Att skriva dansen och dansa skriften (To write dance and to dance writing) is a interdisciplinary investigatory collaboration project initiated and run by Författarcentrum Väst in Gothenburg. The project starts in September 2019 and deals with the choreography of text using dance and the written word as the starting point, asking questions like. “How can we work with queer perspectives and gender perspectives sin a dialogue between dance and writing?”.

The project includes authors from the western parts of Sweden, England, Norway and Iceland, plus Danskompaniet Spinn. Att skriva dansen och dansa skriften is a cooperation between Författarcentrum Väst, UNESCO City of Literature in Reykjavik and New Writing North in Newcastle as well as Norsk Forfattersentrum, Oslo.

Already on October 14th you have the chance to get a glimpse of the project during a lunch concert at Hagakyrkan in Gothenburg. Here Hagakyrkan will form a space for a concert filled with words, notes and movements in undreamt-of combinations. In the room, an organ player, Danskompaniet Spinn and the author’s new texts meet. Participants are Benjamin Kjell – organ player, Annika Vestel – dancer, Felicia Sparrström – dansare, Izabell Makiela – dancer, Veera Suvalo Grimberg – choreographer, Tone Helly-Hansen – reading.

The performance is part of Göteborg International Organ Festival. It’s free of charge and the soup cost 40 sek.

Read more here!

We are now coming to the end of our second week of rehearsals for our upcoming production Moby Dick, choreographed by Chiara Bersani. During the first week our artistic director Veera Suvalo Grimberg was on site in Rovereto, so we asked her to share some of her reflections about what she experienced in the studio.

”The last time we met was during a chilly Spring week in Gothenburg. Now we’re in Rovereto, in the late Summer warmth. Annika, Britta, Felicia and Izabell are growing and being challenged by choreographer Chiara Bersani and her amazing team. The performance Moby Dick is forming. I see bodies that dare tell more and more, mouth singing playback, whales calling each other. It is strong yet soft. It is charged, yet calm. Dancing individuals connected to one another. And the wonderful feeling that we are on the right track, an extraordinary one.”

Today, Friday the 20th, we’re shooting the first round of performance images at Lake Garda, and we can’t wait to share these images with you all!

At the moment Spinn is in the Italian city of Rovereto for the second round of rehearsals for the upcoming production Moby Dick. The performance is created by Italian choreographer Chiara Bersani who has gained great international acclaim druing the last years, and who’s performance Gentle Unicorn was selected for Aerowaves Twenty in 2019. The work in the studio is lead together with dance artists Marco D’agostin who you can read more about here .

The performance features Spinn’s dancers Izabell Makiela and Felicia Sparrström and guest dancers Annika Vestel and Britta Kangas. The premiere takes place at the festival Oriente Occidente Dance Festival – who are also co-producing the performance – at the beginning of September 2020!