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Annamari Keskinen & ryan mason
thar be dragons
deep breakfast
step into a transformative experience with deep breakfast, a workshop designed to explore the profound journey of bodily recreation and self-renewal. central to our practice is the belief that the body harbours the limitless potential for transformation and expression, no matter how insignificant it seems, serving as both a vessel and a monument to personal change. in this immersive workshop, participants will engage in deep bodily focus and explore movement as a form of self-recreation. through guided activities and intuitive exploration, we will practice profound concentration with our bodies while interacting with the surrounding space. we will invite our personal journeys to unfold through the authenticity of movement, both in its expressive manifestations and performance. together, we will experience the body as an elemental medium, embracing vulnerability as a pathway to authenticity and creative expression. Participants will witness and support each other, cultivating an environment of energetic exchange and mutual empowerment. this workshop is open to all levels of movement experience. what to expect: layered, task-based movement sessions guided by sound and intuitive exploration; exploration of your relationship with affective spaces to develop deeper and more complex bodily awareness; an open and supportive community for sharing and dialogical reflection; live soundscapes and music by Helsinki-based sound designer, Timo Tikka.
the description reflects an artist’s idea which was developed at the time it was submitted to b12. it may have changed by the time the workshop or the performance project is starting. please stay flexible. thank you!
biography / Annamari Keskinen
Annamari Keskinen, born in 1985, is a Finnish performer, choreographer, and one of the founding members of the dance theater company, Thar Be Dragons, alongside performer and choreographer Ryan Mason. Over the past 20 years, Annamari has worked internationally in the dance field. As a performer, she has been involved in several European countries, both as a freelance artist and as a company dancer with municipal and state theatre dance companies. She has worked with internationally acclaimed choreographers such as Chris Haring, Rafael Bonachela, Andonis Foniadakis, Alexander Ekman, Stephanie Thiersch, Helder Seabra, Jozef Frucek, Linda Kapetanea, and has extensively collaborated with Johannes Wieland and Valtteri Raekallio. Her professional career encompasses more than 60 artistic productions, under the direction of 30 choreographers. Annamari's choreographic work is often described as poetically vivid, navigating through liminal and dreamlike landscapes with an affective presence. In her artistic processes and teaching, she draws upon her experience as a performer to guide participants through multi-layered states of research and performance. Her recent inquiries in movement research explore psychological and physical attunements within atmospheric and sonic topographies.
biography / ryan mason
Ryan Mason is a choreographer, performer, and teacher based in Helsinki, Finland. In 2018, he co-founded with his partner, Annamari Keskinen, Thar Be Dragons - a dance theatre platform for research, education, and performance. in 2007 He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and Choreography. His work is a detailed approach often involving layers of sustained improvisational states within movement and psychological parameters. Ryan searches for enigmatic situations, taking them apart to look at them - for their absurdity, as well as for their sensory possibilities. Ryan danced with the José Limón Company, in NYC, later joining the company of Johannes Wieland at the Staatstheater Kassel, in Germany. There, he also served as rehearsal director for two years. Ryan has been choreographing and teaching at higher-level institutions and workshops throughout Europe and North America, such as Springboard Danse Montreal, Hubbard Street Pro, SEAD, NYU Tisch, Anton Bruckner Privatuni, among many others. Ryan is currently working towards his MA in Choreography at TeaK, University of Arts Helsinki.
company info
thar be dragons
Thar Be Dragons is a platform for theatrical dance research, education, and performance, created by Annamari Keskinen and Ryan Mason in 2018. The company functions as a platform for both choreographers to create and present their collaborative and personal works. Their research explores notions of subconscious communication, revealing dense and sometimes unseen intimacy between the layers of our inner landscapes. Their staged work shifts between rapid changes of mood, sustained states of tension, and layered imagery, often encircling themes of death, the unknowable, the paradoxical, borders, silence, light, the mystical, and the quotidian. Thar Be Dragons has created over a dozen choreographies, most of which are international co-productions, ranging from site-specific performances to small and large stage works. the company is based in helsinki.
please be aware of our early bird special offer for this workshop! you can apply for this offer up until the 24th of march 2025. after the 24th the regular workshop fee applies. applications are accepted up until one day before the workshops starts.
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