Rosalind Goldberg

Choreography as a meaning-generating aggregate

This publication is part of the outcome of my artistic PhD project
Choreography as a Meaning-Generating Aggregate (2019 – 2023).

Artistic practice is at the core of the PhD program at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. At the same time, the artistic practice is to be accompanied by an explicit reflection, which grants others access to methods and insights that have emerged from the artistic research. The artistic PhD project Choreography as a Meaning-Generating Aggregate resulted in the three performances: Rut (2018), The Field (2020), and Dark Dynamite (2022), as well as the publication Choreography as a Meaning-Generating Aggregate.

The body absorbs and leaks out. Things are passing through, and things are also materializing. I can never entirely know what leaks out. I can only, to a certain extent, know what I absorb. But I know of this movement that unevenly sways, drops, crashes, and sneaks into or out of my body. I know that context and activity matter for this movement, but these can’t entirely be controlled. The world of stimuli (sensorial, informational, contextual, etc.) is overflowing my system constantly. It’s like a shower. It’s flooding my flesh, scrubbing my organism, rubbing my structure. As a body, I am not passive in this movement of sensations, information, etc. The movement is met by me, by my accumulated experience, knowledge, and preferences, so that just as it drives away with my body and constantly makes it at the same time, I influence these movements by how I follow them, react to them, or resist them. [...]

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Building Bodies – Parallel Practices

Ein Bericht aus der choreographischen und tanzwissenschaftlichen Forschung
Rosalind Goldberg und Anne Schuh im Dialog

In Vorbereitung auf die Tagung der Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung (GTF) im November 2015 zum Thema Practice as Research fragten wir uns, inwiefern dieser Ansatz, dem wir uns als Choreographin (Rosalind Goldberg) und Tanzwissenschaftlerin (Anne Schuh) verbunden und verpflichtet fühlen, relevant für unsere jeweiligen Arbeiten ist. Im vorliegenden Dialog stellen wir drei Projekte aus unseren beiden Tätigkeitsbereichen in wechselseitiger Befragung vor. Diese sind nicht originär im Bereich von künstlerischer Forschung verortet, lassen sich aber, so glauben wir, zum Teil in Bezug dazu setzen. Unser Dialog soll dazu dienen, jene Bezugspunkte auszuloten und frei zu legen. Wie bei jeder Suchbewegung bleiben dabei manche Beobachtungen notwendig unbestimmt oder haben den Charakter einer behauptenden Aneignung. Gerade dadurch aber öffnen sich interpretative Räume, um zu fragen, was dieser Forschungsansatz konkret für uns bedeutet, wie und ob wir ihn umsetzen, bzw. wie unsere Projekte davon beeinflusst sind [...]

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Utanför den kropp som jag känner till

Ett samtal om arbetet bakom föreställningen MIT
Frida Sandström & Rosalind Goldberg

En karaktär i ständig tillblivelse genom sin aktivitet i en fiktiv värld. Så beskriver Rosalind Goldberg MIT, vars verklighet ändå påminner mycket om den som ofta beskrivs som ”vår egen”. Genom upplevelsen av imaginära luftskikt berör, rekonstruerar, formar, dansar, klättrar, innesluts, faller, störtar, krossas och slåss MIT, vars karaktär blir verklig inom och genom koreografin – men enligt vems normer och värderingar? Väl medveten om att denna fråga saknar svar talar jag med Rosalind Goldberg om vad för möjliga praktiker och erfarenheter som ryms i görandet av MIT. Vilka erfarenheter kan ta plats? Hon berättar att utgångspunkten i arbetet var intresset att komma bortom en kropp som hon själv känner till [...]

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What's the time?

Rosalind Goldberg in Conversation with Chrysa Parkinson

Rosalind Goldberg and Chrysa Parkinson were both in Stockholm at The Dancer as Agent conference, but did not have the opportunity to speak to each other much at the time. They met again during the course of three video phone conversations, initiated by Chrysa as part of the conference documentation, in mid-September 2014. These have been transcribed and edited. Rosalind was finishing her master’s thesis and rehearsing and Chrysa was in Berkeley, where she lives part-time [...]

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