Collective Matter 1: Passages
COLLECTIVE MATTER 1: Passages is a dive into the deeper layers of our shared memory and the potential that emerges when we unfiltered meet our inner visions and hallucinations. The work is a common reflection between generations, a transition, an exchange and a co-creation.
Through daily meditative practices, four performers have created individual solos. Together, these solos create a common choreographic composition that includes moments of abstraction as well as more recognizable situations. Voices and movement from subconscious layers point towards the unpredictable. Passages was originally created for the COLLECTIVE MATTER in 2021, which was performed during Aarhus Festival.
COLLECTIVE MATTER consists of two choreographic works:
COLLECTIVE MATTER 1: Passages (2021) by the duo two-women-machine-show and the new work COLLECTIVE MATTER 2: Breath (2023) by Nønne Mai Svalholm.
COLLECTIVE MATTER can be experienced as a coherent event or as individual, but still connected, impacts. Collective Matter 1: Passages and COLLECTIVE MATTER 2: Breath
INFO
Age: from 6 years
DURATION: 15-20 min.
TICKET PERFORMANCE
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INTERVIEW
Read an interview at Iscene.dk with Nønne Svalholm and Jon Skullberg about Open collaborations – creating during, for and together with a festival English Google translation here
COLLECTIVE MATTER 1: Passages is a dive into the deeper layers of our shared memory and the potential that emerges when we unfiltered meet our inner visions and hallucinations. The work is a common reflection between generations, a transition, an exchange and a co-creation.
Through daily meditative practices, four performers have created individual solos. Together, these solos create a common choreographic composition that includes moments of abstraction as well as more recognizable situations. Voices and movement from subconscious layers point towards the unpredictable. Passages was originally created for the COLLECTIVE MATTER in 2021, which was performed during Aarhus Festival.
COLLECTIVE MATTER consists of two choreographic works:
COLLECTIVE MATTER 1: Passages (2021) by the duo two-women-machine-show and the new work COLLECTIVE MATTER 2: Breath (2023) by Nønne Mai Svalholm.
COLLECTIVE MATTER can be experienced as a coherent event or as individual, but still connected, impacts. Collective Matter 1: Passages and COLLECTIVE MATTER 2: Breath
INFO
Age: from 6 years
DURATION: 15-20 min.
TICKET PERFORMANCE
Click the TICKET icon to the right: next to TIME + LOCATION or buy a festival-wristband and get free tickets to all ticket-performances. There are different categories of wristbands – for families or individuals. READ MORE and buy PASSAGE FESTIVAL WRISTBAND HERE
INTERVIEW
Read an interview at Iscene.dk with Nønne Svalholm and Jon Skullberg about Open collaborations – creating during, for and together with a festival English Google translation here
ABOUT COLLECTIVE MATTER
COLLECTIVE MATTER is a common reflection across generations, a transition, an exchange and a co-creation. All the physical movement material is created via meditative practices that embrace the pre-articulated and the uncultivated voice. Collective Matter is the second work in the BIG BANG trilogy by Artistic Director and Choreographer Nønne Mai Svalholm/ SVALHOLM, which this time examines the themes of co-creation and community. COLLECTIVE MATTER is an interdisciplinary and site-specific work that adapts and transforms itself in the light of the places it is performed and the different artists involved. COLLECTIVE MATTER is the first work where Nønne Mai Svalholm has curated other choreographers to co-create with her and SVALHOLM’s 60+ dancers. The choreographers behind these works have created the content on the basis of a long-term exchange – partly with a focus on their respective artistry, interests and methods, partly with a focus on the performers involved. COLLECTIVE MATTER was originally created for specific locations in Aarhus City Center in Aarhus Denmark and was co-produced by Aarhus Theater and Åbne Scene, Godsbanen in collaboration with Aarhus Festival. In 2023 COLLECTIVE MATTER has been developed for international touring and it now consists of two choreographic works: Passager (2021) by the duo two-women-machine-show and the new work Breath (2023) by Nønne Mai Svalholm.
COLLECTIVE MATTER premieres at PASSAGE FESTIVAL 2023 and plays at Fira Tárrega Festival in Spain from 7 – 10 September 2023.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Nønne Mai Svalholm (she/her) is a choreographer and artistic director of the Aarhus-based company SVALHOLM. She works conceptually and multidisciplinarily with choreography, dance, lighting design, sculptures, and installation art. She creates works for black boxes, white cubes, as well as site-specific works in public spaces. Nønne Svalholm recently received a 2-year grant called DUKE – The Young Artistic Elite. SVALHOLM creates and produces choreographic works from our base at Godsbanen (the old Train Factory) in the center of Aarhus and is co-produced by Godsbanen and BORA BORA – Dance & Visual Theatre, Aarhus.
Collective Matter 2 was developed during residencies at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum and BORA BORA Dance & Visual Theatre in spring 2023 and will premiere at the PASSAGE FESTIVAL 2023. Collective Matter is curated to be performed at the international festival Fira Tárrega from September 7th to 10th, 2023, in Spain.
CREDITS
Idea and choreography: two-women-machine-show
Artistic direction/production: Nønne Mai Svalholm/SVALHOLM
Performance and development: Marian Kudahl, Sisse Lunøe, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Marie-Louise Stentebjerg
Costumes: two-women-machine-show
Headpieces: Design duo KASPERSOPHIE for the work Of All Its Parts: From Darkness (2020) / Design and production by Rasa VilJewelry
Photographer: Peter Ravnsborg @mumilab