June 3, 4, 5. All those things left behind, for now / Matilda Bilberg + It’s About Time / Shai Faran
Weld ends the spring with a double bill signed choreographers and dancers Matilda Bilberg and Shai Faran, who will each guest us with a solo.
All those things left behind, for now
/ Matilda Bilberg
All those things left behind, for now proposes a shift of attention, from a forward-oriented gaze to a backward-oriented embrace. Rooted in relationality, backspaces, and the fragility and resilience of our porous bodies, this dance performance engages with its paradox: a solo where multiple bodies occur in one. It tends to the ever-changing reality of today, allowing movements to become voices to become space. With an intimate presence she, the performer, a vessel of experiences, moves from behind and around. Dances become cast and suspended as she invites the audience to hold hands with our future past.
Choreography and dance: Matilda Bilberg
Music: Sophie Vitelli
Light: Mali Dönmez
Costumes: Matilda Bilberg with collaborators
Objects and space: Matilda Bilberg with collaborators
Supervision: caterina daniela mora jara, Anna Pehrsson, Siegmar Zacharias
Studio Angel: Rebecka Berchtold
Illustration: Eliott Marmouset
Photos: Jonas Bilberg
With the support of: Stockholm University of the Arts, MDT Moderna Dansteatern Stockholm
It’s About Time /
Shai Faran
It’s About Time is a journey through the sensations and the multidimensionality of time. It is dealing with different ways of sensing time and relating to it. From being in the speed of our busy city environments to experiencing the slowness of vast and endless nature landscapes.
It’s About Time deals with different questions about time and its non-linearity. Can we influence time? Manipulate it, stretch it, compress it, stop it? Can we exist next to time, and can we go forward in order to go back in time? Can it be our companion? Can we dance with time? What is affecting our sensation of time and
how can we detach ourselves from that.
The work challenges our conventional understanding of what it means to “use time in the best way” – doing more, producing more, working harder and improving in a linear way – in proposing a process oriented conception of time. Life is more than a collection of products. Life happens all the time. It’s not linear and it’s not always going forward, and in life, sometimes ”more” can mean different things.
Dance, choreography: Shai Faran
Music: Yehezkel Raz
Costume: Theresa Kretsch
Outside eye: Sigal Zouk nad Mikael Marklund
Photo: Alicja Hoppel & Jonas Bilberg
Supported by H-E-I-M-A arts residency center, Seyðisrörður Iceland and LAKE studios, Berlin
MATILDA BILBERG (SE)
is a dance artist based in Stockholm, working internationally. Her work has its primary focus on the craft of dancing and combines an analytical and technical-physiological approach with playful, caring, and compassionate procedures to movement and body. She uses dancing as a way to play with the experience of existing and as a medium to foster empathy, equality, and co-existence. Matilda did her dance studies at the Royal Swedish Ballet School (2010-2013), followed by a master’s degree in choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts (2022-2024) under the direction of Jennifer Lacey.
She has worked for choreographers such as Cristina Caprioli / ccap, Live Art Collective MELO, Helena Franzén, David Zambrano, Nicole Neidert, Satoshi Kudo, Linda Forsman, and Julia Krauss a.o. As well as collaborating with composer Torbjörn Grass and the audiovisual artist Ionnalee. Matilda’s own choreographic works have been co-produced by Tanzhaus Zürich (CH) and Rote Fabrik (CH) and have been presented at theaters/festivals such as Dansens Hus (SE), MDT (SE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), Théâtre Sévelin 36 (CH), Rote Fabrik (CH), Västmanlandsmusiken (SE), B.A.D. Festival Bilbao (ES), IDEA festival Jordan (JOR), Les Rencontres Chorégraphique de Casablanca (MAR), and in the form of a workshopLAB during KINANI Mozambique. Together with her long-term collaborator Jenna Hendry, they were selected as Aerowaves Artists 2021 with their performance I U M I.
SHAI FARAN (IL/SE)
Born in Israel, Shai Faran studied dance at the Misgav High School and at the Haifa Art foundation, before following a post graduate program at SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance). As dancer and performer, she has worked with various dance companies (Cullberg, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company II, Sigma Ensemble), as well as with independent choreographers such as Jule Flierl, Matej Kejzer, Maya M.Caroll, Yuval Pick, Maura Morales Alessandro Sciarroni, David Hernandez, Martin Kilvady and more.
While working as a dancer and as a choreographer, Shai has been teaching in numerous dance institutions and festivals (K3 Hamburg, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Danscentrum Stockholm, Dance Atelier Reykjavik, Circuit-Est Choreographic Center Montreal, Deltebre Dansa), in Bachelor and Master education programs (DDSKS in Copenhagen and Holstebro, Iceland University of arts, La Manufacture in Lausanne, Stockholm University of Arts, ZZT Hochschule für Musik & Tanz in Cologne, Kelim Choreography Center Tel-Aviv…) and in professional dance companies (Cullberg- Stockholm, Corpus- Copenhagen, Iceland Dance Company, Scottish Dance Theater).
As a choreographer she won scholarships and support from various institutions such as the America- Israel Cultural Foundation, the foundation named after Ehud Manor, the cultural senate of Berlin, Fonds Darstellende Künste and Neu Start Kultur Fond.
For the past decade she has been developing her own artistic and choreographic research while working as an interpreter and performer in other people’s works.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm