Photo: Eetu Laine
Mikko Makkonen: Actions x Figures
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?
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A still image from the film
Peter Humble, David Young: Deborah Hay Alignment is everywhere
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.
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Photo: Elina Brotherus (2020)
Deborah Hay, Vera Nevanlinna: News
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 –…
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Kick-off – Autumn 2020
Zodiak's rich and diverse autumn season has started with live performances, events and courses. A live performance and participation feels especially valuable during these times. It tunes our body to observe and makes our senses sharper.
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Photo: Matti Kilponen
Jenni Koistinen: On the Way Home / Edöntie
On the Way Home / Edöntie is a walking performance in Isnäs, a small village in Eastern Uusimaa. The performance takes the audience through a landscape that has gone through many great beginnings, collapses and times of reconstruction during its long…
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There is a free bus transportation from Helsinki on Aug 29 & 30, and from Loviisa on Sep 5 & 6.
Kaarnaranta, Edöntie 142, Loviisa
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Photo: Katri Naukkarinen
Mikko Niemistö: Odd Meters
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…
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The performance includes loud noices.
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Photo: Yoshi Omori
Z-free: Hanna Ahti
Z-free is Zodiak’s residency concept. Dance artist Hanna Ahti will work with her new solo project while in residence in autumn 2020. The working title of the project is Francis.
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Zodiak Studio C4
Z-Free
Photo: Satbir Singh / Kylässä koillisessa – kiertomatka pihoilta poluille (HKT)
Paikallismaisemia 2020 Festival
Paikallismaisemia Festival invites you to look at everyday landscapes from a different angle.
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Siltamäki ja Suutarila
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Photo: Saara Taussi
Tiia Kasurinen: I'm not entirely here (cybersad)
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.
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Kuva: Annika Miettinen
Angela al Debs – Kati Raatikainen: A being in view
Dance artists Angela al Debs and Kati Raatikainen have been working on the performance A being in a view taking into account the existing social constraints at the time of the coronavirus. The performance takes place in different places around Northeast…
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Photo: Vesa-Pekka Grönfors
Z-free: Iina Taijonlahti
Z-free is Zodiak’s residency concept. Choreographer Iina Taijonlahti and her working group will work on their project Human Robot. Moving Robot while in residence in autumn 2020.
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Zodiak Studio C4
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Photo: Uupi Tirronen
Sari Palmgren: Joy Riot
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…
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Theatre haze is used in the performance.
Stoa
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Photo: Sanna Lehto
Georgie Goater, Maikki Palm, Gesa Piper: Memory Matter
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.
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Theatre haze is used in the performance.
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Photo: Kristiina Repo.
A Meeting for Artists Working in Community
COVID-19 has changed, restricted, and blocked the ways and opportunities for artists working in community arts context. Yhteisö tanssii ry and Zodiak are organizing a peer meeting where the participants have the opportunity to meet colleagues and share…
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Photo: Pedro Hurpia
Z-free: Heli Keskikallio
Z-free is Zodiak's residency concept. Choreographer Heli Keskikallio will focus, together with her working group, on their upcoming work Wild Thing.
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Zodiak Studio C4
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Photo: Katri Naukkarinen
Sonja Jokiniemi: ÖH
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…
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CANCELLED: Zodiak's activities for December 2020
Due to the new corona restrictions announced on Fri, Nov 27, most of Zodiak's remaining activities for 2020 will be cancelled.
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Photo: Venla Helenius
Kemppainen, Nieminen, Peura: and then they left
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.
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