A young Black woman with tightly braided braids looks sideways into the camera with a sceptical expression. She is wearing a pink jacket over a light green turtleneck top and red earrings.
© Tuukaa Ervasti
A young Black woman with tightly braided braids looks sideways into the camera with a sceptical expression. She is wearing a pink jacket over a light green turtleneck top and red earrings.
© Tuukaa Ervasti

Sonya Lindfors

Working with F(r)ictions – towards decolonial, speculative and feminist stages

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5 Euro. Please cancel your reservation if you can't come to the workshop so that other people get the chance.

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Saturday

10/26/24

1:00 PM

3 Std. incl. break

Six dancers on a stage bathed in pink light. They form a triangle and are all turned to the left. All of them are squatting slightly and have their left arm raised to their head, except for the person at the top. They hold a microphone.
Sonya Lindfors
One Drop
sonyalindfors.com/#/onedrop

In an open workshop, choreographer Sonya Lindfors (ONE DROP) invites you to talk about fictions and frictions – about speculative practices and about why intersectionality is so f***ing hard. About the ghosts haunting theatre stages and the power of the stage as a miracle making machine! In this 3 hour workshop-session participants will be invited to approach the topic at hand, fictions and frictions, by discussing, listening, writing and lightly moving. Participants are invited to engage in a way that is suitable for them. This session open to all interested in the topic.

Sonya Lindfors: “Dire times call for soft measures! For the past years I have been busy with decolonial speculative practices and their potentiality to revitalise, restore and subvert. Or to imagine possible and impossible futures. This lab is an invitation to gather around the urgent and share tools and strategies to navigate in dark times. I will structure this lab with provocations, questions, and collective moving practices, with the aim to co-create a space with participants. It is open to artists, thinkers and activists who are happy to work with movement.”

How to prepare:

  • The session is antiracist and feminist. Before attending please read the ethical guidelines. Please note that these guidelines will underpin the workshop session: urbanapa.fi/ethical-guidelines
  • Please were comfortable clothes and you may wish to bring a pen and a notebook for writing.

About Sonya Lindfors:

Award winning Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer and artistic director Sonya Lindfors creates important work exploring power, representation and Black body politics. She is the Artistic Director and founding member of UrbanApa, an interdisciplinary and counter hegemonic arts community that offers a platform for new ideas and feminist art practices.

With: Sonya Lindfors

Supported by the Finnish Institute as part of the pARTir initiative, funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU.