Apply to take part in this year’s performance LAB, led by Rosalind Golberg!
Photo: Iselin Linstad Hauge, from Dark Dynamite (2022) by Rosalind Goldberg at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Where: Kristiansand
When: 2-6 July 2023. Every day 13.00-17.00. Showing at 6 July at 18.00
Price: Free but limited spaces
Application deadline: 11 April 2023
The lab days will be up to 4 hours long, so that it's possible to take part in the rest of the festival program with morning baths and performances.
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In this choreographic LAB, we will take as a starting point the upcoming work DIM. In DIM, a realm of numbness will steer the dancer’s relations and pathways, where care, violence, indifference, boundlessness, and desire are quivering in an uneven path. Numbness is thematized from the perspective that it comes into being through taking part in an over-aestheticized, accelerated, and information-rich society. I’m interested in a wide range of numbness and its physical implications.
Approaching this theme, we will be working with a practice I use as a method when creating choreographies called multi-attentiveness. With that practice, we are working with how attention, loss of attention, and searching and regaining attention, can propose and access movements in both abstract and direct ways, and as a presence in space. In this lab, we will delve into a perceptual, and speculative practice of embodiment and dancing. By using imagination, images, and physical instructions, we will create structures and surroundings to see how they stimulate our perception. Further, we will work with the senses and with sensemaking, looking for where they intersect and what they perform, informed by the theme at its inspirations.
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Rosalind Goldberg is a choreographer based in Oslo. She is currently a research fellow at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Oslo with the Ph.D. project Choreography as a meaning-generating aggregate.
Rosalind’s work explores processes of change and is characterized by a physical and conceptual approach to choreography, where the entanglement of the two directs the process. Central in her work is the question of what we can expect from the body - to what extent the body can change, and what sides of the body we hide away from, examined through a social, economic, cultural, and environmental perspective. She is interested in the unknown, uncomfortable, leaking, fantastic sides of bodily life and explores the murky water where biology and nations of the body are rubbing against each other. Drawing on inspiration from neurobiology, philosophy on plasticity, new materialism, and notions around the unknown, she creates practices to challenge the habitual in the dancer as a method to stir around with the body’s representation on stage.
In 2022 Rosalind premiered the new production DARK DYNAMITE at Henie Onstad Art Center in Norway. Previous works are, The Field (2020), Rut (2018), Immunsystemet (2017), Jump with me! (2016), MIT (2013), Fake Somatic Practice (2011).
Rosalind’s work has recently been performed at Impulstanz Festival in Vienna, Tanz Im August in Berlin, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Sophiensaele in Berlin, Schauspielhaus Chemnitz, Uferstudios in Berlin, TanzFabrik Berlin, Dansens Hus in Stockholm, Inkonst in Malmö, Dansens Hus in Oslo, BIT-Teatergarasjen in Bergen, Henie Onstad Art Center, Rosendal Teater in Trondheim, Black Box Teater in Oslo, RAS – Regional Arena for Samtidsdans, Weld in Stockholm, Skogen in Gothenburg, et al.
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Who can apply
The LAB is aimed at professional dancers, but other performing artists can also apply. Open to students if places are available. The LAB will lead to a work in process showing as part of the festival program. It is therefore expected that LAB participants show some flexibility on the day of the sharing and the hours leading up to it.
How to apply
To apply, send a short motivation letter together with a brief biography (in total max 1 A4 page) to ravnedans.anders@gmail.com by 11 April 2023.
The application can be written in English or a Scandiavian language.
Mark the e-mail with Performance LAB.