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Heavy Light
| Choreographer |
Risu, Liisa |
| First Performance | 19.9.2015 |
| Place of First Performance | Stoa, Helsinki |
| Finnish premiere | 19.9.2015 |
| Place of Premiere | Stoa, Helsinki |
| Style | Contemporary Dance |
| Duration (min) | 55 |
| Costume designer | Riitta Röpelinen |
| Lighting Designer | Jukka Huitila |
| Sound designer | Jussi Saivo |
| Performers of the premiere | Hanna Ahti, Jonna Eiskonen, Satu Halttunen, Ninu Lindfors, Soile Voima |
| Description |
The premise of Heavy Light is to transform György Ligeti's idiosyncratic musical notation into movements and structures – inputs for dance. It is a continuation of choreographer Liisa Risu's and her ensemble's widely acclaimed Soiva/WKL, in which J.S.Bach's piano music was transposed for a dancing orchestra. This time the actions of the five female dancers expand from the windy logics – and surprises – of a pipe organ. The organ attracted my interest on the one hand because of its astonishing richness of hitherto unexplored tone colours and possibilities; on the other hand, in particular, because of its weaknesses – its clumsiness, its stiffness and jerkiness. This instrument is like a massive artificial leg. It fascinated me to discover how one could learn to walk again with this mechanical limb. – G. Ligeti The performance invites to go through movement masses, organ-ic composition and spatiotemporal psychokinescoustic experience. The choreography is developing from the encounter in between sound as acoustic phenomenon and physical attributes of movement. Ligeti's solo organ composition Volumina (1961–1962) will be borrowed as a tool in the making of Heavy Light. The audience is kindly asked to wear dark clothes. |
| Other Information | Dramaturgy in dialog with: Vincent Roumagnac |
| Dancers |
Ahti, Hanna (2015) Eiskonen, Jonna (2015) Halttunen, Satu (2015) Voima, Soile (2015) Lindfors, Ninu (2015) |