Alma Söderberg

Alma Söderberg

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.