A performance celebrating bodies will be created in the course, and will be performed in a public space at northeastern Helsinki on July 2020. The course fits 25 participants, and will be filled in the order of the enrolments.
Body is the human being’s closest natural environment, home and place in the world. The body is also a filter between the world and the self. By remaining safe within one’s own body the human being is able to focus his or her attention and energy out into the world. By holding on to our own physical agency and capacity we also give that possibility to the people around us. Shamelessness and joy are contagious.
The first part of the course (free for all and open to everyone) that developed the concept took place in northeast Helsinki in autumn 2019, but new participants are welcome to join when the project continues in the spring.
In the current social and political atmosphere valuing, respecting and loving one’s own body is a revolutionary act. Meat Disco is activism without preaching. Embracing and caressing a person unknown to you voluntarily in public is a statement for kindness and empathy and against alienation.
Physical and bodily norms shape our relationship with the society. By adapting to the prevailing norm we give the responsibility for deciding our place in the world to someone else. Externalising the responsibility grants this abstract entity outside us the power to decide how we perceive ourselves and the world around us.The participation to the course requires commitment to the rehearsal schdeule. More info via Anna Koskela / 050 5737947
29.2.-5.7.2020, read the exact schedule below
Instructor: Anna Koskela
Locations: Zodiak studio C4 + outdoor spaces in the northeastern Helsinki
The course is free of charge, and is a part of Valokeilassa Koillinen -project.
Enrolment by 19.2.
Enrolment here.
Rehearsals at Zodiak Studio C4
29.2.-1.3. Sat at 15-18, Sun at 11-14
4-5.4. Sat & Sun at 11-14
23-24.5. Sat & Sun at 11-14
Rehearsals in a public space in northeastern Helsinki
21.3. at 11-14
16.5. at 11-14
Summer's intensive period and the performances
22.6. - 5.7. The schedule will be discussed with the group
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Availability is limited, so sign up in time! Welcome letters and invoices are sent to participants’ email address immediately after registration closes. If you do not find the course letter or the invoice in your email please also check the junk mail folder.
Enrolment is binding. Cancellations must be communicated on the last enrolment day by 6pm the latest by email to zodiak@zodiak.fi. Please check this course's last day of enrolment from above. With the exception of injuries and illnesses certified in writing by a doctor, cancellations made later than the deadline are subject to full course fee. An administrative fee, 10 % of the course fee, will be charged from all cancellations.
Zodiak's courses and workshops can also be paid by Smartum kulttuuri and liikunta vouchers and by SmartumPay application as well as by Edenred Virikeseteli vouchers and MyEdenred mobile app. It is not possible to pay the course fee with cash or with debit/credit card.
For further inquiries, please contact Tiia Kekäläinen, zodiak@zodiak.fi, p. 041 319 8722 (weekdays from 1 pm to 3 pm).
