ONE DROP is a summoning of ghosts, an autopsy of the Western stage and an operetta. It continues Sonya Lindfors’ series of works dealing with power, representation and Black body politics.
ONE DROP is a speculative summoning, a decolonial dream, an autopsy of the Western stage and an operetta. Slipping in meanings, leaking through different categories the work dives into the poetics and politics of relations, creating a stage that awakens the ghosts, connections lost or forgotten.
The title of the work refers to two separate frameworks; the one drop rhythm which is a reggae style drum beat as well as to the one drop rule of the Race Separation Act, created in the United States in the early 1900s, according to which a single drop of “Black blood” made a person “Black” despite their appearance. Through its multiple starting points the work interrogates the ghosts of the Western stage and its entanglements and relationalities to capitalism, coloniality and modernity.
ONE DROP continues Lindfors’ series of works dealing with power, representation and Black body politics.
Choreography and concept: Sonya Lindfors
Working group: Antonia Atarah, Hamis Ahmed, Geoffrey Erista, Nori Kin, Isabella Shaw, Alma Bø Getachew, Mariama Slåttøy, Erno Aaltonen, Jussi Matikainen, Sanna Levo, Angel Emmanuel, Aino Koski, Janina Salmela and Sonya Lindfors
Contributors to process: Ornilia Ubisse, Judith Arupa, Alen Nsambu, Johanna Karlberg, Jaakko Pallasvuo
Production: UTT ry and Sonya Lindfors
Co-production: Big Pulse Dance Alliance (Zodiak – Centre for New Dance / FI, Dance Umbrella / UK, Julidans/NL), Goethe-Institut (International Coproduction Fund), Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, Apap – FEMINIST FUTURES (a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union)
Residencies: Tanzfabrik berlin, KWP Kunstenwerkplaats, Buda Kortrijk, Beursschouwbourg
Supported by: Kone Foundation, The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Nordic Culture Point
PREMIERE
Big Pulse Dance Alliance is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
