Alma Söderberg makes choreographies that include music, sound, rhythm and singing in relation to movement and dance. Her work resulted in the solo performance Cosas (2010) and was followed by TRAVAIL (2012). In the duet A Talk (2011) together with Jolika Sudermann the focus lays on the bodily aspects of language; an analyzis of intonation, rhythms and gestures, which come along with the spoken language. Together with the performance band John the Houseband Söderberg takes her desire to make music the furthest and tries to sing all music styles while playing all instruments. She grew up in Sweden, spent a few years dancing flamenco in Spain and graduated from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in 2011. Her work has won the prizes ITs choreography award (Amsterdam) in 2009 for Entertainment, ACT festival prize (Bilbao) in 2011 for Cosas and 100° Festival audience prize (Berlin) in 2010 for Freedom of Speech and has been shown in among others: Impulstanz (Vienna), Springdance EIM (Utrecht), Tanz in Bern, MDT (Stockholm) and Something Raw (Amsterdam). Together with visual artist Hendrik Willekens, Söderberg is currently working on her new performance Idioter, which will premiere in spring 2014.

“I practice TRAVAIL from beginning till end over and over until premiering. Using fragments of text and imagery that I have cut out from the newspaper I try to pay attention to whatever is at hand and avoid any censorship. As a result of that: music, language and dance; beats, lyrics and moves become tools to work.” (Alma Söderberg)

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Choreography / Music / Performance: Alma Söderberg
Set Design: Rodrigo Sobarzo de Larraechea
Light Design: Katinka Marac
Dramaturgy: Igor Dobričić
Advice: Hendrik Willekens

Production: Het Veem Theater.
Co-production: workspacebrussels, MDT/Danstationen/Atalante.
Supported by Statens kulturråd Sweden.