Fr 27.5.2022, 20:00-21:30, MDT
Sa 28.5.2022, 20:00-21:30, MDT
Camouflage (eng): The use of any combination of materials, coloration or illumination for concealment, disguise, mimesis, simulation or falsification.
"camouflage" is a multilayered landscape where things are both revealed and covered. Under the variegated surface is a speculative (auto)fiction, where the artist reveals their trick. But not everything is what it looks like.
"camouflage", a new work by Sonya Lindfors and working group, examines the act of looking and the politics of the gaze. The stage has the potentiality to reveal and obscure, make things invisible or hypervisible. But how do we recognize what we see? What happens in that moment of recognition when you categorize something as “contemporary”, as “art” or as “Black”? The work scats with ancestors, slips in meanings and dreams of the right to opacity.
Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer, facilitator and educator. She is the founding member and artistic director of UrbanApa, an antiracist and counterhegemonic arts community based in Helsinki. She received a MA in choreography from the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2013. In the core of her work is the practice of shaking and challenging existing power structures and empowering communities. Right now she is busy with speculative practices and decolonial dreaming.
Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer, facilitator and educator. She is the founding member and artistic director of UrbanApa, an antiracist and counterhegemonic arts community based in Helsinki. She received a MA in choreography from the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2013. In the core of her work is the practice of shaking and challenging existing power structures and empowering communities. Right now she is busy with speculative practices and decolonial dreaming.
Directing and concept
Choreography
and working group
Lighting and spatial design
Sound Design
Texts
Working group
,Costume Design
Contributors to the process
Production assistants
Sewing of costumes
Set building
Workshops
Lehmus Murtomaa, Sara Melleri, Mari Kätkä
Residencies
Reykjavik Dance Festival / NREP; MDT, Stockholm; Saaren kartano / Koneen Säätiö
Co-production
MDT
Supported by
Arts Promotion Center Finland, Svenska Kulturfon- den, Nordic Culture Point
Pictures
Production
Zodiak, Stoa, Sonya Lindfors, UrbanApa
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