Sonya Lindfors

camouflage

Two people on orange background holding a patterned object looking down

Photo: Tuukka Ervasti

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

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.

www.sonyalindfors.com  www.urbanapa.fi

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Directing and concept

Choreography

and working group

Lighting and spatial design

Texts

Working group

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Production assistants

Sewing of costumes

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

Production

Zodiak, Stoa, Sonya Lindfors, UrbanApa

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