the heart in the hand – a dance performance
the heart in the hand
2 February
14.30: opportunity to take part in an introduction with the choreographers
15.00: performance (the performance is 1h)
How does aging sound? Does time have a direction? What is your relationship with your skin? Based on different senses and ways of listening to the body, we play with the idea of time and experiences that are revealed from the body.
the heart in the hand is an all-encompassing dance piece that deals with intimacy and closeness. It is fused, joined, in and out, shaped, reshaped and soft.
Boundaries that dissolve are recurring, boundaries between oneself and the other, between layers of experience, between times, between fiction and reality, between inner landscapes and textures that become outer surfaces.
Questions about identity arise in a sensory search and listening to the aging body where the inside of the body becomes the outside.
In the heart in the hand, the group is at the center.
The group that listens to each other and to their own inner spaces that creates a network as in a new common consciousness. A new mood arises, new qualities of movement. Perhaps a new shared body of experience from which individual memories and stories unfold.
the heart in the hand is a community-based work with actors aged 65–94.
In the work, we explore issues around intimacy.
The work has developed in the meeting with the ensemble, which was shaped and processed through Julia’s and Elin’s thoughts and methods.
This is the choreographers’ first joint work. In the work there is an interest in somatic practices and working with interview material.
An interest in exploring authenticity, in relation to documentary material and in relation to a movement work. Where are the lines between fiction and reality? What is authenticity and what is its performative potential?
In the work, there are projections and live cameras that, through small shifts, capture different perspectives and through a third eye take the audience through different memory rooms and environments.
Choreography: Julia Kraus and Elin Hedin created in meeting with the group
Ann-Christin Nilsson, Alice Stepan, Emilia Bjuvrell, Emira Salihagic, Jeanette Linderoth, Maj-Britt Törnqvist, Melissa Vuckovic, Nicole Witmarker, Sorina Teodorescu, Thomas Karlsson, Vivi-Ann Eliasson
Music: Anja Tietze Lahrmann
Lighting concept: Jonatan Winbo
Projections: Jonatan Winbo and Julia Kraus
Producer: Claes Forsell-Andersson, Elin Hedin, Julia Kraus
Julia Kraus is a Stockholm-based choreographer, dancer and Feldenkrais teacher. In recent years, she has done both her own productions, commissioned works and international collaborations for stages such as Riksteatern, Scenkonst Sörmland, Zebra Dans, Comedia Theater Köln, Strindbergs Intima teater, Orionteatern, Machol Shalem, Tmuna theater, Dramaten and others. With one foot in Israel and one foot in Sweden, Julia as a dancer has worked with choreographers such as Roy Assaf, Maya Brinner, Rotem Tashach, Noa Shadur, Mari Carrasco, Matan project – Batsheva Dance Ensemble. With an education in dance and directing, Julia is interested in interdisciplinary performing arts with the body as a point of departure. Questions about identity and vulnerability are recurring in her work, which often has a tragicomic and suggestive stage language. Since two years ago, Julia has been exploring a choreographic practice where she implements principles from her Feldenkrais practice in her choreographic work. Something that has been one of the starting points in the work with “the heart in the hand”. Since 2022, Julia has also worked as a rehearser and dramaturg for the choreographer Saar Magal at Schauspiel Köln, Schauspiel Frankfurt and most recently as a choreographic partner in the production “Ein Kafka Projekt” at Theater Basel.
www.julia-kraus.com
Elin Hedin works as a dancer and choreographer. In the years 2021–2023 she was Municipal Choreographer in Helsingborg, she then created several artistic projects with the municipality’s residents that generated in several dance films and “the heart in the hand” together with Julia Kraus. She is educated at the Ballet Academy in Stockholm and has continued her education in New York, Sydney and at the Stockholm Academy of the Arts. As a dancer, she has worked with many of Sweden’s free choreographers for a young audience. She has participated in performances at the Royal Opera House and Konserthuset in Stockholm, has been involved at Estrad Norr in Östersund and participated in performances at the Dublin Dance Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Elin founded and ran the Stockholm Dance Film Festival 2015–2019. She assisted choreographer Maria Nilsson Waller in the work with Östersund’s Football Club where they created the dance performance Svansjön / See The Man. As a choreographer, she has created several of her own performances. She also has extensive experience in educational work.
www.elinhedin.com