March 14+15. Dørken / Jennie Bergsli (NO/SE) & Alice Slyngstad (NO)

Alice Slyngstad and Jennie Bergsli have collaborated through several projects with shifting roles and perspectives. Dørken is their first project as a duo and is premiering at Weld March 14+15


March 14 at 8pm
March 15 at 8pm

Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7

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Dørken is the continuation of dancer and choreographer Jennie Bergsli (NO/SE) and artist Alice Slyngstad’s (NO) collaboration. The work departs from interdisciplinary performance practices that explore an expanded vocal range as choreography.

As co-performers and choreographers Jennie and Alice combine their artistic experiences of visual art and dance, and seek new modes of intimacy between voice, body, technology and identity.

The work investigates the subtleties of the nervous system and the vibrations that can be unleashed between performative bodies and their audiences. They look at the social and somatic negotiations that take part in shaping the voice and attempt to synthesize alternatives.

Dørken is an audiovisual performance which tunes the attention towards textures in breath, guttural waste and ambiguity. The title oscillates between referring to the deck of a vibrating machine room in a large ship and that feeling of lightness which precedes fainting, the feeling before you dive into Dørken.


With and by Jennie Bergsli and Alice Slyngstad
Sound, dance, light, textile, choreography: Jennie Bergsli and Alice Slyngsta
Costumes in collaboration with Ine Gyllensvärd
Technical assitance: Mali Dönmez
Outside eye and conversations Unn Felande

Warm Thanks to Thale Krogtoft Jensen for vocal sessions, Jenny Hval, Ida Haugen, Urd J. Pedersen, Jussi Andersson for great conversations, Colin Eccleston, Bjørn Eriksson for technical support

Co-produced by Weld

With support by Arts and Culture Norway, Norwegian Association of Visual Artists and residency at Tou Scene Stavanger (NO), Weld Stockholm (SE), Kunstcentrum BUDA Kortrijk (BE), Skogen and Göteborg (SE)


JENNIE BERGSLI
born in Skien, Norway, is a dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm. Her work departs from experimental dance practices, processing material and sonorous perceptions, and fictions of intimacy. Jennie creates collectively through various constellations ‐ often in interdisciplinary works through performance, dance, sound and installations. Her works have been presented at Black Box Theater ﴾NO﴿, Spriten Kunsthall(NO), Dansmässan ﴾SE﴿, Les Urbaines ﴾CH﴿, Kunstnernes Hus ﴾NO). As a dancer she recently performed in Listening Dance by Lisen Ellard ﴾SE﴿, Breath in The Wild by Shiraz Amar (IL) and DUNKEL by Olivia Riviere & Lisen Pousette ﴾DK/SE﴿. Jennie holds a bachelor’s in dance and performance from Stockholm UniArts since 2019.

ALICE SLYNGSTAD
grew up in Sykkylven, Norway, and lives and works in Oslo. Slyngstad’s works comprise text, sound, performance and installation. Navigating intimate and vulnerable relational materials in autotheoretical writing practices, they explore spaces, gaps and relations between language, the inherently queer body and social or technological infrastructures. Their work has recently been on show in solo and group exhibitions at Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art in Middelburg (NL), Palmera in Bergen (NO), and UKS in Oslo (NO). Their performances have been presented at various institutions including the Bodø Biennale (NO), the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam (NL), the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo (NO), and at Les Urbaines in Lausanne (CH). Slyngstad studied at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.


Dørken is supported by Arts and Culture Norway, Norwegian Association of Visual Artists, and Weld Stockholm.

And the kind support from residencies at Tou Scene Stavanger (NO), Weld Stockholm (SE), and Kunstcentrum BUDA Kortrijk (BE), Skogen Göteborg (SE)


Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm