Splendour
by Stina Nyberg
Stina Nyberg’s Splendour is a work of choreography that focuses on the body’s relationship to sound, action and reaction and illusions of cause and effect.
The piece is created through a daily ‘techno dance practice,’ which is to dance to the album Archive One by Dave Clarke from beginning to end. Bound by the most banal relationship to music and by an attempt to avoid all interpretation, elaboration or creativity as such, the performers anticipate the music in order to do the sounds. The practice is strictly formulated through tasks relating to this doing, and in rehearsal no discussions are held concerning individual interpretation or performance.
The session, ‘Live Creation,’ locates the performances in the context of an inquiry into the ways in which choreographic thinking and the agency of dance artists can be made visible and explored. This afternoon session sees the performance space transformed into a site of the live creation of new work. Stina Nyberg works with dancers Nadja Hjorton, Sidney Leoni, Maryam Nikandish, Zoë Poluch and Rebecka Stillman to expose choreographic practices up close and offer an insight into embodied critical knowledge, thinking and agency at the heart of contemporary dance production.
Splendour is curated by Joe Moran, Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation, with DRAF as part of Moran’s Why Everyone Wants What We’ve Got research project, and is supported by the Swedish Arts Council.