What falls falls is a dialogue between two dancers, Mary Kate Sheehan and Elinor Tollerz Bratteby, from two different contexts within contemporary dance: the Swedish and the Greek. Artistically, we place this project in a field of tension that arises between dance and its immediate temporal conditions, between indoor and outdoor environments, and between individual desires and uncompromised unison.
What falls falls draws its attention to spaces in-between bodies, both human and non-human. Through the means of dance, we charge, outline, draw out, wait for and play with the in-between spaces. We put this relation on display as scored dance duets in public spaces.
The main practice of the score is ‘Following’. When ‘Following’, we are moving at the same time and in the same way as the other with the most possible precision. We maintain the unison by surrendering to careful co-decision-making and simultaneously affirming individual spontaneity. Inherent in this particular unison are in-the-moment dilemmas and contradictions that we are negotiating and inventing strategies for tackling. For example, an accidental stumbling goes from being an individual need to a shared dance. This tender relation, this unison, is forever unsolvable and impossible to live up to. The impossible becomes our material, in which we find great potential that puts our work at stake.
DANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY Mary Kate Sheehan & Elinor Tollerz Bratteby
SOUND Fotis Rovolis
PHOTO SUPPORT Paul Typaldos
The project was initiated in 2024 and has so far been supported by Mema Dans, Uppsala kommun, Styggbo Residency, Ehrstrand Dance Collective and Danscentrum Syd (SWE). Utopia Laboratory, Stoa Anatolis, Alkinois Art Space, SuperDirectional Collective (GRE).
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