About the performance
Still / Dancing / Body is a dance performance created by Taneli Törmä for and with Birgitte Skands. Taneli and Birgitte instigated this project during the emergency lockdown in 2020. Weekly excursions and conversations about dance became a routine in their lives that continues to feed their artistic exchange.
A dance is never just a dance. There is always more behind everything if we dare to dig deeper. We cannot separate the dance, the choreography, the performer, and her background from what is happening in the world at the moment.
Still / Dancing / Body is a testimony to why many dance artists have no choice but to create art and speak their full voices. It returns to the sacred body— our living archive where we store all our emotions and thoughts, which are the essential foundation of the ethics of being. With a philo-physical approach, the artists strive to delve deeply into lived experience, with the ambition to encapsulate Birgitte Skands’ 60 years of life and dancing. As a performance Still / Dancing / Body brings lived experience, life itself, the in-between, philosophical thoughts, stillness, memories, and bodily experiences into a choreographic space.
About the Choreographer
Birgitte Skands (born 1960) is a Danish dance artist who works as a dancer, performer, choreographer, and dance teacher. She was one of the first Danish modern dancers to pursue education abroad, attending Juilliard in New York, where she graduated in 1985. Since then, she has been involved in numerous dance, art, and cross-disciplinary projects. Birgitte has roots in many traditions and dance styles, including modern, contemporary, jazz, house, Afro-Brazilian, flamenco, theater dance, improvisation, and postmodern practice. She remains an active dancer, engaged in the dance scene and the development of dance in Copenhagen.
Taneli Törmä (born 1985) is a Finnish choreographer and the artistic director of the Danish dance company LOCATION X. Over the past 14 years, Taneli Törmä – LOCATION X’s works have been created in Denmark and presented in more than 20 countries. Still / Dancing / Body will be the final production of LOCATION X, as Taneli will begin his new role as the artistic director of Dance Theatre Minimi in Kuopio, Finland.
Choreography
Artistic team
Taneli Törmä i samarbejde med Birgitte Skands
Performers Birgitte Skands, Taneli Törmä
Sound- and videodesign Taneli Törmä
Sound / Music Marivaldo dos santos - AxeQabales Banda, Vladislav Delay - LuotasiVantaa album, Esa Mattila - DistortionFrom Distortion Trio performance
Photography Bruno Volpe
Production Location X
Administration Christine Bibaud
Co-production Dansehallerne (DK), Dance Theatre Minimi (FIN)
Supported by Dansk Artist Forbund, Augustinus Fonden, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, The Finnish-Danish Cultural Foundation, Åbne Scene - Godsbanen residency og Udviklingsplatformen for scenekunst
Special thanks to - Tid R i r um esidency
Ida-Louis Laclerc Larsen
Da N vid icolás Abad
AdeY
Boaz Barkan
Rosangela Silvestre
Roosa Törmä
Lone Nyhuus
J S on kulberg
Forsøgstationen Dansehallerne team
Practical info
Date, time, duration & stage
28.10.2024, 20:00
30.10.2024, 20:00
31.10.2024, 20:00
1.11.2024, 20:00 / 1 hour, in Blackboxen
Dansehallerne Address
Dansehallerne, Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799
Copenhagen V
About Dansehallerne
Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography. Our focus lies in presenting and co-producing Danish and international productions for all ages. We are a gathering point for passionate dance audiences and professionals. From our center, we communicate professional knowledge of the art of dance, and we drive discussions about all aspects of the art of dance, at an intermediate level and in-depth.
Being a national center, as well as a gathering point for the local and international communities, we continuously work to ensure the best possible settings for artistic production and for the audience’s encounter with the art of dance. Every year, people from all around the country can experience the best that dance has to offer. And for several hundred artists, Dansehallerne is the yearround base and interface for professional activities within the field of dance.
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