Tender Motor, 2025

In Tender Motor, the group Tender Motor (Moa Franzén, Tove Salmgren and Kajsa Wadhia) takes a playful yet deadly serious step into the art form of ‘music’ to explore the politicized, socialized, and ideologized body through the cracks of gender and humanity. The group’s ongoing fascination with the ambivalent yet highly potent intersection of sound, breath, and movement is taken to a new destination. Through radical trust in process, in one another, and in the collective, affective, and mutating force that defines the body, the performance weaves inward and outward, continuously carried by expansive, soft, pulsating, rhythmic, desiring, vibrating, and listening forms and sounds. The performance Tender Motor is a sequel to the group’s previous works From a Throat of Flesh (2018) and When Dancing Was Done with the Lungs (2022).

Koreografi och performance: Kajsa Wadhia, Moa Franzén och Tove Salmgren
Kostym: Tender motor
Ljusdesign: Casper Wijlhuizen
Samproduktion: Weld
Residens: MDT, Salong Central, Köttinspektionen Dans

Tender Motor is a non-disciplinary performance trio with backgrounds in visual arts, poetry, choreography, dance, and art curation. The group consists of Kajsa Wadhia, Moa Franzén, and Tove Salmgren, a collaboration that has been exploring performance art and choreography since 2018 at the intersection of sound, breath, and movement. The group composes, improvises, and creates live works, curated events, and publications based on a radically process-oriented method that integrates all aspects of their lives into their shared artistic practice. Since January 2025, the group has been running the two-year research project Sonorous Dances and Reverberant Matters, supported by Stockholm University of the Arts’ internal artistic research program.