Soup Talks is a series of informal conversations with the artists presenting their work during the festival. The talks form a discursive line that goes through the festival and brings people together. We want to welcome the audience and the artists around a big table with a bowl of warm soup. Everybody is invited to join in, to listen, to pose questions and to take part in the discussions. Each of the talks will be hosted by an artist based in the Helsinki area.

The Soup Talks are organized together in collaboration with Caisa.

 

7.11.2024 
Performance Pancor Poetics
Guest: Pontus Pettersson
Host: Maija Hirvanen

8.11.2024 @ Goethe-Institut Finnland
Performance A Plot / A Scandal
Guest: Ligia Lewis and the working group
Host: Gesa Piper

9.11.2024
Performance LIVRE D’IMAGES SANS IMAGES
Guest: Mette Edvardsen & Iben Edvarsen
Host: Laura Cemin

10.11.2024
Performance The Second Body
Guest: Ola Maciejewska and the working group
Host: Tuuli Vahtola

11.11.2024
Performance Soliloquio
Guest: Tiziano Cruz
Host: Eurídice Hernandes

12.11.2024
Performance Skvallret (The Gossip)
Guest: Stina Nyberg
Host: Chen Nadler & Tim Winter

13.11.2024
Performance Whitewashing
Guest: Rébecca Chaillon
Host: Kadence Neill & N.N.

14.11.2024
Performance The Making of Pinocchio
Guest: The team behind The Making of Pinocchio
Host:

15.11.2024
Soup Talk Panel
Guest: Rahalël Beau, Sara Grotenfelt, Milla Koistinen, Anne Naukkarinen, Lydia Touliatou
Host: Simo Kellokumpu

16.11.2024
Performance blackmilk
Guest: Tiran Willemse
Host:

17.11.2024
Performance IL FAUX
Guest: Calixto Neto
Host: Esete Sutinen

Maija Hirvanen is a choreographer and performance maker. Her interests range from the relationship between art and different belief systems and ways of re-learning to questions of embodiment and the more-than-human approach in performance and choreography. She makes performances on stages and in places, writes, researches, and teaches. Maija has co-led and planned several artistic laboratories and discursive programs. Hirvanen’s work has been presented at festivals and venues e.g. Tanz im August/Hebbel am Ufer/Berlin, ImpulsTanz/Vienna, Sadler’s Wells/Lilian Baylis Studio/London, SPRING Festival/Utrecht, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Saal Biennaal/Tallinn, Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and Dansens Hus/Stockholm, Zodiak, Kiasma, Baltic Circle Festival, Helsinki Festival and Moving in November Festival in Helsinki.

Gesa Piper is a German-born dance-artist and -pedagogue. She has been based in Finland since 2011 and is active as a performer, teacher and choreographer nationally and internationally, eg. as a soloist for Fabien Prioville and Jude Walton. Her own artistic work has dealt with ecological and ancestral themes for several years and has been staged in various venues and festivals, such as “Bog Stories” at UrbanApa 2023 or “Memory Matter” in collaboration with Georgie Goater and Maikki Palm at Zodiak Centre for New Dance in 2020. She holds a BA in dance and choreography from ArtEZ Arnhem and a MA in Dance Pedagogy from the Theatre Academy Helsinki. She has worked at the Theatre Academy Helsinki in various programs and tasks since 2014.

Laura Cemin (b. 1992) is an Italian visual artist and choreographer based in Helsinki. Her work delves into the choreographic power of language, examining how language influences movement and physical interactions. Her work has been presented both nationally and internationally at venues such as Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki Art Museum, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, and Bozar in Brussels. In addition to her artistic practice as an author, Laura works as a dance dramaturg and guest lecturer at various international institutions.

Tuuli Vahtola is a dance and performance artist who lives in Helsinki and works as a performer and choreographer. In her artistic work Tuuli is intrigued by questions of intimacy, the sense of touch and the corporeality of language. These questions connect to a larger interest of social relationalities, realities and responsibilities and the possibility of queering them through experimental performance. Her latest works are Here, there, somewhere (2023), shown in New Performance Turku Biennale, and intimate expectations (2023), co-coreographed with Ella Skoikka, in Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku. In 2024 Tuuli is performing in works of choreographers Sonja Jokiniemi and Oda Brekke. Tuuli holds a BA in Dance Performance from DOCH/Stockholm University of the Arts (2017). In 2024 Tuuli was a danceWEB Scholarship recipient at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, nominated by Moving in November. 

Eurídice Hernández Gomes is a Doctoral Researcher in Latin American Studies at the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal, and Regional Changes at the University of Helsinki. She is dedicated to unveiling the intricate links between public spaces, migration dynamics, and identity development. In her doctoral thesis, Hernández examines the creation of Latin American “places” within the social infrastructure of the Helsinki Metropolitan Region and their impact on individuals with mixed Finnish-Latin American background. Eurídice applies ethnographic methods and arts-based research to explore the intersection between city spaces and transcultural identification.