Welcome to OuDance Festival 11. -15.9.2024!
The performance will tour in communities according to an agreed schedule. The communities are selected through an open call.
MATKA – The Journey dance miniature is a solo performance created as part of the MATKA – The Journey experience concept.
The solo performance offers the viewer kinesthetic and emotional surfaces of identification; movement gives rise to feeling, feeling to movement. Each performance is a unique event. Genuine contact is made, a real encounter takes place.
The solo contains dynamically changing orientations of thought, which feed the imagination of the spectator, leading to a variety of images and raising a question: Where is this going? Where is this all leading?
The Journey consists of two parts: a physical and kinetic moment to be experienced together, a solo dance performance and a reflection on the experience through writing, drawing and discussion. The whole is a unique journey experienced together by the director-performer and the participant.
“An experiential journey into oneself and one’s own perceptions. Insights and broader perspectives to structure life. Inspiration that amazes and transports you forward. Something unforeseen that increases self-awareness. A unique, intimate encounter and event. Movement causes emotion, emotion causes movement. Even if your conscious mind doesn’t know or understand, your body knows and understands. The body is wise!”
Concept, performer: Jonna Aaltonen | Sound design: Mikko Väärälä | Music: Camille Saint-Saens | Supported by: Western Regional Dance Centre | Production of the visit: JoJo – Oulu Dance Centre | Duration: 2 h, of which performance 25 min.
The performance will tour in communities according to an agreed schedule. The communities are selected through an open call.
Jonna Aaltonen is a freelance dance artist and movement therapy facilitator.
With nearly three decades of international experience as a dancer, Jonna has performed extensively in a diverse range of dance and theater productions both in Finland and abroad. Today, she is passionate about bringing dance beyond the confines of the theater and reaching people in their everyday lives. Jonna facilitates multifaceted workshops for a wide variety of target groups. She finds her work as a facilitator advocating for embodiment and body wisdom to be deeply meaningful and significant.
As a facilitator, she strives to share the empowering effects of dance with everyone, regardless of age or experience, and to explore the connection between movement, body, and emotions. Jonna also has experience as a choreographer, choreographer’s assistant, and organizer.
Please remember to follow the general safety and hygiene instructions for events:
– Don’t participate if you are infectious or symptomatic
– Take care of hand hygiene; wash your hands or use hand sanitizer
– Cough into a handkerchief or your sleeve
