Skimmed Words

Skimmed Words was a choreographic practice shared by Andreas Haglund, Stina Ehn, Antonia Harke and Denise Lim. The performative material worked with poetics as a means to practice qualitative sensibilities by tending to fiction. The practice felt into the meaningfolds of words.

Calling the ball a bitter butterfly, just to blow it at the river flowing down the wall. Letting subversive practices of signification raise the roof into a sky that is raining down insidious frogs on a stage stretching its way out to the foyer. 



Through touching and wording, the performers traced objects, each other and interiors of the theater. Skimmed Words is a mode of scanning that responds to shapes, temperatures and textures. It’s a worldbuilding activity that calls imaginary scenarios into action, pointing towards the fictions that can be found in ordinary objects, in theatres and performative situations.