In Mountainbuilding, the movements of the mountain and the body meet, along with the processes of human perception that operate beyond our understanding of consciousness, time, and existence. Over the course of three hours, Anna Pehrsson together with a group of dancers from Seoul shapes a landscape of movement and stillness, where the present interacts with the primordial, and the ephemeral is enveloped by the geologically slow. Mountainbuilding is a tender contemplation on the horizons of the human, the erosion of time, and the being of the mountain in the world.

After successful presentations during Ob/scene Festival 2024 Anna Pehrsson is for this year’s festival working with a group of local dancers creating a new durational work with live music.

Concept and choreography: Anna Pehrsson
Music: MinOhrichar
Mountainbuilding was made possible through Dans i Öst, Konst i Östergötland, Verkstad konsthall, CCAP, Weld, Region Uppsala Dansutveckling, Climate Histories Art Interventions, Long Life Burning/ ICI CCN Montpellier, Dans i Västerbotten, Swedish Art Council and Swedish Institute.

Special thanks: Agnieszka Dlugoszewska, Darko Dragiçevic, Marię Fahlin, Linus Gratte, Anna Grip, Maria Schäfer, Anna Koch och Sam Westerholm.

✳︎ Ob/scene Focus Collaboration Program

Anna Pehrsson is a Swedish dancer, choreographer and artist active in the intersection of Dance, Choreography and Visual Arts. She currently explores movement from a geological perspective, seeking to articulate environments where bodies, objects and things coincide into place.