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....
To Dance with Dancing Flowers
A documentation of Skälvas first try to dance with dancing flowers. Filmed in november 2011. Finding out how they can move. Or maybe it is more about us. What we do. All fourteen together. Exploration number: 010 Hosted by Skälva Where: Stockholm When: November 2011 Participants: Jenny and Ulrika Archive material: video
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...
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...
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...
To Explore the In Between Spaces of Amorella
As the boat traveled through ice and cold water under the winter dark sky Skälva crept around in its intestines. We met beside the information desk at deck 7. Four dancers. While most passengers of the ferry were eating dinner, taking a drink or checking best buy offers in the taxfree we travelled up the...
Expedition to the North Pole
When you aim far you will get somewhere. We set out in the evening. The harsh weather didn´t stop us, the snowy wind blew in our faces as we moved forward. We were heading north. Like so many explorers before us. Well prepared. Carrying our supply of food, no sledge dogs. Dressed in layers upon...
Body Language
Carlie: "The cell phone is off. It implies you are more important than a random call, and I wants to be fully present for our day out,"1 Taylor: "Your colleagues have a meeting that concerns you, without inviting you"2 Carlie: "They do all of this patting and clutching of hands that maybe...
To Move in Junkspace
If you saw us running (playing tag) without knowing us, would you dare to join? There were som young people who talked about joining but they didn't dare. They made some movement. I was surprised that so many people smiled at us when we were running in between the mass of bodies passing...
Dance to Disconnect from Belongings
We're at the club, dancing. We didn't want to spend money putting away our things in the wardrobe, or it existed no such option. We have valuable stuff with us. Computers, cameras and mobile phones. If we would loose it, we would loose parts of our selves. We make a pile in...
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...
