Alma Söderberg

Biography

Alma Söderberg grew up in Sweden, spent a few years dancing flamenco in Spain and graduated from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in 2011. She makes choreographies that include music, sound, rhythm and singing in relation to movement and dance. Her work resulted in the solo performance „Cosas“ (2010) and was followed by „TRAVAIL“ (2012). In the duet „A Talk“ (2011) together with Jolika Sudermann the focus lays on the bodily aspects of language, analyzing intonation, rhythms and gestures of the spoken language.

Together with the performance band John the Houseband Alma Söderberg takes her desire to make music the furthest and tries to sing all music styles while playing all instruments.

Her work has won the prizes ITs choreography award (Amsterdam), ACT festival prize (Bilbao) and 100° Berlin audience prize and has been shown in among others: Impulstanz (Vienna), Springdance EIM (Utrecht), Tanz in Bern, MDT (Stockholm) and Something Raw (Amsterdam); together with visual artist Hendrik Willekens.