Till Asymmetrier har tre koreografer bjudits in att visa soloverk som på olika sätt reflekterar kvällens tema. Kvällen är fjärde delen i en serie med koreografi, dans och performance som arrangeras av KAI-EN och Kajsa Sandström på Fylkingen.

Illustration: Rebecka Holmström

En kropp utkarvad ur en kropp. Ett skulpturalt rum som veckas och vecklas ut över tid. Ett landskap skulpteras fram ur detaljernas inneboende och obändiga vilja. En process som gröper ur, luckrar upp, faller sönder. Fram träder en ny kontur, en annan verklighet.

Butoh: KAI-EN
Kostym och rum: KAI-EN
Ljudcollage med musik av Lars Åkerlund, Pål Asle Pettersen m fl

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Eleanor Bauer
A lot of moving parts

In A lot of moving parts, choreographer Eleanor Bauer prods at the Greek etymology of her own discipline: khoreía “dancing together” and graphia ”writing” to understand the place of writing in the embodied, social, and oral practices and traditions of dance-making. Working with the frictions, collisions, translations, love affairs and gaps between dancing and writing in a choreographic search for “simple containers in which the complexity of dance may thrive,” Bauer has been toggling between dancing and writing practices in search for the ways that these two media of thought can serve each other best, producing various texts, videos, scores, and structures for dancing along the way. As a malleable framework for for this ongoing inquiry concerning the relationship between writing and dancing, A lot of moving parts is a flexible container, evolving over time, and uniquely assembled for each performance.

Created and performed by Eleanor Bauer
Lighting by Jonatan Winbo

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Anna Pehrsson
Practicing Crisp. Come Now we Falling

Crisp. Come Now we Falling opens up the relationship between pressure and release in spatial, temporal, physical and affective terms. The solo thinks falling through different combinations of muscular pressure and release where the tipping point between them – suspension – and its relation to scale, gravity, balance and breath becomes movement. This in turn generates dynamics, form, volume, vibration, intensity and accent as byproducts, studied through each other.

Crisp. Come Now we Falling displaces the idea of “balance” and “balanced” to an unstable, ambiguous body in multiple directions. Attuned with small and consequential differences, the dancing body falls and tips, diffracting like waves that overlap and combine, bending and spreading out to continuously begin anew. Here, SHE is reconstituted a boiling point, neither here, nor there.

 

Choreography and dance: Anna Pehrsson
Light design: Thomas Zamolo

Practicing Crisp. Come Now we Falling is a studioversion of Crisp. Come now we Falling that premiered in 2019 at the House of Dance, Stockholm.

 

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Analog dialog
dokumentationsvideo

Dokumentationsvideo från tidigare program i serien, 13 juni 2021: Analog dialog. Två durational performances / installationer av Éva Mag respektive Adèle Essle Zeiss visades parallellt och omlott i Fylkingens scenrum. Händelsen filmades av Kajsa Sandström och streamades live på Fylkingens hemsida och i Fylkingens foajé.

 

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Eleanor Bauer is a choreographer and performer working at the intersections of dance, writing, and music. Her work is rooted in a synthesis of embodied intelligences in her practice of making sense with the senses in performance. From solos to talk shows to large ensemble pieces, her versatile works range in scale, media, and genre, traversing categories of performance with wit, humor, and aplomb, and have toured internationally to critical acclaim. Bauer has worked as a performer with, among others, Matthew Barney, Trisha Brown, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas, Xavier Le Roy, Boris Charmatz, David Zambrano, Every Ocean Hughes, The Knife, and Ictus contemporary music ensemble. Bauer has been commissioned as a choreographer by Cullberg (Stockholm), Schauspielhaus Bochum, Corpus (Copenhagen), and Nora (London), among others. Bauer created her own performances via GoodMove vzw, a production structure she initiated in Brussels from 2007-2020, and was artist in residence at Kaaitheater in Brussels from 2013-2016. Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Bauer holds a BFA in Dance from New York University, is a graduate of the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, and is currently based in Stockholm where she is a PhD candidate in Choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts.

 

Anna Pehrsson, born in Boliden, Sweden, is a dancer and choreographer working in the intersection of dance, choreography and visual arts. She danced with Alias Compagnie, Corpus DKT, and Cullberg Ballet, and has since the choreographic debut in 2016, created a wide-range of works including commissions – solo -, and group pieces – outdoors, for the gallery space, as well as for the stage. Pehrsson is an associate artist of Weld W2, Stockholm and MARC, Knislinge. Her pieces are shown at Bonniers Artgallery, Tjörnedala Artgallery, Uppsala Artmuseum, Weld, The House of Dance, and MDT amongst others. Pehrsson’s artistic endeavour is characterised by a thorough research into the prerequisites of movement and the dancing body, often supported by drawing and/or printing practices. Her work seeks to contribute to a feministic ecology – a female gaze in accordance with its environment. Pehrsson often develops her work in series, and the most current cycle, initiated with the solo Crisp. Come Now we Falling (2020), and the group piece Pressure Fields (2021), supported by Riksteatern/The Swedish National Touring Company’s Production Residency 2021, interrogates movements forced onto bodies in times of systemic collapse.

 

KAI-EN är butohdansare och koreograf. Hon intresserar sig för hur djupgående kroppsliga processer och erfarenheter kommuniceras genom den förhöjda situation som konsten erbjuder. Tillstånd av receptivitet, uppluckring och porositet är återkommande i hennes arbete, liksom relationer mellan kropp, konst och rit. Butoh erbjuder en intimitet mellan kropp och material, en receptivitet gentemot organiska processer och icke-mänskligt liv. Butoh förmedlas från kropp till kropp. KAI-EN studerade för koreografen och butohkonstnären SU-EN. Namnet KAI-EN visar på den levande länken till SU-ENs metod och kropp. SU-ENs butohmetod är en vidareutveckling av Tomoe Shizune/Ashikawas metod i gruppen Hakutobo. Yoko Ashikawa är en legendarisk butohdansare som arbetade nära en av butohns grundare Tatsumi Hijikata under ca 20 år. Det finns en levande länk från Hijikata/Ashikawa/SU-EN/KAI-EN genom en intensiv kroppslig överföring. Sedan 2011 producerar hon verk genom KAI-EN Butoh Company. Hennes arbete har visats på scener och gallerier i runtom i Sverige, samt i Japan och Hong Kong. Verk i urval: Stone Breath (2021, delat upphov med Björn Ola Lind, film och Alexandra Nilsson, musik), Lineage – rottrådar (2021), Porous (2018), Tangled (2017), In the Dreamer´s Garden (2015).