Weld Extended is an extension of the experimental project Weld Company (2013). This autumn and spring, Extended will be in focus while we re-examine our larger project. During the autumn we have invited both Swedish and international choreographers to share their practice.

Weld Extended is an open project with dancers/choreographers who have not worked with us in this constellation before. We want to open up for more Swedish and international dancers and choreographers and do this by conducting a short curious process together.

The invitation to the choreographer is to share their practice for a few days and to create choreographic material linked to 12 minutes of composed music by the Swedish composer Tomas Björkdahl. The work will offer different interpretations of the same composition. The work will end each week with a short open sharing of the process.

Dancers participating in different constellations: Natalia Drozd, Andreas Haglund, Maria Naidu, Wiliam Nylind, Alice MacKenzie, Anna Pehrsson, Jade Stenhuijs and Stina Ehn.

Photo: Julie Hrncirová

Harald Beharie (NO/JM)
Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo. His practice looks into alternative modes of being, dancing and existing together while questioning notions of normativity. His choreographic practice unfolds in various constellations with other dance and visual artists, and some of the leading interests in his work at the moment are dissecting known physical narratives and opening for a conscious naivety and playfulness while indulging into the pathetic, collapsing but still joyful body. He is a part of the performance collective – De Naive, a group that mainly works with dance practice as soft activism – inviting and invading public space with social performances. From 2016-2019 he was part of Carte Blanche- The Norwegian National company of contemporary dance. Haralds work has received nominations for the Norwegian Critics Association prize for the performances ”Shine Utopians” with Louis Schou (2020) and the solo work Batty Bwoy (2022).

Invited choreographers

Nicole Neidert (SE) open showing on October 27 at 6pm

Elisabete Finger (BR/DE) open showing on November 4 at 6pm

Femke Gyselinck (BE) open showing on November 11 at 6pm

Harald Beharie (NO) open showing on November 18 at 6pm

We have also invited Virpi Pahkinen (SE/FI) for a special project in Weld Extended which will be reported later.

Read more about all the choreographers and this autumn’s work with Weld Company Extended at weld.se

Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm