Rachel Tess (SWE)
Any number of sunsets...
15-16 February 2019
Programme
Spectacular, drenched in romance and nostalgia.
Tickets15 Feb
20:00
16 Feb
20:00
You know why you are here but you don't know what it will be like to leave. We invite you to the excitement of your own expectations of the very near, upcoming and distant future. We cannot predict the future but we can play with it.
We determine the parameters of the final revelation of the sunset. It is intangible in its length - indestructible, thick and opaque - shrill in its intense clarity. Light of varying colours begins a slow movement from top to bottom; so slow that the movement is almost imperceptible.
The sunset shifts predictably from yellow to orange to red and every shade in between.
You've seen it before. You think we might be fooling you.
You think - this can't be the last sunset.
The crowd is spread across the dance floor. Your place in the room is predetermined. We believe you want the best view from start to finish.
You are here with the assumption that it will be spectacular. We promise you spectacular, as in cinematically hair-raising and grand, drenched in romance and nostalgia.
About the choreographer
Rachel Tess
Rachel Tess (born 1980, Portland, Oregon) is a dancer and choreographer living in Kivik and Knislinge. She is the artistic director of Milvus Artistic Research Centre and Rachel Tess Dance in Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA from The Juilliard School in New York in 2004. During her time at Juilliard, Tess received the Princess Grace Award and was a member of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.
Tess has danced for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, the Gothenburg Opera Ballet and had a permanent position at the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm. She has shown her choreographic work in Stockholm, Montreal, New York, Costa Rica and in Portland, Oregon. She was part of Dance Magazine's 25 to Watch in 2010 for her work as co-director of Rumpus Room Dance in Portland, Oregon.
In 2013, Tess graduated with a master's degree in choreography from the New Performative Practices master's programme at the School of Dance and Circus (DOCH) in Stockholm. The same year she received and completed the Princess Grace Foundation's Works in Progress Residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York with the project Souvenir. She is chairperson of the Östra Skånes Konstnärsgrupp (ÖSKG) since February 2017.
Tess's work Souvenir was shown at Wanås Konst in 2014. She was presented by the Lower Manhattan Culture Council (LMCC) in collaboration with the Princess Grace Foundation and the Baryshnikov Arts Centre in 2014 and 2015. She is also involved in the ongoing project These are Bodies, These are Motions, This is the Place with dancer and choreographer Benoît.