A solo project, still ongoing exploration which started as a dance essay in an artistic research symposium of Nordic Summer University’s Summer Symposium 2023 in Lithuania.

Performances:

3.8.2023 Palanga, Lithuania

15.12.2024 Pikku-Virgiinia, Helsinki, Finland

“A dancer can have a lifelong career without ever finding themselves in their own movement. She can be left echoing the expectations of others and fearing mistakes in movement, silence and stillness. When it comes to dancing in the western societies, more mistakes and shame are listed than successes. In here, already before any training begins, the bodies need to either conform, adapt or move out of the way.

My expressive body was always too much for its masculine stand-still surroundings.

At some point this body copypasting and printing its environment must be forgotten and reinvented. It has to be imagined again every moment, when some new sensation or phenomenon appears on the skin.

How to become aware of those learned patterns and habits deep in the flesh, in order to recognise where they end, and I begin? How to attract myself past the echo of my surroundings, beyond what has been given as a preferred way of moving?”