A new article by Heidi Seppälä and Jalmari Nummiluikki is out in AKPÉ-magazine
AKPÉ, Finnish-African cultural center Villa Karo’s Magazine published an article of Heidi Seppälä and Jalmari Nummiluikki. An article titled Monomuotoisuudesta Monimuotoisuuteen (from monoculturalism to multiculturalism) explains DANCO’s agenda to create steps towards self-organising stage, shared and collaborative authorship and its ethics. The article is in Finnish and can be read here: https://villakaro.org/julkaisut/Akpe_2022_www/index.html#page=18
A conversation with dance artist Heidi Seppälä about decolonial dance teaching, Nordic-West African cooperation and studies in separate teacher’s pedagogical studies in the arts.
Kenneth Siren from UNIARTS Helsinki wrote a beautiful article about Heidi’s work in a blog of Helsinki Art University. The article is in Finnish, and deals with Heidi’s work at Villa Karo’s artist residency. In addition to teaching dance to children in an orphanage, she was organizing and running a workshop exploring hegemonic power relations […]
Panel Discussion with Kauzeni Lyamba and Kasheshi Makena at Theatre Academy’s GINTL event
Heidi Seppälä was invited as a panelist for Uniarts GINTL, a research seminar “Co-Creating Decolonized Knowledges through Arts”, on Friday 6th May. The seminar aimed at enhancing the importance and uniqueness of arts in decolonising knowledge. The idea of decolonising knowledge is a central feature of collaborative partners and co-creating knowledge between the University […]
DANCO presentations and dance video in De-Colonising tertiary dance education – Act Now Conference by Stockoholm University(Sweden), and Makerere University(Uganda)
Danco’s work has been selected for a conference De-Colonising tertiary dance education – Act Now, organised by Stockoholm University(Sweden), and Makerere University(Uganda) 7-9.4.22. Heidi Seppälä(FI) and Shyrine Ziadeh(Palestine) will create a text & movement dialogue on dancing in the midst of occupation. Emmanuel Ndefo is organising a roundtable discusssion with movement, on the topic […]
DANCO in Groundwork dialogues conference
Heidi’s dance art & research ensemble DANCO will be presenting a paper in Groundwork dialogues conference. The paper will be sent to the conference in a form of a video, “a visual essay” dealing with a concept of self-organising stage, shared and collaborative authorship and its ethics. Would you like to dance with us? […]
Villa Karo Artist in Residence
Heidi Seppälä has been accepted for Villa Karo’s artist residence in Grand Popo, Benin, Africa from Jan2 until March25. Together with theatre director and writer Jalmari Nummiluikki, Heidi will be working on the context of DANCO – School for De-Colonizing the Art of Dance. Heidi is also creating and mentoring a workshop for development of […]