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My willful body brought me this far, I praise it through the movement.

Photo: Sofie Isaksson

Upcoming events

Laura Cemin & Bianca Hisse:

How the Land Lies

Helsinki: Kiasma Theatre

  • 14.4.2023 at 19–20
  • 15.4.2023 at 15–16
  • 20.4.2023 at 19–20
  • 21.4.2023 at 19–20
  • 22.4.2023 at 15–16

Dublin: Aerowaves Festival

22.4.2023

How the Land Lies is a performance for 5 bodies and 3 LED scrolling signs. These LEDs, usually encountered in public spaces as low-key advertisement signs, become tools to address the politics of language. Navigating between tourism slogans and visa questionnaires the dancers, who themselves carry experiences of migration and displacement between countries; interact with the text scrolling on the LED panels. As the words move on the screens, the bodies equally move them. Borders slowly blur: who can stay and who must leave? Who is seen and who remains hidden? What is allowed and what is forbidden?

Working group: Laura Cemin, Bianca Hisse, Mercedes Balarezo, Georgie Goater, Keithy Kuuspu, Giorgia Lolli, Fornier Ortiz, Sofia Ivarsson, VeraVice, Petri Henriksson

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Mercedes Balarezo is an Ecuadorian dance artist and pedagogue based in Helsinki. She is interested in researching the voice and its relation with movement.

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mechebalarezo@yahoo.com

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