Still / Dancing / Body is a dance performance created by Taneli Törmä for Birgitte Skands. 

A dance is never just a dance. There is always more behind everything if we dare to dig deeper. We cannot separate the dance, the choreography, the performer, and her background from what is happening in the world at the moment.

Still / Dancing / Body performance is, in that sense, a statement about why many dance artists have no choice but to create art and speak their full voices. It returns to the sacred body—our living archive where we store all our emotions and thoughts, which are the essential foundation of the ethics of being. With a philo-physical approach, the artists strive to delve deeply into lived experience, with the ambition to encapsulate Birgitte Skands’ 60 years of life and dancing. Still / Dancing / Body performance brings lived experience, life itself, the in-between, philosophical thoughts, stillness, memories, and bodily experiences into a choreographic space.

Birgitte Skands (born 1960) is a Danish dance artist who works as a dancer, performer, choreographer, and dance teacher. She was one of the first Danish modern dancers to pursue education abroad, attending Juilliard in New York, where she graduated in 1985. Since then, she has been involved in numerous dance, art, and cross-disciplinary projects. Birgitte has roots in many traditions and dance styles, including modern, contemporary, jazz, house, Afro-Brazilian, flamenco, theater dance, improvisation, and postmodern practice. She remains an active dancer, engaged in the dance scene and the development of dance in Copenhagen.

Taneli Törmä (born 1985) is a Finnish choreographer and the artistic director of the Danish dance company LOCATION X. Over the past 14 years, Taneli Törmä – LOCATION X’s works have been created in Denmark and presented in more than 20 countries. Still / Dancing / Body will be the final production of LOCATION X, as Taneli will begin his new role as the artistic director of Dance Theatre Minimi in Kuopio, Finland.