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Quartet for the End of Time (Railo)
| Choreographer |
Railo, Tuomo |
| First Performance | 20.9.2013 |
| Place of First Performance | Espoo Cultural Centre |
| Finnish premiere | 20.9.2013 |
| Place of Premiere | Espoo Cultural Centre |
| Style | Contemporary Dance |
| Duration (min) | 60 |
| Scenography | Mette Nordin |
| Costume designer | Mette Nordin |
| Lighting Designer | Pasi Pehkonen |
| Performers of the premiere | Simo Heiskanen, Ilona Keñová, Guillermo Sarduy, Katri Soini, Tuomo Railo ja Juan José Torres Martinez |
| Other music | Olivier Messiaen: Quatruor pour la fin du temps, Ensemble Kontraste |
| Description |
Quartet for the End of Time is the second part of Tuomo Railo's trilogy dealing with new dimensions of humanity. Railo has made the choreography based on a classic composition created by Olivier Messiaen in 1941 at a prisoner-of-war camp. The events on stage are tuned in to grotesque expression, combined with the sometimes humorously random, sometimes horrifyingly chaotic logic of dreams. "The performance includes a lot of lottery and improvisation. The rehearsal process has included play on the quality of movement, archetypes and different rules. I hope the end result will reach our ´collective subconscious' Messiaen composed his quartet at a prisoner-of-war camp. His composition is living proof of how important imagination and creativity are for humans. Our dance performance is a tribute to artists who have continued working even in harsh conditions.". – Tuomo Railo |
| Companies |
Glims & Gloms Dance Company |
| Dancers |
Soini, Katri (2013) Heiskanen, Simo (2013) Kenova, Ilona (2013) Sarduy, Guillermo (2013) |