Alma Söderberg
Cosas
Cosas means ‘things’ in spanish.
Cosas is a collection of things.
Cosas is a collage.
Cosas tries to put almost everything in relation to almost everything.
Cosas tries to say it all at once.
Cosas is based on words images and phrases that have been cut out from the newspaper.
Cosas is a way to process an abundance of information using body and voice: music, language and dance.
Cosas has two favorite words: everyday and everything.
Cosas is a practice of performance, a term invented by the choreographer and performer Deborah Hay.
Cosas quotes Samuel Beckett: ‘It is not the idea, but the shape of the idea that interests me.’
Cosas focuses on the shape of ideas, how they sound, how they can be outlined in space using gesture and movement or how they can be sung.
Cosas quotes Didi-Hubermann: ‘Savoir se multiplier’ which means something like: ‘To know how to multiply.’
Cosas likes multiplicity; multiple languages, multiple disciplines and multiple emotions are part of the body of work.
Cosas uses rhythm as a main tool to orient itself through it’s own material.
Cosas is in different shades of grey and in color.
Performance hours:
Friday 9th of September 19:00 – 20:30
Saturday 10th of Septmember 19:00 – 20:30
The piece is performed in a double bill with Retrograde.
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Choreography and performance: Alma Söderberg.
Advice: Igor Dorbricic, Rodrigo Sobrazo and Hendrik Willekens.
Light design: Ellen Knops.
Thanks to: Jeanine Durning
Alma Söderberg works as a choreographer, performer and performer-musician after having studied flamenco, contemporary dance and choreography. She recently graduated from SNDO, the choreography department at the Amsterdam school of arts and is currently working with several projects in Holland, Sweden and Germany. Her pieces Freedom of Speech(together with Jolika Sudermann) and Entertainmenthave won the prizes 100 grad Berlin audience prizeand Its festival choregraphy award. She is currently touring with her latest pieces A Talk (together with Jolika Sudermann) and her solo Cosas was selected for Aerowaves, a cross border dance performance network, and will be shown at several venues around Europe. Alma Söderberg makes performances where sound, movement and speech are equally important and in her eclectic practice she is constantly re-discovering how intertwined the three are. She also plays the drums and sings in John the Houseband together with Anja Muller, Dennis Deter, Roger Sala and Melkorka Sigridur.
Web page: www.almasoderberg.com
