Make Hay While The Sun Shines

Make Hay While the Sun Shines is a series of dances developed through 2019-2023 in New York and Stockholm. In shorter work periods, through performances, workshops and studio work, in different iterations, and with different dancers, a series of dances are created.

Ditching a “neither/nor” in favour of a “yes/and”, Make Hay While the Sun Shines is a project and a dance of constant change. Saying yes to both the habitual and the unknown it samples the dance history of a cross-generational cast of dancers and merges them into new forms.

The performance departs from the incoherency of movements and histories. It engages in time specific and partial views, the uncategorized details that pre-exists the whole, and the chaos called reality. Together, we create a dance which might be more like life itself: irregular, fascinating, unsuccessful, stumbling, loving and pretty unpredictable.

Make Hay While the Sun Shines is a series of dances developed through movements between Stockholm and New York. Iterations have been presented at Center for Performance Research (NYC), Performance Mix (NYC), Dans.Hall (Farsta), La Mama Studios (NYC), MDT (Stockholm) and Pageant (NYC).

In 2021 the book of conversations made as part of the project alongside was released, alongside a short dance film. In 2023 a new dance film and a second edition of the book was released.

PUBLICATION:

Make Hay While the Sun Shines, Second edition 2023.

The publication Make Hay While the Sun Shines presents conversations between the participating dancers in the project and Stina Nyberg, dwelling on topics such as teaching, feminism, bullying, racism, training, encouragement and friendship.

First edition was published in 2021. This is the second edition made in 2023 with two added interviews. Graphic design by Johnny Chang. If you want a copy, email me.

PRESS:
Responding (notes app edition) to Stina Nyberg’s Make Hay While the Sun Shines and Sweet at Pageant – NORA RAINE THOMPSON