BEVARA RÖRELSE

How can we preserve contemporary dance for the future? Dance is in its essence fleeting. The movement is gone in the same instant as it is created. What remains are its resonating traces within us.

'Bevara Rörelse' (Perpetuate Motion) is a research and archival project documenting people's experiences of dance. A collaboration between Skånes Dansteater and archivist Celine Orman challenging and developing methods for preserving and archiving dance as an artform.

The project consists of interviews with audiences, dancers and creative teams in order to gather experiences, ideas and intentions of a dance work. The interviews with creators and dancers are conducted during the creation of a performance. The interviews with audiences are conducted after they have seen the performance.

Through 'Bevara Rörelse' a more multifacetted archive of contemporary artistic creation. The documentation will be archived in The Music and Theatre Library of Sweden (Musik- och Teaterbiblioteket) , a part of Musikverket (Swedish Performing Arts Agency) and lay the ground for future research and re-stagings. 

FILMS

The major part of the project material is film based. A selection of the documentation, interviews with dancers, audiences and creators can be found here.

PROJECT INTRODUCTION: BEVARA RÖRELSE

In our project presentation archivist Celine Orman introduces the project and shares examples of the material collected during the creation and performances of our dance production 'TRANSIT' (2020), choreography by Tero Saarinen, and 'Remind me I'm Not Dead' (2021), choreography by Mari Carrasco. Participating dancers and performance audiences share exeriences of the performance from their individual perspectives. The film was first viewed at the cultural policy convention 'Folk och Kultur' 2021.

SEE THE BEVARA RÖRELSE INTRO FILM HERE

Mitridate, AUDIENCES

Audiences share their experiences of watching 'Mitridate' (2022), concept by Fernando Melo, Ralf Pleger, Alexander Polzin.

SEE THE AUDIENCE'S FILMS ABOUT MITRIDATE HERE

Out of the Blue, AUDIENCES, DANCERS

Dancers and audiences share their experiences of creating and watching our dance production 'Out of the Blue' (2021), choreography by Anouk van Dijk.

SEE THE AUDIENCE AND DANCERS' FILM ABOUT OUT OF THE BLUE HERE

VÅR DAG, AUDIENCES, DANCERS

Dancers and audiences share their experiences of creating and watching our dance production 'VÅR DAG' (2021), choreography by Tina Tarpgaard.

SEE THE AUDIENCE AND DANCERS' FILM ABOUT VÅR DAG HERE

VÅR DAG, Lars Greve and Malin Bobeck Tadaa

Composer Lars Greve and textile artist Bobeck Tadaa share reflections on the creative process behind our immersive continuous production 'VÅR DAG' (2021), choreography by Tina Tarpgaard.

SEE THE FILM WITH LARS GREVE AND MALIN BOBECK TADAA HERE

VÅR DAG, audiences

Members of the audience share their experiences of our dance production 'VÅR DAG' (2021), choreography by Tina Tarpgaard.

SEE THE AUDIENCE FILM ABOUT VÅR DAG HERE

REMIND ME I'M NOT DEAD, dancers

Dancers and choreographer Maari Carrasco share their experiences of creating our dance production 'Remind Me I'm Not Dead' (2021).

SEE THE DANCERS' FILM ABOUT REMIND ME I'M, NOT DEAD HERE

REMIND ME I'M NOT DEAD, AUDIENCES

Members of the audience share their experiences of our dance production 'Remind Me I'm Not Dead' (2021), choreography by Mari Carrasco.

SEE THE AUDIENCE FILM ABOUT REMIND ME I'M, NOT DEAD HERE

DANCEPOD WITH SKÅNES DANSTEATER

Our dancers Kit Brown and Samuel Denton interview archivist Celine Orman in pod episode 21 of DancePod with Skånes Dansteater.

LISTEN TO DANCEPOD EPISODE 21 HERE

SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE OF DANCE

Are you interested in sharing your experience of dance with us and thereby contributing to a dance archive and future dance research?

An crucial part of 'Bevara rörelse' are the post-performance audience interviews. Everyone over 13 years is most welcome to contribute with their experience.

Audience interviews are informal meetings with Celine Orman when you share thoughts and reflections the performance has created within you. There is no right or wrong, no previous knowledge or experience is needed. You are also welcome to share your experience of dance in written form at your convenience. The interviews can therefore be in person physically or digitally or written.

We are very interested in meeting you who:

• have never seen a dance performance
• occasionally sees dance performances
• is a frequent dance audience

Let us know of your interest in being part of 'Bevara rörelse' via email to celine.orman@skanesdansteater.se or by phone 0730-56 22 61. Taking part in 'Bevara rörelse' is free of charge. An email of interest is not binding in any way.

CONTACT

'Bevara rörelse' project manager and archivist Celine Orman is happy to share more details about the project or answer questions concerning the project.

Email: celine.orman@skanesdansteater.se

Bevara rörelse is funded by the Swedish Arts Council.