For what we will

For what we will is a choreography gesturing towards the work of building something with others. Presented in the house of ABF, the Swedish Worker’s Study Association, in Stockholm, it investigates the pleasurable work of moulding and being moulded.

What is the work of the performer? How does the effort of collaboration appear? And why are intimate encounters always so messy, painful and irresistable?

In the conference rooms Palme, Kata and Sandler, this work of dance presents three collective movements, each investigating actions of collaboration, instability and failure. The performers build, form, balance, hold and mold in ways of trying to make it work. How do we hold it together when structures fall apart?

As the choreography slides between actions of functionality and ornamentation, attention can slide between recognition and daydreaming. The audience are witness to nascent expressions, inspired by the desire for and will to better forms of life, even if only in this limited and unambitious form.

Set in a context of the Swedish worker’s movement, which has always been a movement of study, the choreography unfolds through the hard work of dealing with others, body to body. A study of movement, if you will.

“The secret harmony of disharmony: I don’t want something already made but something still being tortously made.” Clarice Lispector