Solo piece “wilting before blooming, sorry I’m late” (working title) is premiering in November 2025 in Finland. In the work Nieminen explores bodily experientiality; pleasure and aggression, sadness and euphoria in relation to queer identity; questions of power, comphet, misogyny, touch. How is it to dance out the reality of one’s own body, the expressive rawness and emotionality that goes with it in relation to structures of oneself and 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 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

Co-producer Ehkä-tuotanto/Nykytaidetila Kutomo.
This work has been supported by the Arts Promotion Centre.

More info coming soon.