April 26. Sparkling Conversations: Informal conversations on dance and choreography
Sparkling Conversations: Informal conversations on dance and choreography initiated and moderated by Carima Neusser.
This spring we invite you who work with dance and choreography to two intimate dialogue evenings. These evenings start with an artist talk with artists from the international dance field, followed by questions and an open discussion.
The idea is that these presentations can lead us into new topics, questions and reflections on our artistic practices and work. The initiative comes from a desire to enrich the dance field with perspectives on dance and choreography that differ from established way of talking about dance and choreography. With the dialogues, we want to create greater artistic diversity and new forms of discussion about dance.
The talks can also be seen as a response to a longing for artistic discussions that can take place collectively and that can strengthen our community as artists and open up new meetings and networks. We want to create a place for fruitful exchanges that focus on art and the artistic directly and without self-censorship. We will discuss everything from dance, choreography, process, the inexhaustible potential of our bodies, the unknown within us and life itself.
We want to initiate meetings that draw inspiration from our artistic visions, desires, reflections and above all our curiosity about the body, dance and choreography.
We shape the evening together!
The talks are open to practitioners of dance and choreography and take place in Weld’s foyer.
Max 15 people.
Coffee will be provided
Language: English
Free admission
Reserve a seat at: book.weld.se
Address: Weld, Norrtullsgatan 7
Participating artists and dates:
Olive Bieringa, 26 April 18.00
Benoît Lachambre and Ricardo Rubio (via Zoom from Canada and Mexico) May 31, 8 p.m
The talks are moderated and organised by Carima Neusser in collaboration with Weld and Vision Forum
Olive Bieringa (NO)
is a dance, performance and visual artist working at the intersection of social and creative practice, pedagogy, and healing. Born in Aotearoa, she is a first generation New Zealander of European Jewish descent educated in the Netherlands, UK, Germany and the USA. She moved to Oslo in 2017 from USA where she was based for twenty years. She is a teacher, and practitioner of Body-Mind Centering and a program director of Somatic Education Australasia. She collaborates with Otto Ramstad as the BodyCartography Project whose mission is to engage with the vital materiality of our bodies and minds to create live performance that facilitates a re-enchantment of embodiment, relationship, and presence. She is a doctoral candidate at the Theatre Academy, Uniarts Arts, Helsinki.
Benoît Lachambre (CA)
is a Montréal-based choreographer, dancer, improviser, teacher. Active in the dance community since the 1970s, Benoît Lachambre first learned about Releasing in 1985. This kinaesthetic approach to movement and its use of improvisation became an important influence in his choreographic work. He decided to immerse himself in an exploratory approach to movement and its sources, to seek out the authenticity of movement. His work, both as a choreographer and a performer, has at its centre the hyper-awareness of the senses, and the connection between the somatic and the artistic is central to his practice. In his creative process, he aims at thoroughly exploring the empathetic experience of the performer and the spectator and the intrinsic malleability of both roles. He has created 18 works for his own company since Par B.L.eux was founded, and participated in more than 20 productions by other companies, in addition to some 25 commissioned works.
Ricardo Rubio (MX)
is a Mexican choreographer, poet, and performance artist. He is founder and current director of INTERflamenca. His personal approach to creations is to dialogue with diverse disciplines like poetry, ethnography, performance and electronic media, to research the purpose of ancient rituals in Latin America and traditional dances in the contemporary world. He has collaborated with artists such as Rosario Ancer (CA), Carola Zertuche (US), Mariana Collado (ES), Robert Steijn (NL),Eva Milich (SE) and Kaśka Arbaczewska-Matys (PL), currently with Benoît Lachambre (CA)
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm