*From the vault: conversation with Alma Soderberg, a choreographer and
performer who works in the interstitial space between movement and sound*
Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-311-alma-soderberg
Alma Söderberg <
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-311-alma-soderberg>is
a choreographer and performer who works with music and dance. As well as
exploring close listening, Alma listens to rhythm and movement, in order to
inhabit polyrythm and "simultaneous difference", to quote Eric Davis by way
of Alma. In her solos and choreographic projects, which are developed in
close collaboration with the sound artist Hendrik Willekens, her voice and
body "play" the space as though it were an instrument. Her unadorned
synchronies of voice, rhythm, and movement blur and merge sight and sound
in minimal, repetitive, precise movements. Sound and movement are perceived
as one and the same. Voice, language, and text dissolve in melody and
rhythm. Background and foreground disappear.
In this podcast, Alma Söderberg tells us about the many musical influences
that inspire her choreographic practice: jazz, flamenco, hip hop, and
experimental and Afro-American music. She also talks about multiplicity,
reduced listening and deep listening, about letting rhythm run through you,
about the voice, sharing, idiorhythms, Anni Albers, weaving, learning to
wait, and about playing.
*E/N/J/O/Y!*
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*Happy holidays!!!*