TECHNOSOMATICS INTENSIVE & TRIBUTE – SOLO VERSION
Price: Completely free of charge thanks to the support of Malmö stad, Region Skåne and Kulturrådet
Info: come for the whole day and evening, or at the beginning of each programme point
Booking will be made available on our booking page as the program unfolds.
PROGRAMME – DAY 1
At Festsalen, Ungdomens hus
14.00 – 18.00 · Technosomatics Intensive – Day 1 (workshop with Frédéric Gies)
In this intensive workshop, we will address the relationship between the midline and the periphery of our bodies. By means of club dancing to techno with eyes closed as well as through specific movement and breathing exercises, we will explore the relationship between our endocrine glands and other tissues, which have an endocrine function as well. We will witness the various states of consciousness that will emerge and how they infuse our dance and the dance floor.
18.00 – 19.00 · Mingle + Buffet
Mingle and enjoy our buffet in the foyer.
19.00 – 20.15 · Tribute – Solo Version (performance by Frédéric Gies)
To a spellbinding techno set by Fiedel, this performance by Frédéric Gies is a tribute to the dance floor and to many dancers, dead and alive. A solo version of a group piece commissioned by and created for Weld Company in 2018. A dance like there is no tomorrow.
Tribute was originally created in 2018 for Weld Company and a crew of 9 dancers of different generations. In 2020, as the piece was touring internationally, a gig at the festival Moving in November in Helsinki had to be cancelled, due to the pandemic and local quarantine rules. Nevertheless, the festival happened in a reduced version and Kertsin Schroht, the artistic director of the festival discussed the possibility of making a solo version of the piece together with Frédéric Gies. This is how the solo version of the piece was created, in November 2020. So far, it has been presented only at that occasion, so this is the first time it is presented again.
About Tribute:
“A ravishing cast of techno sylhides raves in formation, in an ecstatic and delicate homage to Dominique Bagouet; think Berghain cancan with extreme somatic smarts, and bass resonating all the way to your ribcage.” Claire Levèvre (Springback magazine, 2021)
“As I started to imagine what could be the dance piece I would make for a dance company that is “aiming to rediscover and revaluate the old institution of Dance Company”, personal memories of dances I witnessed came flooding back. Each of them is closely tied to a dancer whom I saw in the darkness of the dance floor or from my seat at the theatre. These memories, more than mere images, reappear as an imprint in my body. They are also constitutive of my dances. They are my library. Many dancers dance in a dancer’s body and a dance is always the product of other dances as well as a call for dances to come. For Tribute, I’ll open my library to the dancers of Weld Company, to make dances that summon up the poetic, delicate and raw textures of past dances, utterly present as the promise of dances to come.” Frédéric Gies (2018)
20.30 – 21.15 · Artist talk
Conversation with Frédéric Gies.
Doors close at 21.30
PROGRAMME – DAY 2
At Teater Barbro, Ungdomens hus
13.00 – 17.30 · Technosomatics Intensive – Day 2 (workshop with Frédéric Gies)
This workshop will be a continuation of Day 1 workshop. It will include a two hour dance dive in the dark.
