March 1–3. Excavation Series I and II / Anna Pehrsson
Through an investigation of geological (transformative) processes, the materiality of stone and its vertiginous perspective of time, Anna Pehrsson approaches the human body’s ability to create change in her new work Excavation Series I and II.
Friday March 1 at 7pm
Saturday March 2 at 7pm
Sunday March 3 at 4pm
Weld
Norrtulsgatan 7
Book at: book.weld.se
In Excavation Series I and II, the focus is on movement. Anna Pehrsson peels back the layers to reveal where movement comes from, what generates it and how it propagates in body and space.
Excavation Series I and II organizes movement as a multidirectional mass – at once a hot liquid rock lurking around the corner – a comet’s tail blasting through the skies – and a thin layer of evaporated water reaching the pores. Light thins out to darkness, body resonates sound, and grinding becomes seeping, a noise of that which is called existence
Excavation Series I and II is the second part of a work that premiered at Fylkingen last year and is planned for several parts and a larger work for several dancers.
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
― T.S. Eliot
Choreography and Dance: Anna Pehrsson
Lightdesign: Thomas Zamolo
Music Shida Shahabi and Hampus Norén
Costume: Salome Kappelin
Produced by Weld
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EXTRA!
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When we started to dance, what Steve implemented in contemporary dance was already given. What was offered has been taken. What the intention was is beyond us. Our thanks is just a glimpse of what it meant.
In an attempt to recall something we never experienced we would like to say thank you.
In our tumbling we hope dance will be freed.
Steve Paxton was a member of the Judson Dance Theater and Grand Union, where he worked with Robert Rauschenberg and Yvonne Rainer, among others. He was a master improviser and also known for his intricate improvisations to Glenn Gould’s interpretation of the Goldberg Variations. He expanded the possibilities of what dance could be, developing contact improvisation and ”material for the spine” a system that focused on bringing the light of consciousness to the dark side of the body.
ANNA PEHRSSON
born in Boliden, Sweden, is a dancer, choreographer and artist active in the intersection between dance, choreography and visual arts. She has danced with Alias Compagnie, Corpus / Royal Danish Ballet, and Cullberg Ballet, among others and has since debut as a choreographer 2016, created a wide range of works for the gallery, the public sphere, as well as commissioned works and research projects.
Deeply integrated in her knowledge of body and movement, Pehrsson extends her work to other medias such as writing, drawing, stone carving and annealing. She debuted as a visual artist in 2021 at Tjörnedala Art Gallery Simrishamn, and continues to exhibit in collaboration with SEART, Stockholm amongst others.
Since 2021, she organizes and curates Dances for the Mill, a site specific dance project that explores movements and transformations as matter in relation to the historical sites housing the early Swedish iron industry. Pehrsson is an associate artist at Weld, Stockholm and holds an MFA in Choreography from DOCH and a postmaster accreditation from KKH, The Royal Institute of Art.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm