Rajaniemi Collective & Pirkanmaa Dance Centre HOMEWEAVES – Rituals of the Future

Rajaniemi Collective’s and Pirkanmaa Dance Centre’s futuristic next-generation dance theater piece, Homeweaves – Rituals of the Future, challenges this days human behavioral patterns in communication, routines, perception, and ways of being.

The dance theater piece moves through eras, transporting the audience from the scorching desert through the rusted living rooms of the mind. Beings liberate bodies and objects from their outlines into rebellious events. The piece is inspired by object work with copper chains and inflatable chairs, as well as manipulation of body and sound, metamorphosis, contemporary dance, improvisation, and mime.

Homeweaves explores the possibilities of artificial intelligence in art-making. The textual material of the piece is created based on conversations with Chat GPT. The piece takes a stand on current discussions about artificial intelligence, the future image, and the significance of art.

The piece draws from futuristic imagery, mechanization, artificial intelligence towards a dystopia of the end of the world in 2224. A new era is born from a sentient living and non-living human, through transforming copper-chained frame. A new community forms its own cycle, routines, and rituals accompanied by both mundane and solemn jingles.