COMPASS Stage programme revealed
The programme has been revealed for COMPASS Stage, taking place on Thursday 7 July 2022 as part of Tranås at the Fringe.
COMPASS Stage will showcase new works by young and emerging contemporary dance artists, creating a space to share their work with new audiences and talk about their own artistic process in a joint artist talk after the performances.
Programme
16:00 - Film screening - ‘Notice, claim, repurpose’ by Caroline Hägg
16:30 - Ana Paula Patiño Acosta - Work in progress
16:45 - Tilda Lärke & Patrick Eduardo da Cunha - Maquete
17:00 - Alma Faringer Hultberg - Waves
17:30 - Break
18-19:00 - Artist talk with Ana Paula Patiño Acosta, Alma Faringer Hultberg, Tilda Lärke, Patric Eduardo da Cunha, Storm Dunder and Rannhvi Mebius Jormin
COMPASS is a project for and by young and emerging contemporary dance artists in Sweden. With support from Postkodstiftelsen and Kulturrådet. COMPASS Stage at Tranås at the Fringe is supported by Kulturens.
About the works
Maquete (choreography: Tilda Lärke, performer: Patric Eduardo da Cunha)
“A cycle or pool of possibilities
Deciding to seek them through folding my body
Experiencing more
Noticing new pathways
All is literally here now
It is much more simple than what seems”
This piece is a work in progress
Work in progress (choreography & performance: Ana Paula Patiño Acosta)
“My piece is about being lost in what you think you want.
It's kind of a personal process that I've been going through since I left home and I'm still trying to figure it out.
The feeling of doing things that you believe in but realising maybe they're not what you actually want or that it's not going in the right direction”
Waves (choreography & performance: Alma Faringer Hultberg)
My piece is based on the following text:
“Imagine you’re standing up. Feet ́s grounded, parallel position. Long, slightly bended legs, centered hip. The tailbone is down like you have a long tail hanging between your legs. The lower stomach is activated. You feel space between your armpits, ribs are in, proud chest. (Like you're wearing the most beautiful necklace in the world.) Shoulders down, arms relaxed hanging along the sides of your body. You feel waterdrops dripping from your fingertips. Long neck, chin down, but not “down, down” – a little bit up. You feel like someone is grabbing your ears and pulling them in each direction. Now someone pulls from a wire that is connected to the top of your head. You feel your shoulder blades spread out like wings from an angel.
Ready to fly, ready to move, ready to see, react, relax, tense, grasp, pull, turn, jump, run, scream, and stand completely still.
Imagine you’re standing up. Feet ́s grounded, parallel position. Awareness. I'm breathing in and out. Every bone in your body, one by one on top of, next to, below, diagonally, far away, or right next to each other. The bones in your left big toe, the tip of your chin, the movement of breath in your chest.
Silence. Calmness. At the same time, right now the brain processes 600 million bits of visual information. A healthy human brain has about 200 billion neurons. A single neuron can send 1,000 nerve impulses every second, meaning 60,000 per minute. That adds up to 12,000,000,000,000,000 signals being sent throughout your brain right now. Breathing in and out. An adult takes around 12-20 breaths every minute.
Water has an amazing way of dealing with obstacles. Like in our veins, water chooses paths after obstacles that it encounters. It flows around, under, and through obstacles. Water is patient and flexible. When something is thrown in its way, water directly interacts with it and seeks opportunities to keep moving forward.
It has a state of readiness to move when circumstances change. It's tempting to see obstacles “in the way” and have a negative reaction. A fallen tree, a flooded river, a slippery staircase, a too dry field. Yet, what can we learn from obstacles? And can we deal with obstacles like water does?
Imagine you’re standing up. Feet ́s grounded, parallel position. Long, slightly bended legs, centered hip. Ready. To take a step in time.”
