We:R Performance Collective

We:R Performance Collective We:R is an independent performance collective created by Rebecca Björling and Rebecca Rosier. We work using verbatim theatre techniques and improvisation.

We are interested in crossing genre boundaries and collaborating with other artists. About us

We:R Performance Collective is a dance and performance collective based in Sweden and directed by Rebecca Björling and Rebecca Rosier. Coming from two different perspectives, and two different countries, our focus lies both in creating work that tells meaningful stories, and bringing dance to a wider aud

ience. We often work across genres and collaboratively with other art forms. Our projects are often based around text (traditional and contemporary texts as well as our own material). CV
We:R Performance Collective, Stockholm - Sweden. Choreographers/directors: Rebecca Rosier, Rebecca Björling
Guest performers and collaborators: Tim Davis, Daniele Varallo, Lisa Cowling. Rebecca Björling was born in Stockholm but raised in La Paz, Bolivia. Today she is based in Stockholm and works as a contemporary freelance dancer and choreographer. Rebecca trained at the official ballet school in La Paz, Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in Munich and took an internship at the dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal (Pina Bausch). She completed her studies at Stockholm University with two bachelor degrees in the field of ethnology and dance & theater studies.
- www.rebeccabjorling.com -

Rebecca Rosier is a British dancer and choreographer with a special interest in cross-genre performance. Rebecca has training and experience with immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, performing alongside Marina Abramovic in a promenade performance art work, as well as creating dance work in collaboration with opera performance, folk song and clowning. Her personal projects are often based around text. Rebecca trained at Roehampton University in London, UK and graduated with a first class combined degree in Dance Studies and Creative Writing. She also works as a writer and editor.
- www.rebeccarosier.com -


2017:

Schubert vs. The Muse
A dance film created in collaboration with visiting artist Daniele Varallo. We created this work in just five days and shot it in one day with our collaborator, musician and film-maker Tim Davis. We kept a video diary along the way and will be sharing the result soon. We:R summer workshop
A two-day open-level workshop diving into the techniques We:R use to create our work and repertoire. The tickets to this event were completely sold out with people on a waiting list, the feedback was incredibly positive. Ode to my Bitchface
A short dance film inspired by the slam poem of the same name by Olivia Gatwood. Created and performed by Rebecca Rosier and Rebecca Björling.
- Selected to be shown at DanceLab Nicosia Moving Images festival 2017

Dancing Shakespeare: Macbeth
A short film created by Rebecca Rosier and Rebecca Björling that takes the transformational Lady Macbeth speech into a movement context, showing the multi-dimensional character through a duet. Shot at Dansmuseet, Stockholm.
- A live, extended and interactive version was selected to be premiered in August 2017 @ HAUT Young Choreographers Festival in Copenhagen.


2016:
Dancing Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
A short film created by Rebecca Rosier that displaces the famous 'Friends, Romans, countrymen...' speech from Julius Caesar and reworks it into a feminist, movement-based video work.
- Selected for Stockholms Dansfilmfestival 2016
- Chosen as a video work for Dansens Hus foyer 2016/21017

We are excited to introduce some new energy to our collective. 🙌Justine Kirk is an actor, dancer and choreographer, acti...
08/05/2024

We are excited to introduce some new energy to our collective. 🙌

Justine Kirk is an actor, dancer and choreographer, active in theatre, film & television. Justine was born in the US but grew up in Sweden where she trained as a dancer at Balett Akademien. She has written and directed plays, done coaching for young actors, and held art lessons for children. She is also a journalist and worked many years at Sveriges Television as a tv host and digital communicator. She has a degree in screenwriting, and has written the book "Mitt bröst, mitt liv – den tunna tråden”. Justine started collaboration with We:R Performance Collective by cocreating the piece CAPUT CAPILLUS that was shown at in Tirana last year.

"Being a human being is extremely hard. Art offers tools to tackle the tantalizing task to find happiness in life. When movement and words move hearts and touch souls there is hope. So let’s dance, let’s raise our voices, let’s reach out – to each other."

Welcome Justine 🤗
Let's get this ball rolling 💥

Rebecca Björling Velasco was back in Tirana last week representing We:R Performance Collective! These pictures are from ...
06/06/2022

Rebecca Björling Velasco was back in Tirana last week representing We:R Performance Collective!
These pictures are from the morning Workshop with dancers from Noa Dance-Theatre Company 🙌

Thank you to Cloud Reja Edit P**a Ambassador Elsa Håstad in Albania Embassy of Sweden in Tirana
Robert Nuha for making this possible! 🙏🏻



This happened yesterday evening at THE CLOUD FESTIVAL at Reja.alRebecca Björling performed the solo Kiran choreographed ...
26/06/2021

This happened yesterday evening at THE CLOUD FESTIVAL at Reja.al

Rebecca Björling performed the solo Kiran choreographed and produced by We:R Performance Collective

"Kiran is an excerpt from Love Too Much, a stage work currently under construction, based on true stories of female experience, as told through interviews with people around the world. This particular piece is centered around an interview with Kiran Gandhi (Madame Gandhi )- a touring musician, Harvard graduate and feminist activist. The interview focuses around her memorable marathon run, in which she bled freely during her period, both for her own comfort, and as an act of protest against menstrual stigma.
The work is designed to be slow and meditative - focused, steady and strong - the same qualities required for running a marathon, say, or undertaking an act of radical feminist activism."

Thank you to the Embassy of Sweden in Tirana and Ambassador Elsa Håstad in Albania for making this happen! 🙏


Björling is participating at The Cloud Festival in Tirana!She will be teaching a workshop on Friday morning and performi...
23/06/2021

Björling is participating at The Cloud Festival in Tirana!
She will be teaching a workshop on Friday morning and performing our solo 'Kiran' in the evening.

Big thank you to the Embassy of Sweden in Tirana and Ambassador Elsa Håstad in Albania for making this possible! 🙏





Morning meeting and the Rebeccas show up in braids! 👭We had a nice chatt about life, love, projects... We may have some ...
20/05/2021

Morning meeting and the Rebeccas show up in braids! 👭

We had a nice chatt about life, love, projects... We may have some stuff coming out soon. 👯‍♀️

STAY TUNED

Artists each have their own special relationship to their muse - the magic, mysterious, unpredictable force that inspire...
02/09/2020

Artists each have their own special relationship to their muse - the magic, mysterious, unpredictable force that inspires them to create their work. And while each relationship is unique, all artists go through similar processes with their muse: at the start, a beautiful dream or idea, something vague and interesting - ‘inspiration’ perhaps. Then follows the hard work; which can be draining and frustrating or exciting and challenging. Artists sometimes quit here, but if they continue, they eventually reach completion - a measured, well-rehearsed calmness where everything seems to fall into place.

This short film is intended to represent that process. Whether you are creating or learning or rehearsing, you are not alone in this process, and it’s never wasted effort. Trust the process, and most importantly: enjoy the process, because the truth of any work is not the end product but the work that it took to create it.

Schubert vs The Muse is a collaborative project between Bim and We:R Performance Collective. The choreography was created and intensively rehearsed in five days at Tegelscenen in Stockholm, and filmed at Danscentrum, Stockholm.

Choreography and dance performance: Rebecca Björling Velasco , Rebecca Rosier, Daniele Varallo
Piano performance, sound, camera and edit: Tim Davis

Artists each have their own special relationship to their muse - the magic, mysterious, unpredictable force that inspires them to create their work. And while each…

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