Alma Söderberg is a choreographer and performer that works with

music and dance. She uses her voice and body to play space as if it

was an instrument. Her ongoing research deals with how we listen

as we look; the relation between the ear and the eye. She has

grounded her practice in a number of solo performances in which

she developed an idiorhythmic way of creating.

In the two ongoing music projects wowawiwa and John the Houseband, she has

worked in collaboration with the other artists Anja Muller, Dennis

Deter, Hendrik Willekens, Roger Sala Reyner and Melkorka Sigridur

Magnusdottir. In all her works she collaborates closely with the

sound artist Hendrik Willekens. Alma Söderberg has won the Thalia

Prize and has been granted the Cullberg scholarship.

New Old is a solo performance going back to the origins of Alma

Söderberg’s practice – sitting on a chair and thinking through

rhythm, voice and movement. A practice of listening to sounds

synthesising; forming words with the help of hand and body

gestures, creating thoughts, evolving into sounds again, becoming

music, becoming dance, becoming thought that once again

becomes dance.

New Old is rather personal. It is on the verge, if not already way

over the edge, to something private. Meandering between topics

such as the fear of peeing oneself, the mouth-like quality of the

vulva, the phenomenologically fascinating thing of being two people

at once for a while, as well as how musical the word “pussy” is in

different languages, and the consequences thereof.

New Old moves in and out of internal and external spaces, shoots

through the roof with vectors of high hissing sounds, landing in

melodic phrases and floating just above the heads of its audience.