Nordic Choreographic Collaboration

Choreographer collective

Are there differences in the movement vocabulary of dance in Finland, Norway and Sweden, three differing Nordic countries? What kind of impact do Nordic culture, behaviour and personality have on the creation of a movement vocabulary? Is there purity in the shared Nordic pattern of movement? These are the questions investigated by the choreographers’ collective Nordic Choreographic Collaboration (NordiCC).

This choreographers’ collective, NordiCC, includes Finns Arja Tiili and Satu Tuomisto, Norwegian Vilde Sparre and Swede Åsa N. Åström. These choreographers have chosen their own dancers for the project: Olle Söderström and Helena Lundqvist from Sweden, Elena Ruuskanen form Finland, and Kari Skotnes-Vikjord from Norway.

The work process of the NordiCC collective aims at investigating the disparities of dance yet does so by utilizing a method that not only combines differences and variations but also inspires collaboration, and all the whilst calls into question individual originality. The goal is to produce a performance scheduled to premiere in the autumn of 2012. The work process includes residency periods at various locations in Finland, Norway and Sweden. The aim of these residency periods is to inspire the choreographic creative process with the hopes of influences from different Nordic environments.