November 13. Weld Company and Rebecca Chentinell. Showing
Weld Company is opening its 2015 season with a presentation of the company’s joint work with choreographer Rebecca Chentinell. On November 13th at 7 pm you are invited to a showing.
The work builds on Rebecca’s current research, exploring alternative strategies and methods to work with and present dance and choreography. She is interested in the specificity of these artforms as well as their relation to today’s neoliberal time – how can dance and choreography, within which labor and artworks are largely based on the intangible values that are rewarded in a neoliberal society, be worked with, produced and presented while maintaining the intrinsic value and political potential of the arts.
Together with Weld Company she wants to immerse in the company members’ both individual and collective understanding of and perspective on the labor of dance and choreography, as well as the dance company as a structure.
During the week the company will exchange and work on translations and mediation between written, verbal and movement-based materials which creates parallel choreographic layers that increasingly displace and question were the choreography takes place, and at the same time tries to make visible the fundamental mechanisms of dance and choreography as art disciplines.
Participating this evening: Sybrig Dokter (NL/SE), Noah Hellwig (SE), Anna Westberg (SE), Josefine Larson Olin (SE), Disa Krosness (SE), Andrea Svensson (SE)
Active members of Weld Company 2015: Caroline Byström (SE), Robin Dingemans (NZ/GB/SE), Sybrig Dokter (NL/SE), Marie Fahlin (SE), Noah Hellwig (SE), Disa Krosness (SE), Josefine Larson Olin (SE), Sandra Lolax (FI), Per Sacklén (SE), Hanna Strandberg (SE), Andrea Svensson (SE) and Anna Westberg (SE)
REBECCA CHENTINELL
is based in Stockholm and works with dance and choreography. She is educated at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and is currently doing a research-based Master at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, the Netherlands. Rebecca is part of the thing and one of the founders of Diggapony Collaborations. Since 2012 she runs Koreografiska Konstitutet together with Marie Fahlin, through which they organize and curate festival:display and publish Koreografisk Journal. Rebecca is also chairman of Danscentrum Stockholm.
chentinell.com
WELD COMPANY
Weld Company – initiated by Weld 2013 – is aiming to rediscover and revaluate the format of the Dance Company and is updating the Company through a collective work conducted by one of Weld clearly given structure. Dancers and choreographers from different backgrounds share a common, daily and physical practice and raise questions on dance and choreography today.
Every year, new company members are invited at the same time last years company proceeds to exist.
An important ambition is to thoroughly document, discuss and present issues, processes, conclusions and results that comes along the way. Through public performances, talks and the yearly publication “No Talking No Props”. But also on the company blog company.weld.se