Join the Audience Club at Moving in November

Moving in November invites art lovers, theatregoers, and dance professionals to join the Audience Club—a space to deepen your engagement with contemporary dance and performance.
Want to discuss shows, share reactions, meet artists, and find a community to explore contemporary dance and performance with? The Audience Club offers vocabulary, frameworks, and lively discussions to help you articulate your thoughts and bounce back ideas in a safe but bold space.

What is the Audience Club?

A guided group of up to 15 people, led by dance researcher Anna Kozonina. The group will:

  • Watch festival performances together
  • Explore dance theories through mini-lectures and other educational formats
  • Discuss pieces in fun, engaging, and meaningful ways

The Club helps participants connect dance and performance to questions of personal and social life while building confidence in expressing their perspectives.

2025 Audience Club Theme: Signs, Vibes, and Turning Points – How We Make Sense of Dance

Dance is rich with multiple meanings—yet it is never random. How do we, as viewers, make sense of what we see on stage? What do we consciously “read,” and what lingers beyond interpretation?
This year’s festival features a bold mix of performances—ideal for exploring how dance creates meaning. Together, we’ll unpack movement, symbolism, and emotion: from clear gestures to hidden vibes, from cultural identities to raw physical expression. We’ll see how different dance styles collide, analyze creative choices, and discover how dance dramaturgies shape time, space, and the very landscape of interpretation.

We’ll examine:

  • Layers of Meaning: Movement, sound, text, costumes, gestures, vibes; what we read and what we feel while creating our interpretations.
  • Body as a Conduit: How cultural, gendered, and trained bodies communicate and converse with somatic expression.
  • Dramaturgy & Genre: How different styles and creative choices structure audience perception.
  • The Limits of Interpretation: When dance escapes words—and why that matters.

The Club bridges analysis and intuition, helping audiences embrace both clarity and ambiguity in dance.

Who is it for?

The Club is welcoming dance, theatre and art lovers of all ages over 18 years old. Artists, culture professionals as well as people with no previous background in performing arts can take part on equal terms. The course is created individually for the festival’s programme and takes into consideration the unique group composition.

Programme

Session 1. 6.11.

  • 17:30 WELCOMING SESSION: Introduction, backgrounds exchange, expectations, tips
  • 19:00 SHOW: Michael Turinsky – Work Body
  • 20:30 POST-SESSION: Signs vs. vibes: making sense of the performance through reading and sensing

Session 2. 7.11.

  • 12:00 SOUP TALK: Michael Turinsky
  • 18:30 SHOW: Atonia Atarah ­– Don’t thank for the food
  • 19:30 CLUB SESSION INSIDE the SHOW: Orienting in a durational performance

Session 3. 8.11.

  • SOUP TALK: Atonia Atarah
  • 17:00 SHOW: Mean Time Between Failures – DOWN BEAT
  • 18:00 POST-TALK + Meeting the artists: The ways a show guides us through its potential perceptions – the ways to receive as we please

Session 4. 11.11.

  • 18:00 WORKSHOP: Dichotomies game: creating the meaning in-between ideological extremes
  • 20:00 SHOW: Cherish Menzo – FRANK

Session 5. 12.11.

  • 18:00 SHOW: Rébecca Chaillon & Sandra Calderan – La Gouineraie
  • 20:00 POST-TALK: Impossible comparisons: FRANK and La Gouineraie

Session 6. 14.11.

  • 18:00 SHOW: Ewa Dziarnowska – This resting, patience
  • 20:00 POST-TALK: Dramaturgical choices as pathways to sense-making

Session 7. 15.11.

  • 12:00 SOUP TALK: Ewa Dziarnowska
  • 14:00 SHOW: Elina Pirinen, Tom Rejström & Jenni-Elina von Bagh – Quattro Stagioni
  • 16:00-19:00 MODERATED DISCUSSION: A conversation on the overall festival program: insights, concerns, questions
  • 20:00 SHOW: Soa Ratsifandrihana – Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

Session 8. 16.11.

  • 11:00-15:00 FINAL SESSION: Soup Talk with Soa Ratsifandrihana + Focus on the Local Landscape Soup Talk discussion hosted by the Audience Club

How to take part?

To sign up for the Audience Club, please fill in the Google Form 12th of October, 2025.  You will receive instructions by email after registration, how to book and secure your spot.

Audience Club is a part of the Focus on the Local Landscape program within the frame of Moving in November 6.-16.11.2025.

Anna Kozonina is a dance writer, researcher, and educator based in Helsinki. As well as obtaining an MA in Political Science and Linguistics, she studied dance history and performance theory and holds an arts MA from Aalto University. Since 2017 she has been reviewing pieces by emerging and established European choreographers, and diving into the topics of somatic-discursive relationship, dance histories and mediation practices in contemporary dance. She currently gives lectures on dance and performance theory, curates educational programs, works as a dance dramaturg, and conducts research projects. She collaborated with institutions and festivals across Europe including Impulstanz, CODA, Norrlandsoperan, Baltic and Nordic Dance Platforms, Rail2Dance, STHLM DANS, etc. She is also a regular contributor at Springback Magazine (Aerowaves Network Magazine).