Intimacies and Transmutational Bodies

Part 1: Relanomalia (working title) and Part 2: Drift songs

Intimacies and Transmutational Bodies is a research project and holding space for performance making that explores intimacy as an encounter with aliveness in all its forms, vital, fragile, in transition and transmutation. The work invites attention to bodies as shifting, relational, and deeply entangled with environment, layers of histories and deep time.

At MDT I will share work in two parts that are connected but can also be performed separately.

Relanomalia (working title) is a solo work and performative gathering that creates a sensuous space through an interplay of ritual, adornment, and gesture. Partly an ode to lost body parts, sticks, transmutable potential and prosthetic imaginations, partly a dance for.

Drift songs is an ensemble work centering drifting and lingering as relational practices, ways of being with and forming part of place for a while. Drift songs is composed through the pathwaying and actions of the participating performers carrying with them sonic traces of Skeppsholmen.

Credits

Choreography and performance: Petra Söör
Performance and co-creators Drift Songs: Majula Drammeh, William Nylind, Yari Stilo, Robin Dingemans
Sound design and composition: Kersley in collaboration with Petra Söör
Light and technical support: Olle Axén and Freja Forsström

Thanks to supervisors:
Louise Ahl, fabi barba, Thomas Brennan, Simon Whitehead

With thanks to:
Jennifer Lacey, Marie Fahlin, my makor cohort (Dakota Comín, Dina Hamida, Ģirts Dubults, Julia Müllner, Luusi Kateme, Pierre Piton, Sophie Germanier), Gwen Rakotovao, Zoë Poluch, Selina Papoutseli, Charlotte Spencer, Majula Drammeh, Yari Stilo, Robin Dingemans, William Nylind, Kerstin Möller, Christine Quoiraud, Annika Sillander, Kristina Söör, Ingela Stefaniak Öhman, Sara Bergsmark, Karin Hauptmann, Olle Axén, Freja Forsström, production and technical team at MDT.
With recognition and gratitude to the places and lands of Nyckelvikens naturreservat, Guevtelejaevrie, Brinellvägen, and Skeppsholmen, which have shaped and informed this master’s project.

Program

• Wednesday 13 May Part 1 Relanomalia (working title) at 19:30-20:45 MDT, main stage
• Thursday 14 May Part 1 Relanomalia (working title) at 17:45-18:30 MDT, main stage/ Part 2 Drift songs 18.30-18.45 Outdoors
• Saturday 16 May Part 2 Drift songs at 16:30-16:45