Opening night:
Bergspråk (displaced)
At MDT Moderna Dansteatern
An eco-facilitated program by DACE – Dance Art Critical Ecology
Rickard Borgström [FI]  & Rebecca Chentinell [SE] 
7-11 Juni 2023

Almost exactly one year ago we, a group of dancers, choreographers, artists, researchers and thinkers from the Nordics, Sápmi and South America, gathered in Suttes/Boden in Jåhkågasska to investigate and reconsider the relationship between man and nature with a dance/exhibition Bergspråk, and a symposium Dances and Songs of Earth. Through dance, joik, storytelling, meditation and hikes, we shared and created common, collective experiences around the ecological challenges of the specific places we were coming from, then, now, and in relation to today’s (so-called) green transition.

In Bergspråk (displaced) we seek sensuous ways of approaching today’s ecological crisis in order to illuminate and create more understanding around the interconnectedness of the world, beyond just human needs, and unite in struggles for ecological sustainability across continents. 

Bergspråk (displaced) is an eco-facilitated programme that brings together some of the artists who participated in the research in Jåhkågasska last year, all of whom carry bodily experiences from critical ecological events beyond Stockholm’s geography. Through eco-sensitive practices and philosophies such as deep listening, communal being, somatic rituals and joik, the mountain’s struggle is given voice and body – through both we as artists and you as our audience – we hope to actualise some of these ecological issues in this city where political power resides and major ecological decisions are made.

Through bodily testimonies from within the mountain, Bergspråk (displaced) creates a network of ancient, contemporary, and future thought systems to deepen our understanding of this post-anthropocentric landscape we find ourselves in. With dance, joiks, agitation and passionate processions, the great questions of our time are awakened in our bodies, conjuring bewildering insights as collective empowerment.

On June 7th an interwoven outdoor program is presented with the following new creations
Tender Walks Being Woven by Kristin Nango
Gulahallat Eatnamiin: We Speak Earth by Ánte Mikkel Gaup & Inger Biret Gaup
Bonesby Amanda Piña
Walking, drumming, dancing by Tone Johannessen & Mariê Mazer
Memory of a place by Marit Shirin Carolasdotter & Linnéa Sundling
The Living by Regan McEnroe
Det är nog nu! by Tor Lennart Tuorda.
Discoverer of Europe Presents: (something) by Uyarakq
Bergpråk (displaced) also encompass the exhibition Divina Presencia by Amanda Piña, which will be on display throughout the festival in Studio 2, and the sensory-based attentive audio walk Tender Walks Being Woven by Kristin Nango, which can be experienced outdoors and enjoyed twice daily.

𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗦𝗣𝗥Å𝗞 (𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗱) is part of the Festival Lustholmen 7-11 June 2023 curated by Anna Efraimsson & Mariana Suikkanen Gomes MDT Moderna Dansteatern.

Eco-facilitation: DACE – Dance Art Critical Ecology
Rickard Borgström & Rebecca Chentinell
Technicians: Björn Kuajara & Luka Curk
Coordination: Mmabatho Thobejane
Communication: Erica Moon-Nam Lindberg
Texts: Rickard Borgström & Rebecca Chentinell
Video documentation: Adam Nilsson
Curators Festival Lustholmen: Anna Efraimsson & Mariana Suikkanen Gomes

ARTISTS AND ECO-FACILITATORS

Kristin Nango [Sápmi/NO]
Ánte Mikkel Gaup [Sápmi/NO]
Inger Biret Gaup [Sápmi/NO]
Amanda Piña [CL/MX/AU]
Tone Johannessen [NO] 
Mariê Mazer [BR] 
Marit Shirin Carolasdotter [Sápmi/SE]
Linnéa Sundling [Sápmi/SE]
Regan McEnroe [Sápmi/SE]
Tor Lennart Tourda [Sápmi/SE]
Uyarakq (Aqqalu Berthelsen) [Kalaallit Nunaat]

DACE – Dance Art Critical Ecology
DACE is a platform for curatorial and choreographic explorations on dance and choreography in a More-than-Human World, initiated by Rickard Borgström and Rebecca Chentinell in 2019. Central to the duo is how the body functions as an interface towards the surroundings. Consequently, they invite artists who engage in the rapid technological, environmental and political changes, with a multitude of bodily approaches, and how this might affect our actions, thinking and artistic practice.

DACE traces new bodily sensitivities and interconnections between human, technology and nature in a more-than-human environment. DACE seeks new aesthetic paradigms in the shifting nature of our ecological systems in the geological era of human-made nature.

Final week of Nattens Ekologi 3-9 April: Workshops and Performances. More information press here and here.

Opening night:
Hämärän maa – Nattens ekologi 
Works from the Wihuri foundation collection
At Rovaniemi Art Museum 
Curated by DACE – Dance Art Critical Ecology
Rickard Borgström [FI]  & Rebecca Chentinell [SE] 
16 December 2022 – 19 March 2023

The exhibition Hämärän maa – Nattens ekologi is a dark tale about the finitude as much as bewilderment over how inconceivably entangled life and the planet are.

At nightfall man vanishes – if they do not cease to exist, at least they dissolve, their contours become vague as the outer world starts to leak into them. In the night, their porous body intersects by invisible forces that crawl under the skin, collapsing their borders. In the darkness the individual figures are erased, as the personal life comes to an end and their body becomes an interface open for infinite currents of hardly noticeable shifts of thousands of strange bodies, merely sensed and not possible to distinguish. In the incomprehensible tremors of the loss of self, the horrifying vulnerability engulfs them as they no longer control themselves, all while they fail to separate their inner darkness from the darkness outside. Thus, the night becomes their awakening, not as a subject, but as an ecological organism, among organisms.

ARTISTS : Jesse Adveikov, Maija Albrecht, Anne-Elina Alho, Ville Andersson, Jasmin Anoschkin, Tor Arne, Tuomo Blomqvist, Pirjetta Brander, Markku Hakuri, Paavo Halonen, Mia Hamari, Simo Hannula, Hannaleena Heiska, Veikko Hirvimäki, Tapio Junno, Pekka Jylhä, Aarne Jämsä, Marja Kanervo, Eemil Karila, Kaija Kiuru, Essi Korva, Marjo Lahtinen, Tuomas Laitinen, Tiia Matikainen, Elina Merenmies, Juhana Moisander, nabbteeri, Mari Rantanen, Juri Saarikoski, Noora Schroderus, Kim Simonsson, Tommi Toija, Paavo Tolonen, Jan Kenneth Weckman and Seppo Öfverström. 

Hvem drepte faren min” er en nyskrevet, eksplosiv monolog av Edouard Louis om klasseforskjeller og de mekanismene i samfunnet som skaper mindreverd og utslitte kropper. Edouard Louis filtrerer alt dette gjennom å fortelle sin fars historie.

I 2022 skal Agder Nye Teater skape en ekspressiv og intens sceneversjon av fortellingen. Forestillingen er et samarbeid mellom skuespiller Gina Lindås Theodorsen, danser og koreograf Charlott Utzig og regissør Magnus Sparsaas.

Edouard Louis har med sine tre nylige romaner fornyet diskusjonen om klasseforskjeller og linket den til den økende populariteten til populistiske protestpartier. Jakten på raske løsninger, klare fiendebilder og bortforklaringer utfordrer demokratiets bestandighet. Hvem drepte faren min er den tredje boken i en trilogi som beskriver arbeiderklasse-oppveksten på landsbygda i Frankrike. Den første boken handler om å være skeiv på et lite sted, lengselen etter frigjøring og oppgjøret og bruddet med egen familie. Men i den nyeste boken er det gjenforeningen med familien og en forsvarstale for en arbeiderklasse han selv har forlatt som danner rammen for å analysere oppveksten og farens liv. I en tid med svekkelse av sosiale rettigheter, økende ulikheter og svekket bevissthet om klasseforskjellers strukturelle inngripen i livet og selvfølelsen til individet er Louis sine bøker befriende direkte om noe som både er dypt personlig og helt universelt

Av: Edouard Louis
Regi og scenografi: Magnus Sparsaas
Kunstneriske medskapere: Gina Lindås Theodorsen, Charlott Utzig, Marius Christoffer Karlsrud
På scenen: Gina Lindås Theodorsen, Charlott Utzig, Magnus Sparsaas, Gaut Åge Bjønnum, Ingvild Moen, Oline Berthelsen, Eden Engesland Yadgar, Fillip Ring, Andreas Haugland Ausland
Musikk: Marius Christoffer Karlsrud
Kostyme: Sara Skogøy
Lys: Norunn Standal
Produsent: Tonje Sannes
Dramaturg: Rickard Borgström
Grafisk design: Carl Lützen
Snekker: Leif Tveitdal
Maler: Frode Holgersen
Sveiser: Gregor Olsen
Forestillingsfoto: Simen Dieserud Thornqvist
Takk til: Mimir Kristjansson, Linda Sætra

Støttet av Norsk Kulturråd, Agder Fylkeskommune, Arendal kommune, Kristiansand kommune, Scenekunst Sør, Bergesen-stiftelsen, Fløistad-stiftelsen, FFUK, Fond for lyd og bilde, Fritt ord, Cultiva

I samarbeid med Arendal kulturhus, Kilden Kultur, Lyngdal kultursenter og Mandal Kulturhus

Forestillinger:

Arendal Kulturhus
9. og 10. November

Kilden teater og konserthus i Kristiansand
11. November

Buen kulturhus i Mandal
16. November

Lyngdal kulturhus
23. November