Portraits of Motherhood When We Go to Sleep
2023
Installation Performance
Choreography and Dance by Joma Richter
Mentoring: Anni Puolakka, Maria Saivosalmi
@ Theatre Academy Helsinki, Studio 3
Photo Credit: Sanni Siira
is a solo performance exploring the nightly transition from wakefulness to sleep, rooted in my lived experience of putting my child to bed. Through voice, piano, movement, and sound, the work navigates themes of care, ambivalence, vulnerability, and transformation. Shifting between harmony and noise, tenderness and absurdity, it stages motherhood as both an intimate ritual and a space of disorientation. The piece invites audiences into the fragile in-between of night and day, self and other, silence and sound.
