Interconnectedness: Entangled curation and dance in unsettled landscapes: An interview with DACE

DACE is a platform for curatorial and choreographic explorations on dance and choreography in a more-than-human world, founded by Rickard Borgström and Rebecca Chentinell. Central to the duo is how the body functions as an interface towards the surroundings. Consequently, they collaborate with artists engaged in the rapid environmental, technological and political changes, exploring a multitude of bodily approaches in questioning how these affect our actions, thinking and artistic practices. DACE traces new bodily sensitivities and interconnections between human, technology and nature in a more-than-human environment. DACE seeks new aesthetic paradigms in the shifting nature of ecological systems in the geological era of human-made nature. Since 2019, DACE has created gatherings, symposiums, developed as well as presented exhibitions and art works in different media and contexts. The works are exploring ecological and technological planes in theatres and galleries, an exploration of what post-human dance can be in a postanthropocentric worldview. The questions are posed by curator and choreographer Karina Sarkissova in a meeting of three independent dance curators based in Sweden and Finland.