Sunday, August 8, 2010

The Time Is Growing - The Swedish Dance History is putting on weight


The Devil has occupied the body of David Dorfman, quite a look a like.

The Swedish Dance History is growing. The 1000 pages publication is pregnant due the 8th month. We have just made it to 14 hours. Fuck me, this is two days working days of listening to silly choreographers and dancers trying to use their brains. Yes, this is evidence to the assumption that dancers and choreographers is something more than a body. Make your own mind up and listen to some of the most poetic dope ever published on internet.

In the mean time lotion your ears with Rasmus Ölme's reading of the last page of The Swedish Dance History 2009.

Page 1034 read by Rasmus Ölme

The End Is Near - The Mother Fuckin' Armageddon



The Swedish Dance History did it again, the team brought on themselves an impossible task.
"-Dude, there is no way in hell that you can record and organize a 1000 pages of text in that short a time."
Well, fuck if we give up and shitgoddamn if we are stopping halfway. A new section of TSDH09 has been recorded on double locations, team Impulstanz is working it between workshops, shows and making out and the small but aggressive team in PAF has made progress to the extent where the endeavor will be classified as one of the worlds seven wonders. So far you can listen to six and a half hours of dance makers and doers reading from the bible of contemporary choreography and here comes and other chunk.
Mind you, The Swedish Dance History is very bad in one thing: to give up. It's simply not part of our vocabulary.

And hey tomorrow we will be there again with our recording devices, so hook up and make your contribution.

Page 469 read by Eleanor Bauer

Continuation, Page 479 read by Eleanor Bauer

Page 288 read by Josefine Wikström and Halla Olafsdottir

Continuation, page 306 read by Josefine Wikström and Halla Olafsdottir

Page 420 read by Anna Whaley

Page 485 read by Trajal Harrell

Page 213 read by Cecilia Bengolea

Page 141 read by Francois Chaignaud

Page 134 read by Joao Dos Santos Martins

Page 100 read by Louise Höjer

Page 94 read by Cecilia Bengolea

Page 91 read by Anat Eisenberg

Page 607 read by Diego Agullo

Page 609 read by Wojtek Ziemilski

Page 620 read by Kroot Juurak

Page 622 read by Jessica Lewis


Emma Kim Hagdahl reading from TSDH09 in the kitchen of PAF whilst making some wkd Mexican food.

Page 626 read by Laurence Wagner

Page 628 read by Zoe Salmon

Page 630 read by Zoe Salmon

Page 635 read by Anna Dwight

Continuation of page 635 read by Anna Dwight

Page 649 read by Emma Kim Hagdahl

Page 654 read by Owen Hoskins

Page 658 read by Perrine Bailleux

Page 622 read by Ulrika Berg

Page 663 read by Jan Ritsema

Page 664 read by Christian Töpfner

Friday, August 6, 2010

The Swedish Dance History Audio Even More Pages



The Swedish Dance History team Vienna needed some up tempo assistance to be able to cover some few hundred pages, so Kr66t Juurak kicked in and started to record the entire flock of artistic kids at PAF. Here some of the most upcoming evil dance and performance artists in the world started reading and do they do it good. No they are doing their job, and that they do G O O D.
Listen to the voices of a new paradigm, and check out Ulrika Berg ready to rock with a cheese grinder.

Page 558 read by Esthel Vogrig

Page 562 read by Marcus Doverud

Page 569 read by Anna Dwight

Page 574 read by Dmitry Paranyushkin

Page 579 read by DD Dorvillier

Page 579 read by Kroot Juurak

Page 581 read by Ben Evans

The Third Session After A Slight Jump in History



History isn't that linear and only the Swedish Dance History repeats itself - ehhh - not exactly but its always shiny silver and oh so sexy.
Listen to Atalanta Eke get down on Akseli Virtanen's Arbitrary Power, this 22 minutes of deep economical theory. Them girls from down under totally makes our day. The Swedish loves Australians. Goddamn.

Page 177 read by Atlanta Eke

Continuation page 182 read by Atlanta Eke

Continuation page 186 read by Atlanta Eke

Page 220 read by Meg Stuart


Page 462 read by Marcela Donato

Page 465 read by Marcela Donato

Page 518 read by Sara Lindström

Page 520 read by Gillie Kleiman

Page 524 read by Ji Hyun Youn

Page 527 read by Samuel Forsythe

Page 532 read by Enad Marouf

Page 542 read by Christian Töpfner

Page 549 read by Eva Maria Küpfer

Page 552 read by Berno Odo Polzer

Page 554 read by Ingrid Cogne

The Second Day of Amazing Recordings




We are back, and you have no idea how bad it is. We are speeding up - washing it down with a gin and juice - and are about to hit the 500 pages - halfway to the finishing line - well almost the old work horse of a book is 1037 pages.
Here we go - are you aware about the fact that the new silver bible is coming out in a week. Yes, it can be in your hand within seven days. Disco.
But first some magic performances of readings from TSDH 2009.

Page 26 read by David Berge

Page 28 read by Kristine Slettevold

Page 30 read by Peter Doley

Continuation from page 36 read by Moriah Evans

Page 36 read by Moriah Evans

Page 48 read by Andrea Csaszni-Rygh

Page 58 read by Halla Olafsdottir


Page 62 read by Andrea Csaszni-Rygh

Thursday, August 5, 2010

The First Awesome Readings




Extra amazing here they are the first small attempts to read through a 1000 pages of makers and doers writing. Come on sign up and do some reading - we need to cover those one thousand pages before the 13 August otherwise otherwise... You don't want to know.

In the mean time INPEX is preparing a kick as release - which has now spread to be release parties also in Gothenburg, Stockholm, Berlin, Buenos Aires and London. ***Yeah***

Download here

Page 3 read by Halla Olafsdottir

Page 5 read by Richard Panciera

Page 6 read by Rodrigo Sobarzo

Page 9 read by Jennifer Lacey

Page 12 read by David Dorfman

Page 15 read by Rosalind Goldberg

Page 22 read by Moriah Evans

Page 24 read by Ondrej Vidlar

Sunday, August 1, 2010

The Swedish Dance History Goes Audio

After a ruthless ten days of activity the Swedish Dance History episode #2 - the 2010 version - has been rushed away to our specially designed printing house in Estonia where no less than 3000 copies will be pulled together by some magical machines we can't even spell the name of. With brilliant assistance by CAPERO the books will be on it's way back to Vienna within a week. On 13 August a grand release party will be celebrated in collaboration with Impulstanz. The aim is to get no less than 1500 of those marvellous books out into the world within a week. And we will succeed.
However, are we about to take it easy for almost two week? We don't think so. Nope, in the mean time, as the 2009 version of the publication is out of stock, we will attempt to make an audio version to be spread as MP3 audiofiles free to download on this web location (later on also available as hard copy, but that's another story, although if your dad or somebody else runs a DVD printing factory, do give us a good price).
A 1000 pages will thus be turned into a 1000 voices, or at least a 1000 pages read be us who do and create dance. The members of the team remaining in Vienna (other in PAF) will record the book from the beginning to the end. It's for you and me, but we also thought it'll be nice with a TSDH for the blind and/or illiterate. So Monday 2 August we start recording. You will find a mobile recording team in different location in the festival, putting a microphone gently in your face and ask you to contribute with your voice. Just think about how nice it will be for you mother listening to your voice as you tour the world, or why not the boyfriends you have forgotten during long nights at he lounge. In any case it is a contribution to an amazing resource for dance historians.
So get ready to battle with The Swedish Dance History Goes Audio and remember there is only gonne be one of them ever. This is your chance to become eternal once again.

Just click and download your contribution all of them will be available here.