Talk a bit, then we’ll check is a voice choreography by Malin Elgán.
Five contemporary dancers (Sanna Blennow, Rebecca Chentinell, Ludde Hagberg, Love Källman and ZoëPoluch) are involved in reading texts on artistic practice and its relation to time. Talk a bit, then we’ll check is a piece that takes off from choreography and its crucial work with time, its rearrangement of time period. Artistic work is seen substantially as a question of lifetime, working hours.
The text material is taken from the Russian (Polish-born) dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky’s, the American choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s and the Swedish pianist Love Derwinger’s texts and from Elgán's conversations with the musicians Love Derwinger, Ann-Sofi Klingberg, Annette Mannheimer, Patrik Swedrup and Daniel Söderberg.
Talk a bit, then we’ll check is installed in a wall-mounted sitting bench outside Lydgalleriet in Bergen, in collaboration with Oktoberdans 2018.