Sebastian Lingserius // Kass dance
I have been working Sebastian Lingserius on a few projects. Sebastian always has an interesting mind in how he disects concepts and ideas and how to turn them into physical practices.
Read more about the productions below.
Body Machines
An analysis, and performance that speculates on alternative livelihood, hybrids, cyborgs, rats, queer-chauvinists, and childishly adult children. A piece that promises four delicate dancers, robots, surveillance cameras, and a radio-controlled tank, in a large scenic jitter bug.
A work about identity, but that also flirts with the machinic in our existence. Improvisation-structures that re-codes our way of being and interacting on. Movements that are both physical and mental, slipping over both country borders and ideologies, and attempts new ways for how our bodies can re-direct and fool our thoughts.
Premiered at Dansens Hus in 2017.
Tour in 2018 to Falkenberg, Sweden; Kristianstad, Norway.
Read more about the project and Sebastian Lingserius at:
kass-produktion.se
NEO Ballet Project
This is a choreographic video art project (to be exhibited in theatre-foyers, in dance studios, in museums, or live-streamed from a stage). As corona-safe as possible. To present dance, but outside of a filled up theater.
The project wishes to go through important moments in dance history, descriptively and clearly go through different ideologies of dance development, until today. To further introduce distortion and abuse of the ballet-we-know. Misunderstandings that introduce new fantasies about the ballet of the future (or should we call it Neo Ballet). When a filmed workshop turns into a filmed lecture that turns into a filmed ballet-performance, what is gained for the audience in relation to knowledge and new associations? Can this expanded interest from the audience turn into a new understanding of the neo-classical ballet and create a fascination for where it possibly can go?
The work wants to reformulate what it means to watch neo classical ballet. To fabricate an inbetween, where is the line between contemporary choreographic dance exploration and the clearly recognizable neo-classical ballet?. A work that wants to make the audience fantasize about something ”new”. A choreographic work which includes a filmed lecture, a filmed workshop, and a “useful” ballet. The composer Franz Edvard Cedrins will depart from country music, classical music, techno-rave, elector-acoustic and harmonic piano.
Together with the artists Caroline Byström, Noah Hellwig, Nefeli Oikonomou, Franz Edvard Cedrins and Katrine Johansen, the body of ballet, its techniques, representation, language, politics and power structures will be scrutinized. This is a dance speculation for the future of post-Neo Ballet, with three filmed dancers for 2021.
With & by: Sebastian Lingserius
Sound design & composer: Franz Edvard Cedrins
Scenography, costume: Sebastian Lingserius
Photo and artistic consultation: Nefeli Oikonomou
Producer: KASS Production
The project is funded by Kulturrådet, and travel through Konstnärsnämnden.
Read more about the project and Sebastian Lingserius at:
kass-produktion.se
