SOM e.t

SOM e.t is a living, mutating organism, a dance, and a concert. It’s a universe built on relationships, entanglement, and interweaving. This performance searches for the softness that disrupt borders and creates space for imagining territories of kinships. It seeks for connection and to allow the research material to become an entity capable of having its own dreams. Where does the self end, and where does the world begin? earth seeping out of its pores.

Three dancers are connected through an electro-acoustic string instrument. As they lean out from each other, the strings are stretched, and create resonance for the sound. Here, the self-selected or forced loneliness and isolation that might characterize our lives, the perceived encapsulation, and the individual who is nevertheless always forced to exist in relation to others are questioned. Here we are all porous beings that leak, affect and are affected by each other and our ecology.

Eli Eli, is a choreographer and multidisciplinary artist navigating through a field of entanglement, connection and un-rootedness. They are working with scores of mapping and listening to the gentle pushes of bodies; bodies as in landscapes, bodies as in matter, bodies as in beings- how one thing is never separate from another.

SOM e.t had its premiere at SKOGEN, Masthuggsterassen in Gothenburg 30th of november 2023 and was created during residencies at Dans I blekinge, Riksteatern and Skogen.

SOM e.t is presented at Konträr in collaboration with Intercult and the Creative Europe project Theatre in Palm. On February 10th, we are co-hosting a Theatre Movement evening, where the audience is invited to enjoy a glass of bubbly after the performance and stay for a Q&A about Eli Eli’s artistic practice and the creative process behind the performance. 

With support from: Swedish Church, The city council of Gothenburg, Swedish arts grants, Riksteatern, dans I Blekinge and Skogen.