Residency at STUK in November

Sonja Jokiniemi will work on her new creation RRRRR together with her collaborators: Miguel Angel Melgares, Natalia Dominguez Rangel, Janneke Raaphorst and Jenni Pystynen. Residency at STUK will be the second phase of this creation that will premier in spring 2016 in Dampfzentrale Bern and Kiasma Theatre Helsinki. 

RRRRR is looking into a place where one loses meaning and where the world becomes a solitary disconnected experience within a mesh of over stimulus and disembodied language. Fragmentation and derailment work as choreographic starting points.

She looks into contemporary technology, construction of fantasies, derailed language practices and obsessive relations to things, beings and ghosts. Her attempt is to create a contradictory and confused patchwork of overlaps, narrations and truths.

Ghost of Mad House

"There is a ghost in Mad House Helsinki. She comes and goes as she pleases. She’s there, making notes, watching. You may see her or not. She may have an idea what she’s doing, or maybe not. She is a ghost, after all."

Sonja Jokiniemi takes a deeper look in to the Mad House and it’s people as a ghost during the Season 2.

Residency at Arc Artist Residency in Romainmôtier

Process of the new piece RRRRR began with a ten-day residency at Arc Artist Residency in July. Sonja Jokiniemi was joined in Switzerland by her current collaborators Natalia Rangel Dominguez (composer) and Miguel Angel Melgares (dramaturge / visual artist). Thanks to Arc and Sally De Kunst for hosting the team!