Stina Nyberg
hybrid format
The Gossip (Skvallret) is a choreographed guided city tour from the perspective of a dog.
Through sniffing up the insignificant stories, smelly cobble stones irresistable peeing spots, this guided tour moves the attention away from the grand Stories and into intimate encounters. Smaller groups of participants are guided through a city from a sensorial and knee high perspective, ending up in a performance by a local agility team of dogs.
In addition to the performed city tour, the project The Gossip involves an audio guide and a public art work in the shape of a pile of gravel for dogs to pee on.
The Gossip was originally created in the city of Sundsvall on commission from Sundsvall city and The Public Art Agency (Statens konstråd) in 2020 and was further performed on Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, as part of the festival Lustholmen 2023 and in Pihlajamäki, Helsinki, during Moving in November in 2024. It now exists as a site specific choreography, remade for each site it is performed.
Stina Nyberg is a dancer and choreographer, born in Örnsköldsvik and based in Stockholm. She regularly falls in love with new stuff and uses choreography as a means to learn more about these new objects of desire. Her artistic work is conceptual and practice based – insisting on a learning process based in practices, with no conflict with the close relationship to reading, writing and theorizing.
As a feminist socialist, she enjoys working with other feminists of all genders and expressions, animals when needed. Collaboration underpins her artistic thought and feeds into an intricate web of experimentation, rarely knowing who did what, when. She tries to remember to give cred to contemporaries and those who came before her.
Some of the recent love affairs have involved doom, details, dogs, electricity, gossip, speed, dance history, Nikola Tesla, birds, Meyerhold’s biomechanics, mindreading, liquids and laughs. She regularly engages in storytelling, sharing her view of the world through new facts and fiction, and practice her attention to the details that shape a group experience. She enjoys dancing, moving and being moved – never shying away from a dancing spectacle. The experience of being a group dancing together is a joy she wish to share with an audience.