March 2–4: The wind escorts the sky / Pontus Pettersson
The wind escorts the sky is second part of Pontus Pettersson’s latest project Poetic Procedures. The project looks into the relation between dance and poetry and how these practices can unfold in the situation of a dance class and with the case of The wind escorts the sky; a stage performance.
The performance is primary layered as a poetry recital of Pontus own poetry in a visually constructed milieu, where the criteria and performance of the theatre as a space, as a situation, as specific attention and reading of signs empathically and abstract into account.
Previous choreographic work and practices blended and blurres into new situations. The poems is a collection of past and new writings that in the performance applies its content as well as it is a re writing of these poems to accommodate the performance. Departing from the visual choreographic principles of The Poeticians and Writing wounds to heal/MINO (Weld autumn 2015). The wind escorts the sky enters the domains of voice, utterance and speech, even a cat-like opera.
Choreography, costume and set design: Pontus Pettersson
Performers: Marie Ursin, Robert Malmborg, Peter Mills and Hagar Tenenbaum
Sound design: Robin Jonsson
Light Design: Carl Kristiansson
The wind escorts the sky/Poetic Procedures is made possible through support by The Swedish Arts Grant Committee, residency at c.off and is co-produced by Weld.
The performance is in English.
PONTUS PETTERSSON (SE)
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.
Receiving his dance training at Statens Teaterskole in Copenhagen Pontus has worked as a dancer for choreographers like Deborah Hay, Mårten Spångberg, Ohad Naharin, Cristina Caprioli and Mette Ingvartsen. Pontus is currently involved with his project The Poeticians, a poetic choreo-curatorial project as well as dancing for Mette Ingvartsen in her performance Seven Pleasures as well as working with the musical, text and performance project PETS together with his friend and choreographer Ofelia Jarl Ortega. Pontus is a recurring guest at the venue Weld in Stockholm and holds an MA in choreography from the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm.