My emotional body dances the fleshy desires, pleasure and aggression, sorrow and euphoria. The queerness. The politics and poetics of the dancing body.

A millennial body molded in rape culture, misogyny, comphet power structures and dynamics. A late bloomer sapphic, long ago—but still late. Fleshing my body, shedding my skin in and out. Breathing in and out and about. Working with the weight on my knees—the bounce, pelvic floor, and my fingertips. Dancing the lived experience and reaching out to the ones who were here before me and who are about to come.

Kaisa Nieminen is a dancer-choreographer based in Helsinki, Finland. Nieminen is interested in the experiential nature of the dancing body; the emotionality, sexuality, and the way we connect to ourselves, others, and to the societal structures through dancing — the politics and poetics of the dancing body.

Tiikka Drama is a Helsinki-based queer sound designer and composer. They work mainly with contemporary dance and performance art. Tiikka creates multidimensional emotional spaces combining elements of sound art, field-recordings, and electronic dance music.

Luca Sirviö is a Helsinki-based lighting designer who graduated from the University of the Arts Helsinki (MA, 2019). She works in the field of contemporary performance art with an interest in the overlap of genres and the oscillation between the recognizable and the unknown.

Language: Finnish/English
Duration: 45 min
Age recommendation: +13 years
Content notes: theater haze, loud sound

Choreography and dance: Kaisa Nieminen
Sound design: Tiikka Drama
Lighting design: Luca Sirviö
Artistic dialogue: Marika Peura
Outside eye: DeeDee Harmony
Ehkä-production’s house dramaturg: Even Minn
Production: Ehkä-production and Kaisa Nieminen
Residency: Ehkä-production/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo (Turku)
Supporter: Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Demos: 9.–11.8.2025 ImPulsTanz Festival’s ATLAS Programme, Vienna and 29.8.2025 UrbanApa x Stoa Festival, Helsinki
Premiere: 27.11.2025 XS Festival/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku