Name: Song of the Flesh | A Performance by Tuva Hildebrand & Uli Ruchlinski
Start: 2026-03-21T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Skånes Dansteater

Song of the Flesh | A Performance by Tuva Hildebrand & Uli Ruchlinski

In Song of the Flesh Tuva Hildebrand invites you to witness a practice-based choreography; a study on the power relations between perception, behavior, body and language.
Time: Saturday March 21 at 18.30
Location: Skånes Dansteater
Song of the Flesh is a raw lo-fi moving landscape of sensation, desire, emotion as motion, gesture and sound. A leap into the unpredictable, vulnerable and absurd. Through practice the work attempts to understand the act of recognition and the formation of the self in relation; the spell and limitations of language. It is fascinated by the too-muchness of the body; a body that leaks, spills over and may unfold itself.
Song of the Flesh attempts to exist in the fullness of the unfinished; of always becoming and never arriving; of not knowing together.
The choreographic practice is supported by a live composed immersive soundscape by Uli Ruchlinski, which highlights the obscurity of the movement material. As well as a minimalist light design, also created by Uli Ruchlinski, entwined with the sound. Ruchlinski works with the concept that light and sound are inseparable and emerging together in the creative process, in close dialogue with the movement.
The project is initiated by choreographer and dancer Tuva Hildebrand, and its process is a collaboration between her, choreography and practice coach Jeanine Durning, dramaturg Sally O’Neill and light and sound artist Uli Ruchlinski.
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“An audacious and deeply invested performance dripping with guts”
– Audience member Maya Dalinsky (dancer & choreographer)
“Hildebrand invites us with the utmost care into an inner life, where the sorrow of primal force washes over us in movements I have longed for without knowing it. A composition that departs from the expected dramaturgy and offers glimpses of new movements and sounds, new beautiful life, a reclaiming of life. The totality is airy and feels self-evident but has traces of both precision and community.
Song of the Flesh is a punch in the best sense of the word, and Hildebrand has landed in a landscape from which she will be able to operate for a whole lifetime.”
– Jonna Wakeham Ölund, Scenkonstproducent
“Tuva Hildebrand takes a risk when she surrenders to crying, to the animalistic, the guttural, and the wordless sounds. It’s impossible to pretend or to make things up in that sphere if it’s going to be real. If it’s going to become reality. At first, I wonder, much like before a very difficult and daring circus trick, how it will end. But as the performance continues, I become increasingly convinced – and very moved – by the fact that she approaches this being from its stripped-down materiality. There is no external influence in Tuva’s performance.
On the contrary, she demonstrates a physical and craft-based skill, and a courage that goes deep. She becomes body. She becomes story. And transformation. The score that forms the dramatic transformation is obviously very well investigated, to a rawness that leaves me astounded. Not even when she adopts human form towards the end and invites the deceptive meaning of words do I doubt the reality she conjures.
I believe I see in Song of the Flesh something in humanity, beyond the social, that opens my longing for a freedom that touches madness. It also borders – mixed with sorrow and despair – on a joy in being beyond all doubt.”
– Joel Heirås,Stigbergets Jazzteater
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Artistic team
Lighting design, sound & music: Uli Ruchlinski
Choreographic & practice coach: Jeanine Durning
Dramaturgical support: Sally O’Neill
Producer: Kajsa Antonsson
Trio practice: Yrsa Heijkenskjöld, Khamlane Halsackda and Katarzyna Paluch
Studio research company: Jilda Hallin, Lisa Nilsson, Pål-Axel Berger
Hildebrand also thank and acknowledge her teachers Eva Karczag, K.J. Holmes, Stephanie Skura and Jan Rådvik, as well the dance practitioners in her lineage who have influenced her practice in person such as Nina Martin, Karl Anderson, Deborah Hay, Ruth Zaporah, Levi Gonzales, Luciana Achugar and more indirectly Larissa Velez Jackson, Kathy Westwater, Steve Paxton, Joan Skinner, and Lisa Nelson.
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Cost: 80kr single ticket
As a part of the festival Reshuffling Relations - detailed info found here: http://plattformimprovisationsomatik.com