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Sonja Jokiniemi was interviewed for the Finnish Cultural Institute's website about her performance Hmm.
”Hmm depicts a strange and idiosyncratic world that turns its formal and aural basis into a series of obsessive narratives, existential questions and aural-corporeal rituals. It derives its logic from a dissociative mosaic that eschews any attempt at linear narratives or choreographies. Hmm is a big lump of a curio amongst the chaos of our world."
Image: Timo Wright
Image: Timo Wright
Between 3rd and 6th of December 2015 Skorohod venue in St. Petersburg will organize a festival of Finnish contemporary dance. Seven different companies and choreographers will present their works: Arja Raatikainen & Co, Favela Vera Ortiz, Alpo Aaltokoski Company, Nadja Pärssinen, NotaBene and Carl Knif Company as well as Sonja Jokiniemi with her piece Hmm on 4 December.
The festival is carried out with the support of the Finnish-Russian Dance Exchange Programme.
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.
"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.
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!