher (NL), Liat Waysbort (NL), Marco D’Agostin (IT), Marie Chouinard (CA), Xavier Le Roy (FR) among others. He is current with his debut novel ”Kärlekens Exil” (Albert Bonniers Förlag) and a member of the writers collective Qalam.
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MARCUS BALDEMAR
born and raised in Kiruna, works as a dancer and choreographer and for the past 14 years has worked as a freelancer in the field of performing arts with Europe as his base. He was trained at the Balettakademien in Umeå, SEAD in Salzburg, Austria and P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium. Marcus has collaborated with a number of choreographers as a dancer and/or as a co-creator. As a choreographer, he has created the works GALDR (2019), Polari Speaking Sex (2021) and Markus Lär Sig Finska x(2021).
Marcus works with text and movement. With his work, he wants to communicate a non-hierarchy between the emotional, the physical and the intellectual. Sometimes he describes his artistic practice as an interest in finding or creating connections between the poetic/political body and a poetic/political language. Author Leslie Feinstein once wrote ´Gender is the poetry we make of the language we are taught´. In his work, he also sees movement and our perception of the body as the poetry we create from the language we learn.
PALOMA MADRID
works as a choreographer, dancer, artist and educator based in Stockholm/Sweden and Santiago/Chile. Paloma has been active since 2005. She runs the dance company Rosales and the collective V.C.V.T/Our body, our territory. Paloma is constantly exploring the intersection between her own body in action, collaborative art and social choreography. As a poetic body investigator, she proposes the body as a knowledge-producing medium and raw material in constant flux. Her work is always looking for opportunities for the mind and body to think, analyze, feel and practice about dance and choreography. Specific areas of interest, exile, migration, decolonizing love, participatory processes, aesthetics and performance art.
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SEBASTIAN LINGSERIUS
is a choreographer that looks in the outer edges of dance. He has turned Superman inside out, given audience a calf-massage during performances, dived into the post-cyborgian and let a robots explain it’s bodily straints, dissected the philosopher Deleuze thought-body, and had a worm dance Gaga. In his work there is a strong interest in constructing psycho-somatic practices, non-straight bodies and to reclaim the language of dance. To dissect the power that governs the body’s philosophy and politics.
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LUDMILA CHRISTESEVA
is a visual artist and independent curator. She received a masters degree in art in Vitebsk (Belarus). She also holds degrees from Stockholm University and The University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack). Her artistic research focuses on gender identity and questions relating to representation across cultures. Christeseva is an art director and executive producer for the international exhibition “Ingmar Bergman and his legacy in fashion and art”, which was shown in more than 60 countries around the world during 2018. In 2019, given an empowering heritage of pride, momentum and purpose that honors the example of women’s suffrage set 100 years ago, Christeseva organized a fashion show on Stockholm’s streets bringing together incredible women of Stockholm to participate and thereby support women within the creative industries prompting #sisterhood as a main strategy in achieving and sharing success. One of the models was Christina Johannesson, the Swedish ambassador to Belarus. When Russian invaded Ukraine, L.Christeseva launched a series of workshops in order to support Ukraine, including “Restart Ukraine”, “Hantverk som räddar liv”, and “Crafts that unite, heal, and last”.
Co-production: Weld
Producer: Ulrika Skoog Holmgaard, Scenit Produktion AB
Developed within the Residency Program AADK, Spain
Part of Kvadrennalen
With the support of the Swedish Arts Council
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