Son[i]a #311
Alma Söderberg
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Music and sounds taken from Alma Södeberg’s archive of performances and choreographies. The work “Listening in the detail” was produced for this podcast.
Alma Söderberg is a choreographer and performer who works with music and dance. As well as exploring close listening, Alma listens to rhythm and movement, in order to inhabit polyrythm and “simultaneous difference”, to quote Eric Davis by way of Alma. In her solos and choreographic projects, which are developed in close collaboration with the sound artist Hendrik Willekens, her voice and body “play” the space as though it were an instrument. Her unadorned synchronies of voice, rhythm, and movement blur and merge sight and sound in minimal, repetitive, precise movements. Sound and movement are perceived as one and the same. Voice, language, and text dissolve in melody and rhythm. Background and foreground disappear.
In this podcast, Alma Söderberg tells us about the many musical influences that inspire her choreographic practice: jazz, flamenco, hip hop, and experimental and Afro-American music. She also talks about multiplicity, reduced listening and deep listening, about letting rhythm run through you, about the voice, sharing, idiorhythms, Anni Albers, weaving, learning to wait, and about playing.
2020. All rights reserved. © by the artist. Photo: Hendrik Willekens.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with choreographer and performer Alma Söderberg that we were unable to include the first time around. Alma discusses her influences, teachers and schools and two collective projects of different sorts: Manyone and John The Houseband.
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