Dec 4+5 Alice Chauchat: Togethering, a group solo. Guests: Weld Company
The french choreographer and performer Alice Chauchat is visiting Weld with her work Togethering, a group solo. This particular version will be extended by Weld Company who have been taking part of Alice Chauchat´s practice.
Togethering, a group solo embraces dance as an expression, a social activity and a collective process. Presenting us with a series of proposals in which dance is both a means and an end to togetherness, including a lecture on speech and agreement within groups, a telepathic dance and a poetry reading.
Alice Chauchat shares some aspects of the collective imagination she practiced over the past 15 years in the field of dance and choreography. They are stories about co-existing and about sharing. While remaining in the formal territories (spectators watching, dancer dancing), performer and audience share roles: assistant, companion, collaborator or host, as protagonists of the theatrical event.
Considering our shared time/space both as a reality and as a projection space for other occasions of coming-together, it is an invitation to address those occasions as experiments that are each time re-formulated and that we invent together.
ALICE CHAUCHAT (FR)
is born 1977 in Saint-Etienne (FR), lives and works in Berlin and Paris as choreographer, performer and teacher/lecturer. She studied in the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique (Lyon) and at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels). She works most in collaborative set-ups, developing numerous choreographic projects and platforms for knowledge production and exchange in the performing arts (among them everybodystoolbox.net, pa-f.net, specialissue.eu). From 2010-2012 she was part of the artistic co-direction for Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, a center for artistic research in the Parisian suburbs.
Dance, text, performance: Alice Chauchat
Production: Alice Chauchat, with the support of Theaterschool (Amsterdam)
Participating this evening: Caroline Byström (SE), Sybrig Dokter (NL/SE), Disa Krosness (SE), Sandra Lolax (FI), Josefine Larson Olin (SE) and Anna Westberg (SE)
Active members of Weld Company 2015: Caroline Byström (SE), Robin Dingemans (NZ/GB/SE), Sybrig Dokter (NL/SE), Marie Fahlin (SE), Noah Hellwig (SE), Disa Krosness (SE), Josefine Larson Olin (SE), Sandra Lolax (FI), Per Sacklén (SE), Hanna Strandberg (SE), Andrea Svensson (SE) and Anna Westberg (SE)
WELD COMPANY
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