would you dance with me for 1 minute please?

video performance. 2006.

The piece was created at Body Navigation event in St. Petersburg by using a day to shoot an action for a video. Hirvanen sat in a park with a note saying ’would you dance with me for 1 minute, please’ in Russian and English. The communication and dancing that took place in between the artists and people who approached her to dance with her were documented on a video. The piece aims to bring out a realization about the possibility of spontaneous communication through performance in every day life. Duration 10 minutes.

presented at Body Navigation- festival, St. Petersburg, Barker- theater, Turku, Finland. Camera by Leena Kela.

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