Sport is a project that dwells the relationship between sport and performance art through choreography. It departs from the incredible fact that sports exist and the unfathomable effect it has had on our bodies and ways to relate to each other, through the concepts of competition, training and talent sports promotes. It revolves around the sociology, psychology and choreography of the athlete - how talent, training and competition produce distinctly their own types of bodies and movements. Sport is a project with seven independent works; six solos and a concluding group piece. In each solo, a dancer and choreographer Erik Valentin Berg work during an intensive period and the work is presented to an audience.
Choreographer Erik Valentin Berg has long had a special interest in talent as a concept: a mysterious but tangible quality that some possess and some do not.
During the residency we will go deep into practices of competition - and especially the concept of winning. The aim is to torment the properties of the situation to the point that it either breaks or plays to our advantage.
Erik Valentin Berg is a choreographer and performer. His work is a consistent exploration of the potential in the encounter between artwork, audience and context. The pieces, clad in a distinct, dark and palpable aesthetic aim to uncover and underline ideology in social contracts. He has a B.A. in aesthetics from Södertörn University and an M.A. in choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts, his work has been shown nationally and internationally for the past 15 years.
Marie Ursin works with dance, choreography, curation and organization that are always based on collaborative processes and hybrid formats. She is interested in the unique logic of the performer, oversized projects that take on their own character and creating different spaces for togetherness. Since 2013, she has been, in collaboration with Alexandra Tveit, the artistic director of Scene:Bluss; an annual experimental residency project that takes on a new format and theme each year. In 2021, she won the 8:tension Young Choreographers' Award competition during ImPulsTanz in Vienna together with Tamara Alegre and Lydia Östberg Diakité for the performance FIEBRE. In 2022, she created the installation performance born slippy at Spriten kunsthall in collaboration with Alexandra Tveit, dragongirl, Kornelia Remø Klokk, Alma Bø and Georgiana Dobre.
