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Licking things
| Choreographer |
Palmgren, Sari |
| First Performance | 9.11.2016 |
| Place of First Performance | Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Helsinki |
| Finnish premiere | 9.11.2016 |
| Place of Premiere | Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Helsinki |
| Style | Contemporary Dance |
| Duration (min) | 50 |
| Costume designer | Karoliina Koiso-Kanttila |
| Lighting Designer | Jukka Huitila |
| Performers of the premiere |
Dancers: Katri Soini, Sari Palmgren Musicians: Mikko Perkola, Tuomas Norvio |
| Music composed for the work | Mikko Perkola, Tuomas Norvio |
| Description |
- A poetic study of the necessity of death Do not lick Raw dough A battery Eyeballs Frogs Dirty water Broken glass Frozen handrails in the winter Footsteps of the person walking ahead of you Things fallen on floor Before you are sure Licking Things is a meeting of live music and the primitive motion clinging to life at all costs. The performance looks for fulfilment through music and motion, and examines the empty moments that make fulfilment so full. When something reaches that fullness it disintegrates in its perfection, vanishes – and becomes empty again. The music is composed by Mikko Perkola and Tuomas Norvio, who also appear on stage with Katri Soini and Sari Palmgren.Their music is inspired by old vocal music and Perkola's instrument, the viola da gamba, and taken to new spheres by Norvio's electronics. Primitive movement and growling: the weight of the dancers' bodies fill the space where incompleteness maintains a lust for life. |
| Dancers |
Palmgren, Sari (2016) Soini, Katri (2016) |