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SCHEDULE (more information about artists and sessions below):

The sessions are free for Insister Space Members and 50kr for non-members. Please pay before class, no registration required!

Tuesday 14 Nov
10.00-11.30 Navigating Interruption (morning class) with Joanna Kerkelä and Mira Jochimsen.
13.00-15.00 PLAYFUL TOUCH (afternoon class) with Brina Dokl.

Wednesday 15 Nov
10.00-11.30 HEAVY METAL BALLET (morning class) with Hannah Krebs.
18.00-20.00 The nature of performance (conversation) with Leah Landau. Note: closed study group.

Thursday 16 Nov
10-11.30 Choreographic fantasies (morning class) with Linda Wardal.
13:00-15.00 @---trash---rats---and---roses-- >--- (workshop) with Molly Engblom.

Friday 17 Nov
13.00-15.00 Liminality (workshop) with Carima Neusser.
18.00-20.00 Stone Score (workshop) with Siriol Joyner.

Saturday 18 Nov
15.30-17.30 The Abyss Between Our Hands (workshop) with Áron Birtalan.
18.30-20.30 Horror Stories Reading Group (workshop) with Dafne Giannikopoulou.

TUESDAY 14TH OF NOVEMBER:

Time: 10-11.30
Type of session: Morning class
Host: Joanna Kerkelä and Mira Jochimsen
Pronouns: She/her

Title: NAVIGATING INTERRUPTION

Description:
In the playful grounds of this morning workshop, we would like to share movement scores and materials from our current work in progress: Navigating Interruption.

Our interest is to look closer into the experience and impact of interrupting: Through the physical practice, we work on shifting perspectives by challenging our habitual movement patterns and other inherited norms of dancing. Can interrupting be an activity of exercising care and responsibility in our dancing?

Our workshop question: While we are interrupting our dancing, we are also curious about how we can allow and encourage interrupted spectating. By admitting to watch with interruption (we´re still quite in the process of finding out what it means to watch interruptedly), we want to expand the spectator’s sense of agency in watching by giving them the opportunity to find and frame their own narratives, interests, and fascinations in dancing. With different filters, cut out papers and other materials - to look through, shape, color, or block out their seeing.

We will be dancing through great music tracks, sweat and move to make space for questioning, and hopefully for something new to appear! Bring your colorful sunglasses and playful attitude with you!

Who is invited:
Open to the public.

Artist Bio:
Mira Jochimsen and Joanna Kerkelä graduated from Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola (SKH) with a BA in Dance Performance in June 2023. Prior to that Mira studied at Tanzfabrik in Berlin and in the BA program in Contemporary Dance Practices at Iceland University of the Arts (LHÍ) in Reykjavík. Joanna graduated from Riveria, Outokumpu, Dance vocational program in Finland in 2020.

Some of their common recent work repertoire includes Billy by Ofelia Jarl Ortega (2023), Time In Between The Peaks by Yared Tilahun Cederlund (2023) and 'Radical Empathy' (2022) by Liz Kinoshita, which has been a great spark to their work together.

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Time: 13-15
Type of session: Afternoon class
Host: Brina Dokl
Pronouns: She/they

Title: PLAYFUL TOUCH

Description: I have been craving to train, practice together with people; interested in using touch to approach partnering, one of my favorite dance techniques. There is so much to explore, learn from different bodies, doing different things. Playful touch is about proposing exercises, finding out ways that works for different people, different body types, welcoming and encouraging our inner strength. And intelligence. It's about using momentum, stillness, images and certain lifts, but mostly it's about changing roles. You deal with both - so called basing and flying position. There are pathways how to do certain things but then there is so much space to play around with it, them, doing it in many ways, depending what is your own interest, wish, knowledge and how far from the comfort zone you want to go. I think it is always nice to wake up the body with some touch and games, it's refreshing for the body to trigger curiosity, reactness, togetherness and for me, it is also empowering. It's a playground to be created together, through proposals, ideas, space vibes.

Who is invited:
Max number 24. It's open to the moving/ dancing public/ field - to people with some movement pre-knowledge (not necessarily only dancers).

Artist bio:
Brina is a dancer, educated at Stockholm University of the Arts, just graduated in June 2023. Her Slovenian roots have been with her the whole time, which brings certain physicality, interest in the body, working (together), sweating and playfulness. She is mostly interested in dancing together, with people, sharing the space, explore or even being choreographed, thought by someone. Never ending learning/ curiosity in body functionality and the act of dance - dancing. Mostly she is busy with finding partnering - floor work connection, two techniques she enjoys to dance the most. And by sharing those also learning herself.

WEDNESDAY 15TH OF NOVEMBER:

Time: 10-11.30
Type of session: Morning class
Host: Hannah Krebs
Pronouns: She/they

Title: HEAVY METAL BALLET

Description:
I am in the process of figuring out how to teach a feminist ballet class. In this state of my practice it is called: HEAVY METAL BALLET.
I have taught it for some months now in different occasions and I weave ballet with heavy metal growling. I needed to break the silence of a dancer, so I was thinking about how to use voice in a ballet class.
Why still the form of ballet you may ask? A form that is white colonial and patriarchal?
Yes you caught me there. Yet I do use the form in order to generate adrenaline to get fixed material, to achieve high jumps, a smooth tendue BUT with considering the body and not just an image of it. Why not re-using the form and filling it with confidence? I want to use the fat of my ass to consider in the grand battement, I want to talk about how important boobs can be in a backward bend. I myself enjoy to dance fixed material and to work on something but without shaming the bodies of a dancer. Like how to find your dance in the frame of steps and a technique?

Who is invited:
Open for every dancer :)

Artist bio:
Hannah is a dance artist weaving throughout different worlds and characters with the matter of dance as well as language and sound. She is grounded in the craft of dance and interrogating current social issues from a feministic and socially critical perspective. Hannah lives and works between Stockholm and Berlin. They have worked with and performed pieces by Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Judith Förster and Ellen Söderhult.

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Time: 18.00-20.00
Type of session: Conversation
Host: Leah Landau
Pronouns: She/her

Title: THE NATURE OF PERFORMANCE

Description: Closed conversation group on the nature of performance.

Who is invited: Closed study group, not open for public access . Recording or traces may become available post-conversation.
Artist bio:
Leah Landau is an Australian dancer/choreographer, living and working in Stockholm. She seeks to borrow roles, hierarchies, and time-based structures from domains beyond dance, using them to create choreographic frameworks in which she can actively participate. www.leah-landau.com

THURSDAY 16TH OF NOVEMBER:

Time: 10-11.30
Type of session: Morning class
Host: Linda Wardal
Pronouns: She/her/they

Title: CHOREOGRAPHIC FANTASIES

Description: Some choreographic fantasies of mine: treating the space as a stage, filling it with poetry, repetition and composing/improvising , practicing togetherness.

Who is invited: Open to anyone.

Artist bio:
Linda Wardal is doing her second year at the MA in choreography at SKH.
She is educated as a contemporary dancer and dance pedagog and likes to work with groups, both with professionals, non professionals and she also has worked with inclusive dance classes for several years.

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Time: 13-15
Type of session: Do things with you (workshop)
Host: Molly Engblom
Pronouns: She/her

Title: @---trash---rats---and---roses-- >---

Description:
hej:) come and dance and write together
We will dance future and past dances, lend steps, perform for each other, think about authorship, reference widely and collage poems

BRING: one piece of clothing someone else can borrow from you during the workshop & a pen

A bunch of people opened their big mouths
BARKED
then softly yawned
out
@---trash---rats---and---roses-- >---
...
pick it up darling
& fall apart
x

Who is invited: Open.

Artist bio:
molly is a dancer, choreographer and poet based in Stockholm with a BFA in Dance performance from Stockholm University of the Arts (2019), working as a dancer in projects of others as well as initiating her own. molly often works collaboratively and site-specifically and is obsessed with dance leaking into ordinary spaces, proposing other relations between bodies (body of water, architectural bodies, mountain bodies, the body of a plastic bag moving in the wind like a lung, your body) and making them shiver. she asks how fiction can be an entrance into spatial and somatic poetics.

FRIDAY 17TH OF NOVEMBER

Time: 13-15
Type of session: Do things with you (workshop)
Host: Carima Neusser
Pronouns: She/her

Title: LIMINALITY

Description:
This is a workshop on corporeality and is based on my current research based on the Nobel laureate, Elfriede Jelinek's feminist drama "Sleeping Beauty." The drama describes Sleeping Beauty's subjective experience of being a prisoner in a liminal state between life and death and wakefulness and sleep.

We will look into liminality, in-between states, emotions and movements- where the old world has been left behind but we have not yet arrived at what is to come.

Liminal states are a type of void experience. They can e.g. is awakened when a person is on the threshold of a new stage in their life. It can constitute a state of in-betweenness that can be characterized by confusion, powerlessness and lack of identity. To understand such conditions, we examine movements and states, finding ways to transition between them.

Who is invited:
Non-dancers are free to join but the workshop is geared towards dancers/choreographers with a main focus on movement practices.

Artist bio:
Carima Neusser (b.1984) is a choreographer, dancer and performance artist. She works with interdisciplinary projects that take their starting point in choreography. Her choreographic practice spreads over an expanded field where she interacts with visual arts, architecture, medical science and stage technology.

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Time: 18.00-20.00
Type of session: Do things with you (workshop)
Host: Siriol Joyner
Pronouns: she/her

Title: STONE SCORE

Description
This is a work that I want to perform with you. In Stone Score I play an entire album and during each song I practice a score of becoming a stone. With each new track, I get up and move to a new position in the room and become another stone. So far, I always practice this score alone or with one other person, normally to the music of Datblygu, a Welsh post punk band. The stone score is intense: there is a lot of movement and dynamic in the stillness of trying to become a stone and sink into that. The score hangs on the relationship between the music and the simplicity of the action. The action is clear but it always produces different things: different shakings, different energies, emotions. The performer surrenders to becoming a stone and just follows the music: when the track changes, the performer changes place and becomes a different stone.
For AT ISSUE Extended I propose the Stone Score as an ensemble score, and wish to make an open invitation for anyone to join me to perform the score. I will bring a selection of albums for us to choose from.

Who is invited:
Open to the public but participatory. If you're in the space you're in the score!

Artist bio:
Siriol Joyner is a Welsh artist working within the fields of Dance, Visual Art and Language. She creates movement, text and object-works that focus on the notions of mutation, translation, and code-switching. Site and site specificity is always present in her work. Currently she is making a new group work that begins from asking 'what is a site specific dance?'; 'what is the dance of this place?' Siriol is a host, custodian, and dancing practitioner of Morfa Rhuddlan, a dance lament that people (you) can ask for when they need to cry, grieve or be somber.

SATURDAY 18TH OF NOVEMBER:

Time: 15.30-17.30
Type of session: Do things with you (workshop)
Host: Áron Birtalan
Pronouns: they/them

Title: THE ABYSS BETWEEN OUR HANDS

Description: In this study session we will explore technologies of intimacy and permeability and the possibility of a mystical theology of touch. Artistic practice and mysticism have both been ways where the unknowable and the unreliable can be touched, felt, communed with. In this space of relation the lines between affective, sensual and intellectual collapse, a space for new kinds of understandings, confusions, joys, troubles. The Abyss Between Our Hands unfolds under the influence of three heretical women from the middle ages, and how their mystical writings enter into dialogue with current voices in somatics, choreography, relational art, materialist philosophy and radical theology.
Our activities include guided practices that gently challenge attention, sensation and perception - as well as time to talk, reflect and land. These practices are taken from an upcoming book / guided audio tape. Our focus will be on low and slow forms touching, listening, reading, but there will be no mandatory skin-on-skin touch with others.

Who is invited:
Open to everyone, provided they are okay with the content, activities and environment described here. The session features both sensitive and amplified sound, and engages with topics of religion, the afterlife, sensuality, contamination, and erotics in a poetic manner.

Artist bio:
Áron Birtalan is an artist, musician and student of theology, whose work explores languages of pleasure and anguish between angel, creature and computer. Working together with participants and their sense perception, Áron creates guided games, mystical practices, musical releases, unruly thoughts and publications. Áron received their education at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, the DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam, and now pursues doctoral studies at the Department of Dance at Stockholm University of The Arts.

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Time: 18.30-20.30
Type of session: Do things with you (workshop)
Host: Dafne Giannikopoulou
Pronouns: they/them

Title: HORROR STORIES READING GROUP

Description:
I wish to share my practice of reading horror stories to/with each other. I have an interest in horror and overall dark themes, and especially during this season I enjoy reading or being read to, short horror stories of any kind. I propose an evening with dim candle light, cosy clothes, and relaxed vibes, where we gather around a social horror story called "The husband stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (US). We will take turns reading; if we finish the text early we can discuss, if we have to stop earlier, so be it. The text is uneasy, (discreetly) grotesque, and uncomfortable, and in my opinion, good fuel to discussions.

Who is invited:
Open to the public, however the story is not child-friendly and deals with sensitive issues around sexuality.

Artist Bio:
Dafne (they/them) is a human captivated by things weird and bizarre. As a dance/performer, they will engage with anything that captures their interest regardless of the specifics of the work. They are busy with themes from the field of horror, and in their work so far one finds both fun and deep meditative states, dressed with strong imagery.
They hold a BA in Art Theory and History from The Athens School of Fine Arts, an MA in Dance Studies from Stockholm University, and a BA in Dance Performance from SKH.
Dafne is also a prose and poetry writer.