Jyväskylä Dance festival: workshop by Janina Rajakangas

Starting to dance through a social topic.

Lately, I’ve focused on creating choreographic processes and dances around social or community issues. These have included the eroticization of teenage girls (Venus), the welfare of young people (Kielo) and exclusive structures (Dancer). In the workshop we dance the dances of coming together and leaving someone out, we will think about what kind of images to create on stage? How is it necessary to dance? What kind of experience is the show? Who am I making the work for? How and at what point do I want the performers and the audience to meet?

The workshop is primarily aimed at professionals, dance students and people who have a lot of experience in dancing.