Infinétude

Six people create sounds and danced rhythms together. Their performance unfolds as a six-part concert and as a dance performance for six bodies. This creation of layered rhythmic, visual, and auditory patterns becomes the basis on which they further weave their dance, song, and thoughts. 

The six revolve around a way thinking that sharpens the relationship between abstraction (or patternmaking) and emotions. They pay close attention to the joy of a syncope (a brief loss of consciousness), the sadness contained in a vocal timbre, the anger connected to a certain movement, the resistance contained in a melody... and so forth. By dancing, singing, and thinking together, they practice polyrhythms, multiplicity that celebrates singularity, porosity, and the ability to both listen and act. 

Infinétude refers to three elements. ‘Infinitude’ is first and foremost the tangible quality of something that can just go on and on and on. The ‘É’ is singled out and represents the work on and with emotional connection. In a time when emotionality is being hijacked by conservative or even neo-fascist forces, it feels necessary to understand how to be clear and sincere at the same time. And finally, étude refers to the attempt to study, in depth, the different ways in which we can play, shape, and change space and time with our movement and our voices.

• Alma Söderberg is a choreographer and performer working with music and dance. She uses her voice and body to play the space as if it were an instrument. Her ongoing investigation is about how we listen while we look; the relationship between the ear and the eye. She has anchored her practice in several solo performances but has also created duos, trios, and group works in collaboration with different artists, collectives, and institutions. She primarily trained in contemporary dance and flamenco at, among others, Matilde Coral Escuela de Danza in Seville, Amor de dios in Madrid, Gotlands dansutbildningar in Visby, and SNDO in Amsterdam. Since 2019 she has also done occasional curations with the same focus as in her practice, for example at the EarEye festival.