FRI 27 MARCH, 7pm
APT Gallery
6 Creekside, Harold Wharf
Deptford, SE8 4SA
Pay What You Can
£5 / £10 / £15 / £20
(suggested price £15)
For what we will is a choreography gesturing towards the work of building something with others. Through hard work and play it investigates the pleasurable work of moulding and being moulded.
What is the work of the performer? How does the effort of collaboration appear? And why are intimate encounters always so messy, painful and irresistable?
This work of dance presents three collective movements, each investigating actions of collaboration, instability and failure. The performers build, form, balance, hold and mold in ways of trying to make it work. How do we hold it together when structures fall apart?
As the choreography slides between actions of functionality and ornamentation, attention can slide between recognition and daydreaming. The audience are witness to nascent expressions, inspired by the desire for and will to better forms of life, even if only in this limited and unambitious form.
The work was originally created in the house of ABF, the Swedish Worker’s Study Association, in Stockholm. Created within a context of the Swedish worker’s movement, which has always been a movement of study, the choreography unfolds through the hard work of dealing with others, body to body. A study of movement, if you will.
“The secret harmony of disharmony: I don’t want something already made but something still being tortuously made.”
Clarice Lispector
Credits
Choreography: Stina Nyberg
Performance: Xirley Harthey Ubilla, Robert Malmborg, Stina Nyberg, Pontus Pettersson and Jonathan Starr (also developed with Freddy Houndekindo)
Costume design: Pontus Pettersson
Dramaturgy: Eleanor Bauer, Martin Hargreaves
Production: Terry Johnson (Johnson & Bergsmark), Magnus Nordberg (Nordberg Movement) and the administrative artist co-operative Interim kultur
Supported by: Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm city, Region Stockholm
Website: www.stinanyberg.com
Access
APT Gallery is a step-free venue with wheelchair access and toilets.
Look at their Visual Guide to find out more about the space. If you have any access requirements, please email michaelkitchinproducer@gmail.com.
ARTISTS
Stina Nyberg is a choreographer and dancer based in Stockholm. Her artistic practice departs from the political and social history of the body, seen from a feminist perspective. She holds an interest in undervalued knowledge, magical practices and the languages of power.
Nyberg’s work has been presented in venues across Europe and the USA and are highly appreciated for their discursive grounding paired with a direct and humoristic undertone. Oftentimes, her different work entangles with each other, creating webs of investigations that span over several years and meets the public in various formats such as stage performances, city walks, publications and symposiums.
Apart from her work as an independent choreographer she takes pride in being part of several collaborations. She is part of the feminist collective Samlingen, collaborates with Sofia Wiberg (post doc in Urban studies) on choreography and city planning, and with the musician KABLAM on techno and collectivity. She is currently part of the artistic cohort of Rose Choreographic School.
Nyberg regularly falls in love with new stuff and uses choreography as a means to learn more about these new objects of desire. Some of her recent love affairs have involved doom, details, dogs, electricity, gossip, speed, dance history, Nikola Tesla, birds, daydreaming and mindreading.