Project partner(s)
A Springback team of 16 writers partnered with the Re-Think project in Umeå (SE), an initiative of Norrlandsoperan with the support of the Swedish Institute. Re-Think aimed to amplify the debate on sustainability, mobility and access in dance and performing arts.
The Springback team covered the Re-Think festival live and online from 3–5 September 2021.
Changing minds, changing means: Re-Think envisions dance futures
The Re-Think Incubator for ideas was held during the pandemic to reflect on the the future of contemporary dance in the context of Covid and of the environmental crisis. Coordinated by Birgit Berndt, Norrlandsoperan Artistic Director of Dance, and Project Facilitator Marie Proffit, this thinktank was led by a group of 10 artists from 5 countries: Alma Söderberg (SE), Nina Kov (HU), Ingrid Mugalu (SE), Marit Shirin Carolasdotter (SE), Linda Hayford (FR), Olga Tsvetkova (RU), Sindri Runudde (SE), Smaïl Kanouté (FR), André Uerba (PT) and Yared Tilahun Cederlund (SE).
The Re-Think festival programme stemmed to a great extent from the thinktank. It also provided the artists with the opportunity to play with and test artistic formats with an audience as well as share practices and reflections around sustainability, digital, mobility and accessibility.
From memory labs and explorations to the art of protest, from the story of a slave who became a samurai to how we can use blockchains in the cultural field, the Re-Think festival programme asked: how can we take care of each other and investigate future scenarios together?
Springback Re-Think project team:
Live coverage: Anna Kozonina, Oonagh Duckworth
Co-ordinating editor: Róisín O’Brien
Platform editors: Charles A. Catherine, Emily May
Artist collaborations, online reviewers: Rachel Burke, Charles A. Catherine, Zee Hartmann, Kosta Karakashyan, Stella Mastorosteriou, Emily May, Lena Megyeri, Róisín O’Brien, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Greta Pieropan, Jordi Ribot, Jonas Schildermans, Lydia Wharf, Annette van Zwoll