Anna Pehrsson (SWE)
Late Night: Crisp. Come Now we Falling
26-27 February 2020
Programme
On the body as an unstable structure.
Tickets26 Feb
20:00
27 Feb
20:00
We no longer recognise the world.
We know that something has to change.
Touch and physicality become a sign of our times.
With a distinctive presence and intense physicality, Anna Pehrsson explores a specific movement language and its ability to free and enliven a distinctly different relationship with the dancing body.
Crisp: Come Now we Falling moves the idea of 'balance' and 'balanced' to an unstable, ambiguous body in multiple directions. In concert with small but significant changes, this body tips and flows as waves break, overlap and merge. SHE builds up again, like a boiling point, neither here nor there.
"Crisp. Come Now we Falling" becomes a bodily activation of what it means to be between positions - stateless, between genders, dying... and puts a white body, with all its privileges, in turmoil to the extent possible in the institutions they pass through. The dancing body stops 'sustaining' and instead seeks out breakpoints for its existence.
The costume is made by established fashion designers Linda Nurk with cultures of self-growing organic textiles. Linda has previously worked for the French haute couture houses Chanel and Givenchy. From 15 February to 31 March, you can see more of Linda's costumes at the Sven-Harry Art Museum where Linda, along with 13 other designers, is exhibiting under the title of "Art in Fashion.
Exhibition of photographer Thomas Zamolo 26-27 February
In response to Anna Pehrsson's solo, Thomas departs from the use of the ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) photography technique.
This allows Thomas to enter into the idea of instability - the small descending shifts and imbalances - as the images capture the traces and ghosts of Pehrsson's movement through time. The multi-layered photographs emphasise the web-like relationship between body movement and space in her dance practice.
PREMIERE NIGHT DJ´AR JAC CARLSSON
Jac Carlsson, club organiser, DJ, dancer and artist is the founder of Sky City and Balearic Corner. Two interwoven concepts that explore the club as a culture and meeting place for bodies, experiences and thoughts. Jac's background is as a dancer for Cullberg, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani and as a freelancer around the world.
About the choreographer
Anna Pehrsson
ANNA PEHRSSON (S) has danced in Alias Compagnie and Cullbergbaletten for choreographers such as Edouard Lock, Benoît Lachambre, Guilherme Botelho, Jefta van Dinther, Eszter Salamon, Cristian Duarte, Deborah Hay, Stina Nyberg, Rachel Tess and most recently for Mia Habib. In 2013, Anna received an MFA in Choreography from DOCH and Matter Moves, but You Can't Escape Its Weight (2018) for Ballet Contemporaneo do Norte, Portugal, and No longer, net yet (2018) premiered at Weld, Stockholm was her latest theatre work.
She often collaborates with art centres and in 2019 the series Clusters was shown at Bonniers Konsthall, Uppsala Konstmuseum and Tjörnedala Konsthall. She appears as a mentor, rehearsal director, teacher and artistic advisor in various contexts and has taught at the Ballet Academy, DOCH MA in Choreography, Dansalliansen, Bronnbacher Stipendium, and at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2019, Anna was awarded the Uppsala Dance Residency at the Eric Sahlström Institute and SITE Sweden's studio residency.