SPINNER
A Collaboration between Antonia Steffens and Sigrid Stigsdatter
Image by Paulina Prokop, Veem House for Performance 2020
Since 2017, the collaboration of Sigrid and Antonia has centered around the idea that the artistic environment has subjectivity, needs and expressions of its own. Shaped by transactional factors, such as time, research space and financial support, the practice has built different milestones to become its own landscape. For entering the landscape the two artists needs to coordinate and spin around again and again the meaning of being together.
In the work Spinner they deal with a collaborative practice that explores how to propose, enter and negotiate spaces in between them and to one another. Exceeding the interest of being a duet, the piece is situated in a landscape of elements that has to be responded to, activated and re interrogated. Dance and performance is understood as a visible and tangible layer that turns into a manifesto of multiple encounters, narratives and experiences in motion and relation. The work is looking for a state of attendance, in the hope to find new dimensions of possible meanings, logics and yet unknown spaces of existence, to escape or manifest the daily focus.
World Premiere Batard Festival February 2021 https://www.batard.be/batard-2021/artists/sigrid-stigsdatter-mathiassen-antonia-steffens/
Next show FLAM Festival Amsterdam May 2022
Spinner is a 45 Minute duet and has been shown in various shapes and formats, with and without set design. It fits in theater spaces, galleries and site specific. The piece is currently available for booking, contact for further information and techrider.
Credits:
Choreography, Concept and performance: Antonia Steffens and Sigrid Stigsdatter
Light: Paulina Prokop
Costumes: Ginta Tinte
Dramaturg: Machiek Sado
Photo Credits: Paulina Prokop (1,2,3 + video), New Fears, Berlin (4), Ivan Chang (6), Thomas Lenden (7,8)
Residencies and financial support: AFK, Amsterdams fund voor de kunst, New Fears, Berlin. Jacuzzi, Amsterdam. Veem House for Performance Amsterdam. 8 Critical Laboratory for Arts and Politics, Athens. New adventures, Dansmakers Amsterdam.
Batard Podcast with Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen & Antonia Steffens, Quinsy Gario https://soundcloud.com/batardpodcast/episode-3-draft-1
