Sonya Lindfors: something like this

Something like this is a performance that looks at the possibilities of the stage and hip-hop culture to serve as a platform for telling diverse stories, taking over space, empowerment, and communality. The daytime performances in spring 2025 are mainly aimed at groups of middle and high school age. However, all performances will also have some tickets available for open sale. The last two performances in April are in open sale in their entirety. In this work aimed at young audiences, four street dance background performers meet on stage. A rich whole is built from a simple starting point, where the scenes are constructed in front of the viewers' eyes. Performers from diverse backgrounds dance, tell stories and have fun – together. There is room for many kinds of stories on this stage. Something like this turns the stage into a dance floor where stories, identities, and ways of doing things can meet. Together with the viewers, the work asks: How should a performance be viewed or experienced, how does dance or movement move from one body to another, what kinds of things can be told through dance or movement? What is a communal dramaturgy like? Buy tickets online or from the box office at Cable Factory's info point at the Glass courtyard. Target audience: 13+. Suitable also for grown ups! Concept and direction: Sonya Lindfors Choreography: Sonya Lindfors & working group Sound design: Sebastian Kurtén Lighting design: Erno Aaltonen Costume design: Sanna Levo Performers: Akim Bakhtaoui / Simeoni Juoperi, Kaisa Nieminen, Ramona Panula, Sophia Wekesa Part of the process as a performer: Linda Ilves, Selma Kauppinen Production: Zodiak – Center for New Dance, in the framework of the Zodiak Youth project Supported by: Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation Photos: Tuukka Ervasti Premiere: 30.8.2023, Zodiak Stage, Helsinki