THIS ALIEN BODY

This workshop will directly link to the working process of the performance This Alien Body.

Our goal for the workshop is to put our own bodies into play with different objects by placing ourselves and the objects in different contexts or relationships. We will then discuss how the placement of an object can create meaning, what subtexts start to appear naturally, and whether there is a narrative forming from our observations.

Informaiton:
Location: PRODA Profesjonell dansetrening – Marstrand gata 8. 0566 Oslo.
Date: Tuesday 22.10.24
Time: 10:00-12:00
For: Professional dancers
The workshop is free of charge for PRODA users. Follow the link over for more information.

Bios:
Suzie Davies and Mattias Ekholm established DEED in 2014. Each has over 30 years’ experience of working with dance and are committed to using their morphing nonconformist bodies to protect and sustain the evolution of dance. 

During the last 10 years DEED have created and produced full-length works touching on diverse physical themes, the most recent being disability and identity. They are interested in how the cultural understanding of what constitutes a disability is connected to understandings of time, ageing, and the idea of a normative life course. These performances helped to trigger questions around key concepts and theories in relation to the body which have in turn provoked a need to explore age in dance. By representing their future bodies through dance, they are actively working towards building a new perception of the aging body.

Suzie Davies is a dancer, choreographer, actor, and writer based in Berger, in Drammen Kommune. She started her career dancing in the Monty Python film ‘The Meaning of Life` in 1983, and later graduated from the London Contemporary Dance School. She worked with Uppercut Danseteater in Copenhagen for 3 years before becoming an established member of Carte Blanche in 1995 where she remained for nine years. During this period she also worked with Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt in Oslo and JazzXchange in London. Since 2004 Suzie has worked as a freelance artist. She formed a long working relationship withKaren Foss and her company Quiet Works, and also became one of the core members of Alan Lucien Øyens company winter guests. In 2010 Suzie received the Rolf Gammleng prize for her work as a dancer. She has been employed by the Actors and Dancers Alliance (SKUDA) since 2012. 

Mattias Ekholm is a dancer, choreographer and coach based in Berger, in Drammen Kommune.  In 1993 he graduated in contemporary dance from Balettakademien in Stockholm, and joined Carte Blanche where he remained as a core-member of the company with many leading roles until 2003. During the same years he also worked closely with Kenneth Kvarnström & Co, in both Sweden and Finland, with whom he toured the world. Mattias has worked as a freelance dancer since 2004. For a period in 2006 he took the role of rehearsal-director at Skånes Dansteater in Malmö. In 2007 he started a close collaboration with Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt in Oslo, where he worked as both dancer and rehearsal director until 2016. He has been employed by the Actors and Dancers Alliance (SKUDA) since 2012.