Programme

What could the embodiments and agencies of a body assumed to be masculine look like in 2020? Could the definitions of masculinity be overcome or rewritten? How does a body that is assumed to be masculine look at the world, and how is it looked at?

Vera Nevanlinna's solo performance News is based on American dance pioneer Deborah Hay’s choreographic script Nevanlinna has adapted Hay’s choreographic foundations into her own solo, creating with her workgroup a whole where the constituents –…

Filmed in Australia on expired 16mm colour film and hand processed black-and-white, this poetic short film follows the iconic American choreographer, Deborah Hay, as she reflects on life, death and her work as an artist and human being.

Odd Meters by choreographer/performer Mikko Niemistö is a frenzied dance that bounces between rhythms in an attempt to reconstruct itself from fragments of dreams, time and the body. It works with rhythms found in the moment that overlap, argue and shake…

I'm not entirely here (cybersad) is in love with sad girl aesthetics, classic art memes and grainy zoomed images. It is a perspective into a world that plays with gender stereotypes, sexuality and pink aesthetics as instruments for becoming whole.

How to riot through joy in the artistic process, in the performance and while performing? Joy Riot, by Zodiak’s house choreographer Sari Palmgren, focuses on the revolutionary qualities of joy from different perspectives and explores a type of movement…

In Memory Matter, by Gesa Piper, Maikki Palm and Georgie Goater, embodied ancestral lineages are explored and reimagined through herstorical perspectives, colliding and intertwining corporeal auto-narratives, and the immanent grandbodies in each of us.

In her new group performance ÖH Sonja Jokiniemi creates a multisensorial textile environment using handmade rugs as well as knotting and sewing techniques, in order to bind together a sensorial logic as a choreographic proposition. Here colours narrate…

and then they left is a puddle and an ocean of lies, liquids and truths. It is a watery yet dry magic trick that wants to fall towards an uncategorised space and pleasure.