UTTU

is the space of the hidden

is a memory that emerges from the right hip
is the wound of the past worn on the skin
is where light enters the darkness

is asking to look at her insides
is weaving together the inside and the outside
is feeling all the surfaces that are touched and seen

is letting the light cut through the bones
is making the wounds shine

UTTU is a performative movement exploration that emerges from openness, allowing things
to surface, rather than be shaped. It invites the hidden, the broken, the unwanted, and the
in-between to reveal themselves – those neglected fragments that exist on the other side. In
this space of non-separation, movement unfolds through the gesture of attunement.

UTTU is also a Mesopotamian goddess associated with weaving.

Concept, Artistic Direction, Performance: Anna Biczók
Music: Márk Bartha
Costume: ‘Personal Skin’ project of Fruzsina Nagy
Light Support: Olle Axén
Supervision: Darko Dragičević
Production: Karin Hauptmann
Video Documentation: Gergely Ofner
Image: Anna Biczók
Creation Support: Stockholm University of the Arts, Weld

Special thanks to NPP peers and Head of Program Tove Salmgren

ANNA BICZÓK
is a Hungarian dance artist based in Vienna/Stockholm. As a dancer she has worked with HODWORKS, Viktor Szeri, Karin Pauer and Claudia Bosse among others. In her practice she investigates body and movement as expressions of the dancer’s personal and cultural heritage, exploring immaterial content stored in the ‘body material’. In her work as a choreographer she insists on choreography emerging from the position of ’the dancer’ and on offering ‘the world’ as a cut through the dancer’s somatic lense. Her solo work Precedents to a Potential Future premiered at Cialo/Umysl Festival 2017 in Warsaw and was presented at BE Festival 2019 and Batârd Festival 2020, among others. 2020-2022 she has been invited to the Creative Crossroads artist program (Life Long Burning) delegated by Workshop Foundation Budapest. Her work DELICATE was in Impulstanz 2023 8[:tension] selection.

NPP 2025
During two weeks in May, students at the Master’s Programme New Performative Practices (NPP) invite you to take part of thirteen presentations of artistic practice. You are welcome to participate, witness, watch, listen, share, and sometimes intimately engage with these artists’ curiosities and performative explorations in venues throughout Stockholm 6–18 May 2025.

In the presentation each of the thirteen artists proposes a specific way of inhabiting and unveiling the artistic practice with which they are currently engaged. In these encounters, audiences can expect a wide range of approaches to sharing their practice through formats spanning from staged to non staged performances, performance installations, participatory performances, publishing or other objects and situations as sites for performative investigations.

Students on the MA program New Performative Practices are experienced practitioners from different fields. In their education at SKH Dance, these performing artists are given the context and support to delve into their own histories, refine and develop their research methods and shape sustainable approaches to support ongoing practices in their chosen field of art. The program is research preparatory, qualifying the student for a Master’s degree in Choreography with a focus on performative practices.

Weld is one of this year’s hosts and here you will meet Anna Biczok, Zhana Pencheva, Anna Apergi, Vincent Jonsson and Martin Sieweke.

See full program at uniarts.se