dance concerts
dance concerts are an homage to the 60s and the experimental atmosphere of the downtown new york art scene. this is the imagined experimental atmosphere, not necessarily the historically correct experimental atmosphere.
dance concerts feature and celebrate the work and working of artists, experimenters, and researchers whose work and working exemplifies or evidences what happens when art and artistic methodologies, employed purposefully and responsively/responsibly, determine the professional standard and define the means of the exchange between the work and its environment.
2023 at Fylkingen
This Dance Concert took place on September 13, 2023.
there is a theme to this event, which is unusual for dance concerts. which is why this concert is called
This is Not a Dance Concert.
the theme for the evening is that range of experience within which a person’s already drawn something from somewhere (inspiration? motivation?) in order to transform that something into something else (communication?), but is yet to decide or is currently in the process of deciding whether to follow that transformation via the experiential pattern determined by “dancing", or the experiential pattern determined by “speaking".
(“dancing” and “speaking” are space-holders. alternative values: “choreography”, “writing”, etc. the range of values ought to remain within the referential field of artistic research. one ought to take experimental dance and choreography [nonverbal] as its logical extreme, the other writing and publishing [verbal].)
Artists in Focus:
Alys Longley, visiting from Aotearoa New Zealand (link)
Dages Juvelier Keates (link)
Leah Landau (link)
Siriol Joyner
Scott Cazan
following the dance concert standard, Alys, Dages, Leah, and Siriol have been invited to work, or else: to continue working in public. this in the attempt to create the conditions for an experiment to take place, an experiment organised according to the parameters set by the artists' work.
2023-09-14
One person said it was really incredible to realise I was actually watching you make decisions in-real-time! It was so pleasureful attending to that. Also, what was the deal with all the green stuff?
One person said I was coding all day and when I left work, I saw the door was open and I sensed the atmosphere and stepped in. I’m so happy I did that! I always wanted to come to this place, see what’s up.
One person said I don’t think I’ve ever done anything like this.
One person said I feel excited about language again. I’m so happy. This is what I’m struggling to communicate with my reading group, that we’re not just reading. Text isn’t dead on the page, you know? It shouldn’t be treated as such.
- one person said… is a poem written from memory. more than documenting what was said, the poem documents what was remembered. reading the poem, one can speculate at what remembering tells about the one who remembers; about their interests, their capacities, their values.
hosts:
Scott Cazan
pavleheidler
This event is made possible with the support of Scott Cazan and Fylkingen.
2019 at Accelerator
This Dance Concert took place on September 26, 2019.
Artists in Focus:
Anna Westberg
Zoë Poluch, Stina Nyberg, Adam Seid Tahir
Caroline Pyo Soon Byström, Andrea Yang-Nam Svensson
event hosts:
pavleheidler
Anne Vigeland
This event was made possible with the support of Anne Vigeland, Master’s Programme in Curating Art at Stockholm University, and Konsthall Accelerator.
2018-2019 at Weld
This Dance Concert took place on May 1, 2019.
Artists in Focus:
Lisen Ellard
Maia Means
Sindri Runudde
event host:
pavleheidler
with the aid of Ellinor Tollertz Bratteby
This event was made possible with the support of Weld.
- Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz
- The Undercommons by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney
- Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
- Courage calls to courage everywhere by Jeanette Winterson
- Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson
- The Scent of Time by Byung-Chul Han
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
- Sex Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
- Sensing, Feeling, and Action by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
This assembly intended to honour invisible labour, contemplative labour, creative labour, the labour of care, the labour that takes place when the labourer is asleep, the immaterial labour, emotional and spiritual labour, and all those labours that are difficult to argue for within the framework of wage labour.
This Dance Concert took place on March 6, 2019.
Artists in Focus:
Tilman O’Donnell
Fabriz Mazliah
Sanna Söderholm
Elinor Tollerz Bratteby
event host:
pavleheidler
This event was made possible with the support of Weld.
This Dance Concert took place on November 21, 2018.
Artists in Focus:
Aurore D’audiffret, Miranda Wallmon, Alexander Talts, Morgane Nicol, Sonja-Riitta Laine, Shiraz Amar, Molly Engblom, Danilo Alexandre
Elias Girod
Maia Means
Tea Harryson
event host:
pavleheidler
This event was made possible with the support of Weld.
This Dance Concert took place on September 26, 2018.
Artists in Focus:
Samuel Draper
Aspar Karahuseynov
Thomas Zamolo
+
It Could Be A Community
by Elli Kurush, Silvia Marchig, Sonja Pregrad, and pavleheidler
event host:
pavleheidler
This event was made possible with the support of Weld.
2016-2017 at SITE Sweden
This Dance Concert took place on June 1, 2017.
Artists in Focus:
Frédéric Gies
Vanessa Virta, Sara Kauppila, Aurore d’Audiffret and Morgane Nicol
Womanly Panther
event hosts:
pavleheidler
This event was made possible with the support of SITE Sweden.
This Dance Concert took place on May 4, 2017.
Artists in Focus:
Sanna Söderholm
Ellen Soderhult and Chloe Chignell
Elias Girod
event hosts:
Mira Mutka
pavleheidler
This event was made possible with the support of SITE Sweden.
This Dance Concert took place on April 6, 2017.
Artists in Focus:
Noah Hellwig
Siriol Joyner
event hosts:
Mira Mutka
pavleheidler
Tina Eriksson Fredriksson
This event was made possible with the support of SITE Sweden.
This Dance Concert took place on March 2, 2017.
Artists in Focus:
Samuel Draper
Disa Krosness
Anand Bolder, Adam Schütt, Samuel Draper and Vincent Van Der Plas
event hosts:
pavleheidler
Tina Eriksson Fredriksson
This event was made possible with the support of SITE Sweden.
This Dance Concert took place on February 2, 2017.
Artists in Focus:
Kristine Slettevold
Zoë Poluch
Cara Tolmie
event hosts:
Mira Mutka
pavleheidler
Tina Eriksson Fredriksson
This event was made possible with the support of SITE Sweden.
This Dance Concert took place on December 1, 2016.
Artists in Focus:
Elias Girod
Marianne Skjeldal
Susanne Martin – guest from Berlin
Sanna Söderholm
event host:
pavleheidler
This event was made possible with the support of SITE Sweden.
This Dance Concert took place on November 3, 2016.
Artists in Focus:
Ellen Söderhult
Oda Breeke
Vanessa Virta
Maia Means
Moa Autio
Madeleine Lindh
Anna Öberg
Frédéric Gies
event hosts:
Ilse Ghekiere
Mira Mutka
pavleheidler
Samuel Draper
Tina Eriksson Fredriksson
This event was made possible with the support of SITE Sweden.
This Dance Concert took place on October 6, 2016.
Artists in Focus:
Cilla Roos
Anna Westberg
event hosts:
Mira Mutka
Manon Santkin
Ilse Ghekiere
pavleheidler
Tina Eriksson Fredriksson
This event was made possible with the support of SITE Sweden.
