Choreography, Dance, Music, Image, and Film productions
Linda Forsman, Lou T Lundqvist, and Håkan Blomkvist established KORDA Art in Motion in Stockholm 1987. Since 2013 the home base is deep in the forest in southeast Dalarna close to the region of Gävleborg (SE). 1
KORDA creates new dance pieces every season for indoors and outdoors, theatres and galleries. In a flow of dance, music, image, and film relating to animals, objects, visual art, nature, text, and in one with the audience.
Linda Forsman: Choreographer / Dancer
Lou T Lundqvist: Set/Lightdesigner/Composer/Visual Artist
Kerstin Abrahamsson: Dancer
Matilda Bilberg: Dancer
Rebecka Carlsson: Dancer
Musician: Markus Lindmark – Piano
CURRENT REPERTOIRE:
GAVIA ARCTICA
KORDA is creating Gavia Arctica a new dance & movement piece and site-specific performance art in three parts. We work with ecology, nature, and dance as an art form, all related to the environment, the place, and its audience. The piece is inspired by the fantastic bird Gavia Arctica who we see calmly sliding forward through the water of the lake Grycken outside our windows. It also honors this bird with its many sounds. It is part of the Gavia family where 4 of the 5 worldwide species can be found in our nearby area. Tickets here.
GUEST APPEARANCE WITH JULYEN HAMILTON 2024
Linda Forsman and Lou T Lundqvist (KORDA Art) are thrilled to present the dancer, choreographer, poet, teacher, and musician Julyen Hamilton at Matsesgården Stigsbo (SE). Julyen Hamilton (UK) has been making and performing dances for 45 years worldwide. He has made over 100 solos as well as 20 years of Company pieces and numerous collaborations with dancers, musicians, and theatre performers. The collaboration between Julyen Hamilton, Linda Forsman, and Lou T Lundqvist will premiere on 9 Aug 2024, with additional performances on 10-11 Aug 2024. Book your ticket here.
Julyen Hamilton has been making and performing dances for 45 years worldwide. He has made over 100 solos as well as 20 years of Company pieces and numerous collaborations with dancers, musicians, and theatre performers.
Born and brought up in England he trained in London in the 1970’s, a time of radical experimentation, he has been an exponent of innovative performance since that time.
His work is mostly improvised: he composes dance works instantly as well as the texts which often accompany them. His work with text is unique. It fuses naturally his long-term writing practice with his refined skills in dancing. When working with his company ALLEN’S LINE he directs dancers and lighting designers to make and perform work through this same immediacy.
Since the 80’s he has performed constantly in close collaboration with many of the highest-quality musicians from all over Europe. It is with some of these musicians that he gives readings of his poetry. He is at present performing the solos INTERVIEW, HELD DEAR, and ‘a KOAN for our Times’ performing with bass player Barre Phillips and Nuria Andorra amongst many others.
With his company ALLEN’S LINE, he has been performing THE ECLIPSE OF REASON in Rome, Paris, Bruxelles, and France during 2022 and will present GOAT OCEAN throughout 2023. As a pianist, he plays regularly with Hamilton Carroll in Berlin and Brussels. Their first cd POINTER was released in 2016. His label ‘BLUEDOG PUBLISHING.net’ produces videos of his performances on DVD, CDs, and print. His new poetry album ‘Jack Gets Out of Prison’ with bassist Wilbert de Joode was released in 2018 and ‘The Road to Amarillo’ piano/text/bass with Giorgos Kokkinaris released in 2022.
www.julyenhamilton.com
www.allensline.com
www.bluedogpublishing.net
ARTEXHIBITION AT CULTURE CENTER MATSESGARDEN, STIGSBO:
In Gallery Klingbyggningen
7 July 2024 – 1 Sep 2024
Open Wednesday – Sunday 13.00 – 16.00
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QUINTAL II 2023
A piece in collaboration with choreographer/dancer Brandon Collwes, New York.
(Brandon Collwes is a former Merce Cunningham dancer).
Choreography : Brandon Collwes and Linda Forsman
Electroacoustic music: Lou T Lundqvist:
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Brandon Collwes, Hanna Becker,
Rannhvi Mebius Jormin, Tobias Sköld
Musician Live: Conny Laxell – Percussion
The Child – Choreographed Book
With Lena de Veen, author, and journalist. Dance piece based on her début novel ”This short moment”. A co-production with Lena de Veen, author, and journalist.
Premiere: 2021-10–21 in Folkets Hus, in Hofors, Dalarna – in Sweden.
Solos for Grand Piano
Linda Forsman: Choreographer / Dancer
Lou T Lundqvist: Set/Lightdesigner
Elise Einarsdotter: Composer /Musician
Premiere: 2022-10–27 in The Peoples House, Theatre, Hofors
Touring premiere: 2023-02-16 Gävle Theatre
Dance Performances at Culture Center Matsesgarden Stigsbo
A NEW PIECE – 2023
A new piece in collaboration with choreographer/dancer Brandon Collwes, New York (Brandon Collwes is a former Merce Cunningham dancer).
Dance Performance in The Garden.
Playing: 28/7, 29/7, 30/7, 4/8, 5/8, 6/8, 11/8, 12/8, 13/8 – 19.00
28 Jul 2023 – 13 Aug 2023
TIME DANCES 2022
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Lou T Lundqvist: Setdesigner
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Elisabeth Christine Holt, Hanna Röckner
Musician: Markus Lindmark – Piano
Musician: Emelie Sjöström – Percussion
Musician: Johannes Bergmark – Own invented instruments
HIRUNDO – 2021
HIRUNDO is the swallow’s specific name and in the performance swallows, tilia cordata, grass, trees, hummingbirds, foxes, climate changes, and life experiences give information to the piece. Choreography in three parts by Linda Forsman.
Part One – Energy and Power
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Solo Jonathan D Sikell
Duo Kerstin Abrahamsson and Jonathan D Sikell.
Electro Acoustic music / Setdesign : Lou T Lundqvist
Part Two – Silence – Trees
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Kerstin Abrahamsson and Jonathan D Sikell
Setdesign: Lou T Lundqvist
Part Three – Joy – Meetings
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Kerstin Abrahamsson,
Jonathan D Sikell.
Music live on piano: Andreas Wartel.
HABIBI-HABIBTI-AZIZAM – my love – 2015
The dance is like the ocean, the wood, our friendship, the garden, Earth – our earth, the only earth we have – suddenly everything can be lost.
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Dancers: Linda Forsman, Matilda Bilberg, Jimmie Larsson
Electro Acoustic music / Setdesign: Lou T Lundqvist
STRAHERE – Moving with Nature – Dancefilm – 2019
STRAHERE – Artwork by Lou T Lundqvist
Artwork from inside the physical experience, where movements, dance, and choreography streams, falling, rolling, catching…
STRAHERE – gets its information from the body, nature, animals, silence, trees, the garden, the waterfall,- vertical, horizontal, close to the earth, in the air…
Electro Acoustic Music / Visual Art / Photo: Lou T Lundqvist
Choreography / Movements: Linda Forsman
Dancers: Matilda Bilberg, Jimmie Larsson