Go Strange

Running time: 45 minutes

 

This dance and music performance explores the lived experiences of something that feels familiar and strange at the same time. It formed through practices of grounding, connecting to the sublime, belonging, accepting of the alien and producing home. 

 

The performance uses movement, sound and intention to produce generators that offer gateways into altered states. It meets, familiarises and recycles these states. Throughout the work there is a play with expanded representations of human identities. The use of bodies, both human and object, attempts to slip between the everyday, the absurd and the otherworldly. 

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The collective works both to hold individual perspective, skills and identities and also to collapse them into one being.

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Go Strange is imagined, created and performed by Bunch of Scrumps (Jacqueline Aylward, Maja Kalafatić and Jesse Ojajärvi).

 

Performances:

27.8.2023    Sovintola Gallery, Kesälahti, Finland

02.9.2023    Maijansali, Oodi, Helsinki, Finland

24.9.2023    Kulturanova, as part of TAKTfest, Novi Sad, Serbia

26.9.2023    Dom kulture Studentski grad, Belgrade, Serbia

24.5.2024*   Tampere TanssiVirtaa, Tampere, Finland

6.-7.6.2024**  Idän kelluva raita festival, Ahjo Gallery, Joensuu, Finland

 

*Iiris Hilden substituting for Maja Kalafatić

**Sonja Karoliina Aaltonen substituting for Maja Kalafatić

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This work is supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Čiča Mičino Pozorište Belgrade, Dom kulture Studentski grad Belgrade, Helsinki Central Library Oodi, The Finnish Cultural Foundation’s North Karelia Regional Fund, Kulturanova Novi Sad and Sovintola Kesälahti.