Set within an archipelago of five textile carpets, ‘Imprints & Orientations’ begins with the ways the body carries the landscape within it, as well as the way the landscape enters the body. Movement becomes a form of transmission; bodies travel from island to island, leaving traces as they cross the space.

Hana Lee Erdman and Louise Dahl are choreographers and dancers whose work asks how movement organizes itself within the body, between bodies and across larger musical and ecological fields. In their recently conceived performance installation ‘Imprints & Orientations’, they explore how things and bodies leave traces and marks as dance concepts. The textiles form a painterly field on the floor, produced in collaboration with the artist Lisa Blas, depicting an oculus as a portal of consciousness between places. At Glenkeen the landscape revealed itself to be capable of affecting the fascia, the connective tissue that runs through the body and distributes any local pressure across the whole. The body is understood here as a movement of exchange – a passage connecting what is left behind with what is received.

Hana Lee Erdman is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher. Her practice explores modes of relation – between humans, more-than-humans, and environments – through embodied research, performance, and collaboration. Originally from the United States, Erdman moved to Europe in 2007 to work as a dancer and is currently based between Stockholm and Berlin. Her works span a wide range of contexts and formats, from galleries, forests, and churches to stages, publications, and recordings. Erdman has collaborated and performed with Cristina Caprioli, Mårten Spångberg, Keith Hennessy, Jeanine Durning, Isabelle Schad, Sara Shelton Mann, Ulrika Berg, Tilman O’Donnell, and Jess Curtis, among others. Since 2016, Erdman collaborates closely with Louise Dahl, with whom she develops choreographic works and research into dance as a practice of attunement to unseen forces, exploring the interplay of physicality and consciousness. Erdman teaches regularly at Stockholm University of the Arts and Ballet Akademien in Stockholm.

Louise Dahl is a choreographer and dancer based in Stockholm. Her practice explores movement as a place of inquiry into perception, presence, and the infinite realities that emerge through imaginative and embodied engagement. Dahl holds a Bachelor’s in Dance and Performance from Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and has worked extensively both in Sweden and internationally. From 2020 to 2023, she was a member of the Cullberg Ensemble, performing works by Deborah Hay and Alma Söderberg. She has an ongoing collaboration with Hana Lee Erdman, developing choreographic works and research into movement as a practice of attunement to subtle forces and relationality. Dahl has also collaborated and performed with Cristina Caprioli, Jefta van Dinther, Jeannine Durning, Philip Berlin, Frédéric Gies, Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Pontus Pettersson, Mårten Spångberg, and others.