Choreographic Turn #10: Eco-choreography

First Segment
June 4th to 21st, 2025

Program | Introduction | Credits

Ecological Gestures - Dancing PlanthropoScenes

June 4th - June 9th | check principlay@upri.se for the exact hours
Creative Lab Krater and elsewhere

Collaborate with David Kummer at his residency and post-anthropocene dance practice in a collaboration with Creative Lab Krater. 

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June 10th | 5pm - 6pm
Creative Lab Krater

sharing of a dance practice
David Kummer and collaborators

David says:

My work moves through an ongoing dialogue between the ecology of the self and the ecology of the environment. I am interested in how inner archival landscapes — memories, dances and dance practices, losses and reliefs and others — can be reused, recycled, and re-choreographed into new constellations of meaning.

At the heart of my practice is the relationship between the inside and the outside — the porous, shifting boundary where internal experience meets external world. It begins simply: with landing, with listening, with arriving fully into spaces and presences.

I explore the qualities of rest, resilience, and release — not just as personal states, but as ecological gestures. What does it mean to rest as a form of resistance? To cultivate slowness and care not only for the self, but for the whole?

Touch becomes a way of finding relation — a tactile curiosity toward the environment, a reaching toward connection. My practice includes a deep sense of belonging, internally and externally, and an invitation to remain attentive, aware, and patient with what may emerge.

I work with scores for listening: invitations to attune, to notice, to receive. These scores are quiet but powerful frameworks for presence.

"Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears."
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"Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening."
— Pauline Oliveros

This is an ecology of attention. A choreography of care.

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Contact: principlay@upri.se, 040 226 981 (Gregor)