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 open the festival with both A Plot / A Scandal by Ligia Lewis and Pancor Poetics by Pontus Petterson.
Pancor Poetics is a choreographic installation and performance, transforming Kunsthalle’s exhibition space into a miniature golf course, inviting you to stay as long as you wish. Don’t be surprised if a cat is strolling around your legs!
In A Plot / A Scandal, Ligia Lewis is weaving together a series of historical events, political laws, and mythical narratives, the piece operates as a site of visibility and concealment, inviting the scandal of rebellion at the edges of representation.
What does it mean to be a foreigner in your own country? Soliloquio (I woke up and hit my head against the wall) a powerful manifesto and parade with local Latin American communities, in which Tiziano Cruz brings forth and examines which place indigenous people, their voices and bodies have in a system in which they still suffer from discrimination and exotification.
Also in Whitewashing, Rébecca Chaillon addresses discrimination and invisibilized bodies. You will closely witness a body that society tries to render invisible becoming increasingly visible and undamaged.
With The Making of Pinocchio, Rosana Cade & Ivor MacAskill created a truly exceptional performance. A deeply personal narrative—a true tale of love and transition exploring the boundless realms of queer imagination and joy through the story of Pinocchio.
Sawing between virtuosity and desperation, Tiran Willemse creates with blackmilk an intense solo performance that diffuses melancholia and loneliness and leaves us with a physical sensation of being excluded, being expelled.
Also The Second Body by Ola Maciejewska is slipping under our skin, into our bones. On stage a human body sharing the stage with a block of ice—inviting us to witness the permeability of these two bodies of water in constant transformation and seemingly having an effect on one another.
Outside of the regular exhibition opening hours of Kunsthalle, Mette Edvardsen presents LIVRE D’IMAGES SANS IMAGES together with her daughter Iben Edvardsen. A poetic work and choreographic journey, based on conversations, borrowing its title from a book by HC Andersen, in which a painter has a conversation with the moon.
Thinking of language and choreography, we are pleased to launch A Book of Dances by Anne Naukkarinen, a collection of written choreographies by seven artists based in Finland and Sweden, bringing attention to the contradictions, translations, and intimate relationships between dance and language.
Skvallret (The Gossip) by Stina Nyberg is a special choreographic work, a choreographed city tour from the perspective of a dog, following soft paw prints through Pihlajamäki’s history and area.
We are closing the festival with a familiar and dear guest, with the latest work of Calixto Neto. IL FAUX is inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book Between the World and Me, an assemblage of written letters to his son to warn him of the dangers the world holds for his Black body. Delving into the transmission of fear and the conditioning of the body in the language of survival, the performance examinates the potential subversion of societal roles assigned to Black bodies.
Last but not least our Focus on the Local Landscape meanders with a large variety of works through the ten days of the festival. Focus on the Local Landscape is both an artistic program and the starting point of a discussion, addressing the local culture-political situation that is becoming 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.
You can experience and partake in works and proposals by: Anna Kozonina, Liisa Pentti +Co, Maija Hirvanen, Milla Koistinen, Oblivia, Reality Research Center with artists Emma Fält & Alina Sakko and TEAK Open Studio with the artist-students of the MA in Dance Performance Program.
We are aware that these are only a few artists from the local scene, a small window to a far bigger picture. We are more than curious to discover them all!
There will also be a Soup Talk especially addressing the actual culture-political situation in Finland.
We are more than thrilled and proud to present and introduce to you all these different artists with their works and perspectives.
Welcome to Moving in November !
Kerstin Schroth & the Moving in November team