Carla Anacker

. After All the feeling that something is dimming down a never ending dimming dimming that lets other intensities, rhythms on other scales unfold a release a shift in tonality, texture and presence inhabiting the shift cohabiting space a ground for thought still dancing volumes of bodies after all dancing volumes of rhythm, subtleties, details ending and dancing After All is my MFA Choreography @ddsks_scenekunstskolen graduation piece. It premiered on May 1, 2026 @dansehallerne I had the luck to work with the most wonderful, inspiring, skilled and supportive people I could imagine! I learned so much from @alice.martucci Maya Dalinsky @luamayenco @snorreeelvin (Dance) @emiliasting @maria.ipsen (Costume) @alvaelide (Scenography) @madsstromme (Light) @sensoriskv (Sound) @quimbigas (Accompaniment) The photos are taken by @__adey__

. After All the feeling that something is dimming down a never ending dimming dimming that lets other intensities, rhythms on other scales unfold a release a shift in tonality, texture and presence inhabiting the shift cohabiting space a ground for thought still dancing volumes of bodies after all dancing volumes of rhythm, subtleties, details ending and dancing After All is my MFA Choreography @ddsks_scenekunstskolen graduation piece. It premiered on May 1, 2026 @dansehallerne I had the luck to work with the most wonderful, inspiring, skilled and supportive people I could imagine! I learned so much from @alice.martucci Maya Dalinsky @luamayenco @snorreeelvin (Dance) @emiliasting @maria.ipsen (Costume) @alvaelide (Scenography) @madsstromme (Light) @sensoriskv (Sound) @quimbigas (Accompaniment) The photos are taken by @__adey__

A choreographer’s collection of written notes, books, songs, movie excerpts, photos etc. Those details, findings, glimpses speak to me, don’t let me go, inspire me. In the frame of the performance lecture “Do what you gotta do” I activate this collection.

2nd week of rehearsal at @schwankhalle , we are charging our batteries with poetry, chismes, diabolical moves, dreams of lithium, vastness, and universe. See you soon, bring your mobile phones

And: During the mattress research, I documented my bed after waking up. I like the subtle changes and how the folds, imprints, elements on the bed differ from day to day…

… so we returned to resting and dedicated this dance to letting go. We held each other’s heads, lifted, carried, shifted them, and rested them on our bodies. Listening to the time it needs to sink in, to let go of surface tension, of deep tension. Holding each other and letting go. We amplified the speakers ground noise and were accompanied by the ongoing sound of the ventilator. It was hot outside and inside on August 9 at Bears in the Park Studios during our ATLAS sharings. This resting dance we shared is an 18mins excerpt of what we imagine to become a durational installation performance where there might very well be 18mins where seemingly nothing happens and where unexpected dance might unfold in the midst and from within resting. Thank you @edgarlessig @nurraumarie @escphilip for co-creating and delving deep in such short time. I can’t wait to continue resting together. 🫶

This summer, I spent 5 weeks in Vienna in the frame of ImpulsTanz and was part of the educational program ATLAS mentored by Christopher Matthews. As part of ATLAS, I developed a project which deals with the notion of hanging, lounging, resting, releasing, doing nothing, relaxing, … For that I observed how people are resting on the mattresses of the IKEA (an inner city version) very close to where I lived. I came to understand that people were not actually resting but instead performing to rest as a way to test and find a suitable mattress. The act of testing mattresses became super exciting for me… people without a somatic practice suddenly sense into their body, lean towards their more-than-human counterpart and feel into the encounter. I observed different methods of getting to know a mattress from funny bouncing movements to the re-enactment of cuddling with ones partner(s). I believe to have seen that some people projected themselves and the mattress into the future, that they pictured what experiences they would have with and on the mattress. This touched me a lot. Romy, Eimi @e_mlegit and Chris @formedview where excellent partners in this first observation phase. At the bookstore @softcover.shop I found two books that inspired the research: How did you sleep last night by Michikazu Matsune and Dirty Furniture #6 Bed. And with Isabella @maydenise I had a very inspiring conversation around resting that resonates with me still!! I invited Marie @nurraumarie , Edgar @edgarlessig and Philip @escphilip to join me for the next phase of the project where we re-visited and re-enacted the observed methods and composed with the found material. We had a lot of fun and cherished the excitement of testing mattresses and I am curious where our findings will lead to in the future. At the same time it felt slightly disconnected from the original wish to deal with resting and releasing (as I mentioned above: mattress-testing is not actual resting but performed resting). Thus, in the third part of the project Marie, Edgar, Philip and I returned to actual resting. More in the next post…

More impressions from ATLAS @impulstanz_festival . Many of the photos are taken @bearsinthe.park which was the studio and living room of us, the ATLAS group mentored by amazing @formedview 💛

Impressions from ATLAS @impulstanz_festival July 8- August 13 I am deeply inspired and thankful and very much still processing.

… and finally!!! impressions from “The place where I go to listen“ - the first dance piece I shared during the MA Choreography @scenekunstskolen in March 2025 I am so endlessly grateful for a wonderful process full of life, challenges, curiosity, courage, love with the dancers @em_em_em_ma @tildalarke @josephinezethsen @vildapalmkvist and light designer @solravnen and sound artist @philips.electro Thanks to all who supported this piece!! Friends, mentors, classmates, … I like to understand listening, among many other things, as a moment where the boundaries of the self vibrate, get porous. A moment in which one allows to get surprised, to not understand, to understand differently. A moment where one is many. The place where I go to listen can be a movement, a posture, a series of movements, speed, a relation of two or more dances, the stage, the theatre, the body of the spectator, the little toe, … photos by wonderful @benedicteramfjord

Thank you @ottaviacatenacci 💕 for capturing this little choreographic moment in the pine forest of Dueodde during our study trip to Bornholm @bircabornholm in May.

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