Johtti / Taivaltaja / Wanderer
A performance protecting even the smallest dance movement. Will it grow into bigger action? The land remembers everything.
A forest landscape unfolds on stage; however, its truthfulness remains ambiguous. Created through virtual reality, brushwood, meadows, trees, water, land, and sky mirror themselves in a dance that feels almost tangible. At least somewhere, everyone is dancing together.
How is kinship with the surrounding world embodied? Climate urgency meets embodied presence as a form of resistance.
A wandering investigation into creating a collaborative performance in the midst of ecological crisis, in a postdigital world, and into finding embodied agency.
Where are you wandering to now?
Johtti (Northern Sámi) may refer to one who goes, moves, or is on their way. It suggests being in constant movement, in seasonal rhythm with the land.
Taivaltaja (Finnish) may refer to one who travels slowly and far, crossing landscapes over long distances. It can mean a wanderer by choice or someone who must leave home, carrying all their belongings under the open sky.
Wanderer (English, German) may refer to one who moves about, sometimes aimlessly, roaming without a fixed destination on the land.
Are we wandering when we are dancing?
Is the dance remembering the path before we do?
Working group
- Choreography: Gáddjá Haarla
- Performers: Inari Hulkkonen, Hyunbean Jeon, Julia Mäkelä, Milka Salokangas
- Scenography and virtual performance: Erika Rustamova
- Lighting design: Saana Hannonen
- Sound design: Tuomas Teittinen
- Costume design: Miranda Hiidenkari
- Dramaturgy: Güde Nissen
This production is part of the Artistic Collaboration Projects (ACO), that brings together students from seven Uniarts and Aalto University degree programs. Over a period of five weeks, the students have explored and practiced artistic collaboration in performances based on movement and choreography. The process culminates in performances of all five works during the last week of May.
A forest landscape unfolds on stage; however, its truthfulness remains ambiguous. Created through virtual reality, brushwood, meadows, trees, water, land, and sky mirror themselves in a dance that feels almost tangible. At least somewhere, everyone is dancing together.
How is kinship with the surrounding world embodied? Climate urgency meets embodied presence as a form of resistance.
A wandering investigation into creating a collaborative performance in the midst of ecological crisis, in a postdigital world, and into finding embodied agency.
Where are you wandering to now?
Johtti (Northern Sámi) may refer to one who goes, moves, or is on their way. It suggests being in constant movement, in seasonal rhythm with the land.
Taivaltaja (Finnish) may refer to one who travels slowly and far, crossing landscapes over long distances. It can mean a wanderer by choice or someone who must leave home, carrying all their belongings under the open sky.
Wanderer (English, German) may refer to one who moves about, sometimes aimlessly, roaming without a fixed destination on the land.
Are we wandering when we are dancing?
Is the dance remembering the path before we do?
Working group
- Choreography: Gáddjá Haarla
- Performers: Inari Hulkkonen, Hyunbean Jeon, Julia Mäkelä, Milka Salokangas
- Scenography and virtual performance: Erika Rustamova
- Lighting design: Saana Hannonen
- Sound design: Tuomas Teittinen
- Costume design: Miranda Hiidenkari
- Dramaturgy: Güde Nissen
This production is part of the Artistic Collaboration Projects (ACO), that brings together students from seven Uniarts and Aalto University degree programs. Over a period of five weeks, the students have explored and practiced artistic collaboration in performances based on movement and choreography. The process culminates in performances of all five works during the last week of May.