MIRVA MAKINEN - THE BODY AS PART OF THE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM

The body is the closest relationship between man and nature. By strengthening the opportunities of our physical experience, we also strengthen the connection with planet Earth. My goal with these lessons is to understand if the burning crisis of the era really responds to how we might think we are new as part of the earth's ecosystem.

Can we share physical space, close to each other, without competing?

Contact improvisation is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and on their combined relationship with the physical laws that govern their movement: gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to feel these sensations, learns to release excess muscle tension and to abandon a certain quality of will to experience the natural flow of movement. This course involves rolling, falling, standing upside down, following a physical contact point, supporting and weighting a partner. Mobile support and gentle flying technique will be sought.

BIO:

MIRVA MÄKINEN (FIN) graduated in Dance from the Helsinki University of the Arts in 2018. Her PhD research focuses on the Somaaesthetics of Contact Improvisation. She graduated (MA) from the Department of Dance of the University of the Arts, Finland, in 2000, and previously earned a master's degree in Physical Education from Jyväskylä University.

From 2000 onwards she was a dance teacher, choreographer and dance teacher at the Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts. He has taught in several international dance and contact improvisation festivals. Mirva has worked with many different dance companies and choreographers, including some: Karttunen Kollektiv, New Circus Company Circo Aereo, Joona Halonen, Echo Echo dance company, Frey Faust and Joerg Hassmann. He is currently working with Finnish choreographer Valtteri Raekallio.