Choreography & concept:
Anna Mesquita &
Leandro Zappala
Performers & Choreography:
Students from Stockholm University of the Arts: Mira Jochimsen, Emma Kerttula, David Anstey, Lena Kienzer, Zelda Lyseng-Storvik, Nellie Björklund, Joanna Kerkelä, Nelia Naumanen, Pénélope Touvier, Anton Hedevang
Artistic advisor: Pol Matthé
With support from: The Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm Stads Kulturförvaltning and Region Stockholm
Photos: Anna Mesquita &
Leandro Zappala
Performed in Sep 2020 at My Wild Flag Festival, MDT
Anna Mesquita &
Leandro Zappala
Performers & Choreography:
Students from Stockholm University of the Arts: Mira Jochimsen, Emma Kerttula, David Anstey, Lena Kienzer, Zelda Lyseng-Storvik, Nellie Björklund, Joanna Kerkelä, Nelia Naumanen, Pénélope Touvier, Anton Hedevang
Artistic advisor: Pol Matthé
With support from: The Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm Stads Kulturförvaltning and Region Stockholm
Photos: Anna Mesquita &
Leandro Zappala
Performed in Sep 2020 at My Wild Flag Festival, MDT
COMMUNAL ROPE
“in times of crisis”
This durational installation piece, still in progress, will be developed through a four day long workshop, where we will share some of the work and practice that have been developed within the ROPE-series over the past ten years. This proposal has grown out of a need to open and develop the research work together with others in order to find new strategies for collective connectivity. We will be dealing with the rope as an emblem, as a problem and a crisis, collectively encountering its qualities and dealing with its entanglements. Here are some of the questions we will be exploring together: How do you untie a huge knot collectively? How to use the connectivity of the rope to engage in a communal practice? How to organize bodies in collective actions? Between manipulation and being exposed to the rope’s very own dynamic, a particular kind of body emerges, a body that is situated between different cultures, languages and realities; a body that carries the experience of the moment, memories of the past and imaginations and fictions of an encounter yet to come.
With this said about the research, we’re also dealing with contemporary issues and social distancing imposed by the corona, which encourage us to provoke this encounter with the students, who will spend their very first week of the 3-year BA program in Dance Performance at Stockholm University of the Arts together with us.
“in times of crisis”
This durational installation piece, still in progress, will be developed through a four day long workshop, where we will share some of the work and practice that have been developed within the ROPE-series over the past ten years. This proposal has grown out of a need to open and develop the research work together with others in order to find new strategies for collective connectivity. We will be dealing with the rope as an emblem, as a problem and a crisis, collectively encountering its qualities and dealing with its entanglements. Here are some of the questions we will be exploring together: How do you untie a huge knot collectively? How to use the connectivity of the rope to engage in a communal practice? How to organize bodies in collective actions? Between manipulation and being exposed to the rope’s very own dynamic, a particular kind of body emerges, a body that is situated between different cultures, languages and realities; a body that carries the experience of the moment, memories of the past and imaginations and fictions of an encounter yet to come.
With this said about the research, we’re also dealing with contemporary issues and social distancing imposed by the corona, which encourage us to provoke this encounter with the students, who will spend their very first week of the 3-year BA program in Dance Performance at Stockholm University of the Arts together with us.
