“NoCore: Strömfors” is a dance-music performance created during two weekend-long choreographic workshops, using, as a venue, the old factory in the village of Ruotsinpyhtää (Loviisa).
This is the result of the seventh edition of “NoCore” community dance project, which deals with gender expectations and multiculturalism.
The performers have engaged their body in a creative way, discovering how dance can create music and how it can express our thoughts about social norms and community. The aim of the project is to give the opportunity to the participants to tell their stories and to find a way to translate their emotions into movements.
The participants are people of any gender, of all ages, of any nationalities and with or without any performance experiences.
The sound design by Tatu Vanhatalo integrates the movements of the dancers and their sounds in a multi-layered and sensorial performance, where we can perceive music from a different perspective.
The scenography and videos are designed by Ilmari Paananen to transform the spaces of the Schneider Factory into a dramaturgical journey through different phases of work life.
The performing artist Bambú has contributed to the work by assisting, filming and performing.
The rest of the group are voluntary members of the workshops.
“NoCore: Strömfors” shows how the actions of people, created in groups, in
combination with the visual and the musical elements of welding, beating, drilling and
breaking iron components, converge in a stream of power… the manpower.