down below things shudder
Tanssin Talo, Pannuhalli
Premiere 13.4.2023
Honey on the rocks, lava in the spine.
Lä-ääh, lä-ääh, uuuh aaah! (or how does one transcribe the ocean?)
Body rolling, body rolling, heavy waves through my muscle tonus.
Eyes low, wavy like the sea, the landscape listens.
Wait, can you feel it?
Another body wave gyrating through me.
I want you to notice it, I made it for you!
My sweat, my lava – a grandiloquent sequence.
Ooops, oh my!
Can you come closer?
The piece fantasizes about the potentiality of dancing; rolling waves, tenacious bodies, the desire to dance overflowingly. Five dancers surrender to the intimacy of dancing; to the experientiality and exchange of energy, engaging in the search of frantic expressions and pleasures of the dancing body.
The name of the piece is a line from poet Rebecca Tamás poem WITCH VOLCANO. (Tamás 2019: 103).
The work is part of Dance House Helsinki’s SPARKS project. Supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, SPARKS is an artistic development project which is carried out in 2020–2023. The project will produce three premieres for both the Erkko Hall and Pannu Hall.
Choreography
Kaisa Nieminen, Marika Peura
Dancers
Selma Kauppinen, Lau Lukkarila, Kaisa Nieminen, Caroline Suinner, Marika Peura
Sound designer
Tiikka Drama
Light designer
Luca Sirviö
Set designer
Virpi Nieminen
Costume designer
Joona Huotari
Dramaturg
Hanna-Kaisa Tiainen
Producer
Kaisa Nieminen, Marika Peura
Tanssin talo
Support
Finnish (osana SPARKS-hanketta), Taiteen edistämiskeskus