Thursday 21 - S:t Johannes Church
Alma
Söderberg
The choreographer and performer makes works where sound and movement are equally important, and in her practice she is constantly re-discovering how intertwined those two are.
The choreographer and performer working with music and dance uses her voice and body as a space like if it was an instrument. Her ongoing research deals with how we listen as we look; the relation between the ear and the eye. She has grounded her practice in a number of solo performances in which she developed an idiorrhythmic way of creating.
In her two ongoing music projects wowawiwa and John the Houseband, she collaborates with other artists such as Anja Muller, Dennis Deter, Roger Sala Reyner, and Melkorka Sigridur Magnusdottir. In all her works, she collaborates closely with the sound artist Hendrik Willekens. Part of the artist-initiated structure Manyone, Söderberg is currently an associate artist at Cullberg. She has also won the Thalia Prize and been granted the Cullberg scholarship.
For this year’s Intonal, Söderberg presents her piece Deep Etude at the lovely S:t Johannes kyrka. A layering of rhythms by means of machine drum, voice, and dance in which the foreground and the background shift, the one carves itself into the other, the dance becomes the backing track of the music, the movement excavates the sound and brings it to the surface. Deep Etude is a study that is a spirit, a composition that is a practice or an object that is a skill.
By and with: Alma Söderberg
Music by: Hendrik Willekens
Dramaturgy by: Igor Dobricic
Production: Manyone
Co-produced by: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, BUDA, PACT Zollverein, Riksteatern
Supported by: Swedish Arts Council (Kuturrådet)
Residencies at: STUK, BUDA, Pianofabriek, Tanzfabrik.
https://almasoderberg.se/work/alma-soderberg-deep-etude
https://vimeo.com/261998746
https://www.instagram.com/soderbergalma/