Emmi Väisänen and Alexander Vantournhout
handshakes and other snakes-partnering 10.00h - 18.00h

The first points of contact are often with hands and wrists (handshakes, pull and push, touch..). From these points we have developed unconventional exercises and we want to invite the participants to focus on finding the complexity and imagination for new possibilities with another body.
We propose very specific movement situations where we aim to obtain principles (rather than forms) where the body and the mind are challenged to discover situations that are unfamiliar and we aim to approach partnering from a different angle.
Later on, in the proposed partnering situations, the initiation of the movement is unreadable – who is leading and who is following?

We believe that the interaction with another body should take place with availability, understanding, predicting, improvising and negotiation. Problems and solutions to those problems arise almost simultaneously, and the state of imbalance is constantly at stake.


Emmi and Alexander met through the creation of SCREWS (2019) and found a mutual interest in sharing what they keep on discovering in creation and tour. Curiosity to find new, exciting, unconventional forms with a partner using restrictions, symmetry, intertwining, spiraling….

8th of June 10:00-14:00
9th of June 14:00-18:00