Morgonklasser v.46 på Samiskt Danscenter i Vuollerim
En första chans att få dansa tillsammans i det nya centret!
📆11-14 november
📍Samiskt Danscenter, Murjeksvägen 31, Vuollerim
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Morgonklasserna genomförs genom ett samarbete mellan Danscentrum Norr, Samiskt Danscenter och Aira Dance Company AB.
Monday 09.00-10.30 • Liv Aira
During this dance class you will meet the choreographer Liv Aira who combines contemporary dance with themes from her sami culture. We will start the morning with some dance technique followed by some repertoar from the production Skájdde – Miessikrikkas.
BIO: Liv Aira is a dancer and choreographer that often reflects on her indigenous Sami background in her art. She is the founder and artistic director of Invisible People Contemporary Dance Company where she is currently touring with the dance and yoik production Ájttega and the dance show Akti Lij for children. Soon she starts the creative process of creating there new show Shaddie – to grow together, for kids.
She is the creator of Låvda – Sápmi screendance festival and the indigenous cultural festival Skájdde in Storforsen nature reserve. She is currently in the start up of Jillat, the world’s first sami dance center in the north of Sweden outside Jokkmokk. She has a BA in dance and MA in choreography from Institute of the arts Barcelona.
During her MA studies Liv created a unique dance style based in her sami heritage but also influenced by her dance education in contemporary dance and release technique.
Tuesday 09.00-10.30 • Biret Haarla Pieski
The class starts with an improvisation task as a warm up, that focuses on waking up the imagination and finding ways to move that differ from learnt movement patterns, leading into a stamina building exercise, where the focus is on breath and space awareness. Then I will share a few movement tasks based on my own artistic work and on collaborations I have been part of, where we will improvise and make compositional choices through embodying different creatures and living beings, challenging the capabilities of the human body. Lastly I will share tools on character building with the physicality of the body as the starting point.
BIO: Čiske-Jovsset Biret Hánsa Outi Biret, Biret Haarla Pieski is a dancer and performing artist from Ohcejohka, the Finnish side of Sápmi. She graduated from the Finnish National Opera Ballet School in 2019 and holds a BA in Dance, P.A.R.T.S Brussels 2022. Her collaborative work with Gáddjá Haarla Pieski Starting from Staring – Čalmmiid Čađa was shown in Beursschouwburg, Art & Land – EU Sámi week, Brussels 2022; The Baltic Circle Theater Festival, Helsinki 2022; The Oslo International Theater Festival 2023, Meteor International Theater Festival, Bergen 2023 and The Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform, Oslo 2024. She collaborated with author Niillas Holmberg, composer Jakop Janssønn and Gáddjá Haarla Pieski in a performance-concert Juovssaheaddi – The Rematriator, Bodø – The European Capital of Culture 2024. She has worked with theatre director Pauliina Feodoroff on a performance Matriarchy, The Sámi Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2022; with visual artist Outi Pieski on a video installation Guhte Gullá / Here to Hear, Helsinki Biennale 2021 and with visual artist Marja Helander on short film Eatnanvuloš Lottit / Birds in the Earth, Sundance Film Festival 2018. She was nominated the Young Artists of the Year 2021 by Riddu Riđđu festival and Tanssin Nuori Tekijä -award by Kuopio Dance Festival 2024.
Wednesday: 10.00-11.30 • Marit Shirin Carolasdotter
I’d like to teach an ancestral dance from my homelands of Kurdistan. It is a very physical class based on rythm and drums. It will be a good preparation for the people who want to participate in my performance as well.
BIO: Marit-Shirin Carolasdotter identifies as a dancer with Indigenous roots from Sulaymaniah, Kurdistan, and northern Jämtland, Sápmi. She has an MFA from Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and is a returning guest teacher at SKH for the Bachelor students in dance performance. Marit-Shirin’s commissioned work ’of itself : in itself’ and ’Jarkelidh’ has toured with Dancenet Sweden and Riksteatern 2021-2023 and her upcoming work ’No Friend but the Mountains’ has a premiere in 2025. She has worked professionally in Japan, Sápmi, Belgium, Germany, Greece and Denmark, and with Invisible People Dance Company in Jokkmokk and Storforsen, and with Sofia Jannok in the performance ’Nomad’ 2024.
Thursday: 09.00-10.30 • Auri Ahola
In my class we open the day with gently moving and feeling our bodies. I give this class to dancers, but also to my working groups with artists from other art forms, and the key is the connection to your own body without the pressure of presenting a skill. We start from the floor and move upwards, bringing motion into our bodies calmly. We warm the body from inside out, with time. My aim is that the participants leave the class with a deep warmth and joy in their bodies.
BIO: Auri Ahola (born 1984) is an Inari Sámi dance artist, director and curator who has forged an extensive career, ranging from classical ballet to contemporary dance and multidisciplinary works. She worked as a dancer in Finnish National Opera Ballet for ten years, before starting a freelance career as a dancer and choreographer. Auri has performed internationally with companies such as Tero Saarinen Company and stages from Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, curated festivals and lead working groups of multidisciplinary artists. Auri has created her own works in Finnish side of Sápmi since 2016. In 2022 her full-length immersive work´Viehâ premiered in Rovaniemi Art Museum, receiving excellent reviews. The key elements in her works are community, intensive atmosphere and physical expression that crosses boundaries between art forms. Auri lives and works in Inari, Sápmi.
