From this comes – a dance performance devised by Valentina Parravicini, in collaboration with composer and sound artist Alexandra Nilsson, and in dramaturgical dialogue with Faustin Linyekula. Emerging from an ongoing artistic practice that weaves dance and writing, it deals with the questions: how are things coming together and touching each other? How to listen to complexity, to something “bigger than us” and keep on moving with it?

From this comes – A New Performative Practices Presentation, produced by Stockholm University of the Arts, presented at WELD, May 2023.

Take material entanglements and collaborative inclinations.

Place them in a precarious landscape. 

Gather dysfunctional stories, incongruent memories and touching references. 

Read the future through them. 

Look for a ripe fruit in the somateque, bite into it and wonder what you are sitting on. 

For this work I recorded the sound of the chairs of Valentinas performance when she was moving, dragging, caressing, pushing them and making them fall apart. Then letting them feedback and processing them into intense but also soft ambiences. Also using field recordings of Lisbon and letting Valentina´s textes lead the piece.

Concept and performance: Valentina Parravicini
Composition and live sound performance: Alexandra Nilsson
Technical support: Ronald Salas
Video documentation: Maja Hannisdal
Production: Karin Hauptmann | Stockholm University of the Arts with the support of: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; c.e.m-centro em movimento, Lisbon; BCN-Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, Santa Maria da Feira (PT), Câmara Municipal de Lisboa – Polo Cultural Gaivotas | Boavista, Lisbon.