From this comes

Take material entanglements and collaborative inclinations.  

Place them in a precarious landscape. 

Gather dysfunctional stories, incongruent memories and touching references. 

Read the future through them. 

Look for a ripe fruit in the somateque, bite into it and wonder what you are sitting on. 

“From this comes” is a dance performance devised by Valentina Parravicini, in collaboration with composer and sound artist Alexandra Nilsson, and in dramaturgical dialogue with Faustin Linyekula. Emerging from an ongoing artistic practice that weaves dance and writing, it deals with the questions: how are things coming together and touching each other? How to listen to complexity, to something “bigger than us” and keep on moving with it? 

When / Where

May 3, 4 and 5 | 19:30 | Weld

Credits

Concept and performance: Valentina Parravicini
in dramaturgical dialogue with Faustin Linyekula
Composition and live sound performance: Alexandra Nilsson
Studio companion: Alexis Steeves
Technical support: Ronald Salas
Video documentation: Maja Hannisdal

Production: Karin Hauptmann | Stockholm University of the Arts with the support of: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; c.e.m-centro em movimento, Lisbon; BCN-Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, Santa Maria da Feira (PT), Câmara Municipal de Lisboa - Polo Cultural Gaivotas | Boavista, Lisbon. 

Special thanks: Ivan Fernandes, Chrysa Parkinson, Sofia Neuparth, Cristina Vilhena, Femke Snelting, Miguel Pereira, Mariana Costa, Andresa Soares, Simona Parravicini, Mario Nuzzo, NPP colleagues and teachers, Weld.

Bio

Valentina Parravicini is an Italian dancer and dance-maker based in Lisbon. After studying ballet and contemporary dance in Milano, she moved to Lisbon to work with body, creation and documentation practices at c.e.m-centro em movimento. Since 2006 she works as a performer, and since 2011 she creates and presents her own work, while also collaborating with other choreographers, musicians, visual artists and film-makers. She is currently a student in the New Performative Practices Master’s Programme at Stockholm University of the Arts, as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grantee. 

Alexandra Nilsson is a composer, sound artist and performer based in Stockholm. Her work stretches across acoustic and electroacoustic music, sound art, noise and performative practices. She holds a Bachelor in Jazz Composition and a Master in Film Scoring from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and she is continuously interested in interactions between sound and image, energy flow, improvisation and transformation. She often collaborates with dancers, performers and visual artists and has composed for dance, theatre, film, chamber ensemble, orchestra and soloists.