OTHERWISE Projects: What Doesn’t End In Water Ends In Light
What Doesn’t End In Water Ends In Light is a trio for two human bodies and Lake Näsijarvi.
In a quest to make the rationally-known inextricable link between humans and water viscerally felt, we take the lake’s water body as our dance partner. We become animated by its physics and dynamics, its water quality and ecosystem health data, its ever-changing sounds and states of matter, its deep time stories, lived histories, and conjured futures.
We teeter on the tightrope between love and extraction in today’s relationships with ourselves, each other, and the living world. We morph and spawn a hybrid human-water “performer” and movement language that queers and collapses notions of self/other, human/nature, intimate/vast, and autonomy/interdependence.
Ultimately, we embody an otherwise future: a hydrocommons where we recognize our watery bodies as both interconnected and differentiated and embrace that water must be wild to be life-giving.
Water must be wild to be life-giving.
Performances
- Friday 19.9. at 7 pm
- Saturday 20.9. at 7 pm
Duration approx. 1 hr.
Tickets
- 20 e | Basic ticket
- 10 e | Discounted ticket
students, pensioners, unemployed, performing arts professionals - 10 e | Wheelchair ticket + assistant ticket
+ 2,50 e Lippuagentti handling fee
Venue
Studio Liikelaituri, Yliopistonkatu 58 D, 33100 Tampere
For the audience
The performance contains partial nudity and emotionally evocative material. Recommended age: 12+.
WORKSHOP
The working group will host a free, open workshop on Wednesday, September 17, from 1–3 pm. The workshop introduces the Rewilding The Body practice, which includes, among other things, movement exercises based on imagination. Please register for the workshop by Monday, September 15.
The performance visit is organized as a co-production of the OTHERWISE Projects and the Pirkanmaa Dance Centre.
Working group
OTHERWISE Projects (Amsterdam, NL), under direction of Anna Riley-Shepard, seeks to make queer ecology principles tangible and accessible through movement and immersive performance. We respond to the polycrisis’ call for an existential shift in perspective: producing work that bridges art, science, and technology to spread more enabling stories of our relationship with our living world.
Anna Riley-Shepard (direction, co-creation & performance) is a Vermont-born, Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary maker, performer, writer, neuroscientist, facilitator, and social & environmental strategist. She holds degrees in cognitive neuroscience & dance from Harvard University, and a certificate in sustainable development from Oxford. As a dancer, she performs with Ogmia Dance Company (ES), Cie Joachim Schloemer (CH/AT), and Unusual Beings Dance Company (CH/DE), among others. She creates her own works under OTHERWISE Projects, showing at venues including De Hortus Amsterdam (NL), WHOLE Festival (DE), Hongerige Wolf Festival (NL), INSTINCT Dance Festival (USA), Danzhara Festival (ES), and Skin Festival (CH). She works as a researcher and learning designer at citizen science for water organization, PULSAQUA.
Maciej Beczek (co-creation & performance) is a Polish-born, Rotterdam-based performer, choreographer, judoka, educator, and researcher specializing in mythology and folklore. He also brings skills in heights construction, set design, and interactive lighting. He graduated in 2014 from the dance theater department of the Ludwik Solski State Drama School in Krakow. As a performer, he has worked with, among others, Jacek Łumiński’s Silesian Dance Theatre (PL), Aura Dance Theatre (LT), Wim Vandekeybus at Het Nationale (NL), Het Weeshuis Theater (NL), and Totalitarian Body Collective (DE). As a maker, he directs the TerazNow Dance Theatre Company, which has produced creations including: Ex Ego (2014), Digital Metaphors (2018), The Garden Of Earthly Delights (2021), and WYRD (2024).
Lana Harris (co-creation & sound design) is an American-born experimental musician, sound designer, DJ, organizer, and neuroscientist based between Berlin, London and Amsterdam. She holds degrees in cognitive neuroscience (Harvard University, BA; Freie Universität Berlin, MsC) and musicology (Cambridge University, MPhil), and is currently pursuing a PhD in auditory neuroscience at University College London. Lana produces multi-genre dance and experimental music as Mother’s Blood and DJ LQ, as well as with her band, PersonBag. She composes music for theatre productions, including July Weber’s Omnivore (2022, Klosterruine x Pogo Bar; Ufer Studios) and Anna Riley-Shepard’s Rewilding The Body (2022-24, Haihara Residence; INSTINCT Festival). She co-hosts the radio show Gross Bisexual Rat on Internet Public Radio and co-directs the SUCK THE LEMON event since 2021, bringing together interwoven radical live acts in visual art, performance, and music/DJ. She loves music that explodes rationalization and tickles one’s spine.
