Tribute
piece for Weld Company
premiere Dec 7-9, 2018
“As I started to imagine what could be the dance piece I would make for a dance company that is “aiming to rediscover and revaluate the old institution of Dance Company”, personal memories of dances I witnessed came flooding back. Each of them is closely tied to a dancer whom I saw in the darkness of the dance floor or from my seat at the theatre. These memories, more than mere images, reappear as an imprint in my body. They are also constitutive of my dances. They are my library.
Many dancers dance in a dancer’s body and a dance is always the product of other dances as well as a call for dances to come. For Tribute, I’ll open my library to the dancers of Weld Company, to make dances that summon up the poetic, delicate and raw textures of past dances, utterly present as the promise of dances to come. ”
Frédéric Gies
Credits:
Choreography: Frédéric Gies
Dance: Anna Westberg, Robin Dingemans, Marie Fahlin, Sybrig Dokter, Per Sacklén, Elias Girod, Disa Krosness, Caroline Byström och Andrea Svensson
Music: Fiedel
Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo
Marie Fahlin and Elias Girod are dressed by Maldoror
Thanks to Malin Arnell and Mario Fjell
Pictures by Thomas Zamolo and Samuel Feldhandler
