A Return Walk – Take Two
Full Definition of PERFORMANCE ART: a nontraditional art form often with political or topical themes that typically features a live presentation to an audience or onlookers (as on a street) and draws on such arts as acting, poetry, music, dance, or painting. 1. The accomplishment of a given task measured against preset known standards...
SKÄLVA goes Nature
"Stretching was a major part of my preparation." "Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead." "Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life." "Stretching can be done with force or spontaneuosly" "An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a...
Playday in snow
If you walk in snow you leave a trace. Even if you know snow is cold you touch once again. Branches are surprisingly warm. If you fall onto them they bounce back. Laughter comes from inside. It grows outwards. Bodies move simultaneously. Eyecontact is pure joy. If you climb you see further. Bushes are...
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....
We are SKÄLVA
We are SKÄLVA. The swedish word skälva can be translated into the verb quiver. A motion which is small, but noticable. A quiver often happens spontanuously as a response to an emotional input. You quiver when you are scared, nervous, happy or simply freezing. It is a kind of response. Pictures by Mira Åkerman...
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.
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...
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...
