Side Step 2020 | nora chipaumire: #PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA

Each instalment of nora chipaumire’s trilogy #PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA is a self-standing whole, an independent visual and physical soundtrack, but when performed in succession they form an album. Dance, sound, text and installation mix into a living collage…
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Side Step 2020 | Michiel Vandevelde: Andrade

In his essay Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibalist Manifesto, 1928) the Brazilian poet and polemicist Oswald de Andrade meditates on cannibalism as a form of metamorphosis. The external intruder – in the Brazilian context the Western conqueror – is not…
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Side Step 2020 | Lecture: Michiel Vandevelde

REAPPROPRIATION/LAYERING/ALIENATIONMichiel Vandevelde writes:“In this lecture I will delve into three central notions for my work: reappropriation, layering and alienation. My intent is to reveal the choreographic process of my works through these notions…
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Side Step 2020 | Opening club – hosted by #HCPSPIRIT x HOD

Sirkka Rukoilija & Elements Mini Ball & House of Disappointments & Club La PerséChoreographer, dancer and performer Marika Peura’s Sirkka Rukoilija can be seen as a witch character. The point of departure for this work and character have been sexism and…
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Side Step 2020 | Ivo Dimchev: A Selfie Concert

"Selfie is a choreography, selfie is a sculpture, selfie is a tragedy, selfie is love.              Selfie is less about me, it's more about us." – Ivo DimchevA Selfie Concert is part of a series of performances by Ivo Dimchev where he investigates…
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Side Step 2020 | Berstad/Helgebostad/Brun: Phantasmagoric

In phantasmagoria, an entertainment popular in the 19th century, a magic lantern was used to project images onto smoke screens and translucent surfaces, transporting the audiences to eerie, enchanted states of being. Phantasmagoric, by art collective…
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Side Step 2020 | F-club – hosted by #HCPSPIRIT

Kovaa rasvaa & Feminist Swearing SoireeKovaa rasvaa (Saturated Fat) is a band founded in 2009 in Turku, Finland. They have performed with their short and furious songs in Finland, the Nordic countries, the British Isles, Poland, Germany, the Balkans,…
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Side Step 2020 | Matilda Aaltonen – Joel Teixeira Neves: Voyeur

The space is divided by a large window. The performers and the audience are sat on different sides of it.“I am looking at you looking at me looking at you looking at…”In this wordless performance the performers negotiate a permission to watch, seducing…
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Side Step 2020 | Sorour Darabi Savušun: سووشون

In Savušun, Sorour Darabi gives the stage to emotions – how they become manifest, come to life and are made flesh. The word savušun refers to a pre-Islamic ceremony, a ritual of mourning for the legendary Persian prince Siavash. When it was islamized, it…
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Side Step 2020 | Closing party - hosted by #HCPSPIRIT

Pimeä Hedelmä & DJPIMEÄ HEDELMÄ is a three-piece hip hop group founded in 2018. Consisting of two dancer-choreographer-rappers and one composer-producer, PIMEÄ HEDELMÄ relies on bassy, foggy and bouncy tones. The instrumentation introduces grime, modern…
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