Solio

The following is an excerpt from the festival paper of Dance Festival Barents, discussing Solio by Jenny Maria Svensson. Text by Caroline Greiner:

"In collaboration with her dancers Jenny Maria Svensson has focused on a composition of movements. Svensson lets her work spring out from the body as a storage facility and as means of expression: Expressing our memories, emotions and experiences.

The choreographer Jenny Marie Svensson has, during the work with the production Solio, reflected a lot about the feeling of being present in one’s own body and moving with it, and with that, how the feeling changes due to different changes in life."

Stellaris Dance Theatre and Solveig Leinan-Hermo aims to give more dance artists the option to realise their ideas through the Young Choreographer project. Several young choreographers/dancers have taken part. Several also have continued their work by producing productions or tours under the management of Stellaris or in other contexts.

Besides the cultural-political ideas behind the Young Choreographer project it is important to Stellaris Dance Theatre to point out that the different projects double as workshops. Workshops provide the young dance artists with the option to err and to continue working with ideas until they succeed. Rare are the options to include a pre-project in a choreography process during with the artist has a professional team of collaborators and consultant nearby. The size of the projects and the number of performances however must be adjusted to the funds it is possible to raise.

Source: Stellaris Dance Theatre, 21.1.11, http://stellaris.no/forestillinger/solio.html