– What is a bad memory, what is a good memory?

– What’s real in a memory and how can a memory affect your self-esteem?

– Maybe a memory is only one reconstruction of a memory?

Visual expression mixed in Peter Svenzon’s new performance I Remember.

Video and photo art has as much space as movement and dance, the visual meets newly written music and forms an artwork where your own memories can also take place.

I Remember is based on memories, fragments of memories and contraindicated memories that take shape in the bodies of the dancers. Memories of an accident and hospitalization in early childhood or memories of puberty. Everything gives your own colour, feel, motion and image. A scar is reminiscent of a memory – here’s my first knife, here’s my body remembering a hard bathroom edge.

Who are you if you lose your memory?

I Remember was created “In Residence” at Vara Concert house, who also co-produced the work, 2013. I REMEMBER is part of a suite of three different performances.The first was a site-specific performance called INGRESS and was created for FOTOGRAFISKA MUSEET in Stockholm. Premier 7 September, 2013. The third part of the suite is the work FRAGMENT. FRAGMENT was created in 2014 and premiered at the OuDance festival in Oulu, Finland 2014.

In 2014, the performance was awarded with the price; “Magic of the Year” by the Performing Arts Guide.

Peter Svenzons choreography is brave and strong, challenging and intimate. Dancers cells conveys power, yet the delicate and volatile that seem to embrace our memory.

I remember the photo, light, music and movement in bold balance. Memories told in a microphone and motion switches between collective and individual, surprising and precise. Rain falls, shadows playing across the walls and act last minute heats salon with a liberating laughter.

Entranced, I note that the Art of Spectra created a artwork, very hard to forget.

I REMEMBER – kulturbloggen.com 2014

-here there are no traditional gender roles. The women lift, throw and carry just like the men. And 

the men can soften in a hug. 

I REMEMBER – GP 2014

-there are no stereotypical gender roles presented here. Both women and men lift through and 

carry each other. 

I REMEMBER – Aspekt.nu 2014