In order to be strategic we have to know the game. We start to move and the music begins to play. When the wave hits you, each of you in your own account, it bounces back and at this very moment produces a new sound. We engage in a collective activity with personal intentions. No one in this room is responsible for anyone else, yet we can’t do it alone. 

Splendour is a choreography that focuses on the body’s relationship to sound and how illusions of different causalities are created through actions and reactions. The piece is created through a daily “techno dance practice”. The rehearsals consist exclusively of performing the entirety of the piece, which is to dance 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.

 

”Freedom and movement, as political things, must affirm their singularity away from clichés of what ”free movement” and ”moving freely” might be expected to be identified with, and represent.”                                           

André Lepecki ”Weaving Politics” 2012

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Through avoiding being innovative it wants to steer away from improvisation that promotes individual choices and self-expression. The performance rather aims for working with emotions and reactions that occurs at the instance the sound hits you, in order to express the illusion of bodies creating sound. The techno suggests a dance where no one depends on anyone else to do it but that insists on doing it together. The piece is carried by the imagination and conviction of both performers and audience. Splendour is at the same time the result of the techno practice and the practice performed as such.

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Concept & Choreography Stina Nyberg

Performed by Shiraz Amar, Aurore d’Audiffret, Miranda Wallmon, Alexander Talts, Sonja-Riitta Laine, Julia Nylander, Molly Engblom, Corinne Mustonen, Anna Skorpen, Morgane Nicol, Jennie Bergsli, Klara Sjöblom, Klara Utke Acs, Am Ertl, Caitlin Dear, Papis Faye

Light Design Chrisander Brun

Music: Dave Clarke "Archive One"

With the support of Stockholm University of the Arts

 

Originally created in 2014, performed by this group in 2018 in a series of 15 performances