I Will Survive
Project Description
I WILL SURVIVE is a journey towards the unknown and the unfeared - between misery and ecstasy, with hope as our driving force and the communal aim towards the utopian idea of “what’s next”.
Together with 15 dancers, Scilla Rajalin creates a collective consciousness where the primal need for belonging meets and collides with our endless search for the self.
I WILL SURVIVE is a dynamic ensemble work with spontaneity at the forefront, a colourful and at times crushing experience towards the inevitable and eternally desirable.
by Scilla Rajalin with live music by Erik Klinga
Photos: Mathieu Hebeisen
SCILLA RAJALIN
Scilla Rajalinis a London-based Choreographer, Dancer and multidisciplinary-artist working across fields of movement, physical theatre, film and creative writing - creating dynamic, often humorous work around notions of nonsense, un-reliable realities and systematic cycles of routines and patterns.
Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Scilla has a creative portfolio that reaches between the US, UK, Italy and Scandinavia, working with Staibdance Dance Company, Margareta Åsberg, Eva Recacha, Holly Blakey, Linda Pistol, Lewis Walker, Becky Namgauds and Liza Tegel.
They started their dance journey very young with Cecilia Björklund Dahlgren and Swedish dance legend Eva Dahlgren. They graduated from the dance program at Södra Latin after which they went to Atlanta, US, to work with choreographer George Staib and company. They continued studying with Danielle Dietz atNEFCDand later received a First Class BA Hons in contemporary dance from London Contemporary Dance School. Rajalinis currently freelancing as a choreographer, performer, movement- and rehearsal director between London and Stockholm.
Their work moves between dynamic ensemble pieces and solo material,
focusing onatmosphericscenarios and colourful multi-realities with a punky edge. With a strongly crafted compositional interest, Rajalin creates vibrant and theatrically expansive contemporary dance, using precision, connectivity and abundance at its core.
ERIK KLINGA
Erik Klinga, b.1991 in Sandviken, Sweden, is a composer and musician. Klinga is known from the bands Simian Ghost, Light Vibes and Horse Show and has played in multiple projects as a drummer including acts such as Solen, Dolce and Mi von Ahn.
He has a studio based practice and creates electronic music with an interest in developing works focusing on timbre, melody and harmony in repetition based form structures. Driven by curiosity in finding new sound relations he’s mainly working with synthesized and acoustic sources together with field recordings. A substantial part of his work involves working with modular synthesis in the Buchla format, on which he composes and performs live. His music moves between ambient and more multilayered and rhythmically driven pieces.
Recently Klinga has performed his music live at Norberg Festival, Malmö konstmuseum, and Hjorted Art and Music. In relation to the upcoming release of Elusive Shimmer he’s set to have concerts at Mengi (Reykjavik), Ekko festival (Bergen), KET (Athens), Organ Sound Art Festival (Copenhagen), Inkonst (Malmö) and Skaiv (Stockholm). In recent live performances at Norberg Festival and Konstmuseet Malmö, Erik Klinga reimagined his compositions in tandem with the historic church organs and his primary instrument, the Buchla synthesizer; music that will be presented on the next album in the trilogy, due to be released in early 2026.
Erik holds a bachelor degree in Electroacoustic Composition at KMH, Stockholm.
