GABRIEL WIDING

Tag: dance

  • 100 Dancers – It’s far from the studio to the streets

    I’ve spent a week in Copenhagen at the 100 dancers workshop. The aim was to do improvised public dance performances. Although I haven’t had time to seriously think through what we did I have some thoughts that I want to share with the ones who were in the workshop as well as people interested in…

  • Notes on darkness

    The recent Almost out of sight festival at Weld as well as the works Observatory (MDT) and The Infinite Conversation (Magasin 3) has proposed a discussion on the concept of darkness in performance art. What happens to the artistic means and the aesthetic sensibility when they are deprived of visual expressions and representations? The sensory…

  • Kontaktimpro på fjället

    Sportlovsveckan var jag uppe i Åre och gjorde lite dansimprovisationer tillsammans med Sara och Elin Maria. Vi dansade i värmestugor, hotell och i backen. Det va en del av projektet Kulturgerillan som anordnades av Skistar och Vuxenskolan m fl. Bilderna togs av Simon Sjörén.

  • The Alienation Game

    I did a workshop today with good help from Ebba Petrén at Knudepunkt (twitter feed) titled Dance, movement, scores. The aim was to play with body and movement to bring a physical dimension to role-playing.  As a part of it I set up a sequence of 4 physical scenes concerned with alienation, that worked quite…

  • Memories of Kokoro

    Earlier published in The Swedish Dance History, 2009 We met up at the small shared space in Bagarmossen south of Stockholm. She made soup for us while someone took care of the kid. People started drop in. We shared the meal and boiled water for tea. The dog was loose. The discussions were sometimes heated.…

  • Dance to another song – widing@möte09

    Dance to another song – widing@möte09 from Widing on Vimeo. This is the möte09 dance, and this is how you do it: Dance! Add another song in the video editing Include these instructions when you post/send it on Celebrate! mote09.org Music by Pink Floyd, “Remember a Day”, 1968

  • Abaxial Audience Experience

    I watch dance on a stage I sit there quiet Ten minutes pass I feel my back lean towards a soft surface My feet turn warm Twenty minutes has passed I discretely put my shoes off My pelvis and ischium sink down in the seat Thirty minutes since I arrived I put my shoes on…

  • Stans Dans

    I participated in a series of street performances doing contact improvisation in Stockholm, organised by Avart Dans & Rörelse. Stans Dans kan dyka upp i samband med tema dagar, utställningar, events, invigningar, mässor och happenings i olika slags miljöer. Som en del av ett större sammanhang, eller bara som ett överraskande moment t ex under…