isidora markovic

This is an attempt to understand and communicate the embodied experience that happened in Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus on the 13.09.2025. I entered the big sal of the community house in preparation for hosting a study circle that I'm leading this autumn. I was warming up while improvising when images started appearing in my mind or through my body, a phenomenon that i often encounter while dancing and that plays an important role in my practice. These images were all connected to the memories tied to another community center, one i started dancing in as a child. It is still unknown to me what the relation between movement and memory recall is, because they don't follow a strict cause-and-effect logic.

The same day I wrote down what happened.

Over the following weeks i tried to rewrite as a way to move from factual to poetic, because facts played no part in my experience. The rewritten reflections illustrate my experience closer to it. The short film I made is a collection of fragments of my writings and the sounds I encountered and produced while dancing during this process until now. I found the photos I shared in this short film while researching archives and reading about the history of these, according to me, twin buildings. The dive into this research showed me that my embodied experience was an opening point for something much bigger, and what I was really interested in. I kept returning to Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus both as part of my residency and in other contexts, mostly as a member of the audience and participant at various events. This space now holds new memories for me. I now believe that this process reflects a deeper personal question of belonging to places and spaces as someone who often felt misplaced.

I kept returning to dancing and improvising practice in the house, and out of process of meditation upon the experience the practice of spiral in place appeared. This is the apparatus i started using to look back, to experience looking back while letting the gesture unfold.

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