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Choreographer Eva
Ingemarsson
Eva Ingemarsson has been active in Göteborg, Sweden since 1978. She
is one of the artistic directors and initiators behind the Atalante experimental
venue in Göteborg. The Atalante is an important forum for new dance
forms in Sweden.
Eva Ingemarsson is devoted
to contemporary dance and the possibility of developing her own forms
of dance expression. She has created productions for different kinds of
rooms and open-air spaces, everything from ordinary theater auditoriums
to factory halls, public squares and parks and even dance performances
on floating rafts in the harbour. Eva Ingemarsson investigates the expression
of the dance and the possibilities of encounters with other art forms
on stage.
Eva Ingemarsson Dance Production
is supported by national as well as local community grants and her choreography
has attracted a lot of attention. She has also been given honorary awards
from The Arts Grants Committee, the Göteborg Arts Council and the
Västra Götaland Arts Council.
Some of her most important
works are: Everything disintegrates before a naked shoulder (Allting rasar
inför en naken skuldra) 1987, Secret days (Hemliga dagar) 1988, Passage
1989, Two ways (Två vägar) 1991, Uninvited guests (Objudna
gäster) 1992, Shadow image (Skuggbild) 1992, The Wedding Night (Bröllopsnatten)
1994, The Photographer (Fotografen) 1997, The frozen ones 1999.New performance
for the autumn of 2001 Choreographer Eva Ingemarsson continues to experiment
with dance forms in combination with documentary interviews, stills and
video.
Her newest piece is an independent
sequel to her great success, The frozen ones, from the autumn of 1999.
The new production will focus on memories. Four dancers talk about
them-selves, their lives and their memories. The set gives the impression
of doors and corridors. The dancers watch themselves grow young and old.
The audience will meet Arngrimur Bjarnason from Iceland, Janni Groenwold
from The Netherlands, Mauro Rojas from Chile/Columbia and Åsa Thegerström
from Sweden.
The opening will be on September 20, 2001 at the Atalante in Göteborg,
and will run until November 3. The performance will then go on tour to
Stockholm and Malmö.
Choreography Eva Ingemarsson
Dancers Arngrimur Bjarnason, Janni Groenwold, Mauro Rojas, Åsa
Thegerström
Video & interview Niklas Rydén
Stills Anders Jirås
Lighting Anna Wemmert Clausen
Set design Roland Borén & Mania Teimouri
Costumes Karin Jatta
Producer Astrid von Rosen
The frozen ones was performed
at:
The Atalante in Göteborg September 16 - October 27, 1999
The Göteborg film festival 29 - 30 January 2000
Moderna Dansteatern in Stockholm 15 - 16 April 200
Dansstationen in Malmö 28 - 29 April 2000
Teaterdagarna in Hallunda 13 - 14 May 2000
The Atalante 13 - 19 November 2000
The frozen ones
The frozen ones is a choreographic documentary about two dancers, Janni
from the Netherlands and Arngrimur from Iceland. It's also the story about
the encounter between a man and a woman in a backyard in a city in a country
somewhere in the world. The frozen ones is about what it is like to be
a human being; about relationships, love, God and the body. And a story,
or rather two stories, about teeth.
In The frozen ones Eva Ingemarsson
explores the confrontation between the dance, still photography and video.
Moments can be frozen, their life span can be prolonged, adding to the
dimensions to the dance. In photography, time stands still. What happens
when a man meets the image of himself? In this performance we see two
individuals, Janni and Arngrimur, being interviewed and filmed. At the
same time we meet them on stage as dancers.
About The frozen ones
The frozen ones is a visualization
of the intangible. Words disappear but movement remains. The frozen ones
is a beautiful production.
Anna Ångström, the Svenska Dagbladet
The dancers enter into images
and move around within them with a technique which is as brilliant as
it is simple. The piece is both aesthetically and philosophically stimulating.
Definitely one of this year's most interesting productions.
Danjel Andersson, the Dagens Nyheter
An intriguing suite of pictures
about two bodies and two lives. Beautiful and surprising when reality
and image become one.
Margareta Sörenson, the Expressen
The frozen ones was an intriguing
program that has extended the parameters of possibility by integrating
video and text with dance...
The dancers express themselves, their vulnerably and honestly, thus making
a fascinating and provoking evening.
Maggie Foyer, Dance Europe
The emotion aroused by the
dancer‚s life stories becomes even stronger when they step in and
out of their physical forms. These double dimensions are in immediate
contact with one another as the body becomes juxtaposed to an image projected
on the wall. Magical effects, humor and deep seriousness are separated
by a single turn of a head. Laughter and fear go side by side. The moment
is as fragile as thin glass when the female dancer carefully carries her
own body away. A magical, deeply touching evening.
Lis Hellström Sveningson, the Göteborgs Posten
Like a surrealistic painting.
It is fascinating and exciting with filled with ambiguity and playful
seriousness while the dance creates the rational out of the irrational.
Sensual dialectics create an intense feeling of the moment. A complete
story about our shattered
time in an ongoing dialogue with an audience which finds itself laughing
considerably more than usual at a dance performance.
Ingela Brovik, the Arbetet
What happens on stage is
simple and magical when Eva Ingemarsson in her dance documentary, The
frozen ones, lets two dancers meet themselves on video and slides. The
choreography includes both expressive and poetic solos and pas de deux.
It is rare to see a performance which has been so thoroughly developed
in both form and content.
Vibeke Wern, the Berlingske Tidende
The frozen ones is a brilliant
example of limit-breaking artistic creativity and high quality.
Lena Maria Nordstrand, P4 radio
Eva Ingemarsson's production 1987-1999
Everything disintegrates
before a naked shoulder 1987, an evening with five dancers and 22 tons
of sand. Music Zbigniew Karkowski.
Bridge to Bridge 1987, with the Rubicon, 25 dancers outdoors on rafts
and bridges on the harbor canal in the center of Göteborg. In shoes
of air 1987, performance for children with the Rubicon. Marathon dance
1987, 48 hours at the Unga Atalante. Ata-Ata 1987, 15 minutes with seven
dancers. Music N Rydén. Secret days 1988, an evening with seven
dancers. Music Carl-Axel Hall. Dance on a grassy slope 1988, outdoors
at the Näckrosdammen park with Rubicon. Cantata 105 1989, dance performed
to the music of J. S. Bach. Dance in the trees and in church 1989, outdoors
and in the Haga church. Music Sven Erik Johansson. In the inner courtyard
at the Bourse 1989, outdoors with Rubicon. Passage 1989, an evening in
two acts with five dancers. Music N Rydén. Dance around the castle
in Örebro 1989, with Rubicon.
Dance outside the Röhsska Museum 1989, Rubicon. Passage 1990. Dance
on roads and waterways 1990, Rubicon, opened the exhibition at Chalmers.
Solo improvisation 1990 at the Unga Atalante. Kronhuset 1991, Rubicon,
dance in the audience. Faesbergia 1991, Rubicon, opened the exhibition
in Mölndal. Little Lycke and The wedding dance of the foxes 1991,
an evening in two acts named Two roads. Music N Rydén. Guerrilla
dance 1991, Rubicon outdoors at Kungsgatan and in Brunnsparken. Götaplatsen's
steps 1991, Rubicon, outdoors in front of the Art Museum with six dancers.
Nueva York 1991, an evening with the writer Jan Norming and Johan Borgström
saxophone. Attack and Fancy
1991, Rubicon at Nefertiti the jazz club. Dance for the Film Festival
1992, Folkets hus. Uninvited guests 1992, an evening with four dancers
and a grand piano. Music N Rydén. Times change 1992, at the Art
Museum in Göteborg. Randen 1992, inauguration of a room at Chalmers
with five dancers and an accordion. Solo improvisation 1992, Culture nights.
Shadow image 1992, a solo dance on a tarpaulin. Music prepared piano N
Rydén. From the sea art thou come 1992, a solo dance and readings
by Märta Tikkanen. The fish 1992, solo dance to minimalistic piano.
Myth and storytelling 1993, a solo dance and readings by Märta Tikkanen
at the Unga Atalante. Hotell 11 1993, inauguration of the hotel with six
dancers and pupils from the Music and Opera school. High heels 1993, a
solo dance to the music of an accordion, music by N Rydén. Solo
on a Cube 1993, dance in the Haga church to improvised organ music. Secrets
1994, performance for children with dance, music, poems. In a white nothingness
1994, solo in a room made of metal. Music Patrik Ehrnborg. Leonardo da
Vinci 1994, opening of the exhibition at Eriksberg. Music Anders Hultkvist.
Wedding Night 1994, an evening with a man and a women in white dancing
in a white room. Music made from their own voices by Niklas Rydén.
4 solo 1995, at the Unga Atalante, music Åke Parmerud during the
Electro-acoustic night. Happenings at suppertime 1995, White Architects
at the Lindholmen Gymnasium. White lips 1995, an evening with three dancers
at the Unga Atalante, music Niklas Rydén. Tango III 1996, dance
video produced at the Valand Art Academy together with the artist Antonio
Sognasoldi. Mein Ego 1996, solo performance in front of a huge video projection.
4 solo dancers on tour to Moscow 1996. Pathfinder 1996, outdoors performance
at Götaplatsen at the Amnesty manifestation. Art has been stolen
1996, midnight performance outdoors. Choreography for six mountain climbers
hanging from the roof at the Art Museum and six dancers on the steps.
Music by Göteborgsmusiken. The photographer 1997, an evening with
three dancers, one photographer, slide projections, prepared grand piano
and an exhibition. Photographer P Öhlander, D Sederowsky. Music N
Rydén. Dubblett 1998, one solo performer who dances twice to two
different kinds of music. Behind glass 1998, at the Art Galleri 54.
Dance installation for four hours behind a door of glass and Vaseline.
Garden party 1998, four dancers, four musicians and five sculptures by
the artist Tomas Ferm. The Firebird 1998, outdoors performance for 26
dancers placed on different roofs and towers at the Liseberg Amusement
Park. Music by Stravinsky performed live by the Göteborgs Symfoniker.
Three skirts 1998, dance trio for five minutes to the tango music of Piazolla.
The frozen ones 1999, a dance documentary about two dancers, interviewed
and filmed. An evening in two acts. A meeting between dance, still photography
and video.
Eva Ingemarsson Dance Production.
Atalante
Övre Husargatan 1
S-411 22 Göteborg
tel 46(0)31-711 82 00
fax 46(0)31-13 63 17
atalante@atalante.org
Producer Astrid von Rosen,
astrid22@spray.se
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