Kadonnut kulttuuriperintö, kertomatta jääneet tarinat, vaietut perinteet: monet nykyajan siirtolaisidentiteetit koostuvat hyvin hauraista jäänteistä ja kadonneista jäljistä. Kuulumisen tunteet ovat hajanaisia, tuntemattoman sureminen on vaikeaa.
Laatokankarjalaista alkuperää olevan isäni menettäminen kaksi vuotta sitten sai minut tutkimaan tätä asiaa; suhdetta perittyihin mutta vieraampiin aaveisiimme ei-sanallisen herkällä välityksellä. Olen aina arvostanut isääni, joka oli käsityöläinen. Hänen vanhempiensa alkuperäinen sukunimi Loginov muutettiin suomenkieliseksi Jokiniemeksi. Hän kantoi vaimennetun kulttuurin kuormaa osana anteliasta mutta pidättyväistä läsnäoloaan.
Teos on kiitos isälleni sekä laajempi pohdinta surusta ja juurista, jota esiintyjien omat muistot, taakat ja käsittämättömät menneisyyden kauneudet rikastuttavat.
Krediitit
Koreografia, tekstiilitaideteokset ja esiintyminen: Sonja Jokiniemi
Yhteistyössä
Esiintyminen: Leila Kourkia, Krassen Krastev, Marlon Moilanen, Tuuli Vahtola
Valo- ja tilasuunnittelu: Heikki Paasonen
Musiikki: Gil Schneider
Karjalaiset koristelaudat: Hannu Heino, Juha Kurki, Timo Pernu
Opastus itkuvirsiin: Pirkko Fihlman
Mentorointi karjalaiseen tanssiperinteeseen: Reetta-Kaisa Iles
Puvut: Työryhmä
Taiteellinen dialogi: Maria Saivosalmi & Harri Kuorelahti
Tuotanto: Zodiak – Uuden tanssin keskus, Sonja Jokiniemi
Residenssituki: Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek (Brussels)
Tukijat: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, The Finnish Cultural Foundation Mobility grant
Ennakkokuvat: Eva-Liisa Orupõld
Esityskuvat: Sinem Kayacan
Kiitokset
Kiasma-teatteri, Patrick de Rham, Tatu Hämäläinen, Herman Nyby, Anne-Lise Longchamp, Marja-Liisa Jokiniemi, Arvo Jokiniemi, armaat, vanhemmat, isovanhemmat ja esi-isät.
Biot
Sonja Jokiniemi (born in Kuopio, Finland) works as a choreographer, performer and artist. Jokiniemi is based in Helsinki, Finland and Lausanne, Switzerland. She graduated from the Performing Arts programme at DAS Theatre in Amsterdam 2013 and with a BA degree in Contemporary Dance at Laban Centre in London. Additionally she has completed a study in Expressive Arts therapy from Inartes Institute in Helsinki 2020.
The artist’s works are situated in the cross-overs of performances, drawings and textiles. Sonja’s work has been supported by many performing arts venues such as STUK-A House for Dance, music and Image (BE), Zodiak – Centre for New Dance, Moving in November festival and Kiasma Contemporary Art museum (FI), MDT (SWE), BUDA Kunstzentrum (BE). She has recently exhibited at HAM-Helsinki Art museum, Oulu Art museum, Ars Libera gallery, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen and Dr.Guislaan Museum in Ghent.
Leila Kourkia is a Helsinki-based dance artist who has been working in the field of contemporary dance in Finland and abroad since 2007. Her work as a performer and choreographer has been situated in the context of both dance and visual arts. In recent years she has collaborated with Sonja Jokiniemi, Esa Kirkkopelto, Elina Pirinen and Liisa Pentti.
Swiss dancer and choreographer of Bulgarian origin, Krassen Krastev has been based in Lausanne since 1994. In parallel to his work as a performer for several artists and choreographers, he is developing a personal research on gender and sexuality. The culmination of this research is the creation of the show CLSTRS (2019) created at the Arsenic with the collaboration of the visual artist Christopher Füllemann. Krastev also works as a performer for Jasmine Morand, Sonja Jokiniemi, Nicole Seiler, Fabienne Berger, Manolis Tsipos, Yan Duyvendak, Daniel Hellmann, Delgado/Fuchs, as well as for the installation Bright by Christian Bakalov.
Marlon Moilanen is a dancer based in Helsinki, Finland. Performing mainly in the realms of contemporary dance and performance, he works with psychic and soulfully experienced body, which allows the contradictory human being to be seen on the stage – where sensitivity, darkness and humor are often in intimate relations. Recently he has collaborated with choreographers Maija Hirvanen, Sonja Jokiniemi, Liisa Pentti, Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir and Karolina Ginman. Currently in his work as a performer, Marlon works with somatic, energetic and spiritual body practices to express unconscious and subtle realities of life.
Heikki Paasonen studied lighting design at the Finnish Theatre Academy of Finland and at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts earning his Master ́s degree in Lighting Design in 2003. After graduating he has worked as a designer in more than 90 professional theatre, dance and opera productions. In 2012 Paasonen won both the Säde award for “the best lighting design in 2011" awarded by the Finnish Association of Lighting Designers, and Finland Award granted by The Ministry of Education and Culture. Paasonen has designed lights for Sonja Jokiniemi´s three other productions: Blab, Howl and ÖH.
Gil Schneider is a composer, producer and DJ living and working in Berlin. Their compositions and performances are tightly woven, non-linear yet soaring experiences of music’s potential to create haptics and emotion. Their musical output underlines a rich ability to experiment with context - notably, they have released two EPs on Danse Noire and three pieces for Piano Trio on Yegorka. They have composed scores for Akinola Davies’ BBC production Black to Life and Channel 4’s short X US, scored theatre and dance pieces in Germany, Finland, Czech Republic and Switzerland and released singles and remixes on Country Music, PTP, Mixpak and Staycore.
Tuuli Vahtola is a dance and performance artist who lives in Helsinki and works as a performer and choreographer. As a performer Tuuli currently and recently has worked with choreographers Sonja Jokiniemi and Oda Brekke, as well as in her own projects. Her work Here, there, somewhere was shown at New Performance Turku Biennale 2023, and intimate expectations, co-choreographed and performed with Ella Skoikka, at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku in 2023. Tuuli holds a BA in Dance Performance from DOCH/Stockholm University of the Arts (2017). In 2024 Tuuli was a danceWEB Scholarship recipient at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, nominated by Moving in November.
Esityspäivät
Ti 8.10. at 19.00 (Ensi-ilta)
To 10.10. at 19.00*
Pe 11.10. at 19.00
La 12.10. at 19.00
Ma 14.10. at 19.00
Ti 15.10. at 19.00
Ke 16.10. at 19.00
*Taiteilijatapaaminen
Kesto: n. 75 min