Choreography and dance:
Mira Jochimsen & Joanna Kerkelä
Sound design: Johan Stohne
Light design: Benjamin Fjellmann
Mentorship: Liz Kinoshita
Video & Photos: Kacper Migas, Oscar Wahlberg
Performed in Nov 2023 at Watch me Bake! Festival, Uppsala & WELD, Stockholm
Mira Jochimsen & Joanna Kerkelä
Sound design: Johan Stohne
Light design: Benjamin Fjellmann
Mentorship: Liz Kinoshita
Video & Photos: Kacper Migas, Oscar Wahlberg
Performed in Nov 2023 at Watch me Bake! Festival, Uppsala & WELD, Stockholm
NAVIGATING INTERRUPTION
Our interest is to look closer into the experience and impact of interrupting. Through the physical practice of interrupting, we work on challenging our habitual movement patterns and other inherited norms of dancing. Can interrupting be an activity of exercising care and responsibility? In our daily lives interruption is often considered as something that throws us off. Challenging that, we would like to practice how interrupting means making space for questioning, for something new to appear. It is about staying with uncertainty. In a world where change is accelerating and its impact is beyond our capacity to imagine, we experience a sense of paralysis. An impulse to neglect the pace of change emerges and a wish for things to remain stable. As change is inevitable, responsiveness becomes a necessity. How can we meet the uncertain, the unpredictable and uncomfortable through moving? How do we find strategies to move beyond or with the new orientation?
With Navigating Interruption we are currently in a process of investigating how to challenge conventional ways of watching dance from an audience perspective. While we are interrupting our dancing on stage, we are curious about how we can allow and encourage our audience to watch interruptedly as well. By admitting the audience to watch with interruption, we want to expand the audience’s sense of agency in watching dance and give them the opportunity to find and frame their own narratives, interests and fascinations within the dance piece that we offer. For this we offer the audience different filters, cut out papers and other materials, which they can use to look through and thereby shape, color or block out what they are seeing.
Our interest is to look closer into the experience and impact of interrupting. Through the physical practice of interrupting, we work on challenging our habitual movement patterns and other inherited norms of dancing. Can interrupting be an activity of exercising care and responsibility? In our daily lives interruption is often considered as something that throws us off. Challenging that, we would like to practice how interrupting means making space for questioning, for something new to appear. It is about staying with uncertainty. In a world where change is accelerating and its impact is beyond our capacity to imagine, we experience a sense of paralysis. An impulse to neglect the pace of change emerges and a wish for things to remain stable. As change is inevitable, responsiveness becomes a necessity. How can we meet the uncertain, the unpredictable and uncomfortable through moving? How do we find strategies to move beyond or with the new orientation?
With Navigating Interruption we are currently in a process of investigating how to challenge conventional ways of watching dance from an audience perspective. While we are interrupting our dancing on stage, we are curious about how we can allow and encourage our audience to watch interruptedly as well. By admitting the audience to watch with interruption, we want to expand the audience’s sense of agency in watching dance and give them the opportunity to find and frame their own narratives, interests and fascinations within the dance piece that we offer. For this we offer the audience different filters, cut out papers and other materials, which they can use to look through and thereby shape, color or block out what they are seeing.
