Crossing Roads
Introduction Korsvägen can be translated into english as The Crossing Road and triggers my curiosity just because it lives up to its name. Here people, bicycles, cars, trucks, buses and tram are constantly blocking the flow for each other. I see it as a metaphor and core structure of a city. It includes both the...
Explore Göteborg – Skansens Krona
Textiles in my face. Fringes flicker. Small steps. Reaching out. Touching. Connecting. Almost at the top. A knee to touch ground. A need to touch ground. Shapeshiffting. Borrow my shadow! Mark. Conquer. Dissolve. Appreciating strength. Focused turning. Stay put. Be motion. Relax. Possibilities with canons. One more step. Leaning into or standing on your own....
Travelling Liljeholmen – Hornstull
I suddenly see the flowers. I run to them. All of us run to them. The group instantly share my joy. My joy? Is it mine? Of course not – it is our joy. We are connected. We dip our noses deep into the scent of flowers. We lean on their concrete pots and...
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...
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...
Skälva Joins the Lunch Beat-Party
Skälva reports from Lunch Beat 12/2 at Studion Kulturhuset I was impressed by the idea. A lunch break in form of a club. You get food and you get people to dance with. Limited between 12.00-13.00. All of you Skälva-participants know that we've had our own version of this idea (lunch jam). When I joined...
To Elbow Our Way at Supermarket
We have worked successfully – how will the relationship between brands, dance and social responsibility develop in the light of difficult circumstances? We have adopted a punchy tutorial style backed up with rafts of data, tables and charts and that means the maximum intelligence for the minimum return on your time. Data 1 Chart 1...
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...
The Release Party
Thank you all who came. Thank you all that will come next time there is a Skälva-party. The release of the blog was a release. Relaxing and flowing. We have really dreamt about this and now it is materializing in front of our eyes and in our bodies, a lot of bodies even. So there...
The Hall of Dreams and Decisions
Feeling small in this enormous building – growing bigger while dancing. Surrounded by bricks. See a structure, invent a score. Small stones in different patterns, larger stones shapes crossing streets we can follow. Trembling. We walk and we run. How to hold this space as our own. We fall into each other. My head rests...
From Above
A duet after the rain. Two bodies moving. Exploration number: 008 Hosted by Skälva Where: Stockholm When: 14th of November 2011 Participants: Jenny and Ulrika Archive material: 106 photos + 1 video
The Secret Square
I spend most of my time in a really small space. I live in the dark. It is my natural resting place. Comfortable. Safe. Cosy. I sometimes go out. Rarely on my own. Usually someone pulls me out. I rely on help. Home is a nice place to be. When I go out I...
