Evelina Jakobsson Potenciano

Dance Performance
Presented at SKH, Stockholm
Also presented at
Watch Me Bake, Uppsala, 2022
VER SACRUM, Stockholm 2023

The dance piece is an exploration of women in horror and the potentiality of the monstrous feminine. Drawing from Julia Kristeva’s concepts of Abjection, Barbara Creed’s concept of the monstrous-feminine as well as films in the body horror genre, a search to represent this subjectivity through dance emerges. In the body horror genre, the female characters depicted are neither villains nor heroes, but complex characters who possess the capacity to both do good and destroy.In The horrors of: , The dancers negotiate between instances of desire but in a scattered, unfocused way, that leaks out in uncontrollable directions. By doing so, the dancers create tensions with potential narratives. As the dancers execute the process of image-making, the spectator is given great expectations without any rewards.

Choreography: Evelina Jakobsson Potenciano

Dance:

Malla Aaltonen

Ane Carlsen

Tovalisa Delin

Sofie Fägerblad

Riikka Lyra

Evelina Jakobsson Potenciano

Sound design: Marius Varhaugvik

Light design: Casper Wijlhuizen

Photo by Celine Barwich