Big thanks to Konstnärsnämnden (The Swedish Arts Grant Comittee) for giving me travel support to be able to perform in the choreographer Dalija Acin Thelanders performance Fields Of Tender during the two internaionally acclaimed children arts festivals - Frats Festival (Berlin, Germany) and Babaró Festival (Galway, Ireland) this year in October.
Teaterkungen exhibition and live performances @ Livrustkammaren
Now at Livrustkammaren (The Royal Armoury) you can now see the exhibition Teaterkungen (The Theatre King). As part of the exhibition you can see a video with some baroque dance created and performed by me.
Read more (in swedish) about the exhibition here: https://livrustkammaren.se/utstallningar/teaterkungen/
On the 22nd of FEB, the fantastic researcher in theatre studies, Petra Dotlacilová, and I will have a presenation called Gudar, herdar och furier- danskostymer i rörelse (Gods, shepards and furies - dance costumes in movement) at Livrustkammarne. Petra will talk about styles of costumes of different characters from eighteen centuary theatre was wearing and I will sprinkle in some baroque dance solos in costumes of some styles mentioned.
Read more (in swedish) about the presentation and book tickets here: https://www.tickster.com/sv/events/hb3zemwgt1ybdy2/2024-02-22/gudar-herdar-och-furier-danskostymer-i-rorelse
Infrastructures for freelancers @ Folk & Kultur 2024
On my way to be part of a panel discussion on infrastructures for freelancers at the platform Folk & Kultur 2024 in Eskilstuna.
Will also stand in the Smart Coop booth today to share about our cooperative company for freelancers to help develop their projects.
Frictional Realities for MA students @ Stockholms University DSV
Yesterday were doing set-up for us to rehearse and perform Frictional Realities for the MA students in immersive technologies at Stockholm University DSV (Computer and Systems Science) on the 15th FEB 2024.
It’s been so lovely to be in a continous dialog with this universitys students about how to work and develop expriences in XR (Extended reality technologies i.e. VR/AR/MR) by beeing in dialogue from an artistic experience.
In middle of setting up at Extrality LAB at Stockholm University DSV in Kista, Stockholm.
Thanks to Konstnärsnämnden!
A big thanks to Konstnärsnämnden (The Swedish Arts Grants Comittée) who gave support for us to go to JÁ FEST 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal!
Multiplex Realities @ JÁ Festival
Multiplex Realities will be performed during JÁ FEST in Lisabon, Portugal!
Big thanks to Intercult for recomending us and to JÁ International Theatre (JÁIT) for inviting us!
If you’re in Lisabon on the April 11-14th swing by the festival and say hi!
Frictional Realities @ Stockholm University
On February 17th, Frictional Realities was presented for the students working on immersive technologies at Stockholm University DSV (Department of Computer and system science).
We had some lovely performances and talks with the students afterwards about the piece and what it does.
Big thanks to Jordi Belenguer for inviting and helping so much with the set-up!
The performers Lucas Carlsson and Lisen Ellard during test showings with a participant embracing them at Svarta Lådan.
Residency showcases of BREAKING FACADE
My project Breaking Facade is having showcases at Svarta Lådan at Södertörn Högskola as part of artist residency at university and Huddinge Municipality during 2022.
The showcases will happen:
8 DEC | 13.00-14.30.
8 DEC | 18.00-19.30
9 DEC | 13.00-14.30
If you are interested to come you can book as spot in the role of either participant or spectator.
Book a place as a PARTICIPANT.
If you are interested to help out as a TEST AUDIENCE during our process then you can book a spot here - TEST AUDIENCE.
Here is an article in Swedish shortly describing the project - ARTICLE.
Looking for test participants and test audience for Breaking Facade
I am looking for test participants and test audience for my project Breaking Facade during my final working period in Svarta Lådan at Södertörn University this year. Between 30 Nov - 9 DEC.
If you’d like to participate then please sign up using this form:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X6uP5apXReTfdKGNHn2cYFL0xXuXD9uRjaIQssFY_EY/edit?usp=sharing
More info in document.
Awarded the Drottningholm Court Theatre scholarship
On the 2nd of June I was awarded a scholarship from Drottningholms slottsteaterns vänförening (Friends of Drottningholms Slottsteater) handed to me by HM the Queen Silvia. The scholarship will go to my futher inquiry in how I can work choreographically with baroque dance by creating several meetings with international artists working with baroque dance today.
Presenting a lecture at Södertörn University
Read more here: http://live.medieteknik.info/noah-hellwig/
Svenska Tal - Swedish Speech
I have been invited by the fantastic artist Tomas Rajnaj to take part in his festival Svenska Tal (Swedish Speeches) between the 7-10 of June 2022 at the venue Fylkingen.
Tomas has invited a fantastic line-up of incredible artists to each hold their own speech about the future from their own artistic practice and perspective. This is from a desire of him to hear artist speak about the future instead of politicians before the Swedish election happning in september this year.
My speech will happen on the 9th of June at 18.00 and it has currently the title:
Deep-fake-future - How dance can save the future of truth.
To read more about the event see here: https://www.facebook.com/events/414680030185854
For tickets look here:
https://www.nortic.se/dagny/event/38153?fbclid=IwAR1LpVhE_CzFl6lD1Lr_p5eRW_P5lLSuDBHyQVdOmXrfs0nhUdibfw_5W-s
Photo by: Petra Dotlačilová
Vernissage of Skräddade berättelser (Tailored Stories) @ Drottningholm Court Theatre
On the 30th of May then I had the pleasure of dancing some short baroque dances of own creatation in Dejunérsalongen at Drottningholm Court Theatre during the vernissage of Skräddade Berättelser - 100 år av scenkostymer på Drottningholm (Tailored Stories - 100 years of costumes at Drottningholm). Accompanining me on the harpsicord was the fantastic Mariangiola Martello playing some segments by J.P. Rameau.
The exhibition was curated by the fantastic Anna Kjellsdotter and includes costumes from the last 100 years that has been used at the theatre, as well as stories from dancers, singers and performers wearing through the century. The costumes are spread out all around the whole 1700th centry theatre in all it’s small rooms and corridors. But there will also be an augmented reality (AR) segment where you will be able to see some dancing by me on the app Artivive as part of the whole thing.
The exhibition will be open all summer from the 6th of June to 30th of September.
Read more about it here: https://dtm.se/skrddade-berttelser
Residency with Konstnärsnämnden @ Danscentrum Syd
I have the pleasure of receiving a two week residency elected by Konstnärsnämnden (The Swedish Arts Grants Committee). The residency will take place in Danscentrum Syd studios the 11-23 of December 2022. I will continue with developing my project Breaking Facade!
If you are in Malmö during that time and would like to take part in the process as test audience then please write to me.
A big thanks to Konstnärsnämnden and Danscentrum Syd for this!
Artistic residency at Södertörn University and Huddinge Municipality!
I have the fantastic pleasure of being elected by the Södertörn University and Huddinge Municipality to have an artistic residency and collaboraiton with these two institutions spread out during the 2022! We have just started to plan for it but I will continue to explore my project Breaking Facade in the studio as well as together with inhabitants of Huddinge. While also sharing my artistic practice with the students at the university as well as exploring possible cross breeding of academic and artistic practices. I hope to have many interesting meetings and audience interactions from this. But I also hope to meet several new interesting ideas and possible future collaborations through this!
You can more about this in swedish here: https://www.sh.se/nyheter/startsida/2022-05-09-ny-residensinnehavare-utsedd
En confidence - en fidence - en danse
The concert-performance En Confidence - en fidense - en danse will have a premier at the Ulriksdals Slottsteater - Confidencen on the 7th of august 2021!
There will be dance and chorography by me and music and dance done by the fantastic musicans Petra Ambrosi, Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann, Marcus Mohlin, Peter Spissky.
Photo by Fernando Molin
Multiplex Realities at Tanzfaktur
My piece Multiplex Realities have been invited to Tanzfakturs summer festival for performing arts i Köln, Germany.
We have a marathon day of 28th performances on the 17th of July!.
Big thanks to Konstnärsnämnden - The Swedish Arts Grants Comitteé for giving travel support for this work!
Thanks to Konstnärsnämnden
I would just like to give my deepest thanks to Konstnärsnämnden (The Swedish Arts Grants Committee) for giving me the support through the crisis found as well as a One Year Arbetsstipendium (work grant). I feel humble and grateful in these precarious times.
As well as being thankful and joyful for this honor I am simultaneously saddened and my heart goes out to all those artists that are struggling and to whom the money of the crisis fund and working grant did not reach. It’s sad to see and hear so many stories of what chaos this pandemic has created for our field and for people's personal economies. I wish there could be more support for artists in these uncertain times so that we won’t lose the many different voices in our community.
I hope that this crisis will also start a discussion and change to our current system to one that minimizes the amount of people that “faller mellan stolarna” (fall between chairs) of the different bureaucratic systems in the social safety net. So that we have a system which understands and supports artists both in surviving bad times as well as in the period of creating new interesting work.
Lots of love,
// Noah
Multiplex Realities @ Temps D'Image
My performance Multiplex Realities can be seen on the 16-18th of January during the festival Temps D’Image at Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Multiplex Realities is supported by Konstnärsnämnden (the Swedish Arts Grants Committeé) to perform at the festival Temps D’Image.
Premiere of Frictional Realities
Tomorrow we will have the premiere of Frictional Realities at Weld in Stockholm.
It’s been a darling project that I am now so very happy to see that it has manifested itself from an ephemeral set of ideas and concept, into something very concrete and physical as an experience.
We will have about 24 performances between 19-21 Dec. So if you’re interested book at: book.weld.se
Some info about the performance:
Frictional Realities is a mixed-reality performance where two participants at a time will be guided alone but together, to explore an asymmetrical virtual-physical environment.
The project explores the concept of frictions in immersive environments, and its uses as part of an embodied mixed-reality performances. Frictions can be seen as sensorial, temporal gaps that creates a mental dissonance in your subjective reality and identity. A feeling of falling out of your immersion of the “real” reality to fall into the experience of your own body.
The original concept of ”frictions” was developed by Human-Computer Interaction researcher, Asreen Rostami, whose work has been a part of the project’s development.
CREDITS
Idea & Concept: Noah Hellwig & Asreen Rostami
Choreography, Text & Interactions: Noah Hellwig in close cooperation with Disa Krosness
Performance: Disa Krosness, Noah Hellwig & Emelie Wahlman
Music: Miranda Abrahamsson
VR-design: Leo Låby & Erik Blåsjö (Pusselbit Games)
Artistic Consultation: Gabriel Widing
Lights: Ronald Salas
With support by The Swedish Arts Council, Region Stockholm, Stockholm Stad, Riksteatern and Weld