Photo by Roza Ahmad
In this workshop, participants will delve into the questions, practices, and physical explorations central to Marika Peura’s own choreographic practice. Through somatic, grinding movement investigations of the pelvis, participants will tune into the intimacy, emotionality, sensuality, and experientiality of the dancing body.
Attention will be directed toward the gaze, how it is used, how it plays, and how it merges the roles of ‘doer’ and observer. Together, we will indulge in a gaze that looks back.
Please bring comfortable clothes for movement and a notebook if you’d like to take notes or reflect. This workshop will include group work.
Click here to explore the full programme.
Attention will be directed toward the gaze, how it is used, how it plays, and how it merges the roles of ‘doer’ and observer. Together, we will indulge in a gaze that looks back.
Please bring comfortable clothes for movement and a notebook if you’d like to take notes or reflect. This workshop will include group work.
Click here to explore the full programme.
Bio
Marika Peura is a choreographer and dancer based in Helsinki. She works interdisciplinarily in the fields of dance and contemporary performance art, working particularly with the emotionality, poetics, and politics that emerge from the experiential nature of the body in its socio-political context.
Her previous work, solo piece Amalgam Melee, 2024, sets off from the artist’s inner contradictions in relation to cultural heritage, Brownness, Whiteness, hierarchies of power and violence in the context of Finnish society. How these frictions wield with a double-edge effect; exploring the body where the mechanisms of white supremacy are present both as the one exercising power and the one subjected to it.
down below things shudder (2023), a piece for five dancers co-choreographed with Kaisa Nieminen, delves into the intimacy of the dancing body; exploring its somatics, ’erotics’, sensuality, emotionality, and the playful risk of gaze and physical connection in social dancing at the intersection of street & club dance and contemporary choreography. Peura has a MA in choreography from Uniarts Helsinki. She and her working partner Kaisa Nieminen were rewarded with a prize ‘Future of Culture’ by the Finnish Culture Gala in November 2023.
In partnership with the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland 
02:00 pm
Sun, 20 Jul 2025
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