Stuck

A piece created with the first year students at Balettakademien in Stockholm. The choreography is 10 min long and was showed at the performance evening DIGITALISE ME at Dieselverkstaden, Stockholm.

Choreographer: Rebecca Björling

Assistant Choreographer: Alicia Karlsson

Dancers: Stamatoula Matina Antypa, Esther Alberte Bundgaard, Lina Björlin, Johanna Frimmel, AnjaGuttenkunst, Ritha-Helene Haga Hillestad, Emmi Mikkola, Felicia Nilsson, Johanna Mellingen Primavera, William Säfström, Quang Tieu, Silje Marten Sulerud Wøhni

Music: Ramid Djawadi - This World, Paint it Black

Follow the link to watch the hole choreography ( between minutes 13:00-22:50)
https://vimeo.com/340076886

To Move

Tarantism is the word to describe the uncontrollable urge to dance – originally thought to be the result of a tarantula bite. Like dark clouds making their way through the sky, shadows skimming over the world below, sometimes inspiration comes thundering across the fields, through the towns, right into your heart. No spiders necessary.

Created and performed by Rebecca Björling and Rebecca Rosier for We:R Performance Collective
Shot and edited by Tim Davis
Music Emerald Rush (edit) by Jon Hopkins

Thanks to Remake Stockholm and Stockholms Stadsmission for providing our costumes from their collection of handmade recycled garments.

Follow the link to watch the hole video: https://vimeo.com/286529635

Dancing Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Act 4 Sc. 3 (R&D documentation)

We were delighted when Hannah Krebs came to us for an internship during January 2018. Together we created a new, badass Juliet. This is the documentation of the research work we did together during our time together. We're so grateful for Hannah's energy, commitment and honesty.

Created by: We:R Performance Collective in collaboration with Hannah Krebs
Performed by: Hannah Krebs (http://hannah.krebs.dansportfolio.se/)
Music: Tim Davis (https://timdavis.me/)

Follow the link to watch the hole video: https://vimeo.com/281769429

KIRAN

Kiran, an excerpt from Love Too Much, a stage work currently under construction, based on true stories of female experience, as told through interviews with people around the world. This particular piece is centered around an interview with Kiran Gandhi - a touring musician, Harvard graduate and feminist activist. The interview focuses around her memorable marathon run, in which she bled freely during her period, both for her own comfort, and as an act of protest against menstrual stigma.

- Performed by Rebecca Rosier at DC-Intro 2017 at Danscentrum Stockholm.

- Performed by Rebecca Björling at The Cloud Festival 2021, Tirana.

Choreography: Rebecca Björling & Rebecca Rosier

Follow the link to watch the hole video: https://vimeo.com/256930232

Schubert vs The Muse

Artists each have their own special relationship to their muse - the magic, mysterious, unpredictable force that inspires them to create their work. And while each relationship is unique, all artists go through similar processes with their muse: at the start, a beautiful dream or idea, something vague and interesting - ‘inspiration’ perhaps. Then follows the hard work; which can be draining and frustrating or exciting and challenging. Artists sometimes quit here, but if they continue, they eventually reach completion - a measured, well-rehearsed calmness where everything seems to fall into place. This short film is intended to represent that process. Whether you are creating or learning or rehearsing, you are not alone in this process, and it’s never wasted effort. Trust the process, and most importantly: enjoy the process, because the truth of any work is not the end product but the work that it took to create it.

The project is a collaboration between Bim and We:R Performance Collective. The choreography was created and intensively rehearsed in five days at Tegelscenen in Stockholm, and filmed at Danscentrum, Stockholm.

Choreography and dance performance: Rebecca Björling, Rebecca Rosier, Daniele Varallo
Piano performance, sound, camera and edit: Tim Davis

https://bimmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/weRperformance/

Follow the link to watch the hole video: https://vimeo.com/235865712

Dancing Shakespeare: Macbeth Extended

A short dance film created by We:R Performance Collective that takes the transformational Lady Macbeth speech into a movement context, showing the multi-dimensional character through a duet.

- A live, extended and interactive version was selected to be premiered in August 2017 @ HAUT Young Choreographers Festival in Copenhage

Director & Producer: We:R Performance Collective

Choreography & Performance: Rebecca Björling & Rebecca Rosier

Camera & edit: Tim Davis

Music: 'The Book of Kells' by Bruno Coulais (kindly issued license-free with thanks from 22D Music Group)
Filmed in the Bank Hall at the Dansmuseet and Tegelscenen in Stockholm, Sweden

Follow the link to watch the hole video: https://vimeo.com/233299005

Ode to my Bitchface (dance)

"Resting Bitchface, they call you. But there is nothing 'restful' about you..."

'Ode to my Bitchface' is a dance film made in reaction to the amazing fierceness of Olivia Gatwood's poem of the same name. Beautifully delivered by Olivia in a live performance, we felt like we had to dance the chills out of our bodies as soon as we saw her original video.

Produced and directed by We:R Performance Collective

Shot & edited by our wonderful friend and collaborator Tim Davis

Poem written and read by Olivia Gatwood (oliviagatwood.com)

Choreography & performance: Rebecca Björling & Rebecca Rosier

Location: Tegelscenen

Follow the link to watch the hole film: https://vimeo.com/218823072

For more info visite: https://www.facebook.com/weRperformance/

Dancing Shakespeare: Macbeth Act I, Sc. 5

Produced and directed by We:R Performance Collective

Choreography & Performance: Rebecca Björling & Rebecca Rosier
Camera & edit: Tim Davis

Music: 'The Book of Kells' by Bruno Coulais
Location: Dansmuseet in Stockholm, Sweden.

"The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!' "

Follow the link to watch the hole: https://vimeo.com/205851087

Mayfly