Solo piece “wilting before blooming, sorry I’m late” (working title) is premiering in November 2025 in Finland at XS Festival for New Dance and Performance. In the work Nieminen explores bodily experientiality and emotionality; pleasure and aggression, sadness and euphoria, questions of power, comphet, misogyny. How is it to dance out the expressive rawness and emotionality that goes with it in relation to dancing body and structures of society.

”My emotional body dances the fleshy desires, pleasure and aggression, sorrow and euphoria. The queerness. The politics and poetics of the dancing body. A millennial body molded in rape culture, misogyny, comphet power structures and dynamics. A late bloomer sapphic, long ago—but still late. Fleshing my body, shedding my skin in and out. Breathing in and out and about. Working with the weight on my knees—the bounce, pelvic floor, breath, voice and my fingertips. Dancing the lived experience and reaching out to the ones who were here before me and who are about to come.”

Sound designer: Tiikka Drama
Light designer: Luca Sirviö
Artistic dialogue: Marika Peura
outside eye: DeeDee Harmony

Co-producer Ehkä-production/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo.
Demos: UrbanApa x Stoa festival 8/25, Impulstanz Atlas demos 8/25.
Short demo video from UrbanApa x Stoa

This work has been supported by the Arts Promotion Centre.

Pictures: Patricia Carlitos