In Motion
Dance performance & Choreography
A story from the north. It´s a performance about the northern landscape chiseled out through movement and light. Movement gliding in a mixture of loops and conscious displacements, carved into space, painted in flow with no straight lines but with variations and harmonies that arise and dissolve. It´s an odyssey of lightpainting through the different characters of the landscape taking us on a journey through the sky and clouds, over the mountains and fields, into urban cities towards the sea.
Date
January 2023
“It`s about what we can percieve as much as what we actually can see”. In Motion is a collaboration with lighting artist Aleksandra Stratimirovic. The idea and concept of In Motion came out of two questions. When does a body become a landscape and when does a landscape become a body?
The underlying aim of the project was to create flexibilty around the frames of the performance in terms of adaptation to any kind of performance space. The format is based on two dancers, two musicians, two light bulbs, seven flourescent lights and two fabrics. All lights are moveable and placed on the floor. The small number of people involved and the simplicity of the set design fascillitates easy travelling when touring, decreasing tech time at theatres as well as making it affordable not only to established theatre houses but also to independent performative spaces as well as galleries, libraries and other public spaces. Idea & Concept – Madeleine Karlsson & Aleksandra Stratimirovic Choreography – Madeleine Karlsson Lighting & Set design – Aleksandra Stratimirovic Music - Martin Jonsson Tibblin and Dohyo Sol Dancers - Matilda Bilberg och Jonathan Bringert/Jimmie Larsson Photo @Jonas Bilberg Film @Tom Brennan Graphics & Marketing design - Jobba Jobba Design Coproduced and funded by Forum Ljubljana and Dance Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia Produced by Maka Dance in collaboration with the Flock