Tampere Dance Current: Bunch of Scrumps Collective: Go Strange

Go Strange is a dance and drumming performance that is imagined, created and performed by Bunch of Scrumps Collective (Jacqueline Aylward, Maja Kalafatić and Jesse Ojajärvi). Go Strange explores the lived experiences of something that feels familiar and strange at the same time. It formed through practices of grounding, connecting to the sublime, belonging, accepting of the alien and producing home.

The performance uses movement, sound and intention to produce generators that offer gateways into altered states. It meets, familiarises and recycles these states. Throughout the work there is a play with expanded representations of human identities. The use of bodies, both human and object, attempts to slip between the everyday, the absurd and the otherworldly. The collective works both to hold individual perspective, skills and identities and also to collapse them into one being.

Working group

Makers and performers Jacqueline Aylward, Maja Kalafatić, Jesse Ojajärvi
Technical help/video Ivan Mihailović
Video editing Matej Kalafatić
Music Pre-recorded sounds used in the performance make use of the song “Kesäjärven valssi”, composed by Pentti Ojajärvi, performed by Pentti Ojajärvi and Joonas Ojajärvi.

 

This work is supported by TAIKE (Arts Promotion Centre Finland), Čiča Mičino Pozorište Belgrade, Dom kulture Studentski grad Belgrade, Helsinki Central Library Oodi, The Finnish Cultural Foundation’s North Karelia Regional Fund, Kulturanova Novi Sad and Sovintola Kesälahti.

 

Premiere 27.8.2023, Kesälahti, Sovintola Gallery
Pictures Ljubica Blagojević

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