Joanna Kalm

Estonia, Sweden (residence), Estonia (citizenship) °1992
research interests: Somatic practices, embodied writing, participatory arts, expanded choreography, anthropology, autoethnography, Experiential Learning, ecosomatic
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Joanna Kalm is a dance artist and anthropologist working with somatic movement and creative body-based approaches. Her practice includes facilitation of somatic working processes to deepen bodily sensemaking, development of vocabulary for talking/writing from embodied experiences, and co-creating prarticipatory spaces for being-acting a body in diverse ways of becoming. 

 

Joanna has been involved with co-curating the programme of TantsuRUUM, a contemporary dance space in Tallinn since 2017. Since 2020, she has been primarily focused on the somatic movement practice called Body-Mind Centering. She is currently a junior resesearcher-doctoral student at Estonian Academy of Arts and working on developing methods for somatic self- and co-regulation in the context of participatory performance. 

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  • Bodyplace. A room for being a body (last edited: 2025) author(s): Joanna Kalm This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Bodyplace took place from 17th-21st of September 2024 at 15:00-20:00 at Tallinn Kunstihoone Gallery (with a tea break around 5pm), enter and exit as desired. "It is a room where four people gather to be a body. Unconditionally, without knowing what the practice of being a body entails in its ever evolving entirety. They enter to land within themselves (where were they before?), to perceive their inner spaces. They find themselves in a pressure-free environment where the body, with a tendency to become excessively condensed and accelerated, can find the organicity of its flow. To body is to be in experience. Here, they are guided by the dynamic process, desires and needs of their living matter, and their individual embodiments act as evolving and changing scores of the now. To body is to create and hold space. Experiencing creates a field that fills the seemingly empty room with a felt enmindedness, which can be entered into and joined with. You are invited within."
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