Song of the Flesh

In Song of the Flesh Tuva Hildebrand invites you to witness a practice-based choreography; a study on the power relations between perception, behaviour, body and language. 

Song of the Flesh is a raw lo-fi moving landscape of sensation, desire, emotion as motion, gesture and sound. A leap into the unpredictable, vulnerable and absurd. Through practice the work attempts to understand the act of recognition and the formation of the self in relation; the spell and limitations of language. It is fascinated by the too-muchness of the body; a body that leaks, spills over and may unfold itself. 

Song of the Flesh attempts to exist in the fullness of the unfinished; of always becoming and never arriving; of not knowing together. 

The choreographic practice is supported by a live-composed immersive soundscape by Uli Ruchlinski, which highlights the obscurity of the movement material, as well as a minimalist light design, also created by Uli Ruchlinski, entwined with the sound. Ruchlinski works with the concept that light and sound are inseparable and emerge together in the creative process, in close dialogue with the movement. 

The project is initiated by choreographer and dancer Tuva Hildebrand, and its process is a collaboration between her, choreography and practice coach Jeanine Durning, dramaturg Sally O'Neill and light and sound artist Uli Ruchlinski. 

About Reshuffling Relations 

A festival for somatic movement, dance, improvisation and performance in Malmö, 28 February – 22 March.
Read more and book tickets at https://plattformimprovisationsomatik.com/