{"id":236,"date":"2025-07-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixelache.kaktus.cc\/?post_type=event&#038;p=236"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:44:12","slug":"monuments-summer-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelache.com\/event\/monuments-summer-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"BARD (Body As Receptive Divinity) \u2013 performance by Elias Berglund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BARD (Body As Receptive Divinity) \u2013 performance by Elias Berglund<\/strong><br><em>12 July, Saturday, 17:00<br>Johan Ludvig Runeberg&#8217;s Memorial, Esplanadi<br>Swedish \/ English \/ Finnish<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elias Berglund\u2019s dance performance takes place at the monument of Runeberg, regarded as Finland\u2019s national bard. Using the sensitive, social, and expressive dancing body as a departure point, the piece navigates through tensions caused by societal hierarchies and rigid bodily etiquette in Finnish culture. It asks us to consider: What if we valued the wisdom of the body as highly as the wisdom of the pen?<br><br>After the performance, we will have a picnic and discussion with the artist in the Esplanadi park. Some snacks and beverages will be provided.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"961\" src=\"https:\/\/pixelache.kaktus.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/by-Jacob-Nordgren.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-376\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Elias Berglund<\/strong><br>Elias Berglund is a dancer and artist based in Helsinki. His practice explores the emotional, empowering, awkward, and wild experiences of inhabiting a body. He has worked with choreographers including Elina Pirinen, Kadence Neill, Carina Ahlskog, Maria Saivosalmi, and Alpo Aaltokoski, and is active in the platform rAws!. Elias holds space for cabaret, music videos, and musicals alongside his contemporary dance work. He loves jazz, wigs, shared dreaming, crochet, reality TV, and dancing really hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Pre-register by sending an e-mail to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:socialchoreography.helsinki@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">socialchoreography.helsinki@<wbr>gmail.com<\/a><\/em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&nbsp;photo: Jacob Nordgren<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bfddb4026c8c93e02bf90915953c2028 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARD (Body As Receptive Divinity) \u2013 performance by Elias Berglund12 July, Saturday, 17:00Johan Ludvig Runeberg&#8217;s Memorial, EsplanadiSwedish \/ English \/ Finnish Elias Berglund\u2019s dance performance takes place at the monument of Runeberg, regarded as Finland\u2019s national bard. Using the sensitive, social, and expressive dancing body as a departure point, the piece navigates through tensions caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":377,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"class_list":["post-236","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelache.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelache.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelache.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelache.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelache.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelache.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}