Philip Berlin ^(SWE) The presentation 3-5 April 2025

Programme

I The presentation the dance becomes a catalyst that embraces waste as a radical concept.Here you don't encounter a societal or individual addiction to the waste of seemingly endless resources - but as a fundamental human urge: a wasteful force that frees us from material and economic constraints and carries the potential to lead to liberation, fulfilment and transcendence.

The presentation does not look for a solution, either in the absence of something, or in the promises of consumerism, but sees waste as an inevitable part of life - even a powerful and fundamental part of existence.

Through dance, waste takes on a physical form through movements that vibrate between precision and chaos, weight and intensity. Here, in the abundance of movement, a quest for the dancer's spirit arises, where every step becomes an activity of the excess of life.

"Dancing is a spiritual excersie in a physical form" 

Merce Cunnigham

The choreography inThe presentationis a web of intertwined physiological and technical processes, expressed through density, centrifugal force and glitch. With elasticity, the dance twists around in various spatial embraces, and the dancer moves energetically, fast, and in complex and multiple trajectories to break through the space with directness and in sensory overload.

The choreographic method comes from the intense interest in elaborating movement material of high complexity, pushing the thesis that dance is composed of a large number of elements, where the different parts of the choreography independently become an unpredictable and at the same time organic system. A choreography whose basis slides between anti-flow and flow, and dissonance and assonance. The movement syntheses of the work are in a constant state of flux in the interaction of acceleration, abstraction, high frequency and expansion.