STRETCH FURTHER - EXPLORING IDENTITY

Monday 7.9.

• Travel day for Keđja partners & artists

Tuesday 8.9. – Pre-Meeting Day for Keđja participants

• 9:30 meeting for Keđja partners & artists in the morning at Cultural Centre Valve
• 10-13 Anita Bjørkli (NO) & Anita Clark (UK): workshop on Sustainability in Dance
• Lunch
• 14-17 Virve Sutinen & Sanna Rekola (FI): Moving through time
• Dinner
• Sauna & swim / the venue of Faravid’s Land – Oulun teatteri in Raksila supermarket area by Pirjo Yli-Maunula

Travel day for Kiertoliike participants
Info desk opens at Radisson Blu hotel

Wednesday 9.9. – Seminar Day 1

• 9:00-10:30 Workshops / meetings during morning
• 11:00 Lunch at Radisson Blu
• 12:00 Keynote 1-  What does (professional) identity consist of?
  • PhD Tale Næss (NO) – author, playwright, dramaturg and artistic researcher, based in Tromsø and Oslo.
• 13:30 Artist response  – Eva Svaneblom (SE)
• 14:30 Workshops/ Small groups related to interests to deepen the subject
• 15:30  Coffee
• 15:45-16:45  Summary for day 1
• Dinner of your choice
• OuDance Festival Programme:

  • Armour Circus Works: Morphosis (FI), Valvesali at 19, Premiere
    Special prize for Stretch Further participants via code ”StretchFurther26”

  • Huutajat: Weeping Men, Tuira Beach at 20 
• Evening Club

Silent venue available during the day.

Thursday 10.9. – Seminar Day 2

• 8:30-10:00 Workshops / meetings etc
• 10:30 Keynote 2 – Place – the impact of place on identity
  • PhD Leena Kela (FI) – performance artist, curator, festival director
• 12:00 Artist response – Katrín Gunnarsdóttir (IS)
• 12:30 Lunch at Radisson Blu
• 14:00 Panel discussion on What does a career look like at different stages of life?
  • Participants from different Countries
• 15:00 Academic response – Heli Ansio (FI)
• 15:30 Coffee & Workshops/ Small groups to deepen the subjects
• 16:30-17 Summary for Day 2 all together
• Dinner of your choice
• OuDance Festival Programme:

  • Ruth Rebekka Hansen: RIPE BODY (DK), Pikisali, Oulu Theatre at 19

  • Huutajat: Weeping Men, Tuira Beach at 17 & 20 

Silent venue available during the day.

Friday 11.9.

Travel day

OuDance Festival continues until Sunday 13th – everyone is welcome to stay!