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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)