Mumbles and Traces / Sonja Jokiniemi

This workshop is a parallel doing to the creation by Sonja Jokiniemi premiering at Zodiak Centre for New Dance in Autumn 2024. Some elements, questions and topics of the work are expanded and explored together with the workshop participants.

This workshop is centraling in movement and based on choreographic scores and tasks from previous and current works, will also include exploration with objects / things.

We will delve into notions of passage: passing of time, passage of life, passing as a way of passing on; information, knowledge, memories, ornaments, objects, traditions, rituals, ways of thinking, gestures.

We will be thinking about different kinds of work- work of our mothers and fathers, of our grandparents, of the communities they grew up in. The hands work and tactile connection remain at the core and we ask its meaning today. We explore textures and language or textural languages.

And we come next to doing together. What kind of togetherness is proposed and what kind of work is created together. We embrace difference, polyphony, abrasion points as well as fluidity.

This workshop is open to everyone, both dance and performing arts professionals and enthusiasts. You don't necessarily need to have previous experience.