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Sessions
| Choreographer |
Knif, Carl , |
| First Performance | 5.5.2022 |
| Place of First Performance | Dance House Helsinki |
| Style | Contemporary Dance |
| Duration (min) | 75 |
| Scenography | Jukka Huitila |
| Costume designer | Karoliina Koiso-Kanttila |
| Lighting Designer | Jukka Huitila |
| Sound designer | Janne Hast |
| Performers of the premiere |
Jonna Aaltonen Olli Lautiola Riku Lehtopolku Anne Pajunen (dancer/actor) Anna Stenberg Terhi Vaimala |
| Music composed for the work | Janne Hast |
| Description |
"Can a performance setting induce the same level of trust as that of a relationship of care. Could dance and performance be seen as a ritual with healing powers? The musical starting point of Sessions is Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major. In addition to the relationship between music and movement, the performance also examines the relationship between the performers and the audience. Sessions discusses the contemporary human in their longings, shortcomings, needs, fears and hopes. The performance addresses the encounter and the non-encounter, as well as the human and societal implications of these. Ideas for the work arose from a range of both physical and cognitive treatment methods, as is also implied by the title: Sessions. In which ways could a performance enhance the life of its spectator? Can moving into the space of a gaze be an empowering experience? And how could a performance find more vitality, how could it inch closer towards its audience? For the work Sessions, Carl Knif returns to the roots of his own method: collaboration with dancers. Central elements in the piece are the interaction between dancers, kinetic communication, and kinetic empathy." |
| Companies |
Carl Knif Company |
| Dancers |
Aaltonen, Jonna (2022) Lehtopolku, Riku (2022) Pajunen, Anne (2022) Stenberg, Anna (2022) Vaimala, Terhi (2022) |