60Pieces

60Pieces is a bunch of choreographies intertwined with film, music, food and booze in relaxed conviviality. A place to hang about, listen, watch, socialize and dance. The Pieces collect the deviating traces emerged whilst working with words, determined to target signification without speaking them out loud. A handful precise traces were exposed, each one specific yet uncertain, singular yet multiple, overloaded with meaning for us not to understand, rather to recognize, and be part of.

POOLLOOP (soundless film) – two women stranded in an empty pool, bodily mapping the enclosed territory. Soundless film projected onto a wide screen – 20 minutes long, looping during the entire event.

POOL Edge (still) – two performers in vintage bathing suits sitting on the edge of a pool back in the 60s. A retake of a photo that is the retake of a painting – durational image, running during the entire event. Photo Richard Kolker, painting David Hockney: A Bigger Splash, 1967 from the series Reference, Referents, 2011.

Digging Schubert – fake-naked wired-up dancers burst out in displaced grooves. A twisted reading of Franz Shubert’ s String Quartet nr. 14 in D minor D. 810, Der Tod und das Mädchen from 1824. 8 minutes long.

Sniper Diaper – a pack dancers switch uniforms several times over whilst crawling under two flat grids hanging low over the floor. And whilst they struggle to molt their skins and by that also alter their social status, audiences can only grasp occasional glimpses of the event. A twisted comment on gender stereotypes with queer undertones, performed to a distorted reading of the text Att att dröngrajma by Johan Jönson. Durational piece, from 10 to 40 minutes long.

Medics without a Cause (film) – four wannabe-doctors without a script wander aloof in an empty building and simulate dramatic actions. The setting is a fake remake of an episode of the soap opera ER (NBC 1994 – 2009), performed in a few short sketches and by some ‘weak’ portraits of aimless motion and artificial emotions. The film is six times projected onto a 20 meters wide sidewall upon a row of six screens placed Shoulder to Shoulder.

(Shoulder to Shoulder ordinary meaning is touching sides, but it is also the title of a 1974 BBC television serial and history book on the women’s suffrage movement).

Car_accidents (footage) – foreign cars crashing in multiple modes, mostly without damage. Stolen footage from Youtube clips.

Hangar – deceptive directives for unsure landings. A series of gestures borrowed from the movie TOP GUN (T. Scott 1986).

Drone attack – passive aggressive trans-machines dancing in the air, steered by dancing pilots. The trans-machines carry surveillance cameras that record the event and project it on the sidewalls. And audiences can see themselves from bird’s-eye view.

choreography and films Cristina Caprioli
editing Joakim Nyström