Alma Söderberg
Infinétude
decemberdec 2 – 4
© Evelina Boberg ©
© Evelina Boberg ©
© Evelina Boberg ©
Tuesday december 2
20h
Wednesday december 3
20h
Thursday december 4
20h
Choreography Alma Söderberg. Creation and performance Anja Müller, Roger Sala Reyner, Alen Nsambu, Eliott Marmouset, Anna Fitoussi, Alma Söderberg. Dramaturgy Igor Dobričić. Lighting and technical direction Sandra Liscano. Costumes Behnaz Aram. Set design Pol Matthé. Production Sofia Wickman. Distribution Giulia Messia.
Production Alma Söderberg Studio
Co-production Norrlandsoperan (Umeå); Festival d’Automne à Paris; MDT Moderna Dansteatern (Stockholm); Dansens Hus Stockholm; Skogen (Gothenburg); Inkonst (Malmö); Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk); NEXT festival
With financial support from the Swedish Arts Council and Region Skåne
Alma Söderberg Studio is supported by the Swedish Arts Council and the City of Malmö
The Festival d’Automne à Paris is a co-producer of this performance and presents it in co-presentation with the Atelier de Paris / CDCN.
Is it a concert for six moving bodies? Or a dance for six voices? Alma Söderberg's latest work extends her research into the interlocking of rhythmic patterns with the invention of gestures and vocal melodies. On stage, six performers compose, sing, and move around as though they were a multitude of different frequencies oscillating in space, vibrating together in a quest for harmony.
Which comes first, the rhythm or the dance, the melody or the gesture? In this her first Festival invitation, the choreographer, following on from Sound A Rose In, continues her work into the interweaving of a continuum of voices, movements and rhythms that mutually bring each other into existence, to a dizzying loop-like effect. With Infinétude, she composes a framework made up of several polyrhythmic strata, in which the six performers seek to become in tune with each other – and to find the point of resonance that transforms them into a multiplicity of singularities all acting together. Within this mobile, unstable, vocal wave different patterns emerge and become superimposed. And from out of this songs emerge, forming islands of meaning; Unison combines with polyphony, and immobility with momentum, thereby giving shape to the emotions that travel around the group. In a constant process of listening to oneself and others, this study reveals an infinity of an intimate kind – an embodied abstraction, a means by which to reconfigure the presence of bodies in time and space.