Over your FERAL
LEAKING
MONSTER
NERVOUS
VISCERAL
PLEASURABLE
OPAQUE
CURIOUS
SOFT
HAIRY
FRENETIC
SPONTANEOUS
LOVING
AGING
and DECOMPOSING body
We have been working in the zone where there are no words but a lot of body. We have been working on foregrounding the body. To shake the body from the perpetual habits, and from the stories we constantly tell ourselves. To disorientate our individuality and seek a softer more delicate way to inhabit our flesh. We are practising a kind of poetry, that overestimates the value of the body. Trying to understand our individual body and the communal bodies that we are a part of. Reframing the pedestrian body through, weight, duration, shape, rhythm and dynamics.
Repeatedly over the past years Janina Rajakangas and Neil Callaghan have tried to get to the core of unnamed states of bodily experience. They have embodied and presented knowledge that is shared between people and yet is inaccessible through language. Over Your Fucking Body started from their interest in these amorphous moments where words fail. They aim to physically articulate these unnameable states into dances. To present areas of experience that usually stay hidden from appearance.
Janina Rajakangas and Neil Callaghan
Janina Rajakangas works mainly as a choreographer, with a practice including performing, teaching and public reflection. Her latest directed works are Dinosaur (2015), Teen (2017) and Canary (2018). As a performer she works for Frauke Requardt, Requardt & Rosenberg and Robert Clark in London. Since 2019 Janina works on a 3-year-artist grant from Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
Neil Callaghan has been making work with various constellations of people since 2002 in the fields of dance, theatre and visual arts. He works alone and in collaboration with numerous others. He has previously worked with Lea Anderson, Doris Uhlich, Nicola Conibere, Dan Canham, Requardt & Rosenberg, Simone Kenyon and Vlatka Horvat. At present he tours with Until Our Hearts Stop by Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods.
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Interview: Janina Rajakangas & Neil Callaghan (Zodiak, 17.10.2019)
Zodiak Stage, Kaapelitehdas, Tallberginkatu 1, 00180 Helsinki
WED 6.11.2019 at 20:00
FRI 8.11.2019 at 18:00
SAT 9.11.2019 at 15:00
SUN 10.11.2019 at 17:00
Duration approx. 60 minutes
Tickets 30,50 / 24,50 / 16,50 €
Performances continue in Zodiak after the festival. You can also buy a festival pass ticket to these performances. Do note that the number of available tickets is limited.
Concept, choreography and performance:
Janina Rajakangas and Neil Callaghan
Lighting and spatial design:
Jenni Pystynen
Sound design and music:
Miki Brunou
Costume design:
Piia Rinne
Producer:
Ulrika Vilke
Production:
Zodiak – Center for New Dance & Janina Rajakangas Project
Coproduction:
Moving in November & The Place
Residency support:
Wainsgate Dances (Hebdenbridge), The Place (London), Yorkshire Dance (Leeds)
Supported by:
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Arts Council England, iPortunus, The Finnish Institute in London
Photos:
Sanni Siira