Soup Talks
Moving in November released its programme for the festival from 7–17 November in Helsinki! One format we are involved in and highly recommend: The Soup Talks, where informal conversations raise between audience and artists mingling around a hot pot full of soup.
Deva Schubert at the [8:tension] Podcast
We started to release Season #2 of our [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series!
Our first guest is Deva Schubert, dancer and choreographer from Berlin and one of the winners of the 2024 ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographer’s Award with her piece Glitch Choir.
Cécile Le Claire is On the Outset at Moving in November
The project manager, artistic mediator and facilitator from France recently moved to Finnland and is now involved in the production of the contemporary dance festival, which takes place from 7–17 November this year.
Austrian Premiere: Hold yr ache 2 my ache
Hold yr ache 2 my ache by Zeynab Kirikou Gueye and Lau Lukkarila premieres on 22 November at Tanzquartier Wien! The piece was (also) developed during the Creative Crossroads residencies at STUK Leuven and Workshop Foundation.
Modular School – Interactive Installation
In the frame of ChoreCon 2024, the participants of the Modular School will share their collective work at TALA PLE(j)S. Through an interactive installation, visitors will have the opportunity to explore individual projects intertwined with group responses.
Participatory Programme: Naama Shoshana Fogiel Lewin
A morning class rooted in a self-creating practice, combining theory and various exercise and movement methods to explore non-normative ways of giving and receiving care for both, our own bodies and others’.
Panel Discussion: NOMAD DANCE ADVOCACY TRANSFORMATIVE POLICIES FOR DANCE
Antisezona and Nomad Dance Academy put together a day of discussions, aiming to sketch beter future scenarios of our dance community:
Activating the Present of Dance: Discussing Cultural Policies
Futuring: Dance Research as the Foundation of a new Dance Institution
New Structures for a new Future – Call for Action
Exhibition Opening: Dancing, Resisting, (Un)working
Dancing, Resisting, (Un)working – Aspects of Dance as a Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After is an exhibition curated by Nomad Dance Academy – (Non)Aligned Movements. It performs a long-term research on developing the digital archive of contemporary dance and the performing arts of the post-Yugoslav region.
Performance: Desire to make a solid history will end in failure
The starting desire in the creation of this dance performance by Igor Koruga is the question: in what way can archiving dance art be an artistic practice? The author’s exploration of this desire takes place through a transgenerational creative exchange with six choreographers/directors/dancers/performers of the local independent dance scene: Nela Antonović, Anđelija Todorović, Jelena Jović, Tanja Pajović, Boris Čakširan, and Sanja Krsmanović Tasić.
Mean Time Between Failures at STUK
Mean Time Between Failures, the Helsinki-based experimental dance and performance art collective of Dash Che and Suvi Tuominen. During their Artistic Exchange Residency at STUK, MTBF will work with sound designer Oula Rytkönen, who is a long-term collaborator of the collective. They will focus on dramaturgical and choreographic development of a new dance piece called DOWN BEAT.
Participatory Programme: CONSTELLATION OF BODIES
An open lab by Teodora Ežovska. The focus of the Constellations of Bodies workshop is on creating group dynamics and harmony among participants by developing awareness of internal dynamics, space, time as a measuring unit, and proximity.
ChoreoCon 2024 Opening: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE DANCE KIND
A Performance Situation Room: Close encounters of the dance kind
What would you send into the future of dance? We asked the local dance scene to dance and write their answers to the following question: If there were something at your disposal right now that you would send into the future of dance, what would it be? We received answers from those at the beginning of their journeys, as well as from those who have been on this trek for a while. For very trivial practical reasons, the responses presented in the film don’t encapsulate the entirety of our scene, but demonstrate its multiplicity, polyphony, strength, persistence and permanence.
Capacity Grid, On The Outset, Outsetters Abroad
Performance Situation Rooms, Choreographic Conventions