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Pedapproach seminar

Dance, Theatre Theatre Academy

Panels, workshops and performances – learn more about the online seminar by master’s degree students in Dance and Theatre Pedagogy.

Henkilö hyppää ulkona turvavaljaat päällä.

Pedapproach 2020 opens up the thinking and practices of soon-graduating dance and theatre pedagogy master students. In the event students are sharing their processes in-between art, pedagogy and research. Due to the corona virus pandemic the event is organised entirely online. There will be both material that you can dig into anytime — texts, videos — as well as live stream workshops, performances and panel discussions.

We will try our best to make our events as accessible and inclusive as possible. Majority of the programme will include translation and sign language interpretation.

See the full programme below. Please note that some of the events require pre-registration. Welcome!

Programme

All times are Finnish time, UTC +3. Registration and video links will be updated soon.

Monday, May 4th

6pm-10pm: fe(a)tus (Nori Varga)

Tuesday, May 5th:

11:00 Opening up “Expressive Intensities” – workshops relation with artistic-pedagogical thesis “Leap Beyond” and an invitation (Laura Humppila)

12pm: Presentation of artistic-pedagogical thesis work: “Trilogy for a Dog” and “Leap Beyond” (Anna Lehtonen)

6pm-7pm: Expressive bodily intensities: Physical Theatre remote mini workshop and a presentation and discussion about physical acting in the performance Leap Beyond (Laura Humppila)

  • platform: Zoom, meeting ID: 848 3606 6976
  • no registration required

7pm-8.30pm: Nocturnal discussions/panel: Taidepedagogiikan käytännöistä – keskustelunavauksia esitystaiteen kentältä. Panelists: Sanna Saarela, Kenneth Siren, Susanna Metsälä, Jaana Taskinen and Riku Saastamoinen. Discussion facilitated by Henni Kiri.

  • platform: Zoom, meeting ID: 839 2439 3541, password: 380839
  • language: Finnish

Wednesday, May 6th

1pm-2pm: In Between – teacher’s monologue, performance exploring its own story (Esko Korpelainen)

6pm-10pm: fe(a)tus (Nori Varga)

7pm-9pm: All You Can Do is Breathe and Hope: voice and movement workshop (Maia Nowack and Mercedes Balarezo)

  • platform: Zoom, meeting ID: 894 1526 2465
  • no registration required
  • language: English

Thursday, May 7th

12pm-12.15pm: Under the Bridge (Verna Laine) – aerial performance. Performers: Anna Lehtonen & Verna Laine.

1pm-1.15pm: Under the Bridge (Verna Laine) – aerial performance. Performers: Anna Lehtonen & Verna Laine.

6pm-6.20pm: MANIFESTIVAL – performance draft / esitysluonnos (Minttu-Maaria Makkonen)

  • platform: Facebook Live
  • no registration required
  • language Finnish (minimal talking)

19:00-20:30: Nocturnal discussions/panel: Ethical issues around participatory performance. Panelists: Outi Condit, Petros Konnaris, Gesa Piper, facilitated by Giorgio Convertito.

  • platform: Zoom, meeting ID: 839 2439 3541, password: 380839
  • language: English

Friday, May 8th:

7pm-8.30pm: Nocturnal discussions/panel: Art Pedagogy in the time of a Pandemic: How has Covid-19 affected your practice? Panelists: Marisa Martin, Mary Kate Sheehan, Elinor Tollerz Bratteby, and Aurélien Peillex, facilitated by David Scarantino

  • platform: Zoom, meeting ID: 839 2439 3541, password: 380839

8pm-10pm: fe(a)tus (Nori Varga)

More information about specific events

Performances

Välitila – opettajan monologi, omaa tarinaansa tutkiva esitys / In Between – teacher’s monologue, performance exploring it’s own story (Esko Korpelainen)

Performative research result of Esko Korpelainen’s thesis. In the process Korpelainen wrote letters to his own inner teachers. In PedApproach this originally black box performance is reformed into a living room-live version. Performer: Esko Korpelainen. Language: Finnish.

Under the Bridge (Verna Laine)

The performance is based on the work that was done by Laine in the Leap Beyond production at the Theatre Academy in 2019-2020. The performers perform in harnesses (aerial harness on the hips) that attach at the back to an elastic bungee that allows movement to extend to new spatial and temporal dimensions. It allows the exploration of the ‘suddenly-possible’ (that which was not previously possible or even thought of) and the investigation of what ‘taking a Leap of Faith’ could be as a bodily experience.

MANIFESTIVAL (Minttu-Maaria Makkonen)

Minttu loves parties
So she has a party
And she welcomes you
Party starts at 6pm and takes about 15 minutes
Guests can come and go
The dress is voluntary
Guest don’t need to bring anything but Minttu loves carnations and sparkling wine
Finnish is spoken at the party, but quite a bit
See you in Facebook on festival day

Manifestival is a perfomance draft by Minttu-Maaria Makkonen who is researching relation and space between spectators and performer in a performance. She asks how performance happens between spectator and performer? How does the spectator affects the performer? This is the first experiment without live performance situation.

fe(a)tus (Nori Varga)

“To me the body is a cultural and a political archive.
It is an archive that contains images, narratives and practices in it.”
– Paul B. Preciado

This one to one video performance focuses on the problem of private and public bodies. The performer invites you to take a virtual walk into the uncanny, into a human body. The performance is based on the fictive (delayed) thesis work of Nóra Varga on body images and on her sound art project exploring the socio-cultural presence of our public and private bodies. The performance’s duration is 15 minutes per person, registration is required. The participation is possible without a camera or with muted microphone as well. The performance is in English, before the registration you will get a zoom link and further information. Attention: the time slots for the registration are based on Finnish time (UTC +3), please be aware of the possible time difference. Recommended ages 13+
Time slots:

  • 4th of May 18:00, 18:30, 19:00, 19:30, 20:00, 20:30, 21:00, 21:30, 21:40
  • 6th of May 18:00, 18:30, 19:00, 19:30, 20:00, 20:30, 21:00, 21:30, 21:40
    and on the
  • 8th of May 20:00, 20:30, 21:00, 21:30, 21:40
  • Pre-register

Workshops

Physical Theatre remoteworkhop – “Expressive intensities”. Includes a discussion about physical acting in the performace Leap Beyond (Laura Humppila).

A remotely-led, 30-minute mini physical theatre workshop on working with intensities and tensions of the body, applied from mime-technique and Jacques Lecoq´s 7 levels of tension. After the workhop a presentation and a discussion on the role of physical acting in the creative process and the performance Leap Beyond (Artistic-Peagogical Thesis). Leap Beyond performance explored taking a leap, exceeding one self, flying and the emotions and thoughts around coaching/self help phenomena.

Platform: Zoom, meeting ID: 848 3606 6976

Preparing for workshop:

  • place the phone/laptop/pad so that you can move in front of it (at home or out, etc.). You can participate with your name or a creative nametag.
  • check that your camera and microphone are working and can be on during the session. Please come in time. We will start with everybody having their cameras on. We won´t be working everything in front of the camera, but to allow visual interaction, and to explore the nature of training performing arts in virtual surroundings, it is good for the camera to work. The language of the workshop is English or Finnish depending on the participants.
  • Zoom information and instructions: You can download zoom for free at: https://zoom.us/ on your computer, phone, or tablet. If you want to use it with a browser, use Firefox or Chrome. You can use the links provided, or the meeting IDs. You can set zoom to “gallery view” to see everyone, or “speaker view” to see just the person who is talking. You can also edit your name, and your personal information is not visible to others in the call.
  • questions? Email: laura.humppila@uniarts.fi

All You Can Do is Breathe and Hope-workshop (Maia Nowack and Mercedes Balarezo).

In this workshop we will explore one of the scores that we used for the performance “All you can do is breath and hope” and have a discussion around some of the themes from our thesis works “Weaving Presences, Unravelling Normal: Affirming Diverse Ways of Being in Dance Pedagogy” and “The Voice as a Limb: Sounding Dance Laboratory”. We will work with attention, presence, breathing and sounding movements. We are interested in adapting this score to the location where you can practice this from. You will need some sort of blanket and if you have other things with a texture you like you can have them around. You can do it in any sort of space, it doesn’t matter the size or if it’s empty. The workshop is open to any level of experience or background.

Platform: Zoom, meeting ID: 894 1526 2465. We will come together with cameras on at the beginning, but you can then choose to work with cameras on or off. During the exploration we will have microphones off. There is no registration needed, but we will admit you through the Zoom waiting room. Please try to join 5 or so minutes before the start time to allow for this. We will take breaks, and you are free to leave at any point.

Zoom information and instructions: You can download zoom for free here: https://zoom.us/ on your computer, phone, or tablet. If you want to use it with a browser, you should use firefox or chrome. You can use the links provided, or the meeting IDs. You can set zoom to “gallery view” to see everyone, or “speaker view” to see just the person who is talking. You can also edit your name, and your personal information is not visible to others in the call.

Panel discussion

Nocturnal discussions (on art and pedagogy)

  1. Tuesday May 5th, 7pm: “Taidepedagogiikan käytännöistä – keskustelunavauksia esitystaiteen kentältä”. Panelists: Sanna Saarela, Kenneth Siren, Susanna Metsälä, Jaana Taskinen and Riku Saastamoinen. Discussion facilitated by Henni Kiri. Join Zoom Meeting, meeting ID: 839 2439 3541, password: 380839
  2. Thursday May 7th, 7pm: “Ethical issues around participatory performance”. Panelists: Outi Condit, Giorgio Convertito, Petros Konnaris, Gesa Piper. Join Zoom Meeting, meeting ID: 839 2439 3541, password: 380839
  3. Friday May 8th, 7pm: “Art Pedagogy in the time of a Pandemic: How has Covid-19 affected your practice?” Panelists: Marisa Martin, Mary Kate Sheehan, Elinor Tollerz Bratteby, and Aurélien Peillex, facilitated by David Scarantino. Join Zoom Meeting, meeting ID: 839 2439 3541, password: 380839

Other

Presentation of artistic-pedagogical thesis work: “Trilogy for a Dog” and “Leap Beyond” / Taiteellis-pedagogisen opinnäytetyön esitelmä: “Trilogy for a Dog” ja “Leap Beyond” / (Anna Lehtonen)

Anna is introducing her two different artistic-pedagogical thesis works: Trilogy for a Dog and Leap Beyond. She is doing her presentation near to Vallilan Siirtolapuutarha in Helsinki. Some elements from both performances are present in the videos that are held on Instagram @uniartshelsinki.

Welcome to @uniartshelsinki virtual remote gallery, where you are invited to participate curating and creating shared exhibition. You will see a creature moving in our instastory. Your task is to watch it carefully and pay attention to details. When you are ready, draw what and who you see on screenshot canvas and post the result to your own insta account. All posted and tagged drawings will be reposted in our instastory and added to the gallery. In the end REMOTE GALLERY X makes something visible out of what we perceive and what we make meanings of. Will there be something in common? What is different?

Take part via Instagram @uniartshelsinki #remotegalleryx

Time

4.5.2020 at 18:00 – 8.5.2020 at 22:00

Further information


Online event: panels, discussions and performances are organised via Facebook, Instagram and Zoom.