The solo New Old is a performance of around 50 mins length by Alma Söderberg.

'In the performance I sit on a chair and think through rhythm, voice and movement. The practice is that of listening to sounds synthesizing; forming words with the help of hand and body gestures, creating thoughts, evolving into sounds again, becoming music, becoming dance, becoming thought that once again becomes dance.

There is, for once, a theme in the work which is not formal, as it has mostly been in my previous works. I would say it is rather personal, on the verge, if not already way over the edge, private. I am finding myself thinking about an aging post-natal body and what that implies in terms of being a performer and a dancer that up until now heavily uses the pelvic floor in all kinds of deep rhythmical sounds while bouncing around the floor. But now I sit down. And I am reflecting on such topics as: the fear of peeing oneself, the mouthlike quality of the vulva and the phenomenologically fascinating thing of being two people at once for a while, as well as the difference in musicality of the word pussy in different languages and the consequences thereof. This thinking moves in and out of internal and external spaces, shoots through the roof with vectors of high hissing sounds and lands in melodic phrases that float above the heads of the audience. In the performance there will be a degree of the improvised, hoping to leave space for new thoughts to appear on the meeting between myself and each specific audience.'

The solo has been shown in its early versions at the festival Domingo at La Casa Encendida in Madrid and Within Practice at MDT in Stockholm.