Practice presentations: Andros Zins-Browne & Alma Söderberg
Andros Zins-Browne presented the results from his four days of workshops at the festival. Five bodies, who had all been at Andros’ workshops, showed their investigation in and interpretation of memes and gifs. The choreography was improvised and embodied how the memes and gifs operate, spreading quickly in a huge crowd, but resonates differently from reader to reader, or from context to context. They are repetitive, but still their meaning evolves. What happens with the meaning of a movement if it never stops evolving, and if the interpretation of it is different from body to body?
Alma Söderberg sat on a chair.
Through talking/singing/noising while dancing
(still sitting on a chair)
she presented her current practice in a raw and honest way
after giving birth the pelvis floor might be somewhat uncontrollable
which is the reason of a dancer’s attachment to a chair
The practice presentation showed how a dancer can adapt, how the dance evolves due to its circumstances, and how these circumstances can in fact lead to a new artistic expression
Vår Maria Granados-Langeland