Moving in November’s festival program is published! We warmly invite you to discover this year’s edition! In case you have not yet read the pre-note in relation to the program, you find it here.
We are excited to open the festival with Michael Turinsky’s latest performance, Work Body, which blurs the boundaries between choreographic intervention, concert, and political agitation. Challenging the capitalist division of labour, Work Bodycreates a space of resonance – between the ‘disabled’ and the ‘working’ body and puts into our focus physicalities that are often pushed to the edges of representation.
Antonia Atarah, together with her working group, warmly invites us to Don’t thank for the food, a performative installation – a polycentric living room – a dinner party celebrating the BIPOC community and radical joy, while exploring questions of narrative and identity through the themes of home, food, nurture, and rest. We are proud that the artists have agreed to re-create this work for the festival in Caisa’s theater hall and gallery.
With Maze, long-term collaborators Julia Giertz and Marie Topp show a work in the intersection between choreography and sound art – a space of resonators. While sitting in waves of sounds we will encounter the archetype of an oracle. Through the performer’s gaze the experience of time becomes something recurring, circular, repetitive, and non-linear. This rare pearl and intimate encounter is presented in the mornings at Kunsthalle Helsinki.
Returning to Moving in November for the third time, Cherish Menzo has become a celebrated and dear guest. This time she brings her latest work, FRANK – short for Frankenstein – which situates itself somewhere between ritual, apocalypse, and carnival. The piece explores the monstrous as an embodiment of beliefs and narratives that both terrify and horrify, and yet also exert an attraction.
How does language manifest itself in our bodies? What happens when our mother tongue becomes overlayered by another language? Lucía García Pullés brings with Mother Tongue a poetic and physically intensive solo to Helsinki. A struggle to be heard, a need for survival, a fear of disappearance, resistance – and yet the tongue itself is a strong muscle.
MANUAL reflects on the act of listening and the intimacy of reading with another person in a public space. Adam Kinner and Christopher Willes have created a one-on-one performance that turns Itäkeskus Library into a space of sensory encounter and heightened awareness.
After last year’s memorable and tearful success with Whitewashing, Rébecca Chaillon is back with La Gouineraie. Together with her partner on and off stage, Sandra Calderan, they explore what it means to ‘form a family’. In a playful and intimate performance, we witness their attempts to recreate the ‘perfect family’ – moving between moments of celebration, loneliness, fantasies and failure, with a lot of love, humour and food.
This resting, patience is a part ghostly repository of unconsumed sensuality, part kinetic fadeout, part somatic (strip)tease – addressing attraction, voluntary objectification, proximity, and the aesthetics of bareness. In the three-hour long performance, Ewa Dziarnowska proposes sensuousness and dancing as timeless and democratically available technologies of undoing the world and projecting the continuous present into a future that lasts, quintessentially tender, infatuated, attentive.
We are closing the festival with Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna. Soa Ratsifrandrihana, together with her team – guitarist Joël Rabesolo and performers Audrey Merilus and Stanley Ollivier – constructs a joyous, radiant performance, a new otherness in which bodies emerge from their muteness, offering themselves the possibility of language. The work is presented as a line of rediscovered dialogue between the children of diasporas and their places of origin.
After last year’s pilot, we decided to continue with our Focus on the Local Landscape, that meanders again with a large variety of works through the ten days of the festival. Focus on the Local Landscape is both a collaborative artistic program and the continuation of a conversation, addressing the local culture-political situation that is increasingly complicated and hostile for the performing arts scene. With this program, we embrace artistic proposals from the local performing arts scene that came towards us by chance. We are aware that these are only a few artists from the local scene, a small window to a far bigger picture.
You can experience and partake in works and proposals by: Anna Kozonina, Elina Pirinen & Tom Rejström & Jenni-Elina von Bagh, Karolina Kucia, Liisa Pentti, Mean Time Between Failures: Dash Che, Suvi Tuominen & Oula Rytkönen, Reality Research Center with Alina Sakko & Sketch evenings, Sanna Kekäläinen, Tanssille ry and TeaK.
Last but not least, there will be our discursive formats, such as: Soup Talks, Soup Talk Panel, and for the first time Soup Talk: Focus on the Local Landscape, as well as the Audience Club.
Gathering the resources for this year’s program was truly a balancing act. The final funding decision, which came in the end of the summer, determined that we can present nearly all the works we had selected for this year’s edition.
We are thrilled that it turned out this way and are now eagerly looking forward to experience all these artistic works together with you.
Welcome to Moving in November!
Kerstin Schroth & the Moving in November team