And the animal remained, as ever, inside the human.
In a world ravaged by hubris, two deviant bodies take the streets of forgotten areas, seeking solace amongst the ruins of our own making. We enter a surreal territory where bodies become inconsequential and time is liquid as future, past & present intertwined. You sense deviant bodies extract the living tension between power and powerlessness, suggesting that our human state isn’t fixed but can be stretched, distorted, and reshaped.
Where soft and hard meet, there is a place where we can fall apart.
Extraction of the text is paraphrased from the essay SEEDS by Felizia Matthews.
YIELDING is a group work for two dancers and one electronic musician that together create a dreamscape for the audience to step into. The spectator is seated amongst the events, inside the space, surrounded by movement and surround sound that is visceral and intimate. The bodily expressions are magnified when the dancers come close enough for you to sense them more than look at them as the sound vibrates through your body.
Escarleth Romo Pozo performs and creates dances. Born in Nicaragua, she has lived, studied and danced in the UK, Belgium, Switzerland and is currently working in Scandinavia. Departing from metastable bodily states her work is a continuous revision of moments of resilience dealing with the elasticity between resistance and surrendering. She creates through states of loss and dissolution as recycled events placed in a circular sensation of time rather than a linear perception of history. Escarleth is particularly fascinated by the ever changing levels of resonance and dissonance of the intimate, the hidden and the invisible forces that bring us together or make us fall apart.
Robert Malmborg is a dancer and on occasion choreographer from Sweden. Working with choreography, dance and voice, he is interested in the functionality of his crafts in regards to their current work situation. Approaching the working context as choreographic material and a source of meaning. Robert holds an MA in Choreography – New Performative Practices from SKH 2021-2023. He has has worked with a.o Pontus Pettersson, Ohad Naharin, Stina Nyberg, Lito Walkey, Adam Linder, Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar.
Victor Pérez Armero is an accomplished artist within the field of dance and choreography, Victor currently freelances between Barcelona and Scandinavia. He has been a member of the companies Hiatus/Daniel Linehan and Cullberg and received the distinction for Best Dancer by the Catalan Critics Awards in 2020. He was introduced to dance at a young age through popular culture and completed his studies in contemporary dance and performing arts at P.A.R.T.S. and SEAD in 2012. As a performer he has collaborated with Renan Martins, Albert Quesada, Pere Faura, Eleanor Bauer, Alma Söderberg, Deborah Hay, Jeanine Durning, Sindri Runudde, and Quim Bigas, among others. His latest choreographic work —Rel i Grapa— premiered in 2023.
Erik Annerborn is a costume designer and creative director, based in Sweden and working across Europe. With a strong interest in the performative aspects of the design process, as well as the sensual and social magnetism embedded within clothing, Annerborn creates costumes for and with dancers who want to go deep. His costume design furthers a long-standing styling and costume tradition working with individuality, archetypes, and what fashion says about us. Annerborn is also currently collaborating with choreographers Malik Nashad Sharpe, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Daniel Jeremiah Persson and Emilie Gregersen.
Adde Andreas Huumonen is a sound Designer and composer. Adde creates electroacoustic music and soundscapes where the boundaries between sound and space blur, forming immersive experiences. His work is anchored in an intuitive process that allows space for emotional interpretation before the intellect determines its form. With a bachelor’s degree in sound design from Stockholm University of the Arts and training in music production and fine arts, his work spans across theater productions, installation work, performance art, and dance. He has composed music and sound design for performances at some of Scandinavia’s most reputable stages, including Dramaten, Kulturhuset, Riksteatern, Uppsala City Theater, and Dansehallerne.
Jonatan Winbo graduated from Valand Academy of the Arts in Göteborg 2009. In his work he explores aesthetics and concepts of reality. May it be enhanced reality, phantasmic reality, or disturbed reality. He has been working as a lighting designer in the areas of dance, film, theater, art, contemporary circus, music, and performance in cooperation with Jefta van Dinther, Josefin Hinders, Tove Sahlin, Eleanor Bauer, Cristina Caprioli, Martin Forsberg, Thiago Granato, Martin Falck, Fever Ray, Louise Dahl & Hana Erdman, Yung Lean, KIKI, Privat, Tuvalisa Rangström, My Wild Flag, Sailor & I, Cullbergbaletten a.o.
