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Hmm

Choreographer Jokiniemi, Sonja
First Performance 1.4.2015
Place of First Performance Zodiak - Center for new dance, Zodiak Stage, Helsinki
Finnish premiere 1.4.2015
Place of Premiere Zodiak - Center for new dance, Zodiak Stage, Helsinki
Style Contemporary Dance
Duration (min) 55
Scenography Miguel Angel Melgares
Costume designer Janneke Raaphorst
Sound designer Natalia Domingues Rangel
Performers of the premiere Sonja Jokiniemi
Description Dancer and performance artist Sonja Jokiniemi's Hmm examines the processes of linguistic formation. Jokiniemi investigates speech sounds, physicality, touch, repetition
and accumulation as linguistic actions. Instead of signifying, her language fumbles, gropes around and makes noises, eventually forming a collage-like, chaotic, strangely musical whole.

Hmm is principally about search and disorder: the objects and the human figure set in the space engage in a dialogue and mutual exploration. The structure of the performance is
based on a cut-and-paste method: sentence fragments, motifs and narratives are built into a patchwork with the aim of creating a fragmentary experience of the world.
Other Information Concept, direction, performance: Sonja Jokiniemi
Visual design, dramaturge: Miguel Angel Melgares
Production: Workspace Brussels, Zodiak – Center for New Dance, ITAK The Regional Dance Center of Eastern Finland, Finncult Benelux, Frascati Theater (Amsterdam)
Residencies: Ehkä-tuotanto/Kutomo (Turku), Workspace Brussels, Dampfzentrale Bern, STUK Leuven
Dancers Jokiniemi, Sonja (2015)