Tribute

Tribute is a dance piece choreographed by Frédéric Gies for dancers of Weld Company. When the project started back in 2018 Andreas joined as an intern. After its premiere in 2018 when the piece was to play again, Andreas was asked to stand in for one of the dancers and continued to do so throughout its tour.

“As I started to imagine what could be the dance piece I would make for a dance company that is “aiming to rediscover and revaluate the old institution of Dance Company”, personal memories of dances I witnessed came flooding back. Each of them is closely tied to a dancer whom I saw in the darkness of the dance floor or from my seat at the theatre. These memories, more than mere images, reappear as an imprint in my body. They are also constitutive of my dances. They are my library.

Many dancers dance in a dancer’s body and a dance is always the product of other dances as well as a call for dances to come. For Tribute, I’ll open my library to the dancers of Weld Company, to make dances that summon up the poetic, delicate and raw textures of past dances, utterly present as the promise of dances to come. ” - Frédéric Gies

Choreography: Frédéric Gies

Dance: Andrea Svensson, Anna Westberg, Robin Dingemans, Andreas Haglund, Adam Seid Tahir, Brittanie Brown, Marie Fahlin, Sybrig Dokter, Per Sacklén, Elias Girod, Disa Krosness, Caroline Byström, Samuel Draper

Music: Fiedel

Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo

Special Costumes by: Maldoror

Thanks to Malin Arnell and Mario Fjell

Pictures by Thomas Zamolo and Samuel Feldhandler

Performances where Andreas joined:

Impulstanz, Vienna - July 2021
Moving in November, Helsinki - June 2021
Tischlerei, Deutsche Oper, Berlin - February 2020
Dansehallerne, Copenhagen - October 2019