June 5–10: RHYMES Mini Festival
Rhymes mini-festival is a platform for a queer understanding of poetry in performance art. Rhymes focuses on new practices that expand articulation as a versatile praxis and searches for the poetic on how it is perceived, performed, created or shared with an audience. Shifting between using rhymes as soundscapes, as material, as riddles and as dialogues, it creates settings for the body to expand its modes of coexisting.
Including performances, classes, open discussions, poetry readings, film screenings, it invites the audience to reflect on different ways of processing poetry and relating to the poetic body.
Project by: Nefeli Oikonomou och medarbetare
Participating artists: Aleksandar Georgiev, Darío Barreto Damas, Mira Mutka, Marcus Baldemar & Viktoria Andersson & Linnéa Martinsson, Nefeli Oikonomou, Off Highway (Indra Linderoth och Nina Jeppsson), Pontus Pettersson, Day Raiders/Riders, PETS (Ofelia Jarl Ortega & Pontus Pettersson), Sebastian Lingserius.
With the support of: Stockholms stad och Weld
Collaborating Festival: Ravnedans
Programme
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June 5
Festival opening!
(No admission fee)
at 8pm
FOG & FOX TOUR
OFF HIGHWAY (Indra Linderoth & Nina Jeppsson)
"Oh yes, PR leads to death," groaned Rupert Fox and froze in the image of himself.
In OFF HIGHWAY’s second voice journey they continue to search through the city / body weavering locations and pointlesness. We are navigating by a triangular map with one of its tips down. We turn our burning blind eyes toward the daylight, broaden our trembling leaking mouth opening, rise on unsteady backbones and reach towards:? Hear us conjure the unsure place where the categories of reality and identities crack up – all should go to waste
at 9pm
I LOVE MY COUNTRY BUT…
Film by Philippines artist Russ Ligtas
Also program release of Rhymes mini-festival together with participating artists, artist talk and party!
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June 7
at 7pm
POETRY READINGS
An open space for reading poetry together, a warm-up for a performance but also a performative warm-up. Within this hour we will share with you freshly baked poetry and tune our voices to commonly versatile articulations. Come and taste part of our artistic process and prepare for Rhymes of Pleasure magic.
at 8pm
Premiere!
RHYMES OF PLEASURE (RoP)
Nefeli Oikonomou with Aleksandar Georgiev and Mira Mutka
Rhymes of Pleasure (RoP) is a poetic account that stretches the bondings of articulation, movement and historicities, placing them in non-normative relationships. Shifting between using rhymes as soundscape, as material, as riddle and as dialogue it creates situations for the body to expand its modes of coexisting.
RoP proposes choreographies in which our own rhymes, moves and beats transit in collaboration, creating a unique mix between a poetry slam, a lust jukebox and a performance concert.
RoP examines different ways of reading, creating and performing poetry that suggests choreography as means to transforming the body's politics. This project wishes to expand on theories of performativity and disassemble elements of the theater, providing the opportunity for various dance-poetic proposals.
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June 9
at 8pm – 8.20pm
SOUND-ING-DISTANCE
KASS/Lingserius
An installation where voice starts from various body parts. Where new attempts are made to rediscover new relationships between ones ”own” sounds, ones ”copied” sounds, and ones ”pre-recorded” sounds. The piece wants to set in motion a play, where di erent tools for self-distance between the performer and the choreographic framework is tried out. Resisting a new desert-period. Attempting various "retro" identites beyond distance nor self-awareness. A kind of ”choreography as landscape of the micro”, rather than "choreography as an expanded field”.
sound-ing-distance is taken as a cue from the research project distance as a des(s)ert that was done in the spring of 2016 in collaboration with Micadanses Paris..
at 8.30pm
MOONLIGHT
Darío Barreto Damas and Aleksandar Georgiev
We are interested in co-authorship methodologies that apply intuitive ways of functioning and reciprocal manners to motivate each other.
Moonlight is a presentation as a summary of conversations between Ace and Dario
I think you think I think about you and you think I think you think about me and that is so cool. And sometimes, I think I think you think about me and you think you think I think about you and even that it is so fucking cool.
It is a moon and it has light and it is a practice, it is patern and, surely, does not repeat itself, it is structural and it is post structuralism for the ones that want it, it is Disney and it is queer and Aurora is in it.
at 9.30pm
SLOWATHON
– an invitation to walk together slowly during an hour.
Mira Mutka
The slownesses could perhaps be understood as contemplative attempts of synthesizing a variety of experience, information and sensation. The practice of Slowathon emerged initially from states of loss and a necessity for potential integration of artistic and everyday life.
Warmly welcome to participate by seeing and/or walking
Doors will be open during the hour, it is possible to enter and exit whenever
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June 10
at 7pm
POETRY READINGS
at 8pm
RHYMES OF PLEASURE (RoP)
Nefeli Oikonomou with Aleksandar Georgiev and Mira Mutka
at 9.30pm – 12pm
End Party with PETS!
PETS is a desire
PETS is cybersex but oral and some kind of rhythm
PETS is slowporn and off porn
PETS is dirty stories with a soundtrack
Your new calendar holiday
PETS is keeping you dance company
A pink shower all over your dearest body parts
PETS will punch the dead donkey back to life
PETS is Swedish choreographers Ofelia Jarl Ortega and Pontus Pettersson
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Screenings / Installation
June 5 – 10
Day Raiders/Riders
Day Raiders/Riders is a group that moves around the edge, next to and inside the city and its body during two whole days from sunrise to sunset. The traveling consists of events at specific sites that can be followed through its remnants in the town and partly online.
The activity is an act of love and celebration in the potential of binding together thoughts and branch a flow of extensions.
Live performance, micro installations, transcended letters, puzzle pieces, and digital traces together with other urban healing practices will serve as alternative treatments, as a massage for the city to supply energy in the small moment. Not that the city's body necessarily need healing, but more like a scrub, or shove into a slightly different form of being.
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Morning Class
June 5 – 9
at 09:30am – 11am
No admission fee
Doing Love Shrine & Your Majesty – Part 1 – a collective healing through self-loving but also a lap-dance of sorts
Morning class with Marcus Baldemar, Viktoria Andersson & Linnéa Martinsson
As part of the research and the creation of the dance performance Love Shrine & Your Majesty – Part 1 we would like to invite you to take part in our morning class.
In this 1h30min – class we will do exercises and tasks based on the work we’ve been doing so far. These exercises will include improvisation, imagination, breathing and voicing. We will also be creating set material based on text. We depart from r’n’b and pop music and we use these (often sexist and in other ways problematic yet so so lovable) texts in order to choreograph ourselves and provide us with (dance)-phrases. We then use THE POWER OF LOVE AND RESISTANCE to transform these lyrics into a personalised healing dance.
The object for our lovING will be the self and the extension of our selves, our dancing, in the company of others. The work we do will lead us to, in the second part of the class, perform the piece together with the soundtrack.
The piece so far is 34 minutes long. There is always the option to participate as an audience.
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NEFELI OIKONOMOU
is a performing artist from Greece based and working in Sweden. Besides from working as a dancer, she has been creating her own choreographic work since 2006. Having been educated in Dance (MoC) and Design (UoA) she recently finished her Master in Choreography at DOCH and the interdisciplinary course Organizing Discourse in Konstfack University. She curated the Pracrising Transitions Festival in Wip Konsthall in Årstaberg and she is currently performing in the duet DANCER by Sebastian Lingserius. Through the different meetings with artists she is searching for challenging ways to exchange, research and display and dive into unexpected affections. Her curiosity in dis-orienting norms and her interest in innovative approaches of co-moving navigate her choreographic inventory.
MIRA MUTKA
Mira Mutka works within choreography and dance by initiating, performing and teaching, often through dances, un-readable writings and conversations. Current working environments with Together Alone (Eleanor Campbell, Ilse Ghekiere, Manon Santkin, Matilda Lidberg, Mira Mutka, Pavle Heidler, Roos van Berkel, Samuel Draper), Cullbergbaletten (Figure a Sea, Cullberg 50 years, Mental States in Sweden in Dance), Malin Hellkvist Sellén (Missionären) and Nefeli Ikonomou (Rhymes of Pleasure) include performing and assisting choreography and production.
ALEXANDAR GEORGIEV
is a choreographer/performer/teacher based in Stockholm/Skopje/Sofia working locally, but operates nomadically around Europe, for now. He took part in couple of formal and non-formal educational programs, like NOMAD, SPAZIO, DanceWeb, 50 Days Fly Low and Passing Through, he recently graduated from the MA program in Choreography at DOCH, and now he got the scholarship for the Critical Practice program. He is busy around the project called "Celebrate it" (co-authorship with Zhana Pencheva and Nefeli Oikonomou (GR/SE)) and the family collaborations with MRFMadness
runs in the Family (in collaboration with Dragana Zarevska (MK)). He is cofounder and as well active member of Nomad Dance Academy -Makedonia, Nomad Dance Academy- Bulgaria and GARAGE collective. Shortly ….ace
DARIO BARRETO DAMAS
was born in 1993 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain. He acquired his artistic, technical and theoretical basis at Espacio Cultural Victoria with Roberto Torres, Teresa Lorenzo, Laura Marrero and Chano González among others. Darío studied the Grado Superior de Danza program within the choreography department, at the Institut del Teatre directed by Alexis Eupierre in Barcelona. At present, he studies the Bachelor of Dance Performance at DOCH (University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm). Darío has worked with choreographers such as Sonia Rodriguez, Juliette Louste, Elena Lalucat and Paloma Muñoz. He has also been involved in projects with Errequeerre dansa and the Ballet Contemporáneo de Barcelona. In 2012 he started to create his own work, usually presented at the festival Canarios Dentro y Fuera, Tenerife.
INDRA LINDEROTH & NINA JEPPSSON
are performance artists trained in the acting program at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. Founders of the performance group TIR (2008), who created a plurality of scene artworks in amongst others Stockholm, Copenhagen and Istanbul, as well as founder of Jordbro Stadsteater (2012) – a manifestation for the common and a campaign against privatization, gentrification and the entire capitalist system. Since the spring of 2016 they work together under the name OFF HIGHWAY.
For more info: offhighway.se
SEBASTIAN LINGSERIUS
Freelance choreographer/performer based in Stockholm. Educated first at the Royal Swedish ballet school and then did a Master in choreography at DOCH (lead by Mårten Spångberg). In 2011 Sebastian founded KASS produktion, through which he produces all of his work in close collaboration with venues such as Weld, MDT, and The House of Dance in Stockholm. Dancing and choreographing the last 10 years, training bodily and mental muscles on equal terms, he considers dance as a means to reimagine the human subject.
MARCUS BALDEMAR
is a dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm and Brussels. He studied at SEAD in Salzburg, Austria and a P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium. In his work, Marcus aims to combine his love for and interest in bodies as poetics and politics, dance and popular culture. (Performing with Viktoria Andersson & Linnéa Martinsson
PONTUS PETTERSSON
is a choreographer based in Stockholm. His choreographic work ranges from staged work, installation and performance, fortune telling, cat practicing, writing poetry to dancing, in his own work as well as for others. He plays and question the notions of choreography and dance as two singular entities yet closely entangled, practiced and expanded with their own inquiries, politics and aesthetics.
DAY RAIDERS/RIDERS
is an anonymous group that moves around in the city of Stockholm as an art installations in the periphery. Short temporary performance’s and their remnants are used to create potential moments that, if they are noticed, are intended to lift the tunnel-like gaze of the everyday and to reintroduce a little bit of mystery and glitter to otherwise insignificant moments and places.