SOLITUDE is an orgy in pulse created out of love of social dance. Social dance is a highly interactive setting where different elements and actors contribute to a multi-sensory, immersive and participatory experience, where pulse and rhythm are central for the experience of togetherness and wholeness. Inspired by that phenomena SOLITUDE aims to create a game plan for subjective experiences in a collective and immersive world of beat.
SOLITUDE is the third and last part of the series RHYTHMANIA (2017/2019), SYNK (2018) and SOLITUDE (2019). A series of work that in different ways, explores somatic perception and kinesthetic transference through beat, rhythm and groove.
“With a light hand, choreographer Anna Öberg peels away the tradition-laden outer influences of folk dance and exposes its core: rhythms and movement in symbiosis… Add to this a feeling all too rare in the contemporary dance scene, that in this room everyone is equally included and welcome, regardless of age, preunderstanding or rhythmic control. In Solitude, togetherness reigns! ”
“When choreographer Anna Öberg presents her version of the Sweden Democrats’ most cherished art form, folk dance, the perspective is anything but nostalgic. In Öberg’s work, emphasis is placed on the pleasure of meeting, the added value of community and the spark that sets alight in the friction between differences. With elegance she reclaims folk dance from the grasp of nostalgics, who in fact have never actually had it in their hold. A contribution to the cultural political debate could not be more effective than this.”
“Folk dance disassembled and recreated. Anna Öberg’s Solitude presents a display in a pulsating and living tradition, direct from the depths of folk.”
“This is a responsive choreography that touches.”
SOLITUDE was created as Dancenet Swedens co production 2018-2019.
Premiere: September 21 2019, Västerås Konserthus, Västerås, Sweden
Also performed at: Norrlandsoperan Umeå, Vara Konserthus Vara, Dansstationen Malmö, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Dansens Hus Linköping, Falkehallarna Falkenberg, Kungsbacka Teater Kungsbacka, Gummifabriken Värnamo, Spira Kulturhus Jönköping och Uppsala Konsert och kongress Uppsala, Riksscenen Oslo, Folkteatern Göteborg, Hudiksvalls Kulturhus
CREDITS
IDEÀ AND CHOREOGRAPHY Anna Öberg
CO CREATING DANCERS Bert Persson, Viktor Fröjd, Lotta Johansson, Anita Langødegaard
MUSICIANS Olof Misgeld, Petter Berndalen
LIGHT DESIGN Anton Andersson
SOUND DESIGN Elize Arvefjord
SOUND TECHNICHIAN ON TOUR Sigge Krantz
PRODUCTION Dancenet Sweden
CO PRODUCTION Norrlandsoperan Umeå, Dansstationen Malmö, Kultur i Väst Västerås, Rum för Dans Jönköping kommun, Västmanlandsmusiken
RESIDENCY Västmanlandsmusiken Västerås, Dansens Hus Stockholm
SUPPORTED BY co producing parts , Swedish Arts Council
CO CREATING MODEL Nordberg Movement, Dancenet Sverige
PHOTO Mats Bäcker and José Figueroa
DURATION 60 min