Helsinki NCP#10 meeting in 2024

18.11.2024 0 Tykkää 0 kommenttia

The Helsinki meeting was a context-based encounter in conjunction with the Moving in November festival.

11.-15.11.2024

The Helsinki meeting was built around and in conjunction with the Moving in November festival. The course aimed to deepen students’ awareness of their multiple roles as audience members, choreographers, performers, peers and colleagues, and how ‘being an audience’ is constitutive of the construction of the performing arts. Ability to discuss performances critically also means to critically examine one’s own way of participating in performances, while paying attention to the context in which the performance is made (the performers) and presented (the festival).

The course included attending the festival’s performances at various venues in and around Helsinki, participation in the artist discussions (Soup Talks at the Caisa Cultural Centre), two of which were led by NCP students, student-facilitated discussions on the performances and their themes, two contextualising lectures by Miiko Toiviainen and Katalin Trensecnyi and a meeting with the festival’s curator Kerstin Schroth. Students were also able to attend morning movement practice led by Vera Nevanlinna.

The staff had their meetings focusing on the upcoming pedagogical development seminar Fostering Sustainability in Choreographic Pedagogy and shared current topics of each programme and the changes in the working and cultural environments.