OVER YOUR FUCKING BODY

Over Your Fucking Body started from a desire to find privacy with the audience. Privacy held a promise of attention. Attention to what we value and wanted to once again unveil. The feeling, moving, dancing body. A multilayered intelligent bodily creature, that we all are, but which we present physically only through techniques that have already become merchandise like weightlifting, cheerleading, and yoga. We are forever intrigued in imagining that a lot of us make love to ourselves, each other, the inanimate, but still leave dancing to the extrovert, intoxicant users and children. We sit next to our loved ones dying, faint under work or emotional pressure, act as if we have no pain with a slipped disc and when someone twitches on stage and calls it dance we turn away, watch some Nordic noir instead where the bodies are under threat and we feel fear in our stomachs and love it. And dance is kept at the margins, because there is something about it that does not sit with the world as it is now. 

Concept & Performance: Janina Rajakangas & Neil Callaghan

Sound design & Music: Miki Brunou

Spatial & lighting design: Jenni Pystynen

Costume: Piia Rinne

Producer: Ulrika Vilke 

Partners and creation support:

A Moving in November and Zodiak commission with additional support from: I-portunus mobility fund, Wainsgate Chapel, Yorkshire Dance, The Finnish Institute in London and The Place. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England and Arts Promotion Centre Finland.

OVER YOUR FUCKING BODY IS AVAILABLE FOR BOOKINGS

contact: ulrikavilke@gmail.com