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| Time of residency | September 2025 |
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| Contact info | teaterviva@gmail.com |
| Definition of artistic practice? | I am a multidisciplinaryDancin performance artist, voice artist, composer, director, and artistic leader of Teater Viva. My work explores the resonance between humans and our living surroundings through voice, body, sound, and site-specific performance. With "Singing Our Place," I create interactive works blending concert, ritual, and performance. |
| Title of the investigation at the residency | Dancing Breath, Dancing Cry |
| Description of investigations and findings | I have for many years been fascinated by the human voice’s extensive facets as both a wild and tamed landscape. I explore all the instinctive sounds, tones, and expressions of the body, creating soundscapes and sonic environments based on the voice’s life. At the same time, I am deeply interested in voices from the more-than-human and the possibility of creating new languages and songs for our shared future. In the residency, I have chosen to delve into the exploration of breath and crying. Both elements, as expressions of universal aspects of our lives and as spaces for transformation and connection to the world. I have worked acoustically and with a loop station. My task has been to dance intuitively to compositions created from breath and from crying, in order to enhance my listening and my experience. I also included the listening to and singing with the landscape surrounding the residency place. How is the broth of the place? How is the emotions of the place? |
| What are you most curious about or invested in in your own practice? | I am very curious about landscapes as bodies and bodies as landscapes. I want to expand my own and others conception of what a body is and what a landscape is and finding similarities in order to find new communities. I explore, how to develop new languages in-between humans and more than human. |
| What questions did you bring to investigate and what questions are you leaving with? | I asked myself; can I dance with the breath? Can I dance with the crying? Can I stay present ? Can I be touched? Can other people be touched? Can I create sound-landscapes with breath and crying? Can I work with breath and crying in various ways; musical, physical, emotional, relational, ecological, existential, political? How can I continue this work? How can I share this work? How can I continue to develop this work? |
| Transformative, creative moments at the residency | I loved the quiet moments of the residency; where my soul and creativity could wonder like a wild animal in the forest; in the working space, in my bed and in the forest. Connecting to my self and my inner trust, I was able to follow the voice of inspiration and dive into the unknown. I loved to dance and improvise with the other artists in the mornings. I got new impulses from their dancing bodies and felt new possibilities sprout in my body. |
| Keywords for the work done at the residency | Breath, Crying, Embodied Landscapes, Landscape, More than human, Soundscapes |
| Research locations | BIRCA grounds, Wood at BIRCA |
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Katrine Faber
