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After (2025)

Ritual for the aftermath of sexual violence

Duration: 45 minutes
Premiere: May 2025, Tilburg, Netherlands

Choreographer & dancer: Tuulia Soininen
Artistic mentor: Elina Pirinen
Dramaturge: Meri-Maija Näykki
Research mentor: Mariella Greil

 

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The performance deals with the topic of sexual violence from a post-victim perspective. The piece is about reliving, rewriting and letting go off an embodied trauma experience. It is also about owning the victim experience and it travels through strong emotions of anger, sorrow, giving up, fighting, humor and liberation.

It includes repetitive movement, including material that references the embodied victim experience of rape, as well as intense shaking and rubbing. 

The performance will include live sounds of the naked skin rubbing, hitting and squeaking against the dance mat.

The performance also has songs with lyrics that describe sexual violence and the misogynistic culture surrounding it.

The performer will be wearing knickers at all times, but the breasts will be partially or fully exposed during the performance.

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If you have any questions, you can contact the choreographer beforehand via email: tuulia.soininen@hotmail.com.

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