The photographs were made during a rehearsal at SITE in Stockholm. Säfsten's work rewards patience: the choreographic logic becomes legible over time, and you start to feel where the density is about to concentrate. The images are from inside that attention.
And So We're Gone is a work by Björn Säfsten for four dancers, built from a single, obsessively repeated action: walking. From intricate patterns of footfall, turning, and sudden arrest, the choreography builds a detailed web of movement, geometries that break into ordinariness, formations that dissolve into something stranger. At the centre of the process was a question about time: the relationship between its infinite extension and our own finite portion of it. Who are we in the middle of all that? Do we understand time's unrelenting march, truly, or perhaps always too late?
The piece moves through what Säfsten describes as a geometry of living and losing: fragments that arrive like memories, or possibly fantasies, of a life being lived and a life being lost simultaneously. The four dancers carry all of that with precision and warmth. There is rigour in the structure, and an ongoing tenderness toward the material.
