Wire-Dance laboratories are spaces for research for questioning our wire practice and finding new expressive languages for wire-dancing. These laboratories are open for all professional wirewalkers and wirewalker students.

We work with dancers/choreographers on floor, on wire and on observation to understand what means a body in a state of fragile balancing and what can we express with it. We use dance techniques that are based, not on a precise form, but where the movement is created from imagination, sensorial listening or physical realities (as gravity).

Great interest is given to Japanese Buto- dance techniques, but also somatic practices and contact improvisation. Some main questions we are studying are the psychophysical metamorphosis of the body on the wire, the relationship between the wire and the floor, the shared balance-search on the wire and the gaze and the facial expressivity.

The goal is also to collect material, interviews, thoughts and writings for analytic scientific research about wire-dancing.

Since 2022 –

Past Laboratories
Turku Arts Academy, Finlande (2022 et 2023)
Festival Popcorn / Galapiat Cirque , Minihy-Tréguier, France (2022)
L’Exosquelette, Luc-en-Diois, France (2023)
La Hactais, Bretagen, France (2023)

Team

Directors: Sanja Kosonen, Minja Mertanen, Riikka Kosola and others

With the support of: Taike, Galapiat Cirque