Public conversation on eco-sensitivity – With DACE, Zheng Bo and invited guests

14 August 2023

Conversation 11.00–14.00
Top floor, Färgfabriken

DACE together with artist Zheng Bo and a team of dancers have explored the nature forest of Högsveden through somatic and eco-sensitive dance practices since 2021. The first year’s research developed into a video work, Le Sacre du printemps, shown at Färgfabriken during the exhibition Symbiosis as well as at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022. This year, for the first time, a human audience is invited to share the immersive experience of the nature forest and forest dance, focusing on ecological intimacy. The artistic team and invited guests return from the forest for an open conversation at Färgfabriken, where they share their experiences of the eco-sensual dance explorations in Dalarna.

Participants in the conversation:

Artistic team:
Zheng Bo (artist, Hong Kong)
DACE/Rickard Borgström & Rebecca Chentinell (curators/Eco-facilitators, Finland/Sweden)
Harald Beharie (dancer, Norway)
Ossi Niskala (dancer, Sweden)
Victor Pérez Armero (dancer, Spain)

Invited guests:
Eylül Fidan Akıncı (House Dramaturge, Theater a/d Rijn, Holland)
Knut Ove Arntzen (professor Emeritus Theater Studies, Norway)
Guy Gypens (Head Curator Performance, KANAL — Centre Pompidou, Belgium)
Heine Avdal (choreographer, Norway)

Image: Le Sacre du printemps (DACE, 2021), photo: Adam Nilsson.

Partners and support

The project and talk is supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Region Dalarna, The International Dance Program at the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, and is part of a cooperation supported by Theatre Info Finland – TINFO’s project which is financed by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Zheng Bo is currently a studio grant holder at IASPIS in Stockholm.