Note: This performance is part of a full evening program at Black Box teater, with two flamenco-inspired performances included in the same ticket. You can read more about the other performance – Taranto aleatorio – here!
Flamenco-Inspired Dance Infatuation
In her latest work, Swedish choreographer Alma Söderberg brings together body, voice, and rhythm to evoke strong emotions in an intense, vibrant choreographic concert.
Five dancers and musicians stand in a circle, facing one another. Their bodies breathe in unison, as if sharing a single rhythm. Voices rise – not as words, but as tones, breaths, cries, clicks, and song. Infinétude opens with a living circle of sound and movement, constructed in real time, in the midst of an open, bare stage at Black Box teater.
With the raw power of flamenco as her starting point, Söderberg explores her first great dance infatuation through a physical and musical dialogue that grows and changes like an endless wave. The choreographer is known for her unique use of the voice as an extension of the body, and in Infinétude, rhythmic vocal sounds, bodily precision, and musicality are combined in every movement. The result is a choreographic concert – hypnotic and sensitive, yet playful and humorous. The performance breathes, pulses, and never stands still.
Infinétude is more than a sensuous musical experience. It is also an act of resistance. In a time marked by disinformation and political polarization, Söderberg insists on a performative space where emotions and intellect coexist – where the emotional is not in conflict with the rational, but a prerequisite for it. “I believe in performative practice as a path to becoming more intelligent and more receptive – a more porous human being,” she says.
The strength of flamenco lies in its ability to hold and express the full range of human emotion – from sorrow and desperation to joy. Söderberg captures this rawness and reshapes it with her distinctive artistic signature: rhythmic vocal sounds, bodily precision, and musicality.
● Alma Söderberg is a Swedish choreographer and dancer based in Malmö. She has trained in contemporary dance and flamenco at institutions including Matilde Coral Escuela de Danza in Seville, Amor de Dios in Madrid, Gotlands Dansutbildningar, and SNDO in Amsterdam. In her artistic practice, Söderberg unites body and voice into a rhythmic whole, where movement and sound are inseparably connected. The dancing body becomes both visual and auditory – a percussive tool, a resonating chamber. The voice is not used to convey words, but to interact with the space through breath, clicks, murmurs, and song, in dialogue with movement. The result is a form of choreographed musicality that offers a near-hypnotic experience.
Söderberg’s artistic research investigates how we listen while we watch – the relationship between ear and eye – and this cross-sensory focus forms the foundation of both her solo works and her collaborations with various artists, collectives, and institutions. Since 2019, she has also undertaken curatorial projects, including the festival EarEye, with the same sensuous approach.
In collaboration with CODA Oslo International Dance Festival .