Generations of dance history form an unpredictable dance collage
When Dansnät Sverige last met Stina Nyberg it was on a sweaty dancefloor with pumping techno. This time Stina enters deeper into generations of movement languages, to refurnish and to find something new.
Stina Nyberg is a choreographer who moves within different border lands, thematically and in terms of form. She has turned Mozart inside out, created seances in a tent and dissected the male genius Tesla. The base of her artistry lies in her interest in undervalued knowledge, magical practices and the language of power. Whatever she tackles she always starts with the political and social history of the human body – Make Hay While the Sun Shines is no exception.
With Nyberg’s feministic view of the human body and with a generation-wide transcendent ensemble of five women, Make Hay While the Sun Shines bear in mind the dancers’ personal expressions. Here the dancers’ personal history of movements takes place. Their dances and movements, which have followed them through their personal careers, are gathered, mixed and tossed around to create a dance collage in constant change. The performance embraces the body and dance history, pays homage to movements, styles and expressions that exist within us, and has the potential to create new and other styles of movements.
Make Hay While the Sun Shines is a dance performance compared with life itself: changeable, fascinating, unsuccessful, stumbling, lovable and completely unpredictable.
This is the second time Stina Nyberg tour with Dansnät Sverige. Previously have Splendor (2017) toured with the network.
Stina Nyberg
Choreographer
The choreographer and dancer Stina Nyberg originate from Örnsköldsvik but is now Stockholm based. She is educated as a dancer at Balettakademin, received her master exam in choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts 2012. Nyberg has since produced a number of works shown both in Sweden and internationally. She has also choreographed the music group The Knifes show Shaking the Habtual and Tones & Bones for the Cullberg Dance company. Nyberg is part of the group Samlingen who jointly examines dance history from a feminist perspective.
Credits
Choreography: Stina Nyberg
Participating Dancers: Chrysa Parkinson, Ingrid Mugalu, Katy Pyle, Maria Naidu, Maryam Nikandish and Stina Nyberg
Music: KABLAM (Kajsa Blom)
Participating dancers during the process: Aurore d’Audiffret, Molly Englom and Lydia Östberg Diakité
Assistants during the process: Zoê Poluch and Yvonne Rainer
Production: Terry Johnson and Nordberg Movement
Administration: Konstnärskooperativet Interim Kultur
Co-production: Dansnät Sverige, MDT Stockholm and Norrlandsoperan
With the support of: Kulturrådet, Konstnärsnämnden and Stockholm City
Photo: Kathryn Butler
Toured with Dansnät Sverige spring 2021
