Aug 31. In the park-four choreographies by the pavilion in Tanto
The last Sunday in August is a late summer day with clear air, bordering on autumn. It can be nice to visit the park before the magnificent trees change color. This year’s edition of “In the Park” offers four choreographies around the pavilion in Tanto and its surroundings.
This afternoon, we will present a solo by Björn Elisson danced by Katarina Eriksson, a duet by and with Kyrie Oda and Love Hellgren, a work by Rebecca Chentinell in collaboration with Cecilia Roos, and a voice and rhythm performance by Freddy Houndekindo.
Dress for the weather.
Even if it rains, we are still going!
Tantolunden
August 31 at 1pm–4pm
The works will be looped three times during these hours.
During this afternoon, pay what you can.
Recommended price: SEK 100.
Pay with Swish. 123-073 63 97
SANCTUM
A dance solo set around some trees in Tantolunden. – a poetic dance tribute to all “tree huggers” .
/ Björn Elisson Company
** Sanctum = sacred place / protected place / inner space **
The word “tree hugger” was coined in the 1970s when the Indian Chipko movement fought for the trees that protected their valley from flooding. The tree huggers of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s engaged in direct resistance on site. In Sweden, the battle over the elm trees in Kungsträdgården is particularly well known.
Actions like these may well be needed again. The Nacka Nature Reserve, for example, is being nibbled away at, bit by bit. At the same time, investigative journalism is being challenged by reduced resources and changing media habits.
Idea / Choreography: Björn Elisson
Text / Poem: Eva Kristina Olsson
Dance / Choreography: Katarina Eriksson
Sound: Per Sacklén
Costumes: Björn Elisson
Under & Over
/ Love Hellgren & Kyrie Oda
Love Hellgren & Kyrie Oda have studied and danced Merce Cunningham’s work XOVER (2007). The duet Under & Over is a remix and choreographic response by Love and Kyrie.
Rabbi Aivu says that Rabbi Yannai says: A dilemma was raised before them: If one’s teacher is riding on an animal, is that considered like walking, and therefore one must stand before him, or is he not obligated to stand before him, since he is stationary relative to the animal? Abaye said: Come and hear a resolution from a different issue. / Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 33b (Koren-Steinsalz)
Choreography and dance: Love Hellgren & Kyrie Oda
Music: Alvin Lucier, Music on a long thin wire
Created with support from the Swedish Arts Council, Region Västra Götaland, and the Merce Cunningham Trust.
In Between Dances and Practices: Surface
/ Freddy Houndekindo
Surface belongs to a series of introspective-solo-performances working with, and across, multiple mediums: movement, spoken word and percussion. The author is attempting to surface at the gap of form and substance, an instance in which “things” are created and dismantled simultaneously.
In such troubled times, I wish I had explicit actions or statements up my sleeves. But in times of severe polarization, nuances and accumulated gestures ought to not be underestimated.
The piece is a momentary refuge for meditation and reflection.
träd emellan (between trees)
/ Rebecca Chentinell and Cecilia Roos
the bark’s age lines and weather-beaten grooves
whose dreams and memories can be interpreted
through the sensitivity of fingertips
and the drops of rain as they run down the trunk
the movement of moisture strikes a tone
that travels from the roots to the foliage of the crowns
and onward with the whispers of the wind
What is being sung?
Where do these songs take us?
Between trees, moving among animistic languages. In an effort to listen for harmony, Rebecca and Cecilia meet in a dreamtime where movements, coexistence, and simultaneities are woven into strings; where the hidden emerges from the shadows, where foreground and background emerge from each other.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm