Susirajan taideakatemia

Kaisa will be teaching 4th time at the annual Susiraja Arts Academy, https://www.susirajantaideakatemia.fi/main-page.html on 29.6.-4.7.2026.
This time the course is called Nurmes City Theater, led jointly by dance artist Kaisa Nieminen and theatre artist Tom Rejström. The course peers into the depths of the city and asks where art is already happening — and where it might be invitingly thrown up. With a spatial, bodily dramaturgical approach, we turn toward the raw urban landscape: the market square of Nurmes, the church, the city hall, Pena’s pub, and someone’s backyard. We release the city as a stage and ourselves as its chorus. We will explore the chorus as a social and bodily question — a dancing swarm that calls people toward shared experience. We ask how a we emerges in public space, how the gaze moves through a flea market, where intimacy begins and how far it might spread. We will create market-square dances and disruptive interventions that both proclaim and listen, that both occupy space and gently propose.

We will also reflect on how the city might speak — and how we might speak back to it. During the course we will create a collective Speech to the City, an art-political and poetic gesture placed into everyday life.
https://www.susirajantaideakatemia.fi/nurmes-city-theatre.html