Sweet

Sweet is a solo with and by Stina Nyberg dealing with the assholeness of humanity. It is performed for an intimite audience group, meeting doomsday with a smile.

”That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” – Emily Dickinson

This story starts with the emergence of a new species, perhaps two hundred thousand years ago. The species does not yet have a name – in fact, nothing does – but it has the capacity to name things. Bit by bit, it spreads to practically every corner of the globe, reassembling the biosphere and the atmosphere on its way. It razes vast forests. It sleeps with its biological cousins and then kills them off. It is, in short, the very asshole of creation.

In the performance, Stina Nyberg departs from the mind-boggling perspective of billions of years in order to talk about her own assholeness. Or perhaps it is the reverse, departing from her own asshole to talk about eternity. In any case, aided by a dance practising the attention of a bird, she hones in on the details of existence, spanning from the very intimate to the very existential.

Sometimes Sweet is described as a choreography for the attentive. Sometimes just as a mortal dance.

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Recension: Sweet - MDT – Moderna dansteatern | SvD

Sweet by Stina Nyberg | Review - dance art journal

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