Workshop Listening Dance – Sensing Sound

28/7 – 31/7 2025

Deepening in listening, movement and improvisation, in the beautiful tent in Anga on eastern Gotland.

A Movement Workshop blending perspectives from dance improvisation, sound art and craft.

Open for all; for artists with movement-, sound and craft based/inspired practices and other interested.

We practice a deepened listening – similarly to how an orchestra tune their instruments between themselves, we “tune” our perception in the meeting between movement, sound, environment, and material.

The workshop is led by:

Katarina Eriksson, dance artist based in Gothenburg and the USA.

Stina Nilsson, dance artist, choreographer, improviser based in Jönköping.

Anna E Weiser, sound and voice artist, composer-choreographer, and somatic movement educator/Body-Mind Centering®, artistic director of the Vibrationsverket.

When:

Monday 28/7 at 17.00 – 19.00 (arrival day)

Tuesday 29/7 – Thursday 31/7  at 10.00 – 17.00.

Where: In Anga, on the countryside of eastern Gotland.

Anga is located 5 km from the coast and swimming area, 36 km from Visby.

The workshop is held in a large white beautiful single-masted tent with wooden floor and dance mat.

Participation fee: 2400:- (Concessions available)

Register via Mail to info@vibrationsverket.se

Bring your own lunch or buy at cost price. Simple coffee included.

Accommodation:

Possibility of simple accommodation in larger canvas tents can be offered at cost price.

You can also bring your own tent.

The site has an equipped outdoor kitchen and accessible toilet.

Transport:

The nearest bus stop is Kräklingbo church, about 5 km from Anga. Vibrationsverket can pick up and drop off at the boat terminal/airport or at the bus stop for an agreed price (25 SEK/10 km).

Arranged by: Vibrationsverket – Room for Movement.

For more info contact us via mail info@vibrationsverket.se

or phone to Anna E Weiser +46 (0)707425495.

Presentation of the artists/teachers and workshop outline:

Katarina Eriksson has worked with improvisation and experimental dance since 1989, often in interdisciplinary contexts. She teaches Contact and dance improvisation internationally and is a regular partner with Moving Ground, San Fransisco and Spinn Dance Company, Gothenburg. After many years in the USA, she has recently moved back to Sweden and is currently working with her own performance project Pause Piece/Växprocesser and with Big Wind’s adaptation of The Tempest for and with young people with special needs. Katarina’s leadership style supports collaboration, diversity of expression and “beginner’s mind”. Her main guides in art-making are vulnerability, musicality and deep play.

“In my class, we investigate the creative potential of one of nature’s (and the dancing body’s) most common forms: the spiral. We begin with playful solo explorations and perceptive duo exercises, then meander on to ensemble improvisations, inspired by the surrounding landscape, and the dynamic patterns of nature.”

Stina Nilsson is a dance artist and has worked with improvisation as an artistic method and scenic expression for the past fifteen years. She is interested in dance as a way of being present, alone and together with others. Stina’s artistry is based on interdisciplinary collaborations with musicians, poets, artists and other dancers. She has toured Europe with her works and often performs site-specifically outdoors and indoors in public environments.

“My teaching consists of methods that I use myself in my daily dance practice and in my artistic work together with others. For me, it is important to train both the body, the mind and creativity. I use exercises from different practices such as butoh, meditation, yoga/stretching and improvisational practices that aim to explore one’s own movement language and to challenge habitual movement patterns. I also work with breathing, stillness and listening to the movement that is inside the body. At the end of the day, we dance together based on simple improvisational scores. We work in constellations such as solo, duo and trio, and compose in the moment in relation to each other, time and space. We use practices that help us find a state of presence and playfulness in the interaction with each other.”

Anna E Weiser sound and voice artist, composer-choreographer, and somatic movement educator/Body-Mind Centering®. She works sense-based, explores timbre and listening – sense of sound – in a wider perspective; materially, spatially, in landscape, in relation to sensibility and perception. She is currently working with her own project about voice improvisations by watercourses. She runs Vibrationsverket together with Wolfgang Weiser.

“In my class we will support and deepen the improvisational movement work through acts of listening and making – simple material-based explorations with paper, threads and objects that produce sound. By turning the attention away from transmitting and toward receiving, the transition between inside and out come into focus. We translate these thin transitions between surfaces, membrane, and skin as a weaving between environment and person, a listening from the inside out. The work will focus on sound, timbre and resonance, and influenced by the somatic approach of Body-Mind Centering®.”