Opening night  

BERGSPRÅK (displaced)

7 June at Lustholmen MDT

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.