MONDAY 22.8
Jan Loukas: More than meets the eye
In the workshop we will focus on themes of transformation, imagination and fiction as a tool for creating movement in a shared space together. We travel through forms, associations, worlds and textures – giving focus to one’s own interests.
TUESDAY 23.8
Pie Kär: Performance gift
My proposal is to open the workshop with the question “what is there already” and finish with the participants giving performance gifts to one another. We are focusing on what kind of motion – for example dances and performances – are there already in us, and what histories we carry through our motion. We will work on the performance gifts with the support of different practices and tasks. Participating in the practice can be also observing or resting.Before coming to the workshop, think about a piece of music or sound that has a relation to some history of your movement and that you can share with the group. If you wish, you can attune to the workshop beforehand by thinking about the rootings of your mobility and on the other hand by thinking whether you have some time experienced something that felt like a performance gift? Take with you to the workshop clothes that are suitable for moving and pen and paper (preferably no phones).
WEDNESDAY 24.8
Marika Peura & Kaisa Nieminen: Dive into dance
We dive into the intimacy of dancing accompanied by a DJ. We do exercises where we give space to the experientiality of the dancing body; expressiveness, emotionality, playfulness and pleasure. We also work with the gaze and look in to the social situation of dancing. Marika approaches these themes by drawing from her freestyle hip hop dance practice, with the interest in the interrelationships, connections and frictions between dancing for one’s own pleasure, social dancing and and in the context of performance dance. We do exercises alone, in pairs and in groups.
Kaisa Nieminen will be our DJ on the course, offering bassy sounds; with the music selection varying between hip hop, house, electronic/pop music. The DJ set runs alongside the dancing, supporting the experiences of dancing together and alone.
There is no need to prepare for this course. Bring comfortable training clothes, a water bottle and pen and paper. You can dance bare foot or with indoor sneakers.
THURSDAY 25.8
Eevi Tolvanen: Different shades of gaze
In this workshop we dive into sensitizing our senses and skins to limitless meetings, reuniting and separating from others. We start from understanding the possibilities of corporal consent and constantly negotiating it through our eyes and movement. It’s a beautiful dance between approving and declining. Exploring how gaze moves us, the others and all of us together. Let’s melt, build up, support and create complex worlds alone and together with others.
There is space to take the given proposals to the direction of individual interests. Tolvanen also opens up how she uses gaze diversely in her art practices, how it creates different possibilities to connect with spectators or with different groups.
FRIDAY 26.8
Sonya Lindfors: Tunings and energies
Everything is connected. Our dances are affected by how we have slept, the discussions we have had, by what we have experienced during that day. In this workshop we focus on tuning and energies. How do we tune ourselves to move, to work or to sense. How the world moves us and how we move the world. We will work with different kinds of movement exercises, by discussing and sharing.
