Knoster invites the audience into a space where time is felt rather than measured. Where the dance emerges from the oscillation between counterweight and release – between weight and weightlessness. Where the weight of labour becomes a path towards the lightness of dance. A listening to the body’s rhythm and to the resonance of movement.
In Knoster, time is explored as a physical experience. The sense of duration and change appears simultaneously to slow down, accelerate, and remain entirely constant within a space that exists both within and beyond time.
As screens and streams of information consume our waking hours, Knoster reflects upon another kind of temporality – one that is felt in our bodies bodies, rather than measured by machines. Stillness, silence, and the breath of labour tell their own stories within a swirling dance.
A contemplative experience to step into, like a forest, or to settle beside, like a fire.
Choreography, dance, scenography & music: Erik Eriksson Light design:Erik Eriksson, Elias Ortiz, & Tanja Jörgensen Studio producer:Mārtiņš Miļevskis Technical assistant: Mikael Marklund Foto & Film: Kate Rudzinska & Anton Höjer
Production: Erik Eriksson, STEGEN Supported by: Dalateatern, Swedish Arts Council, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, IASPIS, Dansens Hus, Tuvumi, Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, Sweden-Latvia cooperation fund,