To cultivate a wild heart

Coming from a fascination for large spaces and how their energy can be shifted by the appearance of dances that are here and gone we want to research on the question: How can dance take up space? What traces can it leave? How can it shift a space, a mood, a sense of togetherness?

Following Karin Bergman’s diligent practice in crafting dance phrases and Joana Öhlschläger’s approach of choreographing from a feeling-based place, we want to deep dive into the power and immediacy of shared dances, exploring how their spatial organization can create different atmospheres and stories.

The title TO CULTIVATE A WILD HEART speaks into a larger research interest of tension fields between extremes that cancel and enable each other: cultivation and wildness, hyper exposure and invisibility, serenity and the looming apocalypse. We will take the embodied practice of dance to speculate about dichotomies that are in friction, researching how they can create a vibrant, live and life-affirming place.

 

 

THE TEAM BEHIND

Joana Ellen Öhlschläger: dancer + choreographer
Karin Bergman: dancer + choreographer