April 22-24. Weld Company + Rebecka Stillman at Dansmuseet
Weld Company visits Dansmuseet with Rebecka Stillmans latest choreography for Weld Company from 2014. In this work, Rebecka Stillman suggests experimenting with history, as a spring board towards unknown territory, in her collaboration with Weld Company. The core of the work is a wish for strict protocols to give a push towards new ways of relating. Methods are being built in order to look between and next to the well known instead of aiming directly at the very unknown. This makes everything as it used to and at the same time not at all. It also gives a new meaning to the very history one is relating to.
Performed by: Anna Westberg, Elias Girod (FI), Per Sacklén, Caroline Byström, Pavle Heidler (HR), Josefine Larson Olin and Rebecka Stillman
REBECKA STILLMAN
usually has different functions in various choreographic projects. She has an MA in choreography (DOCH) and has previously attended The Royal Swedish Ballet School, SEAD and Stockholm University. She was part of initiating the stage art group ches:co (active 2006-2010) and has made collaborative as well as solo work shown in Sweden and abroad. She was commissioned to create a new piece with and for the Weld Company both in 2013 and now 2014.
Rebecka has also engaged in projects initiated by others, among them Eleanor Bauer, Ludvig Daae, Deborah Hay, Sara Gebran and Mårten Spångberg. Rebecka was a danceWEB Scholar at ImPulsTanz in 2013 and has also been active in the project Maximum Spaces.
WELD COMPANY
initiated by Weld 2013 – is aiming to rediscover and revaluate the format of the Dance Company and is updating the Company through a collective work conducted by one of Weld clearly given structure. Dancers and choreographers from different backgrounds share a common, daily and physical practice and raise questions on dance and choreography today.Every year, new company members are invited at the same time last years company proceeds to exist.
An important ambition is to thoroughly document, discuss and present issues, processes, conclusions and results that comes along the way. Through public performances, talks and the yearly publication “No Talking No Props”. But also on the company blog company.weld.se.