Indulge the Movement - Contemporary Dance for All / Anne Naukkarinen

In this Indulge the Movement -course, you will explore dance through lived experience and imagination: what you feel, desire and fantasize about through movement. Throughout the course, you will carry a notebook in which you write about your own experiences of dancing: sensations, insights, desires, secrets and concerns that open up linguistic-bodily worlds of dance. Writing is allowed to influence dance, and dance to influence writing.

Each class begins with a gentle warm-up that attunes you to dancing, to your embodied presence and to the shared space we create together. We work with set movement sequences and improvisation tasks that allow you to explore your own movement. We will dance both to music and in silence, and practise group exercises centred on collective dance and interaction.

You are encouraged to approach all exercises through your own abilities and interests. This course is perfect for anyone with a curiosity and desire to dance – no previous dance experience is required. You will discover new ways of listening to your body, strengthening your connection to yourself and enjoying dancing with others.

Please bring your own notebook and pen!

Anne Naukkarinen is a Helsinki-based choreographer and visual artist. Her artistic work explores intimate bodily experiences that position movement in relation to social and historical situations. Naukkarinen also seeks to connect these bodily experiences to broader movements, such as intergenerational memories, wind and landscape.

Her methods draw from dance, somatic practices and writing, including note-taking. She often collaborates across performance art, choreography and visual art, creating works in theatre and gallery settings as well as site-specific contexts.

Naukkarinen's works have been presented in venues including her grandmother's garden, a Danish home, Moving in November festival, Institut Finlandais, MDT Moderna Dansteatern, Titanik gallery, Mad House Helsinki, Kunsthalle Helsinki and Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, among others. Since 2019, she has actively been part of developing the house of live art Mad House Helsinki.

Naukkarinen graduated with an MA in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts of Uniarts Helsinki in 2020 and with a BA in Dance from the Theatre Academy of Uniarts Helsinki in 2015. She also completed her studies at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) in Berlin in 2014.

Indulge the Movement – Contemporary Dance for All courses are mainly instructed by the choreographers and performers of Zodiak's previous, current and upcoming season's performances. Indulge the Movement courses are suitable for everyone, and you can join even without any prior dance experience. The classes focus on motion and movement while also offering an opportunity to explore various dance practices through alternating instructors.

All you need are comfortable clothes suitable for movement and a water bottle. During the classes, we dance barefoot or with socks. The courses are held in Finnish and/or English according to the needs of the participants.

Please note that from fall 2025 on, one cannot make up absences from the classes in the Indulge the Movement -courses. We encourage to you to take care that you can attend all the classes you've signed up to. 
Please note that you cannot arrive class later than 5 minutes past the starting time. After that the door will close. This is to ensure everyone a peaceful and concentrated course atmosphere. For more information on how to participate in the courses see How to Participate. 

Portrait of Anne: Saara Autere