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Ray of Light
| Choreographer |
Torkkel, Anna |
| First Performance | 23.2.2023 |
| Place of First Performance | Modern art space Kutomo, Turku |
| Finnish premiere | 23.2.2023 |
| Place of Premiere | Modern art space Kutomo, Turku |
| Style | Contemporary Dance |
| Duration (min) | 50 |
| Scenography | Kristian Palmu, Piia Rinne |
| Costume designer | Piia Rinne |
| Lighting Designer | Kristian Palmu |
| Sound designer | Johanna Porola |
| Description |
Ray of light is a solo dance performance by Anna Torkkel and the working group, which plays with wavering, fading out, and fantasy. The performance is a mirage where something begins and ends and begins again transformed. It exists for a moment just to disappear. The dance is framed by metamorphosis and vanishing, breaking away and circulating. After directing several group pieces, in Ray of light Anna Torkkel dances to the music according to her practice solo. The working group examines the tentative illogicality, experimentation, and amorphous nature of dancing to extend the same logic to encompass all the aspects of the performance. The makers are staying open to an outcome, which might not be structured and set, but as sparse and erratic as life. For approximately an hour, dancing merges with the haptic and entrancing aesthetic and music made from found and self-made soundscapes. The dancing happens within poetic light and video design by Kristian Palmu and scenography by Palmu and Piia Rinne. Rinne’s sensory and unconventional costume creates an unnamed character, which forms from the essence of what dancing feels like. Johanna Porola’s genre-crossing sound design intertwines with dancing and supports the happening of it. Porola’s design is based on a sketch prepared for the process by Heidi Wennerstrand and Kaino Wennerstrand, the Biitsi band. |
| Other Information |
Video design: Kristian Palmu Live mixing of music and singing: Johanna Porola Sound design original plan: Biitsi (Heidi Wennerstrand and Kaino Wennerstrand) Artistic dialogue and co-dancing: Mira Kautto |
| Companies |
Ehkä-production |
| Dancers |
Torkkel, Anna |