Janina Rajakangas Project is making contemporary dance with professional and non-professional performers.
Janina Rajakangas is a choreographer, performer and teacher based in Helsinki. She has been offered grants for artistic work since 2017 by Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Finnish Cultural Foundation. She works both with very detailed choreographic material and large scale scores for groups.
At the centre for what she does in trying to understand how dance comes from what we encounter in the everyday. Love, death, age, sensitivities. Embodying these things becomes dance in our projects.
“I truly believe dance is a crucial way to communicate without words. And it is in all of us. This is why we work with a variety of performers from professionals to youth and the elderly.”
In its next three works, Janina Rajakangas Project will be breaking down the structures of patriarchy by seizing on everyday power relations. We explore paternal relationships (Meadow 2021), the eroticisation of a teenage girl (Venus 2022) and inclusivity as choreography (Dancer 2023).
Our previous works are: Dinosaur 2015, Teen 2017, Canary 2018 and Over Your Fucking Body 2019. The Project’s pieces have been shown at Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Moving in November festival, Kiasma Theatre, and The Place Theatre London. At the core of what we do is audience involvement in the piece’s process.