• Litó Walkey / Weld Company, aswebegin. Photo: Weld
    Litó Walkey / Weld Company, aswebegin. Photo: Weld
20 March 2021

Anna Koch and Litó Walkey – Weld Company

Program during Centauring

Please join us for the second part of the public program during Marie Fahlin’s exhibition Centauring. On Saturday 20 March, from 2pm, Weld Company performs choreographies by Anna Koch and Litó Walkey. 

Visitors can come ande go as they like. Please note that number of visitors in the gallery is restricted in order to prevent crowding. We ask for your patience in case there is a need to wait outside the gallery. 

Anna Koch – Manège à trois

Manège à trois is a work for voice, hands and objects that takes place within a miniature manege, through micro-actions, rhythms and formations. Poetic epithets, often used as characteristics for specific movement groups within a choreographic process, are verbally uttered together with anatomical and somatic descriptions, revisiting works from the choreographic archive of Weld Company, whilst endorsing the horse.

Performed by members of Weld Company: Sybrig Dokter, Per Sacklén, Caroline Byström, Anna Westberg, Kajsa Sandström and Rebecka Stillman
Choreography: Anna Koch

Photo: Anna Koch

Litó Walkey – aswebegin

aswebegin honors the act of beginning. It favors the instability of the drawing board, supposing to find the radical and creative therein.

We carry our individual and collective memories and scripts close. We engage the impossibility of complete accuracy while applying our best attempts. We wear our nerves on the outside of our skin. We dare to contradict ourselves and each other. We expose full certainty and full uncertainty, sometimes simultaneously. Regret, relief, joy and surprise are present. If we think of a clever ‘interesting’ way to go through the material, the interest may not live long. While overloading our momentary attentions and intentions, we are coming to terms with the ungraspable present and celebrating its passage.

Performed by members of Weld Company: Sybrig Dokter, Per Sacklén, Caroline Byström, Anna Westberg and Kajsa Sandström
Choreography: Litó Walkey

Photo: Weld

Anna Koch is a dancer and choreographer whose practice moves through different fields, but has dance as its foundation. She is the founder of Weld, a platform for dance and art in Stockholm that opened 2006. In 2013 she initiated Weld Company, an enabling structure for contemporary dance and choreography.

Litó Walkey is an artist of Canadian and Greek origins, based in Berlin. Moving between writing, choreography and performance, her work engages strategies of collaboration, proliferation and translation to activate critical ecologies of attention. She teaches at the Arts Universities of Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen and advises choreographic work.

Weld Company works with choreographers and dancers representing different generations, working methods and expressions. The company moves unrestrained through larger and smaller formats by further developing the idea of a dance company and what it can be and do today. The Company works with invited choreographers, self-made works as well as the Swedish dance history. Besides the traditional dance contexts the company ‘parasites’ on existing structures and work in the gaps between the unestablished and established.