We Should All Be Dreaming invites people to spend time listening and dreaming together in an attempt to collectively imagine possible futures. Situating itself somewhere between a think tank, a choreographed gathering and a performance – the project invites participants to radically dream of new speculative futures together. We Should All Be Dreaming is a long time collaboration between choreographer Sonya Lindfors (she/her) and writer and activist Maryan Abdulkarim (she/her), who both are interested in radical collective and decolonial practices.
Over the course of a curated lunch party, invited guests will be led in group discussions to dream collectively of possible and impossible futures. The world around us is plagued by fear, anger and hatred, but We Should All Be Dreaming offers a different path – this restorative and subversive gathering proposes dreaming as an act of soft resistance.
“The possible has been tried and failed. Now it’s time to try the impossible!” – Sun Ra
Radical dreaming is how we get there.
ABOUT SONYA LINDFORS
Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian - Finnish choreographer and artistic director that also works with facilitating, community organizing and education. In 2013 she received a MA in choreography from the University of the Arts Helsinki. She is the founding member and Artistic Director of UrbanApa, an inter-disciplinary and counter hegemonic arts community that offers a platform for new discourses and feminist art practices. UrbanApa facilitates workshops, festivals, labs, mentoring and publications among other things.
Lindfors makes her own and collaborative works such as performances, curated programs and performative actions. Her performance works have been shown and supported by Beursschouwburg, Kampnagel, Spring Utrecht, CODA - festival, Black Box Theater Oslo, Zodiak - Centre for New Dance among others. She is a member of Miracle Workers Collective that represented Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale.
Lindfors’s recent works One Drop (2023), common moves (2023), camouflage (2021), Soft Variations Online (2020), Cosmic Latte (2018) and We Should All Be Dreaming (2018) centralize questions around Blackness and Black body politics, representation and power structures, speculative futurieties and decolonial dreaming practices. On a larger scale Lindfors’s time is divided between her own artistic work , educational work and working as the artistic director of UrbanApa. In all her positions she pursues creating and facilitating anti-racist and feminist platforms, where a festival, a performance, a publication or a workshop can operate as the site of empowerment andLindfors has been awarded with several prizes, the latest of which being the internationalLive art Anti Prize 2018 and the State Award for Public Information in 2022.uring theseason 2017 – 2018 Lindfors was the house choreographer for Zodiak – center for newdance.
ABOUT MARYAN ABDULKARIM
Maryan Abdulkarim is a public speaker, writer, and activist interested in themes relating to freedom. She participates actively in public discussion as a political commentator and a columnist. She collaborates regularly with choreographer Sonya Lindfors and is a member of Miracle Workers Collective that represented Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale. Abdulkarim is also a founding member of the Nordic Feminist Network, including community organisers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sami regions. Abdulkarim’s and Eeva Talvitie’s book, About ten myths on feminism was published in Finnish in 2018. Her second book will be published in collaboration with photographer Uwa Iduozee. She made her debut as a screenwriter in the short film Dream Job produced by Tuffi Films. Abdulkarim received the Minna Canth prize in 2019, awarded annually to a person shaking the Finnish society.
Concept: Sonya Lindfors and Maryan Abdulkarim
Working group: Sonya Lindfors, Maryan Abdulkarim, Roy Boswell, Danai Anagnostou
Supported by: Perform Europe, Rosendal International Theatre (Norway), CODA Oslo International Dance Festival (Norway), Oyoun Kultur NeuDenken gUG (Germany), LIFT (UK), Independent Dance (UK), Urban Apa (Finland) and H2DANCE/Fest en Fest (UK).
Co-produced by: Spring Utrecht – festival, Baltic Circle – festival and Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux. Supported by the Black Cultural Archives, 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance and the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland.
Presented by Malmö Dance Week / IVER with support from Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland
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