June 8. In the park
In the park
– a one-day festival by the pavilion in Tanto and its surroundings
With:
Alma Söderberg, Anna Pehrsson, Dinis Machado, Ella Östlund, Frédéric Gies, Inaja Skands, Jade Stenhuijs, Johan Blomberg, Kacper Migas, Liv Strand, Louise Dahl, Magali Camps, Matilda Bilberg, Molly Engblom, Przemek Kaminski, Raul Vega, Rebecka Berchtold, Sanna Lundström, Sigrid Sjöholm, The Mad Express, Tom Brand, Vincent Jonsson, Virpi Pahkinen, William Nylind, Yari Stilo
Tantolunden
June 8 at 1pm–11pm
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We are now returning to ”our” pavilion in Tanto with its green surroundings. A place we have a long relationship with. It will be a full day of dance and art by some 20 participating artists.
The pavilion in Tantolunden was built and donated to the City of Stockholm in 1988 by the environmental and cultural association Tantofolket, inaugurated with pomp and circumstance – and then forgotten. 15 years ago, we invited 14 artists, architects and others to create the film ”Another Pavilion”. A film that featured work in, about and around this place. During the pandemic, we returned to the site with a one-day festival.
Now it’s time again!
Liv Strand makes her sculpture/performance Abstract division. Weld Extended invents Przemek Kaminski’s choreography that he was invited to create in 2023. Jade Stenhuijs & Dinis Machado dance an excerpt from their new work Round and Revisit which premieres later in June. Alma Söderberg participates with the choreography Sound a Rose In together with Inaja Skands, Ella Östlund and Magali Camps. Tom Brand sets up his large sculpture Val with a concert by The Mad Express (Berlin) at the top of the hill. William Nylind (Weld Extended) dances Virpi Pahkinen’s solo and and Louise Dahl performs Frédéric Gies´ (Wandering) Ribbon Dance. In Dance for a walkway, the walkway’s own melody is danced by invited guests and Raul Vega opens the dance floor for all of us.
Dress for the weather.
If it rains, we’re still going!
Program
1pm–3pm Liv Strand. Performance: Abstract Division
1pm–7pm Dance for a walkway
2pm–2.30pm Dinis Machado & Jade Stenhuijs – excerpt from Round and Revisit
3pm–7pm Weld Extended + Przemek Kaminski
3pm–6pm Alma Söderberg Sound a Rose In
4.15pm + 4.45pm William Nylind (Weld Extended) in solo by Virpi Pahkinen
7pm–8pm Raul Vega – Social Dancing
8pm Louise Dahl perform (Wandering) Ribbon Dance by Frédéric Gies
9pm–11pm VAL by Tom Brand with concert by The Mad Express
Abstract division– a performance by Liv Strand
Liv Strand is a visual artist works with thin materials, as paper, sticks, sounds and veneer. Thin materials as a representational space, or as something that can be slided in between other matters: concrete or conceptual. Her work takes the shape of installations and performances, exhibited nationally and internationally. Liv was one of the artists participating in Weld’s film ”Another Pavilion” (2009).
Dance for a walkway
In front of the pavilion and all around it a walkway stretches out surrounded by tall trees and greenery. During the hours of the day, among other pedestrians, someone walks along, perhaps dancing, walking as usual or perhaps not quite as usual, in a dance to the walking path´s own melody.
With: Rebecka Berchtold, Johan Blomberg, Matilda Bilberg, Molly Engblom, Vincent Jonsson, William Nylind and Anna Pehrsson.
Round and Revisit– a choreography by Jade Stenhuijs and Dinis Machado
Here is an extract from a new collaboration between Jade Stenhuijs and Dinis Machado that will premiere later in June at Weld c/o Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus. The work is, as they themselves put it, ”A danced and spoken machinery for dreaming and moving together. A collaborative duo.”
Jade Stenhuijs (NL/SE) is currently based in Stockholm and works as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. A few years ago she created her own work Don’t Mind Me in Härnösands Konsthall, now she continues the choreographic investigation.
Dinis Machado (PT/SE) has been working as a choreographer since 2007. With an education in dance and visual arts, her work develops from the intersection of these two fields: where the concrete gesture of plastic construction of objects, spaces and bodies is recycled and processed as choreographic material.
Weld Extended+Przemek Kaminski (Sigrid Sjöholm, Sanna Lundström, Yari Stilo, Kacper Migas)
In autumn 2023, choreographer Przemek Kaminski (DE/PL) worked intensively with a group of dancers, starting from a 4-part written score where each part was a distinct dance, based on a set of certain instructions. In the park, the group will reuse and highlight fragments of this choreography and try them out in different places.
Sound a Rose In – a performance by Alma Söderberg
3 women sit on three chairs for three hours and make three rhythms. The work is a polyrhythmic poem with syllables distributed over a four-beat, a three-beat and a two-beat and then layered on top of each other. They create a polyrhythmic web of words in motion. They go on and on and on as nuances and shifts crystalize in the eye of the listener. They resist a society ruled by simplicity and fear by instead welcoming complex, polyrhythmic listening and doing.
Alma Söderberg is a choreographer and performer that works with music and dance. She uses her voice and body to play space as if it was an instrument. Her ongoing research deals with how we listen as we look; the relation between the ear and the eye.
With: Alma Söderberg, Inaja Skands, Ella Östlund, Magalí Camps.
By: Alma Söderberg in collaboration with Anja Müller, Angela Peris Alcantud, Inaja Skands and Ella Östlund.
Solo for William Nylind (Weld Extended) choreographed by Virpi Pahkinen
This solo has been created specifically for dancer William Nylind and set to 12 minutes of music by Swedish composer Tomas Björkdahl. In the park, the solo is performed without music, but that does not mean silence. In the park, the solo is accompanied by the surrounding nature and the own sounds of the park.
Our Finnish star Virpi Pahkinen is one of the leading choreographers and solo dancers in the Nordic countries and has performed on dance stages in almost 50 countries.
William Nylind is a Swedish/Vietnamese dancer, choreographer and teacher. He has a background in martial arts and yoga.
Social dancing with Raul Vega
During the pandemic times, architect, educator, performer and Weld’s own collaborator, our Chilean spreader of joy Raul Vega, spent time dancing in the parc of Vitabergen with his ghetto blaster. It became a recurring practice. Now he shows up in Tanto and invites us to dance!
(Wandering) Ribbon Dance by Frédéric Gies, danced by Louise Dahl
Ribbon Dance (2015) manifests the driving forces and powers that set bodies or things in motion and the potential of movements to generate themselves, like an engine activated by its own energy. To the rhythms of Fiedel’s techno, the dancer sensually and joyfully surrenders to these currents and forces and to the way the ribbon it handles changes the structure of the body. In a special version for the park, this dance is danced by Louise Dahl in a costume by Grzegorz Matlag.
Frédéric Gies is a dancer and choreographer based in Sweden. Oscillating between clockwork composition and the intensities and chaos generated by dancing bodies surrendering to the desires and forces that traverse them, their dance pieces bring to the forefront the capacity of dance to speak without having to demonstrate anything.
VAL by Tom Brand
A womb, a church, a stomach. The organic remains of something ancient that resembles an upside-down arch. VAL is a multifunctional performance and light sculpture, a mix of wooden legs and LED lights that suggests the fusion of the digital and physical worlds and an omen of what humanity is heading towards. VAL is a choice and a place to gather.
Tom Brand is an acrobat, performer, director, carpenter and one of the founders of Svalbard Company. With his mastery of Vertical rope – Tom is a researcher of movement, generating means of expression through the visual physicality of the body.
The Mad Express
Madeleine Rose and Anton Remy are part of Berlin-based The Mad Express who describe themselves as ”A train of obsessive thinkers & musicians riding the chaos theory in performing arts and electronic music.” In the park they play in the installation VAL in collaboration with the creator of VAL, Tom Brand.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm