Last observation before moving apart.
SORGESÅNG gruset knastrar gräset är mjukt och vi vilar där är du med mig nu? vi finner utan att söka vi rör oss, som vi alltid rör oss fast ändå inte träden fäller sina blad inte nu, snart jag vet att det kommer allt blir rött asfalten är en annan...
SKÄLVA workshop at Stockholm Fringe Fest
Pictures by Liga Kamare We were many. You got my back. I covered you. You listened so carefully. We were a wave on concrete. There was times of stillness. A team of body expression. The rain guided us home. Exploration number: 042 (workshop) + 043 (performances)...
Why We Explore
The “we” in this text specifically refers to the SKÄLVA collective that consists of Jenny Simmar and Ulrika Berge. Why do we do this? What is it that we explore? What have we found? What are we searching for? We are interested in communication through movement. Our events are meetings between people who come from...
Ulvsjön – Kuhasalo Simultaneously
This is a SKÄLVA event held on to places simultaneously. KANTAPÖYTÄ hosted the event in Joensuu, Finland. The instructions was as followed: Step One. Walk through the forest. Use all senses. Two tasks for the walk: #1: Scatter and gather. Switch been two modes: -The want to split up the group as much as...
Explore Stockholm 25th and 26th of june
Are you visiting Stockholm and want to explore the city through movement? Or do you live here and want to move together? Join one or all three of our Explore Stockholm Events! Welcome to an exploration of spaces through improvising/ moving together. We start with an introduction to find a group focus and continue exploring...
Stairs to Explore
If you couldn't join our Lunchjam exploring the stairs in Pustegränd you can find an other one. See the video below for inspiration. Exploration number: 034 (pre-exploration) + 036 When: 25th of April 2012 Where: Pustegränd, Södermalm, Stockholm Duration: 12.00-13.00 Participants: Jenny, Johanna, Helena and Ulrika Archive material: 36 photos (exploration 034) + 105...
Moving Monumentally
Do you want to understand finnish? Voit KANTAPÖYTÄ Toivottavasti olet kunnossa. Täällä vesi on edelleen gurgles vastaan kajkanterna ja taivas on harmaa. Kun me kaipaamme lentää pitkin lukemattomia harjanteet. Muistithan Riddarholmen? Muistakaa, kuinka sora vastusti kämmenissä? Kun me juoksi ja tuli takaisin?Raekuuro oli odottamaton vieras, jonka saimme kuin ystävä. Olemme muutti Tukholman kapein katu,...
90° Visiting Skälva
"The 90° class is an 8 step strategy for cornering the phenomenon of the 90° leg and aims to share and generate a potential context for a 90° practice." – Bermuda The 5th of april 2012 SKÄLVA had the great honor to host a 90° class led by Tova Gerge, one of the three inventors...
Bodies Take Space
1. active, bold, close, daring, established, far away, happy, instant, juicy, kept, late, monumental, new, omnifereous, perservant, quick, rushed, strong, tight, uproarious, vibrant, wonderful, xenogeous, yearning, zealous 2. abolish, brake, curl, dive, emancipate, feel, grow, handle, impersonate, jump, kaleidoscopaling, leave, mew, nourish, omdirectional, push, quintuple, receive, support, touch, unite, vision, warm, xxx, yield, zip 3....
Morningscore
Movement possibilities in morning rituals. Can we move through them together? How to eat breakfast while dancing? Where: At home, Stockholm When: 29th of February 2012 Duration: 07.15-07.30 Participants; Jenny, Ulrika Archive material: 18 photos, video with uniqe sound recorded and remixed by SKÄLVA.
Skälva on Skiing on Skin
Skälva decided to try a score in the jam-space in one of the evening jams at Skiing on skin. We talked to people we wanted to do it with, but did not announce it offically. The dressing room outside was our meeting place. We did some excersises to synch the group and make us feel...
Site-specific, Time-specific
The thought was to explore places that was made site-specific through the landmarks they were given. In this case statues or monuments. By moving on these spots we made the place even more time-specific that was all ready imbedded in them. Why was the part after the end the best part? We had left our...
