MIA KEINANEN
FINLAND
technique, improvisation
Bio
Mia Keinanen holds a Doctorate from Harvard University in dance and cognition, Masters in educational technologies from Harvard University and BA(Hons) from London Contemporary Dance school. She also studied at the Alvin Ailey Dance School, Harvard Summer Dance Program and Merce Cunningham Studios in their scholarship programs, as well as with many independent teachers in London, New York, Boston, Paris and Copenhagen. Mia has danced and improvised professionally in Europe and the US for the past fifteen years. Mia holds an interest in dance and technology and has collaborated in various new media projects at MIT Media Lab and with independent new media artists. Currently on hiatus in Moscow, she researchers intuition at the Media Lab in Finland and is a lecturer of new dance at the Theater Academy in Finland.
Cellular Attentiveness
In this class we practice moving from a very empty place, but an emptiness that is based in listening; an intense cellular attentiveness to ourselves and to the surrounding environment. We pay attention to our own movement patterns, we relish and refine them as well as try to expand our kinesthetic repertory. The class comprises of long continuous warm-up based on authentic movement that prepares the body for movement and opens the channels between body and mind. We then explore movement qualities with set and improvised material that grows into full-bodied dancing.
Intuition and Improvisation
How does intuition inform our improvisation? How can we follow our intuitive mind without hesitance? Can we trust our intuition? By exploring images, ideas, movement and language through wild but controlled play, we practice allowing impulses to move through us and be expressed, and letting our intuitive mind inform us. By not premeditating our actions, we surrender to the worlds that we are spontaneously and collaboratively creating. We practice solo and group improvisations, structured as well as unstructured, and give each other feedback. Improvisation in this class is looked as essentially performative act, spontaneous choreography, not as just as means for creating set work.
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