{"id":8654,"date":"2025-08-21T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituutit.fi\/?page_id=8654"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:53:09","slug":"tiia-kasurinen-songbird","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/instituutit.fi\/en\/what-is-partir-project\/projects\/tiia-kasurinen-songbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiia Kasurinen: Songbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tiia Kasurinen: Songbird<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Tiia Kasurinen<\/strong> will perform <em>Songbird<\/em> at Dance Base Yokohama on September 6<sup>th<\/sup> 2025 (Sat.), at 4PM. The performance will be followed by an artist talk. In Yokohama, Tiia Kasurinen is accompanied by Keliel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is in large part according to the sounds people make that we judge them sane or insane, male or female, good, evil, trustworthy, depressive, marriageable, moribund, likely or unlikely to make war on us, little better than animals, inspired by God.\u201d <\/strong><strong><em>\u2013 <\/em>Anne Carson<em>, The Gender of Sound <\/em>(1992)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Songbird<\/em> is a performance combining contemporary choreography, practices of performing music and the tools of camp-aesthetics and drag. Inspired by the philosopher and poet Anne Carson\u2019s essay \u2018<em>The Gender of Sound<\/em>\u2018, the performance reflects on the identity of voice, choreographies of the vocal cords, femininity and vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>In the performance, \u2018Songbird\u2019 meets her audience through sounds, songs, vocal cords, lyrics, costumes and dance. How do choreographies of vocal cords spread through space? What do pitches, frequencies and modes of expression cause in the spectator? How do the use of voice and embodiment intersect? Music of the performance is by Keliel.<\/p>\n<p>Tiia Kasurinen is an artist, dancer and choreographer working both internationally and in Finland, and graduated from the Stockholm University of the Arts. She is interested in themes such as identity, femininity, gaze, power, camp and pop culture. Kasurinen\u2019s choreographic works have been presented at venues and festivals such as Dans\u00e9 Elargie in France, One Dance -festival in Bulgaria, Inkonst in Sweden, Dance Base Yokohama in Japan, Helsinki Festival, and at Zodiak \u2013 Centre for New Dance.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is organized by Dance Base Yokohama in collaboration with the Finnish Institute in Japan as part of the pARTir initiative funded by the European Union, NextGeneration EU.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7890\" src=\"https:\/\/instituutit.fi\/hallinta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nextgeneu_en-450x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instituutit.fi\/hallinta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nextgeneu_en-450x135.jpg 450w, https:\/\/instituutit.fi\/hallinta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nextgeneu_en-690x206.jpg 690w, https:\/\/instituutit.fi\/hallinta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nextgeneu_en-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instituutit.fi\/hallinta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nextgeneu_en.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiia Kasurinen: Songbird Tiia Kasurinen will perform Songbird at Dance Base Yokohama on September 6th 2025 (Sat.), at 4PM. The performance will be followed by an artist talk. 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