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Sonya Lindfors

One Drop

One drop - Sonya Lindfors

“The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States asserting that any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan-African ancestry, “one drop” of black blood, is considered black.”
~Wikipedia

ONE DROP is a summoning of ghosts, an autopsy of the Western stage and an operetta. The work dives into the entanglements and relationalities of capitalism, coloniality and modernity.
The title of the work refers to the Race Separation Act, created in the United States in the early 1900s, according to which a single drop of “Black blood” made a person “Black” despite their appearance. The one drop rule makes blatantly clear how the concept of race is a construction, a technology made to dehumanize and dominate.
ONE DROP continues Lindfors’ series of works dealing with power, representation and Black body politics.

Sonya Lindfors

Sonya Lindfors (1985) is a Cameroonian – Finnish choreographer and artistic director that also works with facilitating, community organizing and education. In 2013 she received a MA in choreography from the University of the Arts Helsinki. She is the founding member and Artistic Director of UrbanApa, an inter-disciplinary and counter hegemonic arts community that offers a platform for new discourses and feminist art practices. UrbanApa facilitates workshops, festivals, labs, mentoring and publications among other things.

Lindfors makes her own and collaborative works such as performances, curated programs and performative actions. Her performance works have been shown and supported by Beursschouwburg, Kampnagel, Spring Utrecht, CODA – festival, Black Box Theater Oslo, Zodiak – Centre for New Dance among others. She is a member of Miracle Workers Collective that represented Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale.

Lindfors has been awarded with several prizes, the latest of which being the international Live art Anti Prize 2018 and the State Award for Public Information in 2022.

In residence

27 Mar 2023 – 08 Apr 2023

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