Ellen’s Five Endlessly Graceful Dances

A living body meets art in real time. In dialogue with the exhibition “Body. Ideal, Gaze, Freedom”, the body emerges in the present – in motion, in change and in constant presence.

The dancer becomes a resonant space where the body is not represented, but occurs. Accompanied by newly composed live music for vibraphone, glockenspiel and piano, a living encounter takes shape between movement and sound.

The work explores the dynamic between the static and the transient. In a space where the body otherwise appears through images and sculpture, a living body emerges here – breathing, responding and constantly changing.

Without a fixed structure, dance and music take new directions each time. Ellen’s Five Endlessly Graceful Dances open up a shifting expression, where “graceful” is not a form but a state.

Participants:
Producer: Stagebird
Dance: Ellen Abrahamson
Choreography: Monica Milocco
Vibraphone and glockenspiel: Hans Hernqvist
Piano and composition: Roger Assar Johansson
Sound recording from Borneo: Mattias Klum AB

With support from the City of Gothenburg and the Västra Götaland Region.

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