DAYL KLA's artist of the month of November is Micaela Kühn Jara (CL/DK). Se describes her project with a class-full of students from the local school of Kiviniity in the following way: "This project comes from my interest in exploring the concept of queerness with young people with a rather wide understanding of the term queer, as not only related to sexuality: out of the norm, extra-normal, odd.
I want to explore the idea of a queer classroom: what and how else can the classroom be, and how are we in that space? How can we embrace and celebrate the difference, the awkwardness of things, objects, physical and imaginary spaces in our daily space?
This will happen through a choreographic investigation in collaboration with the students, in their everyday classroom. We will work with the objects that belong to the room as well as the implicit rules that support the space."
Because of the current pandemic situation, Micaela cannot travel to Kokkola. The project will be carried out remotely.
Micaela works in the field of dance and education with a special interest in participation and young audiences. With a background as dancer, her work today encompasses production, education, conception and research. She is creative producer of Alfredo Zinola Productions, (Germany) company that creates contemporary performances for young audiences. She is as well artistic advisor for Dansehallerne’s (Denmark) young audience program, particularly focused on programs that bring dance to school through hybrid formats. Furthermore she is guest teacher at the Dance and Participation MFA in The Danish National School of Performing Arts on subjects related to participation, artistic-pedagogical practice, inclusion and creative practice.
Profile photo: Palle Schultz
Dance photo: Martin Dam Kristensen
