Domingo 2022 brings together choreographer Alma Söderberg and artist Alex Reynolds in a programme featuring the première of Söderberg's New old, which revisits her solo Nadita (2015) alongside new material, and the screening of La mano que canta (The Hand that Sings), a collaboration between the two creators. The evening ends with an encounter between the two women.
| Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
New old, by Alma Söderberg
Dear Reader,
Fernando Gandasegui invited me to Domingo to show Nadita, a piece I made in 2015, a year before giving birth to my first child. Now I have two. The second one was born very recently, five years after the first. However much I would like to do the “small nothing” that is Nadita, right now, for my post-pregnancy body, it’s not such a small nothing. So, what do I do? I was thinking of using the invitation to do something old and new at the same time, using the invitation to find out the relationship between this new and old body of mine and the body of work behind me. So I’m going to present the parts of my work that I can do now, with my current body, and I’d also like to try and talk and show those parts. Some of the things I’d talk about and do are: simultaneity (nodes of sound and movement), polyrhythm and syncopation.
What do you think?
Yours,
Alma Söderberg
Alma Söderberg is a choreographer and performer who works with music and dance. She uses her voice and body to “play” the space as though it were an instrument. The current focus of her research is how we listen when we look; the relationship between the ear and the eye. She has based her practice on a series of solo performances, including Deep Etude, Nadita and others. She also created the trio Entangled Phrases and has made two pieces with dance company Cullbert. She is currently collaborating with sound artist Hendrik Lechat Willekens and has made a film, La mano que canta, with visual artist Alex Reynolds.
La mano que canta (The Hand that Sings), by Alex Reynolds and Alma Söderberg
A voice says “bird”, and a bird appears in the eye where a second ago there was a hand, or a tree, or a whistle. A hand strokes the crunch of the bark as it stripped from the tree, turning it into music. Meanwhile, words in Spanish and English pass between friends, from mouth to mouth. La mano que canta explores a sensorial resistance to fixity and hierarchy, keeping us attentive to the details and transformation, all eyes and ears.
Show and artist information
- Participants: Alma Söderberg, Alex Reynolds, Miguel Ángel Muñoz Arenas, Juan Félix Tadeo Hormeño and the voice of Julia Spínola
- Production: Alicia Reginato / La Chula Productions
- Production assistant: Rossana Miele
- Camera: Alex Reynolds, Lennert De Taeye, Curro Tardío
- Camera assistant: Lennert de Taeye, Rubén Hernández
- Sound recording: Laszlo Umbreit, Alex Reynolds, Elena Barreras Honrubia
- Sound mixing: Laszlo Umbreit
- Editing: Alex Reynolds, Alma Söderberg
- Colour correction: Lennert De Taeye
- Credit design: Goda Budvytyte
- With the support of: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Kunstencentrum BUDA, The Art Academy, Bergen - Social Acoustics: Communities in Movement, IAC Malmö, Swedish Arts Grants Council
Choreographer Alma Söderberg and artist Alex Reynolds met in Brussels in 2016 and discovered they had too much in common not to work together. Since then, they have gradually intertwined their practices. Although they work in different fields, they share an obsession with the tension between sound and vision and its political, ethical and aesthetic implications.
