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DACE – Dance Art Critical Ecology

Curators Rickard Borgström & Rebecca Chentinell.

Spring- Summer 2022

• World premier: Le Sacre du printemp (Tandvärkstallen), Zheng Bo

At the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 
The Milk of Dreams, Curated by Cecilia Alemani
20 April – 27 November Film produced by DACE – Dance Art Critical Ecology
Rickard Borgström & Rebecca Chentinell 

• Eco- Sexual Dance, Zheng Bo & Ossi Niskala, Högsveden 24.4- 3.5

• Eco- Somática, Amanda Piña & Tira Kuna Dancers, Dansinitiativet, Luelå 2 – 29.4

• Bergspråk, Amanda Piña and Timur Si-Qin, Havremagasinet, Boden/Suttes 30.4- 15.5

• School of Mountains, Amanda Piña, Tanzquartier Wien 24- 26.6

Part 3-6 Publicly announced spring 2022.

Past: Part 0, Symbiosis- Erotics, Zheng Bo and Geumhyung Jeong.
at Färgfabriken, Stockholm 18 Oct- 28 Nov 2021.

With support from Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Taiteen edistämiskeskus – Taike ,Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Kulturrådet, Nordisk Kulturfond, Konstnärsnämnden, Iaspis Konstnärsnämnden, Nordisk kulturkontakt, Riksteatern- Dans, Future Games/Changemaker Educations, Jokkmokk i Rörelse.

For more information visit
dace.nu fargfabriken.se havremagasinet.se dansinitiativet.se

BIO
Rickard Borgström, Curator, Sibbo, Finland. He works at the fluid intersection of contemporary art, dance and theatre. He deploy a de-central perspective to conceive exhibition and program formats, within diverse backgrounds and geographies, in a collaborative and trans-disciplinary modes, to provide a historical anchoring and engagement with local conditions. Borgström has worked mainly in the Nordic region where his work has been presented at institutions such as Teaterhuset Avant Garden (Rosendal Teater), Bastard Internationella Teaterfestival, Stamsund Teaterfestival, Norsk Kulturråd, Lofoten Internationella Konstfestival, Inkonst, Art Space Sinne, Jyväskylä Art museum, Korjaamo, Nunatta Isiginnaartitsisarfia – The National Theatre of Greenland. At times he lecture in contemporary dramaturgies in dance and theatre at Uniarts Dance department Stockholm. Borgström writes for Norsk Shakespearetidskrift and Ny tid. Currently he is co-curating DACE; a platform for dance and visual arts focusing on critical ecology with Rebecca Chentinell, the first pilot Symbiotic – Erotics took place at Färgabriken, Stockholm fall 2021, followed by Bergsråk at Havremagasinet Boden/Suttes spring 2022. He was a member of the committee of Dance at the Swedish Art Council 2018-2021. Borgström is educated at Dramatiska Institutet and Stockholms Universitet.

SODA Lectures 2019/20 – What does it take to belong?

On the 13th of November, I have the pleasure to converse with Sandra Noeth at HZT Berlin. More information here

What does it take to cross a border? Sandra Noeth examines the entangled experiences of borders and of collectivity through the perspective of bodies. By dramaturgical analyses of contemporary artistic work from Lebanon and Palestine, she shows how borders and collectivity are constructed and negotiated through performative, corporeal, movement-based, and sensory strategies and processes. The SODA lecture seminar gathers each semester artists and theorists from various disciplines and fields of practice. Bodies, and the aesthetic, socio-political and ethical questions that they open up, are at the core of the public discourse and workshop program that is dedicated to the idea of ‘belonging’ in the 2019/20 winter term: a complex and open idea that addresses material, geopolitical and affective aspects; reminds of familiar routines, gestures and habits, shared norms, values and rights; and formulates questions concerning experiences of safety and trust and the right to societal and political participation.

POST – DANCE – ING Conference

Recently I participated in the conference  POST – DANCE – ING at MDTsthlm, in a panel- discussion with Agnes Quackels responding on Halla Ólafsdóttir´s & Alice Chauchat´s call/response performance- lectures.

It was a moving gathering, that took many turns…out of necessity, sensing, and un/learning….I pay my respect to the women who with the labor of courage and care, hosted complex pressing issues, gave them space, here and now… I am grateful!

The documentation will be online for 30 days. Handle it with care.

MDT, Cullberg, Danscentrum and DOCH would like to welcome you to be a part of our new conference POST-DANCE-ING. We long for a conference with an unconventional format that emphasizes conversation, as well as supports the potentially different languages available to this conversing. A conference with five in-depth conversations that spiral deliberately, intuitively and decidedly into other spaces and configurations, possibly into other forms. So we invited five thinkers to each propose a starting point. And five invited “Conversation Partners” then formulate and prepare a response to these “Starters”. This in-depth conversation is then taken further by a discussion group that is requested to react and discuss on the spot. This conversation then continues for those attendees who wants to, in a circle in another room. Followed by a final step in a room with no protocol, no choreography, simply an open space where the conversation takes its necessary form. If you want to, you follow the same conversation through all these steps. Or you can choose to stay in the first room where the same procedure with Starter, Conversation Partner and discussion group starts over with a new topic and new participants. This plunging into the Alice hole repeats five times and overlaps. Just like in the real world. Post-dance with a twist.

Participants: Rebecca Vinthagen, Reggie Wilson, Jeanine Durning, Eva Mohn, Josefine Wikström, Erdem Gündüz, Konstantina Georgelou, Karina Sarkissova, Eva Meyer-Keller, Mette Edvardsen, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Tamara Alegre, Ilse Ghekiere, Julia Giertz, Halla Ólafsdóttir, Alice Chauchat, Agnes Quackels, Rickard Borgström, André Lepecki & Eleanor Bauer.

Something is missing in Helsinki. One perspective on the Helsinki Performing Arts Scene, in conjunction with guest performances by Gisèle Vienne and Klockriketeatern at Almi Hall- Finnish National Opera September 2019. My first article for Ny Tid, a distinguished historical important magazine founded in 1944, that I am happy to write for this fall. The material is in Swedish and will be able at NY TID and you find as PDF- file here ny tid artikel 1 oktober 2019

Thank you, Janne Wass, for the confidence in my proposals. Thank you, Lisa Gemmel and Rebecca Chentinell.

 

 

 

The article “Förnyelse eller retrospektion?” is in distribution, please support the magazine by ordering it from  shakspearetidsskrift. Meanwhile, you can read it here  Article I PDF

Hangö Teaterträff 2019: Förnyelse eller retrospektion? (Hangö) När teaterträffen är i omvälvning, som samhället i stort, tyr man sig till det välbekanta för att finna stadga. Ligger teaterträffens förnyelse i en tillbakablickande hållning?