ILMA
ILMA is a social dance project about climate emotions and nature relation in nowadays world. A diverse group of performers between 12-84 years with different backgrounds explore the topic through dance, composition and autobiographic writing.
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Metsänalaiset
Metsänalaiset is a contemporary theater performance and participatory community event created in the form of a forest excursion. This performance delves deep into the intricate world of mycelium, the hidden network of fungi beneath the forest floor. This unique forest experience weaves together elements of teamwork, environmental awareness, personal well-being, and fungal biology. The audience is invited to join this journey through the heart of the forest to discover the fascinating secrets and diversity that lie beneath the forest canopy.
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#LUFT
What is this air, that every living being on this planet shares with each other? How does it connect us? Could we do something to improve the atmosphere – between each other and globally? #LUFT explores the embodied counciousness of our environment with a youth group of age 9 -18 from Herne, Germany and tackles the question how to face the current global crisis of climate. Together with Nella Turkki and Janis Heldmann the group created a performance with an interdiscplinary approach of dance and theatre.
HOLD ON!
The HOLD ON! dance workshop focused on the potential for articulation and movement that invites dancers and dance enthusiasts to pursue questions that deal with how hands connect and communicate with each other. What do we know about hands? How can a hand movement agitate the whole body in motion? HOLD ON! is led by contemporary dancers and lecturers Nella Turkki and Emma Valtonen from Finland.
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TRAVELOGUES IN THIS TOWN
Travelogues in this Town (i.e. Matkakertomukseni tässä kaupungissa) is a visual theatre workshop and performance directed by Nella Turkki. The project started with its first step on the autumn of 2014 when Nella Turkki led an object theatre workshop for women in The Reception Centre of Oulu in northern Finland. During the workshop, the women from a variety of cultural backgrounds had an opportunity to do applied drama- and object theatre exercises as well as participate in an empowering photography session with photographer Jenni Littow.
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BERüHRUNGS
PUNKTE
Points of Touch – A Dance Laboratory of Touch led by Nella Turkki and Janis Heldmann was a two-week dance program that focused on touch in an interpersonal, artistic and social context. If you touch, you also are touched – with this principle it was important to explore contact with the environment, other people and yourself – in dance as well as in everyday life. What does touch communicate to me and the other person? What does she offer to observe? How can I communicate my boundaries? How does touch move me? Which touches do we remember in our lives? What artistic expression can I find for these observations?
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