Anna Wennerbeck: Softening - a choreographic exploration with trees
Trees are well anchored in the soil, they do not move! Yet they move all the time, they spread and they migrate.
![A hand on a birch tree](/sites/default/files/styles/50_10_6_small_1x/public/2022-02/A%20Wennerbeck%20CPA%20Fotograf%20Anders%20Hagberg.jpg?h=08872b71&itok=IuAXTaFo)
What does it mean to take a tree’s perspective? Thinking of it, getting to know it, not from my perspective as a human being, but from the trees’ as something living, something different, that I can never really grasp.
Soft touching
elastic moving
gentle rocking releasing, recoiling, resting,
and connecting
My research has taken place outdoors. I have approached trees in different ways through tactile and kinesthetic sense - touching, being still with, being moved by, and moving.
The focus has been on exploring what kind of movements and choreographic materials are generated from being with trees. Parallel to this I have investigated how I connect to trees through an embodied somatic work, letting myself be influenced by them in order to get to know them.
Through this interactive performance installation I move the choreographic materials indoors, translating time and memory from the outdoor environment.
Welcome!
When and where:
Monday the 21st of February at 17.20 & 19
Tuesday the 22nd of February at 12.15
Duration: 40-50 minutes
Gathering in the foyer at the main entrance of Artisten.
Maximum 15 people in the audience per occasion
Tickets: https://billetto.se/e/softening-a-choreographic-exploration-of-trees-biljetter-611095