Dates:
Wed, 23 Sept 2026, 19:30–20:00
On the opening day of the festival, the premiere of Katja Sallinen’s solo work what prevents from being will be presented alongside Leevi Rauhalahti’s solo work Wounding the World. With a single ticket, you can experience both performances on the same evening.
“Wounding the World" is a solo dance work choreographed and performed by Leevi Rauhalahti. The solo researches phallocentrism through the lens of a genderqueer conscientious objector and how our patriarchal world is obsessed in reigning through placing violence on bodies.
The solo begins with the body struggling in the aftermath of a battle. A lament for gender-neutral bodies is uttered, escalating into a totalitarian choreography that forces the dancer in a self-sabotaging phrase. However, this exercise of power on the body lays the very foundation for an alternative world, where even our bipedaling is questioned. The body begins a quest to exit the binary bounds, towards some secret third thing from the man/woman dichotomy, and poses a question: is the gendered understanding of the body within the body itself, or in our perspective on it?
In the end, something has changed. The body has been released from its chains, both internally and externally, and so the initial lament, now reproduced, sounds different. We might’ve won the fight, but there is still a war.
"Wounding the World" is a proposal from Rauhalahti for everyone to challenge their pre-existing views on gender and violence.
Cost: 25€
Bookings: Booking information is available from the event source.
Categories: Culture and art, Festivals, Dance, Jyväskylä Art Street
Image credit: Chonky Films / Heikki Järvinen & Emil Virtanen — event-only licence
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