Infinétude | Dansehallerne

Infinétude is a performance in which six voices and bodies create rhythms together through sound, movement, and dance.

The performance is as much a concert for six voices as it is a dance piece for six bodies. The creation of layered rhythmic patterns, both visual and aural, forms the foundation upon which dance, song, and thought are woven.

The thinking we are circling around is the relation between abstraction, or pattern-making, and emotions. We try to pay attention to and amplify the joy of a syncopation, the sorrow held in a timbre of the voice, the anger connected to a certain movement, the resistance embedded in a melody, and so forth and so on.

Polyrhythmic being (the constant attempt not to be single-minded), multiplicity that celebrates singularity, porosity, and the ability to both listen and act are practiced through dancing, singing, and thinking together.

The title refers to three things. Infinitude, which is the sensed quality of something that could go on and on and on. The É is singled out and stands for the work on and with emotional connectedness. In a time when emotionality is being hijacked by neo-fascism, it feels necessary to understand how to be simultaneously clear-minded and heartfelt.

Finally, Étude refers to the attempt to deeply study the different (complex) ways in which we can play, shape, and change space and time with our movement and our voices.

Credits
Concept and Choreography: Alma Söderberg
Performance with and by Anja Müller, Roger Sala Reyner, Alen Nsambu, Eliott Marmouset,
Anna Fitoussi, Alma Söderberg
Dramaturgy: Igor Dobričić
Light Design: Sandra Liscano
Costume: Behnaz Aram
Scenography: Pol Matthé
Technical Direction: Imre Zsibrik
With sung or spoken text, quotes and paraphrases by: The performers, Etel Adnan, Édouard
Glissant, Josef Albers and Isabel Escudero.
Production: Sofia Wickman
Distribution: Giulia Messia
A production by Alma Söderberg Studio, in coproduction with Norrlandsoperan, Festival
d’Automne à Paris, Moderna Dansteatern MDT, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Skogen,
INKONST, Kunstencentrum BUDA – NEXT festival.
Funded by Swedish Arts Council, Region Skåne.
Alma Söderberg Studio is supported by the Swedish Arts Council and the City of Malmö.

Alma Söderberg is a choreographer and performer who works with music and dance. She uses her voice and body to play space as if it was an instrument. Her ongoing research deals with how we listen as we look; the relation between the ear and the eye. She has grounded her practice in several solo performances but has also created duos, trios and group works in collaboration with different artists, collectives and institutions. She has mainly trained in contemporary dance and flamenco at a.o: Matilde Coral Escuela de Danza in Seville, Amor de dios in Madrid, Gotlands dansutbildningar in Visby and SNDO in Amsterdam. Since 2019 she also does occasional curations, for example the EarEye festival with the same focus as in her practice.