Responses to Open Call #5
Anna Maria Häkkinen & Emil Santtu Uuttu
Bodies are attending to each other. Bodies are slowly tuning in with the sounds, lights, and gravitation; bodies becoming an island. There is an inexorable sensuous vibe of going through the stereometrical dimensions, sinking and then orienting to deep listening. I see a visual moment of reaching and holding, sweat and gestures that surrender. We, as a species, or us, as artists, thrive in collaboration; become x, y z – and then thrive further.
Lydia Touliatou
Ever-changing-ever-lasting-ever-blooming-ever-soothing-ever-supporting-ever-resisting-ever-embracing-ever-listening-ever-questioning-ever-running-ever-holding-ever-thriving-ever-accepting-ever-rising-ever-jumping-ever-realising-ever-admiring-ever-denying-ever-surving-ever-inspiring-ever-engaging-ever-loving, it is moving, never assuming.
Sara Grotenfelt / Textual advisor Sonjis Laine
I can’t see anything because I’m wearing a bucket over my head. Inside the bucket I hear the echoes of party whistles and stomping feet. I like frames such as a parties or magic shows that guide me in my choice making. I like to alter and twist and pump those frames and curate relations and affects within them. I care about the audience and I want them to have a “good time”. I try to release some stuff. The stuff of life, let’s say. The body is always there. It’s a medium, yes, but also a shiny surface and a sponge. Rhythm is everything, and dramaturgy as well!
Hanna Pajala-Assefa
Choreographer and doctoral candidate
In my work, I shine a light on the thinking body. I construct performance environments with interactive technologies which both affect the body and are affected by its actions. There, I envision a thinking, moving, enacting body to be the agent that operates and performs in these environments ethically and sustainably. Therein, a body emerges as an equal partner with technology, not as a transhumanist, enhanced body, but rather a trans-corporeal body in practices, where the human and non-human are entangled entities, constructing a reciprocal generative performative site. An enfolding performance where bodies operate and communicate with and through technology, maintaining a connection to self and other(s).
Worldmaking and Contemporaneity – 40 years of higher education in Dance and Choreography
This bilingual publication (Finnish/English) collects and extends traces of a seminar that took place October 23rd at the Theatre Academy (Teak) University of the Arts Helsinki. The seminar was held on the occasion of Teak´s 40th anniversary of higher art education in dance and choreography. Seminar focus was on worldmaking and contemporaneity in dance and choreography in higher art education.
The publication aims at opening the potential for dialogue and conversation about dance and choreography pedagogy in higher art education with a local and international body of readers. Hence the publication may be seen as an opportunity for conversation about dance and choreography training in higher art education beyond the day of the festivity of the 40th anniversary.
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