

BLAB
Sonja Jokiniemi’s BLAB is a hybrid performance, a blend of painting, sculpture and choreography that seeks to escape the world of categories, heading towards the unknown.
BLAB literally means jabber, foolish or mindless talk. Jokiniemi goes in search of where language fails us and make mankind part of something inhuman. She wants to think outside categories and wend her way towards where the human and the thing become one. We see three bodies in motion on stage, seeking out one another and their surroundings as complements or as partners in dialogue. In a meticulously brilliant scenography, bodies remain suspended somewhere between sculpture, painting and the performing arts.
BLAB literally means jabber, foolish or mindless talk. Jokiniemi goes in search of where language fails us and make mankind part of something inhuman. She wants to think outside categories and wend her way towards where the human and the thing become one. We see three bodies in motion on stage, seeking out one another and their surroundings as complements or as partners in dialogue. In a meticulously brilliant scenography, bodies remain suspended somewhere between sculpture, painting and the performing arts.
CREDITS
Concept, choreography and visuals
Sonja Jokiniemi
Performers
Ivo Serra
Mira Kautto
Sara Gurevitsch
Light design
Heikki Paasonen
Textiles made in collaboration with
Janina Silvennoinen
Production
Riikka Thitz
Co-production
Zodiak – Center for New Dance
Moving in November
Regional Dance Centre of Eastern Finland
Veem House for Performance
Distribution
Something Great
Residency support
Arsenic
Regional Dance Centre of Eastern Finland - ITAK
ImPulsTanz
Pianofabriek
STUK
wpZimmer
With the support by
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Samuel Huberin Taidesäätiö
Sonja Jokiniemi
Performers
Ivo Serra
Mira Kautto
Sara Gurevitsch
Light design
Heikki Paasonen
Textiles made in collaboration with
Janina Silvennoinen
Production
Riikka Thitz
Co-production
Zodiak – Center for New Dance
Moving in November
Regional Dance Centre of Eastern Finland
Veem House for Performance
Distribution
Something Great
Residency support
Arsenic
Regional Dance Centre of Eastern Finland - ITAK
ImPulsTanz
Pianofabriek
STUK
wpZimmer
With the support by
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Samuel Huberin Taidesäätiö




Photographs : BLAB © Simo Karisalo