Can You Feel It? - A dance concert
Featuring guest artists:
- 17 May: Shai Faran >> Tickets
- 18 May: Liz Kinoshita >> Tickets
At Weld, Norrtullsgatan 19
Can You Feel It? is a dynamic, pop, funky, and abstract meeting between dance, music and audience. In this piece, dance takes center stage inside of a concert. Things are what there are, also not and also more. This work does not want to define or represent things, it is about
activating and engaging with them, allowing something new to emerge from the encounter and create resonances that are greater than the sum of its parts, 1+1=3.
It's a dance encounter that has the potential to open up resonant relationships between performer, audience, dance, music, you, me, us, here, and now. It wants to activate and rediscover our senses and call us back to the body.
In this work, I focus on paying attention, listening, and being in conversation with others and the environment through dancing. I am interested in how dancing transforms a space, heightens awareness of the room and the time spent within it, and how it shapes my attention. This allows
me to become a conscious instrumentalist and composer with the dancing. This makes it possible for me to be in dialogue with space, music, and audience.
For me, being in dialogue with different elements and listening to what is already present holds significant potential. By engaging with the in-between spaces, where things meet and interact, I can listen to the resonances that emerge from these encounters. This process helps me to be in the moment, both guiding from the back seat and being taken for a ride. It allows me to step away from an intellectualized approach and instead engage with the experience through sensation, feeling what it does rather than what it means or wants.
Credits
Concept and Choreography: Vincent Jonsson
On stage: Vincent Jonsson, with guest artists Shai Faran (17/5) and Liz Kinoshita (18/5)
Supervision: Björn Säfsten
Outside Eye: Rebecka Berchtold
Logo Design: Linéa Alfredsson
Thanks to: Weld, SKH, DansPlats Skog, Lake Studios, Riikka Lakea and everyone that has spend
time in the studio with me.
Bios
Vincent Jonsson
Vincent Jonsson, a Swedish dance artist based in Stockholm and Copenhagen. His artistic practice is an ongoing exploration of how dance encounters and is encountered, from a practitioner's inside perspective as well as the audience outside perspective. Both on stage, in the studio and in social dance settings. It is in this gray zone of meetings, encounters and context his work unfolds. It makes his work relational, plastic, iterative and it is grounded in the transformative potential of dance. His practice moves between dancing, performing, teaching and choreographing.
He is a graduate of the four-year Dance and Choreography program at The Danish National School of Performing Arts (DDSKS) in 2017. He has created three solo works, Can You Feel It? (2024), Relatable (2019), and Creature 1 (2017) and collaborates in the duo A cCompany Dancing
with Riikka Lakea. He is also a member of the IN action dance collective and the initiator of the regional dance development project What Can Dance Do? in collaboration with Dans i Öst.
As a performer, he has worked with artists such as Tina Tarpgaard, My Grönholdt, and Marina Abramović, amongst others. As a teacher, he has led workshops and classes at institutions including London Contemporary Dance School, Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), The Danish National School of Performing Arts (DDSKS), Balettakademien Stockholm, and SOZO Visions in Motion.
He has also taught company classes at Skånes Dansteater and CORPUS at The Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, as well as professional classes for freelance dancers in cities such as Copenhagen, Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Berlin, Kassel, Umeå, Malmö, Toronto, and Halifax.
This summer, Vincent is finishing a Master in Fine Arts at the New Performative Practices program at Stockholm University of the Arts.
Shai Faran
Born in Israel, Shai Faran studied dance at the Misgav High School and at the Haifa Art foundation, before following a post graduate program at SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance).
As dancer and performer, she has worked with various dance companies (Cullberg, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company II, Sigma Ensemble), as well as with independent choreographers such as Jule Flierl, Matej Kejzer, Maya M.Caroll, Yuval Pick, Maura Morales Alessandro Sciarroni,
David Hernandez, Martin Kilvady and more.
While working as a dancer and as a choreographer, Shai has been teaching in numerous dance institutions and festivals (K3 Hamburg, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Danscentrum Stockholm, Dance Atelier Reykjavik, Circuit-Est Choreographic Center Montreal, Deltebre Dansa), in Bachelor and Master
education programs (DDSKS in Copenhagen and Holstebro, Iceland University of arts, La-Manufacture in Lausanne, Stockholm University of Arts, ZZT Hochschule für Musik & Tanz in Cologne, Kelim Choreography Center Tel-Aviv…) and in professional dance companies (Cullberg-
Stockholm, Corpus- Copenhagen, Iceland Dance Company, Scottish Dance Theater).
As a choreographer she won scholarships and support from various institutions such as the America- Israel Cultural Foundation, the foundation named after Ehud Manor, the cultural senate of Berlin, Fonds Darstellende Künste and Neu Start Kultur Fond.
For the past decade she has been developing her own artistic and choreographic research while working as an interpreter and performer in other people's works.
Liz Kinoshita
Liz Kinoshita is a Canadian/Belgian choreographer, performer, pedagogue and dance advocate. She has worked with ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Tino Sehgal, among others, and created her own work with collaborators such as Clinton Stringer, Justin F. Kennedy and Salka Ardal Rosengren. Her
practices focus on musicality in dance, working with live performances shared (inter)nationally, striving to create work that is reflective, surprising, and energising. Her creations include VOLCANO (2014), Radical Empathy (2017), You Can't Take It With You (2017), 11 O’clock (2021), Saga Saga (2024). Liz was Artistic Associate with Rosas for West Side Story (2020) on Broadway (NYC). She created Midnight Oil (2024) for and with Norrdans, with original composition by Twin Shadow AKA George Lewis Jr. Liz presently organises höjden nights presenting multidisciplinary artists within a convivial context at höjden studios in Stockholm.
